Evidence for Christianity

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No

Ok, I'll try again. The Church stopped selling indulgences because they were being abused. People were more or less stealing money from people by misleading them. The Church recognized that selling indulgens was to easily abused. So they said, even though there is technically nothing wrong with it in theory, in practice it is abused, so we are ending it. The Church still uses indulgences, but you can only recieve them by doing good works, Technically giving money is a good work, but that was to easily abused, so now you can get indulgences for any good work other than giving money. So if you want an induglence you can gain one by reading a Bible or praying for something etc.

An indulgence is a recognition by the Church that one has done something that has helped to forgive some of their temporal sin. So they will be able to go straight to heaven, rather than having to go to purgatory. There are two kinds of indulgences, one is a plenary indulgence, which completely frees the one who recieves it of temporal sin, and there is another kind that only relieves part of ones temporal sins. One cannot recieve an indulgence to get out of hell, or to avoid hell, only to get out of purgatory, or avoid purgatory. If you go to purgatory you will make it into heaven, so if oyu are in purgatory, you will never do something worthy of going to hell, you no longer have that within your range of possible actions.

Hopefully you understand the issue now.