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What was sold by the Catholic church to release a soul from purgatory?
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∙ 14y ago
The correct term would be indulgences. Pope wanted to build the basilica and wanted to raise money. Finally it was worth it. This was not accepted to Martin Luther so he opposed to the idea of selling indulgences and started his own group - whom we now call as Lutherans or Protestants. We belive that a very bad person goes to hell, but we sinners can never go to heaven with our sins and should not goto hell as we have not done such grave and mortal sins. So there is a place called as purgatory - where if someone prays for you, offers masses then the chances of you going to heaven and your sins being forgiven increases. Souls do need prayers who are in purgatory. So therefore we have masses for all souls in purgatory, we even celebrate the 'All Souls Day' so that atleast some souls get to goto heaven and be a part of the heavenly kingdom and be with GOD.
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What were the slips of paper sold by Catholic Church to ensure salvation?
There were never any slips of paper sold by the Catholic Church to ensure salvation. You are thinking of a lie which has been perpetuated by the heretics who revolted agains the Catholic Church in the sixteenth century and started the protestant movement.
What did martin Luther agree on with the catholic Church?
He thought that selling indulgences were nonsense, and that purgatory did not exist. Indulgences were sold to relatives of the dead, and the Pope would promise them that the souls of the dead would spend less time in purgatory. Luther nailed 95 of these arguments onto the church door in Wittenburg.
Did the French King ask the Catholic Church for money?
Yes. And it was refused. The French Revolution in turn seized all of the property of the Catholic Church and sold it to the highest bidder.
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Selling off the property of the Catholic Church and Noble emigres.
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After the battle of the Alamo, in 1883, the Catholic church sold the Alamo to Texas for 20,000 dollars.
Who sold you things in the middle ages to help you get to heaven?
The Catholic Church made quite a bit of income this way.
Did JESUS go to purgatory?
No, no, no - for several reasons. The two primary reasons are as follows: 1. Jesus lived a sinless life but at his death took the whole of sin on his shoulders as the sacrificial lamb of God. If Jesus had to go to 'purgatory' to be cleansed of this sin he would still be there now. As Jesus was God incarnate, to end up in purgatory being cleansed of sin would mean thata perfect God himself had to be cleansed of sin, which does not make much sense. Jesus died, took our sin, went to hell and after the resurrection conquered death once and for all, and subsequently ascended to heaven. No purgatory was necessary. 2. More importantly and fundamentally, purgatory does not exist. In scripture we are told that we are saved through the blood of Christ, and not by some sort of 'cleansing' place. Jesus made this perfectlyclear when he promised the thief who was crucified with him that 'this very day you will be with me - in Paradise'. Not in 'purgatory' for some time before going to Paradise, but that very day. Purgatory was a doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church which was the primary cause of the schism between the Protestant Church and Catholicism. Martin Luther was concerned about the corruption in the Catholic Church as the concept of purgatory enabled priests to get paid for saying masses to pray for the souls of the dead in 'chantry' chapels. Payment of large sums of money meant that they could 'guarantee' a certain time off the time in purgatory (say reducing it from 1000 to 500 years). These guarantees were known as 'indulgences' and were sold all over Europe in the Middle Ages. Thus, the rich could 'guarantee' going to heaven by paying large sums whilst the poor had to go through 'purgatory', contrary to all Christ stood for. This scam was a very nice earner by the Catholic Church and netted them huge revenues, and is regarded nowadays as one of the most shameful episodes of Church history. Martin Luther, in his well publicised conversion after reading Paul's letter to the Romans, realised that he was saved, not by payment of money, but by Grace, through Christ's sacrifice on the Cross, and therefore nailed his 'theses' to the door of the church at Wittenberg indicting the Catholic Church as corrupt. The result was his formation of the Protestant Church and his excommunication from Rome. To be fair to Rome, the Catholics also underwent their own Reformation after this wake-up call and the selling of indulgences was stopped but the concept of purgatory stayed. There is a movement in the modern Catholic Church to remove purgatory from the doctrine of the Church, and rightly so, as it is clearly and utterly against God's will and Christ's teaching, being sinfully the main cause of the Protestand split from Rome and against everything that Paul - and Christ himself - taught.
What is another names for grants of salvation that was sold by the Church?
Roman Catholic AnswerYou are thinking of indulgences, but you're wrong. There is not now, and there never has been any "grant of salvation" sold by the Church. Please see the article below:
What was the term used for buying influence in the Catholic Church?
You probably mean the term indulgence. These were sometimes sold in medieval times.
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