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There are good reasons to think the “age” (or “world” as the Douay-Rheims Bible translates it) Jesus refers to is the afterlife. One is that Jesus uses “the age to come” elsewhere in the Gospels in a similar way. Consider, for example, Mark 10:29-30 (see also Luke 18:30)...
you will die in them. If you are Catholic, I urge you to get out your Bible, and read it front to back without asking anyone what they think about what it says. You will be held accountable for what you do and will not be able to blame anyone else in the day of judgment. The ...
purgatoryisbasedontraditionratherthantheBible.TheBibleemphasizesthefinalityofone’sdestinyinthislife ratherthanafterthislife. Keywords:purgatory,afterlife,soulsleep,resurrection,Judaism,death 1.Introduction Divergentviewshavebeenexpressedabouttheaflerlife.Seventh—dayAdventistssubscribetoaconcept ...
in cell number 4, when it was still a poorhouse. One night, while in bed, I fell asleep with a lighted cigar, which ignited the mattress and I died, suffocated and burned. I am still in Purgatory. I need a holy Mass in order to be freed. God permitted that I come and ask you...