In looking at the Roman Catholic doctrine of purgatory, we find almost at once that it has no support from Scripture. Even references to the Apocryphal books only suggest that Jews in olden times practiced sacrifices for the dead, but they were never ordered by God.
More surprising is that the Roman Catholic teaching on Purgatory actually is belied by its practice of Indulgences!
There is a lot of false teaching that under girds the doctrine of Purgatory. Catholics do not believe that Christ justifies for all time all those who put their trust in His sacrifice on the cross. They do not believe that we are declared righteous for Jesus' sake by imputation of His perfect obedience and blood shedding in our place. They are told they can repeatedly lose their salvation through "mortal sin," only to be restored by church rituals and the Mass, which they claim is a "propitiatory sacrifice" made by the "priest" for the remission of their new sins!
Under their teaching, a man can trust in Jesus and end up going to Hell. Sin is still imputed by God against him, even though he has trusted in Jesus and been baptized.
Thus, a constant life of rituals, and fear, and subjugation to Roman Catholic teaching, dogs a poor sinner all through his life, and when he dies, he cannot know that he is saved.
On top of all that is the hateful teaching of Purgatory. There, the Roman Catholic is taught, one's sins must be punished in the flames, in order to purify the poor Christian so that he can be fit to appear before God's presence.
The doctrine depends up a made-up distinction between "mortal" and "venial" sins. But Scripture teaches that all sins are mortal!
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John Pittman Hey was born in 1961 in Jackson, Mississippi, to Godly parents who from the beginning raised him in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. With child-like faith he came to Christ on his fourth birthday at his mother's knee. He received his education at church...
