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CastitatisLilium: 5 months ago

If Heaven is above and Hell is below, and Purgatory is in between, could Earth be Purgatory?

If the answer is obvious, please forgive my ignorance. I'm a deist, and I personally believe that if there is a Heaven and a Hell, I'll just have to wait until I die to find out.

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Jerusalem07: 5 months ago via iPhone

Purgatory is not true; it does not exist. It was made up by man to make money selling indulgences to have the surviving family buy their dead loved ones into heaven, but the truth is it does not work that way.

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candy179: 5 months ago

i agree (;

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whitisnevin: 5 months ago via iPhone

If you believe in such nonsense

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RevHosanna: 5 months ago via iPhone

Theoretically yes. But neither God or faith are a theory. :)

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M360: 5 months ago

This 'up' and 'down' are not physical. Looking closely we'll realize that there will be no up or down after the world has ended. There will be no Earth or sky or whatever. These are just to help us have a provisional understanding.

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lalish: 5 months ago via iPhone

You should read Dante's Inferno!!

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TheZ: 5 months ago via iPhone

Just don't take Dante's delusions as fact.

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JamesKaeberle: 5 months ago | Last edited at 2:56AM on 12/27/2012

There's no such place, Also.You don't want to wait until you die to see where your going. You better find Jesus befure that are you will definately end up in the other place.

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flybynight: 5 months ago via iPhone

Purgatory is a fable not in the bible

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rayman23: 5 months ago via iPhone

Our Deist stand is that we can HOPE for an afterlife. We do not know, nor does anyone else.

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mgmarx: 5 months ago via iPhone

You have provided the only rational answer I have ever seen for this question.

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rayman23: 5 months ago via iPhone

Thanks. Deism 101

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KuramaKyuubi: 5 months ago | Last edited at 3:52AM on 12/27/2012

Get outta here south park!!!! Who needs ya!!?

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cookieroma: 5 months ago via iPhone

I haven't seen anything in the bible that proffers such a place as purgatory.

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bettyeckles: 5 months ago via iPhone

In purgatory you get better as time goes by ... On this earth ; things are only getting worse by the day. That leaves the only good place to be is HEAVEN.

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Skeptikitten: 5 months ago

Deists don't actually believe in heaven or hell. That's a Christian belief.

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XxWrathseedxX: 5 months ago via iPhone | Last edited at 8:36AM on 12/27/2012

Heaven and hell are probably in other dimensions. Also deists believe in God but think that he withdrew from the workings of the world after creation.

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rayman23: 5 months ago via iPhone

Yes, and the Intelligent Designer of the Universe works from outside the Universe.

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auxarcs: 5 months ago via iPhone | Last edited at 8:37AM on 12/27/2012

'above' and 'below' are silly human valuations. Probably to make it easier for we humans to think about them. The places we refer to as 'heaven' and 'hell' exist completely outside our true ability to undestand and have no positional or geographic location that pertains to earth. Heaven, as Gods realm, is not 'above' Only the skies then space are above and we refer to them as 'heavens' but they arent the same as Gods realm which cannot be reached from earth as the 'heavens' can be.
Hell is not 'below' either. Dirt, rock, minerals and magma are 'below'. Again 'hell' is a place separate from earth and not positioned in relation to it in any way. Think alternate dimensions if that makes it easier.
The Catholic purgatory that people can apparently be prayed out of doesnt exist. Theres a good chance theres an in between place but just a place souls rest until Christ returns, not a place you can be prayed out of. Earth is just a planet spinning ariund a big hot sun in space.

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