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You understand that I'm not convinced of a purgatory state and believe as you do...Christ spoke of Abraham's Bosom as a real place. He also told the disciples that he was "going to prepare a place for them that where I am...there ye may be also..". So I don't know was Abraham's Bosom, heaven? Or was paradise, Heaven? Or are the many mansions Christ is preparing for us Heaven? Certainly we know Hell was an established fact but was there a transitional place for the righteous...especially in the time before Christ's death and resurrection? Who knows. We do know that now when those who die in Christ...in fact die...they are with him forever...and that is Heaven enough for me!

Ok, you had me wondering there for a few. ;) "Where I am there you may be also." Since he's at the right hand of the father and that is in heaven, that means we go to Heaven. 'in my fathers house there are many mansions, if it were not so I would have told you'. You're remembering correctly. Good for you. As Paul said, stick to the scriptures that you will know what they taught and do not stray from them. You cannot go wrong in the doing. It is when people decide themselves wise in their reasoning and heap to themselves philosophy for doctrine that error abounds. Keep the Gospel ;)