“That goes against every thing that your priests and bishops teach; that you won’t know if you go to heaven until you meet Jesus face to face, at the final judgment.”
Purgatory happens after we meet Jesus face to face at the final Judgment.
“Not a single Christian will feel a flame”
Corinthians explicitly says that those who’s works do not bear the test will escape through the flames. Every Christian will face this test. Some will pass and some will fail.
Interesting...I didn't realize that was Catholic theology...
So when a Catholic dies, his soul lays unconscious in the ground until the judgment???
Eph 2:6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
Scripture says we are already in the presence of heaven...
God, who dwells within the temple (the body of the believer) is going to lay in the ground until we are raised at the last judgment???
The scriptures covers a lot of area that makes it impossible for purgatory to exist...
Corinthians explicitly says that those who’s works do not bear the test will escape through the flames. Every Christian will face this test. Some will pass and some will fail.
1Co 3:13 Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. 1Co 3:14 If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. 1Co 3:15 If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
There is absolute proof that you are 100% wrong...
Corinthians does not explicitly or implicitly say what you claim it does...
Every Christian's works will bear the test, not the Christian...The bad works are burned, not the Christian...
It's like you might attend a wedding wearing dirty old rags...You are not rejected or sent off because you look so poorly...Your clothes are ripped off of you and burned and you are given a new suit of white linen...Right on the spot...