Purgatory is 100% BIBLICAL!! [14 Verses Every Catholic Should Highlight] 

@@mephi654You better study before write this kind of comment. Lots of food for thought brother gave here, I think this is the best and easy explanation, (even for me). Love this channel ❤️✝️🙏🏽

That was an excellent presentation .While listening , I was remembering ,what my Priest had said on Purgatory ( Greek Ukrainian Catholic ) , which was very similar using the same scriptures . The only other I would mention is our Lord's parable of the rich man and Lazarus the beggar . How in Sheol they were separated , and the rich man had to suffer more than Lazarus . GBY from new subscriber .

Good on you!!!

Thank you very much for your service to the Church. From, Australia.

I think your application of 1 Corinthians 3:12-15 was a bit of a stretch. Reading this in the context of what Paul writes, I cannot see how this applies to Purgatory.

❤very nice analogy👍

Brilliant! Really applicable. Thank you! G Ire

Yes

When I was little, I thought of Purgatory as the scene from The Wizard of OZ where everyone gets cleaned up before entering the Emerald City

I once read that Tertullian was the first to 'use' the Latin word Trinity circa 200 AD but, as you said, Nicea first confirmed it in 325 AD. Thanks.

And we believe non Catholic Christians to be beloved brothers and sisters in Christ too I was a Christian before I was a Catholic. And for my Catholic friends… I delete every comment that calls non Catholics non-Christians. However imperfect or separated from full communion we may be, a baptized Christian is united by this sacramental gift of grace to the body of Jesus.

@@KennyBurchard​​⁠ So true. My first foster parents were Methodist. It was not until I was around 50 (I’m 70) that I understood how faithful ‘mum’ and ‘pop’ were in following Jesus. I never heard mum say a single word against anyone, we all attended church every Sunday, did Bible readings every night, they supported many people overseas, plus many other things. I completed RCIA and Baptised in 2017. I pray and thank God for having sent me to them (from aged 6-11). Although I experienced an ‘eventful and challenging’ childhood (many, many changes and still coming to terms with some events), what they taught was deep within me and surfaced eventually. 🙏🏻😁

Ummm...in case you where not aware, we Catholics *are* Christians!

protestants are the ones who don't belong to any apostolic Church

You are so welcome. Visit us at chnetwork.org

Come home to the Catholic Church. Looks like the Holy Spirit’s work with you has already begun. Prayers sent.

There is also another wonderful commentary on purgatory on youtube. "dr Brant Pitre, Jesus' teaching on purgatory.

If you have time please watch Steve Ray, former pastor Keith Nester and Scoth Hahn videos as well. All of them were protestant that become catholic. They shared their journey becoming catholic.

I look forward to your homecoming!

And grace will be pushing people towards Catholics truths. Let’s pray for conversions to catholicism! 🙏🏻🕊️

Aw thanks! I like being a layman now. God is good.

Awesome! Thank you!

Welcome Home. I’m so glad. It takes a long time to think about Jesus!!

You are very welcome

Awesome, thank you!

Sorry if comment is off topic, but I am in Alotau today. The people are incredibly kind and hospitable. I will cherish my day spent here.

Many thinkers have a theological imagination and that’s okay. It’s how we process biblical concepts. The Church does not absorb the language of torment into the dogmatic teaching in the Catechism. It may be deeply painful to have Jesus remove something from us that does not belong. But it is not hell fire. It is heaven fire. My son has had 13 surgeries on his face. Each one was a deeply painful experience based on a birth defect. In love we subjected him to the surgeons scalpel to see him formed into what he was meant to be. In purgation God is not torturing us though the purgation may seem torturous. It is the pain of healing and restoration.

@@KennyBurchard I just read in that book St Frances of Rome said seven years for the expiation of one mortal sin. So for me i will be suffering not years but centuries. Just wondering do you believe in the Brown scapular, seems like it is my only hope. i can not stand even the littlest pain, i freak out.

@@KennyBurchard But that language is used by Pope Paul VI in Indulgentiarum Doctrina, and that is an infallible document right?

Be not afraid for you WILL be with god

I used to share that same dread of Purgatory. But fairly recently a spiritual experience changed everything, and perhaps it will help you, too: In prayer, I was standing in front of the Cross, looking up at Jesus. In my mind i was maybe 30 yards away. As I gazed upon our Lord, I had a sense of him pulling me toward himself, but suddenly I resisted! I had suddenly felt unworthy, dirty! I looked and saw his most Sacred Heart, but at the front was an opening within which I could see the burning furnace of his love, and I begged him, “please, let me first dip my hands in the furnace so they may be clean enough to touch you!” When we come face-to-face with our Lord, we will actually beg him to cleanse us. I absolutely believe that now. We have nothing to fear!❤❤

You are very welcome

Thank you, I will

As a Catholic who’s fond of apologetics, I have the same difficulty with arrogance in apologetics. My impulse is to correct them and remind them to be humble and gentle and loving in their videos and responses, but from my experience it can cause pride to put up defenses. I would be grateful if you, as a non-Catholic, would leave them a comment explaining they would open more hearts by humble, loving responses and critiques. They may listen to a non-Catholic - the target audience. God bless you and your loved ones❤

Glad it was helpful!

Some believe this. For them, the analogy of faith (a Catholic term for looking for ways to explain things) is that, since purgation is a process, we may assist by our prayers the person who is undergoing their final purgation, just as we would pray for someone going through a trial in this present life. There is no difference. In both cases, the Lord, who loves them, is disciplining them as dear children (Hebrews 12:6-11). He is not, as a small number have seen it, TORMENTING or TORTURING them (though, as Hebrews says, no discipline is pleasant, but yields the fruit of righteousness). So, as you would pray for someone who is going through a trial, we assist with our prayers even those who, absent from the Body and present with the Lord, still do not have clear eyes to see him without the pain of some kind of blindness. Catholic ecclesiology is important here. There is ONE Church, the body of Christ. That Church is in heaven and on earth. Members of that Church are on a journey that you can break up into three stages if you will - 1. Our present sojourn in the world - The Church Militant 2. Our post-motem preparation for eterning - The Church in Purgation 3. Our future, full, eternal state - The Church Triumphant Since there is one body of Christ, and all are joined together, we help each other with our prayers. This is the image of a family. There is a notion among some Catholics that we can "get people OUT of purgatory with our prayers." While that language may be technically true in some regard, it may be better to think of it as "our prayers help get them through" the pain of it. How? By helping them to see that we are connected and that one person's life of sin, whether they knew it or not, brought harm, pain, and damage to the body of Christ. That body (the Church) rushes to them to help heal them while Christ, the head (with eyes like a flame of fire) purges them. Again, this is an analogy of faith.

These are great questions! Though I’m no apologist I will try to answer them at least to an extent in case Kenny doesn’t have time to. We believe that humanity inherits Original Sin from our first parents, Adam & Eve. Original Sin, put simply, broke our relationship with God. By dying and rising again, Jesus has restored our friendship with God and in fact elevated it - making us children of God. Personal Sin (aka Actual Personal Sin) is sin committed by us by act of our free will. According to Scripture, even a just man “sins seven times a day”. Just think about the last “white lie” you told or the last time you felt jealous about something someone else had and you wished you had. So though our Original Sin is washed away (through Baptism) we continue to sin, though now we can be forgiven over and over. But nobody would claim they are suddenly perfect because they became a Christian! No, we still sin! So Jesus died for our sins but didn’t make us automatically sinless, as reality proves. But he did make it possible to overcome our inclination to sin! As for Heb 10:12-14, take note of the crucial wording, “those who ARE BEING SANCTIFIED”. It doesn’t read, “those who are already perfect”. We are sanctified throughout our lives. Yes, we will be perfected by the time we enter Heaven - can’t enter with any stain of sin - and will forever be so. Experience makes it obvious that even the best Christians we know are far from absolutely perfect when they die. Keep in mind, also, that even Peter remarked that Paul was “difficult to understand”. He was, after all, the most brilliant student of the most brilliant Rabbi in Israel. As for how long one is in Purgatory: It likely depends on the amount of stain that needs to be removed. A repentant serial killer will surely need a deeper cleaning than a just Christian who tended to complain a lot. According to Scripture, you ‘pay what you owe’. Luke 12:59. I hope Kenny is able to offer better and more in depth explanations, but perhaps this will help in the mean time. God bless❤️

A relevant and challenging set of questions.

True. That’s the first half of the video. Watch it now that you have commented.

Step by step we’ll getcha!!

@@KennyBurchard😊

More to come!

I wonder: How can a broken, sinful individual preferably perfect the self? Impossible! God must be involved at all stages of purification. Purgatory is the final mercy.

Does God really hate Himself so much that He would sentence His dearly beloved Son to unjust condemnation? So as to acquit the guilty? If that is true, He is an infinitely UNJUST God - one in whom I can place no trust. Or, could it just be that all of this was done out of LOVE, as John insists? The faith was not invented in Europe, or in America.

While the Eastern Orthodox Church rejects the term Purgatory, it acknowledges an intermediate state after death and before final judgment, and offers prayer for the dead.

So glad!

We are all, the Church. We pray for everyone.

You're so welcome!

So you don’t have a problem with the Magisterial teachings of purgatory, but are deeply troubled by the conceptions of a small number of individuals on how they viewed purgatory? I’m baffled by how that can be so troubling.

@@MrCusefan44 Something like that. Yes

Yes. This is one of the verses I expected to see. Anyway, there are others.

Understand that the spirit prison is not the hell of the damned. It was Sheol which was emptied after Jesus preached the Gospel to those souls, and after the gates of heaven were opened at His Ascension. Lazarus and the rich man is instructive here.

Thanks for your comment. It's fine to make critiques. You have the right spirit, and civility and charity, and it's great to see that. All we require here is civility and the right spirit. People can disagree all they like, provided they properly "behave." Kenny and I are well familiar with Protestant doctrine, including in this regard. He was a pastor, with a Masters degree in theology, and I was an apologist and missionary as an evangelical, and have intensely studied apologetics and the Bible for now 43 years, including almost 23 years of full-time apologetics). So none of this is new to us. We understand the Protestant view; we simply no longer accept it, where it differs from the Catholic (and we would say, biblical) outlook. I would respond, in defending purgatory from Scripture, with the following argument. I've often used what I call the “nutshell” argument for purgatory: we must be without sin to enter into God's presence (Eph 5:5; Heb 12:14; Rev 21:27; 22:3, 14-15). Therefore, God must purge or wash away our sin to make us fit to be in heaven with Him. All agree so far. The only disagreement is whether this “divine cleansing” takes place in an instant or is more of a process. It's merely a quantitative difference; not an essential one. Purgatory is indicated most directly in 1 Corinthians 3:13, 15 (RSV, as throughout): "Each man's work will become manifest; for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. . . . [15] If any man's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire." The Bible also often refers to this same purging process taking place before we die: the very common biblical theme of God's chastising or purifying His people. By analogy, this shows us the same notions that lie behind the apostolic and Catholic doctrine of purgatory (methods of how God works, so to speak). When these passages are included, one can find (as I did) as many as fifty biblical passages that are relevant to purgatory. Scripture refers to a purging fire (in addition to 1 Corinthians 3 above): whatever “shall pass through the fire” will be made “clean” (Num 31:23); “Out of heaven he let you hear his voice, that he might discipline you; and on earth he let you see his great fire, and you heard his words out of the midst of the fire” (Dt 4:36); “we went through fire” (Ps 66:12); “For gold is tested in the fire, and acceptable men in the furnace of humiliation” (Sir 2:5); “our God is a consuming fire” (Heb 12:29); “do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal which comes upon you to prove you” (1 Pet 4:12); We also see passages about the “baptism of fire” (Mt 3:11; Mk 10:38-39; Lk 3:16; 12:50). The Bible makes frequent use also of the metaphor of various metals being refined (in a fire): “when he has tried me, I shall come forth as gold” (Job 23:10); “thou, O God, hast tested us; thou hast tried us as silver is tried” (Ps 66:10); “The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, and the LORD tries hearts” (Prov 17:3); “I will turn my hand against you and will smelt away your dross as with lye and remove all your alloy” (Is 1:25); “I have refined you, . . . I have tried you in the furnace of affliction” (Is 48:10); “I will refine them and test them” (Jer 9:7); “I will put this third into the fire, and refine them as one refines silver, and test them as gold is tested” (Zech 13:9); “he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap; he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi, and refine them like gold and silver” (Mal 3:2-3); “Having been disciplined a little, they will receive great good, because God tested them and found them worthy of himself; [6] like gold in the furnace he tried them, . . . “ (Wis 3:5-6); “. . . your faith, more precious than gold which though perishable is tested by fire” (1 Pet 1:6-7). God cleansing or washing us is another common biblical theme: “Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin! . . . Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean” (Ps 51:2, 7); “Blows that wound cleanse away evil; strokes make clean the innermost parts” (Prov 20:30; cf. 30:12); “the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and cleansed the bloodstains of Jerusalem from its midst by a spirit of judgment and by a spirit of burning” (Is 4:4); “I will cleanse them from all the guilt of their sin against me” (Jer 33:8); “I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses” (Ezek 36:25); “cleanse them from sin and uncleanness” (Zech 13:1); “our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water” (Heb 10:22); “he was cleansed from his old sins” (2 Pet 1:9); “the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin” (1 John 1:7). Divine “chastisement” is taught clearly in many passages: “as a man disciplines his son, the LORD your God disciplines you” (Dt 8:5); “do not despise the LORD's discipline or be weary of his reproof,” (Prov 3:11); “I will chasten you in just measure” (Jer 30:11); “For thou didst test them as a father does in warning” (Wis 11:10); “God who tests our hearts” (1 Thess 2:4); “For the Lord disciplines him whom he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives. It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline? . . . he disciplines us for our good, that we may share his holiness” (Heb 12:6-7, 10). We are subject to God's indignation or wrath, insofar as we sin: “God will bring every deed into judgment” (Ecc 12:14); “I will bear the indignation of the Lord because I have sinned against him, . . . He will bring me forth to the light” (Mic 7:9). Purgatory is “written all over” the passages above. It all goes back to sin not being allowed in heaven. Once we get there, there is no longer mere "imputation" of righteousness. At that point it's actual righteousness in play. Therefore, we have to transition from our present sinful life or sate of being, to the sinless life we will live in heaven. So the question is: how does God bring that result about? Is it instantaneous? Zap! And we're there! Or is it more of a process? That's the heart of my argument in the 50 passages: by analogy, the Bible teaches that purging of sin is a process in this life. If that's true, then it stands to reason, or is plausible, to believe also that the same purging of sin in heaven is a process rather than an instantaneous "zap." And that is the essence of purgatory. Once the analogy is understood, then all of the passages I produced are relevant to understanding (and accepting) purgatory.

That’s how many English translations render it. Especially KJV and NKJV and a few others. But it is about returning home after exile.

It’s not a disconnected and impersonal process like going through a factory. It’s a cleansing with Jesus doing the work. Jesus knows what each person needs. When we separate Jesus from the process these kinds of speculations move us away from what is happening. Jesus will prepare each person for their eternal destiny. Again “arriving in purgatory” as though it is a location outside the presence of Jesus is not a good way to think of it. To be apart from the body is to be in the presence of the Lord.

excellent list!

Thanks for being irenic. It’s a word I am trying to teach and model. These are valid questions. First the preposition. In. It can indicate both a locative meaning and a status meaning. In the car, in the pool, in the house. Or In love, in agony, in training, in 3rd grade. It’s more likely the preposition of status. But if there is a locative meaning then it’s “in the presence of God who is a consuming fire.” As far as prayer it relates to any other biblical reference to sharing comfort with others in the Body of Christ. Read these and let me know if you could see them finding fulfillment in the final purification: James 5:16 Gal 6:2 2 Cor 1:4 Etc. Since we are always in the body of Christ (in this life and in eternity) the ecclesial comfort and support of our prayers are actually themselves part of the final purification. If God can use the prayer of a mother in this life to help her son overcome a trial, he can use it in the next. Catholic ecclesiology embraces a metaphysic or real and embodied communion and connection that keeps us all present to one another in amazing ways. Catholics do not understand our ecclesial communion and ministry to one another to be terminated or “unpluggged” by physical death since we leave our bodies for a season, but never leave His.

Our church always prays for itself. No matter what. The chruch loves itself in Jesus Christ.

At death, we are outside of time. Yet, there must be some form of what we view as time involved, or else purgatory would be a permanent state and that is contrary to revelation. Only Heaven and hell are permanent.

I told my wife I don’t like it but it seems to help people know exactly what they are getting into.

Thanks. Amen!

Rest assured that he has read it multiple times! He knows his stuff.

Only public revelation (Scripture and Sacred Tradition) is binding on all Catholics. Private revelation (such as visions of saints) is not binding, but may be worthy of belief on a personal level.

No, those dreams & visions are considered to be private revelation but not public doctrine or dogma.

No vision, apparition or private revelation is binding upon the faithful.