do catholics believe in purgatory?
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The Catholic Church holds that "all who die in God's grace and friendship but still imperfectly purified" undergo the process of purification which the Church calls purgatory, "so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven".
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Catholics teach that Jesus died to redeem man from sin. They believe in immortality and that in death a person may be judged to go to Heaven, Hell, or Purgatory. ... If the death was expected, the priest may have already attended the person and performed the last rites, or final prayers and ministrations preceding death.
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Many Christians believe the dead are judged immediately after death and await judgment day in peace or torment because of the way they interpret several key New Testament passages. In Luke 16:19–31, it appears that Christ represents Lazarus and Dives as receiving their respective rewards immediately after death.
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Catholics also follow the teachings of Jesus Christ but do so through the church, whom they consider as the path to Jesus. They believe in the special authority of the Pope which other Christians may not believe in, whereas Christians are free to accept or reject individual teachings and interpretations of the bible.
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Seventh-day Adventist beliefs about death are different from those of other Christian churches. Adventists do not believe that people go to Heaven or Hell when they die. They believe that the dead remain unconscious until the return of Christ in judgement.
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The Church of England, mother church of the Anglican Communion, officially denounces what it calls "the Romish Doctrine concerning Purgatory", but the Eastern Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodox Churches, and elements of the Anglican, Lutheran and Methodist traditions hold that for some there is cleansing after death ...
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Protestantism. In general, Protestant churches reject the Catholic doctrine of purgatory although some teach the existence of an intermediate state. Many Protestant denominations, though not all, teach the doctrine of sola scriptura ("scripture alone") or prima scriptura ("scripture first").
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Because Roman Catholics believe that Christ is truly present (Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity) in the Eucharist, the reserved sacrament serves as a focal point of adoration. ... Since the Middle Ages the practice of Eucharistic adoration outside Mass has been encouraged by the popes.
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The Orthodox Church does not believe in purgatory (a place of purging), that is, the inter-mediate state after death in which the souls of the saved (those who have not received temporal punishment for their sins) are purified of all taint preparatory to entering into Heaven, where every soul is perfect and fit to see ...
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Beliefs About Cremation As Witnesses believe in spiritual rather than physical resurrection, the faith does not have any prohibitions against cremation.
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Limbo is what Benedict dismissed. Purgatory is place for souls destined for glory but who are not prepared for the beatific vision or being in the eternal presence of God. ... Limbo is more or less a medieval theological answer to what happens to unbaptized babies and innocents who never heard the proclamation of Jesus.
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Purgatory is often depicted as a mountain mostly due to Dante's Divine Comedy, but it is also sometimes depicted as a middle realm between Heaven and Hell or a level beneath Hell. In most instances, Purgatory is simply seen as a type of limbo perhaps suspended between the upper and lower realms of Heaven and Hell.
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This is not the case – in fact, there is nothing in Catholic canon law that prevents a non-Catholic from being buried in a Catholic cemetery, though there is always a possibility that a specific Catholic cemeteries rules may provide explicit rules that a cemetery is supposed to follow.
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Buddhists also believe in rebirth and reincarnation. This is a particularly strong “belief in Tibetan Buddhism”. It is believed that beings are born on different realms of existence like animal realm, human realm, godly realm, ghost realm, etc depending on the Karma committed in different lives.
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As for purgatory, no place in Scripture makes mention thereof, neither must we any way allow it; for it darkens and undervalues the grace, benefits, and merits of our blessed, sweet Saviour Christ Jesus.
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Catholics do believe that one becomes born again at Baptism. Christians believe that once you believe and have faith in Christ you are born again. ... Baptism is the representation of dying with Christ and being raised with him.
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Jehovah's Witnesses believe that when a person dies, their existence completely stops. This is because the Bible makes it clear that human beings do not have an immortal soul that survives when the body dies. ... Witnesses also argue that it would be completely against God's nature to torture humans for eternity.