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To: blue-duncan
context, context,context results in purgatory being disproven?

LOL wrong, wrong, wrong

You TOTALLY ignored what the Church taught about those men and substituted your own eisegesis anchored in-the-oral-traditions-issuing-from- the-16th-century-schismatics and I am supposed to accept that as authoritative?

I follow the 2000 + year old Church Jesus established as the Pillar and Ground of Truth not a Core-like Schism (Numbers 16) a few hundred years old.

122 posted on 01/29/2007 12:54:29 PM PST by bornacatholic
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To: bornacatholic; ArrogantBustard; GCC Catholic; P-Marlowe; xzins; Gamecock; AlbionGirl; HarleyD; ...

"You TOTALLY ignored what the Church taught about those men and substituted your own eisegesis"

Really now, let's look at the text. It says they were idol worshipers and died for their sin and it was against the Law. Idol worshipers were cut off from the community of Israel. So where is the eisogesis? They had no hope so what is the use of praying for their forgiveness except as a futile grandstand play by the commander? God cannot be bribed so of what value is the collection of the indulgence money?


39: On the next day, as by that time it had become necessary, Judas and his men went to take up the bodies of the fallen and to bring them back to lie with their kinsmen in the sepulchres of their fathers.
40: Then under the tunic of every one of the dead they found sacred tokens of the idols of Jamnia, which the law forbids the Jews to wear. And it became clear to all that this was why these men had fallen.
41: So they all blessed the ways of the Lord, the righteous Judge, who reveals the things that are hidden;


152 posted on 01/29/2007 1:09:01 PM PST by blue-duncan
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