Hi Jennifer, Jason & JY's,
Interesting discussion !
What if a person disobeys the very first law (i.e. prays to an
idol) and dies with his faith in the idol. Is there forgiveness
still ?
Concerning this, there is this interesting chapter in the Bible:
Maccabees Chapter 12: v32-50.
In short, Judas offered prayers and sacrifices (like 12000
drachmas of silver to Jerusalem) for the sins of the dead.
and verse 49 says: It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to
pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from sins.
Praise be to our Merciful God,
Paul Mathew.
On Mon, 08 Jul 2002 Jennifer wrote :
>Hi Jason & JY's,
>
>A very good question I must say.
>
>I was just pondering over this question after the death of one of
>my parishioner
>last week. Since I was praying for his soul...........and I
>wondered whether my
>prayers wud really help him???
>
>And as I pondered over this question, a thought came to
>me........our God is an
>awesome God.........He is very loving and forgiving. When we as
>human beings,
>we pray for the souls & feel that all souls shud be
>save..........how much more
>will God the Creator must be wanting that all Souls shud be
>saved. We don't
>know what happens when a person faces death.........I believe
>that in a fraction
>of time before the person breathes his last....... God, most
>merciful gives the
>soul yet another chance to repent...........and if the soul in
>those brief
>moments does repent ..........will he still deserve hell????
>No........the soul
>will defintely be saved. And if the soul is in purgatory, then
>our prayers will
>hel
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