“Actually, it says nothing of the sort. Binding on earth/binding in heaven is FAR different from giving earthly priests, (sinful, fallen me just as the rest of us) the ability to forgive sins which, by the way, is the SOLE purview of God Almighty.”
A gift which Christ granted to the Apostles, the power to forgive sins. This is what binding and loosing means.
“It doesnt say a thing about having to go to purgatory to have the testing done.”
What do you think purgatory means? To cleanse by fire.
I don’t know what purgatory means because scripture doesn’t define it; the Roman Catholic Church does.
Re-read my post regarding being absent in the body. Also, as another poster pointed out, Jesus didn’t tell the thief that he was going to purgatory for a bit to get toasty and then he would see him later—
Hoss.