Also the punishment referred to here is not eternal as in hell (Mark 9:47-48) but only temporary - "till he should pay all his debt." Purgatory is a temporary state for souls in friendship with ...

Best of all, you can “go to hell” and visit the five so-called portals beyond purgatory yourself. Gehenna Few places seem as synonymous with the netherworld than Gehenna, which is the Greek ...

Purgatory, therefore ... He can’t be speaking of Hell because no one gets out of Hell. Also in Matthew 12:32, Jesus speaks of the unforgivable sin that cannot be forgiven even in the age ...

Jesus taught that Hell is a place to be greatly feared ... not pure and good enough to go to Heaven straight away. For them, Purgatory is the state of waiting where a person can make up for ...

And you know the way to the place where I am going. Hell has traditionally been depicted as a place of eternal fire that symbolises pain and suffering. This is seen as the result of the refusal to ...

Tuesday evening's 4-0 loss to Slovenia was a reality check at the start of a new era for the Republic of Ireland, writes ...