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Purgatory vs limbo3/31/2023 ![]() The Greek god Hades was the king of the underworld, a place where souls live after death. The Greeks had come up with myths that all the dead dwell below the earth in the realm of Hadēs and Persephonē, good and bad alike, and were held in a dark existence. ![]() This is at odds and in contrast to the scriptural teaching that the dead go to the grave and know nothing and at the end, a eternal oblivion of the wicked and a eternal life for the saints. Christians picked up these false ideas and beliefs of immortality of the soul, or that a part of, or essence of, or spirit being of an individual being held in the underworld, from Greek mythology. The problem of picking up these ideas from Greek mythology is because of the Greek words used in translating from the Hebrew text has become confused with Greek myths. Now Limbo as a belief seems to presuppose that the dead are held in the Greek myth of the underworld (Hades) and came to be associated mainly with Limbo of Infants, where the unbaptized who die in infancy, too young to have committed personal sins. In ancient Egypt in the worship of the dead, substantially the same doctrine of purgatory was taught as today and its priests created grand funerals and masses for the dead, along with celebration of prayer and other services for the dead. Purgatory is given as a way that no matter how sinful or unbelieving, when you die, you go to Purgatory and get things sorted out and finally get to heaven, so no acceptance of Christ is needed, you can buy your way in. Purgatory is the belief that presupposes that the dead can be assisted between death and their entry into their final abode. The practice of worship for the dead and praying to them, or making prayer or offerings on behalf of the dead to contribute to their afterlife purification is not scriptural and in fact is forbidden in the Bible.ġ0 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch.11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.12 For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord: and because of these abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee. It existed among the ancient Greeks, other ancient people. It comes from the worship of the dead or ancestor worship which involve addressing prayers or offerings to the spirits of the dead. ![]() The realm of the dead is as the word says, dead, but many have picked up ancient Greek myths or even older pagan mysteries and made them beliefs such as Purgatory, Limbo and Hades. ![]()
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