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Offline Miseremini

Re: A Question About Purgatory
« Reply #10 on: December 11, 2022, 09:26:26 PM »
I do understand that our sins are forgiven in confession because the church has the power to bind and loose but from where do we get the idea that God forgets? 
If He does forget, then are we judged on only the sins we die with?
At the final judgement or even the particular judgement, have all our sins not been recorded?


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Offline Miser Peccator

Re: A Question About Purgatory
« Reply #11 on: December 11, 2022, 09:27:13 PM »
Quote from: Miseremini on December 11, 2022, 09:19:28 PM
Think of it this way.
A young boy is playing baseball and accidentally breaks the neighbour's window.
The neighbour forgives him when he says he's sorry BUT...he still has to pay for the window.
Yes, this is a good analogy except that we cannot accidentally commit sin.  It has to be deliberate, doesn't it?
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Offline BernardoGui

Re: A Question About Purgatory
« Reply #12 on: December 11, 2022, 09:31:30 PM »
Quote from: Miseremini on December 11, 2022, 09:26:26 PM
I do understand that our sins are forgiven in confession because the church has the power to bind and loose but from where do we get the idea that God forgets?
If He does forget, then are we judged on only the sins we die with?
At the final judgement or even the particular judgement, have all our sins not been recorded?
 I am he that blot out thy iniquities for my own sake, and I will not remember thy sins. Isaiah 43:25
So, God blots out our sins and does not remember them, yet keeps a record of every single sin so we can have everyone who ever lived see and hear them in high definition?
I don't consider myself a theologian but something is at odds with passages like this, at least to my feeble mind
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Offline Nadir

Re: A Question About Purgatory
« Reply #13 on: December 11, 2022, 10:06:09 PM »
One of many:
Hebrews 8-11) And they shall not teach every man his neighbour and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me from the least to the greatest of them: [12] Because I will be merciful to their iniquities, and their sins I will remember no more. [13] Now in saying a new, he hath made the former old. And that which decayeth and groweth old, is near its end.
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Offline Emile

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Re: A Question About Purgatory
« Reply #14 on: December 11, 2022, 10:08:27 PM »
This 3-part article on Purgatory is pretty good:

https://www.traditioninaction.org/religious/e051-Purg_1.htm

https://www.traditioninaction.org/religious/e053-Purg_2.htm

https://www.traditioninaction.org/religious/e054-Purg_3.htm

Understanding something of the Church's teaching on the spiritual life has helped me to understand Purgatory better. Here's one of the shortest books on the subject that I am aware of:

https://archive.org/details/threewaysofspiri00garr/page/n8/mode/1up
(you will need to have an account, which is free, to view the entire work)




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