Purgatory: Is It A Journey To Paradise?

Death isn’t a threat, God demonstrated that with His Son, the feeling of losing a loved one causes sadness, and memory loss in some cases, it’s normal to feel this way, but what could be more sad if the departed didn’t make it to Paradise?

Where do we go from here?
1. Paradise
2. Heaven
3. Hell
4. Pit of fire
5. Purgatory
When a righteous soul departs the world, he finds rest in Paradise, after the Last Judgment he finds a abode in Heaven, when a sinner dies he finds a place in Hell, after the Last Judgment he finds a place in the pit of fire, this is the Gospel, but what about purgatory?

Purgatory was derived from the Latin word ‘purgatorium’ which means to purge, to cleanse or purify someone or something, it emerged in the 12 century and was spread by French theologians and was recognised by the First Council of Lyon in 1245.

As it gained ground, it was further developed and defined by Thomas Aquinas, he explained the methodology of how sins were expiated in purgatory, and as the last form of penance to unconfesed and unforgiven sins in the afterlife.

Now you understand what purgatory is, let’s see how it affects our faith; it’s a Roman-French religious idiosyncrasy that permits us to live our lives the way we want in hope there’s a second chance after death, it gives us the permission to believe we can be forgiven in the grave, it decieves us to believe even when we weren’t in good times with God that we can be forgiven and prayed into Paradise.

There’s no place to purge the soul of sins in the afterlife, Jesus clearly explained that using the rich man and Abraham, any offence we didn’t resolve the time we had the time can’t be purged in the afterlife.

I listened to an open discussion between Pope Francis and two children in Vatican, they asked him, “Our late Dad didn’t believe in God but he allowed us to be baptised in the church, is he in Paradise because he baptised us?” The former Pope answered them, “Your father is in Heaven because he allowed you to be baptised, therefore he believed.” I looked at those children, they were very happy to hear their father who didn’t go to church, who didn’t believe in God went to Heaven, this is how happy many feel believing they can live the way they want, depart to purgatory and transported in Paradise after a time, it’s sad to say, those who have gone beyond discovered it was all a lie, and what is more serious is they can’t communicate the living who are in this lane of deception.

The worst thing that can happen to us is to lose our soul due to wrong doctrine, remember we have no excuse to give, no one will ask you on the Last Day, who made you believe in, because you had all the time to know the truth.

The doctrine of Rome teaches if a sinner baptises his children that his soul is saved, I want you to understand, if the Pope being the leader teaches this religious evil, think about the people under him.
One of the 7 wonders of the world, the Sistine Chapel Rome was built with money stolen from sinners; Pope Sixtus created a certificate, he called it the certificate of pardon, it’s a certificate that forgives all sins even the one yet to be committed, it’s the certificate that transposes souls from the purgatory to Paradise, it’s still in sale till date, you can even buy for your dead loved great grand family, as long as their names are on the certificate whatever evil they did are forgiven instantly in purgatory, the certificate has bought them a place in Paradise.

No man has the power to forgive sins, no certificate forgives sins, there’s no place for penance after death, it’s either Hell or Paradise, purgatory was an ideology created by men like you and I to steal from the rich and poor to build Sistine Chapel and rebuild Rome.

Do you understand? thieves, murderers and killers bought the certificate and went about killing when they were brought before the court in Germany that year, they said they have certificate of indulgence, they were pardoned because they have a certificate from the Pope which forgives even sins yet to be committed.

The best you can do for the living is to tell them to prepare for the afterlife, and the best you can do for the dead is a give them an honourable last respect, their journey in the afterlife is personal, calling all the priest and Bishops in the world to anoint the casket and pray God forgives him and accept him in His Kingdom is a joke.

Forget about paying dues and levies to the church for the souls of dead loved ones to be transposed into Paradise, if they weren’t in good relationship with God, they’re doomed, purgatory was created to extort money from the weak to develop Rome, if you were disconnected from God in life, you’re disconnected for ever in the afterlife, second chance is for the living, while judgment is for dead.

-Kanayo Ebuka