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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...