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Welcome to The Rapid Bull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications. This is a ministry of striving for eternity.
When we look at the Roman Catholic view of end times, where will people spend eternity? Well, we see heaven. Well, everyone believes that there's a heaven. They also believe in a hell. Not everyone believes in that, but they do.
But then they have a third place where people can go. It is a place called Purgatory. Purgatory is a place in the Roman Catholic view where people go to work off their sins that they committed in this life.
It is a place for the dead that will be a place of temporary punishment. And after Purgatory, some will be there for a very long time. Even the Catholic Pope must go to Purgatory for at least 10 days and work off his sin.
When all of the work is done, then they can go to heaven. I guess they just stay in Purgatory or end up going to hell if they can't work it off. But the reality is, which the Bible says, is that the wages of sin is death.
And that death is spoken of as an eternal death. That is the second death. Where hell is cast into that second death. So what you end up seeing is that the Bible says this death will last eternity. They say, just a temporary place, and then you can maybe go to a better place.
Now the reality is, Purgatory proves that the Roman Catholic Church believes in a works-based salvation. If you want to get more information, get my book, What Do They Believe, at whatdotheybelieve .com.
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