Myths About Indulgences Handout Questions Part I - Myths
Please read the Myths About Indulgences handout and respond to the following. This assignment is due before you leave.
1. After reading the definition, please explain what an indulgence is in your own words.
2. Why is it false to say that indulgences can buy your way out of hell?
3. What is the only way we can try to avoid hell?
4. Why is it wrong to say that indulgences can be bought for sins that you have not yet committed?
5. Can a person "buy" forgiveness? Why or why not?
6. Where did the idea of indulgences develop?
7. Why is it not true to say that an indulgence will shorten your time in purgatory?
8. How did Pope Pius V demonstrate the Church's seriousness when it came to trying to avoid abuses involving indulgences?
9. Explain why it is false to say that the Church "sold" indulgences. Why was money involved at all in relation to indulgences? How did this go wrong in some instances?
10. Is there something essentially evil in donating to the needs of the Church? If yes, why? If no, why not?
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