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To: Heart-Rest
Are you saying that all Protestants must reject "purgatory", as if that is a Protestant dogma?

Why don't you go back and re-read my comment? Your answer is there already.

125 posted on 11/18/2014 11:08:17 AM PST by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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To: boatbums
me:  "Are you saying that all Protestants must reject "purgatory", as if that is a Protestant dogma?"

boatbums:  "Why don't you go back and re-read my comment? Your answer is there already."

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Your post #74 said the following:


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"There doesn't NEED to be unanimus consensus for Protestants on Purgatory since that dogma is REJECTED."

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Like I told you in my post #78, you may reject that belief, but it has definitely not been rejected by all Protestants, including such prominent Protestants as C. S. Lewis, and Dr. Jerry L. Walls, professor at Houston Baptist University.

In other words, Dr. Jerry Walls' own Protestant interpretation of the Holy Scriptures directly contradicts your Protestant interpretation of the Holy Scriptures, regarding that question.

There is also quite a bit of diversity among the various Eastern Orthodox Churches as well concerning "an intermediate state of the soul between death and the final judgment", where they believe prayers for those dead people can be efficacious for them.    (They do not call it "purgatory", which came from the Latin term, but there are strong similarities between the Catholic beliefs about it, and the beliefs that some Orthodox Christians hold.    Just do a quick Google search on orthodox diversity on purgatory to quickly confirm the truth of the existence of that diversity among the Orthodox concerning that matter.)

And for another interesting set of related Protestant youtube videos for you to watch, please check out these ones of Dr. Jerry L. Walls too:


185 posted on 11/19/2014 10:51:18 PM PST by Heart-Rest ("Our hearts are restless, Lord, until they rest in Thee." - St. Augustine)
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