![]() ![]() Jose Rizal, certainly knew the non-existence of the purgatory when he wrote his book, "Noli Me Tangere".ġ1 And white robes were given unto every one of them and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellow servants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled. The result is a sham and they make people go through motions of paying, paying and forever paying – for such kind of salvation. And in between, it has placed many stories to take away righteous judgment from God. It has also ascribed power to the dead to intercede for those alive. The Catholic Church has created a lot of counterfeits, removing the power from God and ascribing authority to Mary, who is herself dead. In contrast, the Bible makes it clear that once dead, the remains of the individual are in the hands of God. That is also the reason why they celebrate the birthdays of the dead as though they were still alive. That is the reason they talk to the dead and think these have power to intercede for them. That is the reason why they forever pay their church for so-called masses for the dead though their dead have been gone several decades ago. The practices of the Catholics are obviously pegged on these beliefs. It is not also clear under whom it is subject to. The problem with this dictionary is that it claims power to declare man-made truth. To murder more than 300,000 people at a given time carry with it 300,000 secrets and stories unrevealed. The history of the inquisition knows better than anyone of us living today. There are many secrets in the Roman Catholic Church written and archived, or spoken - after which the speaker is silenced. However, in that Ratzinger Report, Benedict asserted that "if Purgatory did not exist, we should have to invent it." (P.146). 147, When Ratzinger became Pope Benedict XVI in 2005, the following year in October 2006 he announced that limbo does not exist. Ratzinger states that he is "speaking more as a theologian and not as Prefect of the Congregation, and that “I would abandon Limbo since it was only a theological hypothesis." (Ratzinger Report, p. It has Vittorio Messori as co-author, the Italian journalist that interviewed him. It was an exclusive interview on the state of the Church written by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger. Two decades before this, way back in June 1985, the “Ratzinger Report” was published. Maybe he was pressured by other authorities, maybe not! Only God knows the whole story. We do not know if this was the reason why he later relinquished his post being the highest authority of the Roman Catholic Church. The braveness of Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger or Pope Benedict XVI, to declare that Limbo does not exist contradicting almost all previous popes before him is a heroic act. Limbo is not biblical in concept - in spirit and in letters. The concepts of Limbo and Purgatory are two among them, created by the Roman Catholic Church and now deeply embedded in their non-biblical beliefs. It is interesting to note how people invent lies to make people believe in them just so money keeps dropping to their coffers and reassure their hold on power.
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