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**Apparently, from the above verse, you can skip “hell” by dying at sea. **

LOL!

Your scriptures are accurate. I happen to disagree with your once saved, always saved point of view. Which in some of your quotes doesn’t pan out, because you have quoted about good works and evil works of the flesh.

I think we can both agree that there is a heaven. That there is a hell. And that God will be the judge.

Are you ready for the next post in this series — you guessed it — Purgatory! LOL!

**Apparently, from the above verse, you can skip “hell” by dying at sea. **

LOL!

I'm glad you got my little bit of humor/sarcasm. : )

Your scriptures are accurate. I happen to disagree with your once saved, always saved point of view. Which in some of your quotes doesn’t pan out, because you have quoted about good works and evil works of the flesh.

Well, first, thanks for recognizing the Scriptures. I am wrong many times a day, but the Scriptures are not.

Second, I understand the theology of OSAS is not popular. I believe it is a topic Christians can agree to disagree on. The important thing is for each individual Christian to research all of the pros and cons and pray over it themselves. It isn't completely cut and dried, but from my studies, that is what I find to be where the weight of Scripture points. We'll find out in Heaven which side was right. Since this isn't really the topic at hand in this thread, I'm fine to leave OSAS topic alone for now.

I think we can both agree that there is a heaven. That there is a hell. And that God will be the judge.

Amen!

Are you ready for the next post in this series — you guessed it — Purgatory! LOL!

Well, I won't "gum up" your thread, but I will just say a few things here....One, Purgatory isn't mentioned in the Bible. It's descriptions and regulations are a Catholic Church doctrine to which I don't subscribe, so it is useless for me to argue about it (unless I was just into arguing for arguments sake, which I'm not).

The one thing I could accept is if you called the Christians trial of his/her works as mentioned in 1 Corinthians as Purgatory. Even though that name isn't used in the Bible, it will clearly be a time of hardship/trial as we watch/feel how our 'works' stacked up for Christ. That's not going to be a fun time for most, I suspect.