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To: annalex; daniel1212; smvoice; metmom; boatbums; caww

Here’s a good site that gives plenty of scripture to counter the concept of purgatory.

http://www.biblelight.net/purgatory-staples-white.htm


850 posted on 10/28/2011 7:05:42 PM PDT by CynicalBear
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To: CynicalBear; daniel1212; smvoice; metmom; boatbums; caww
a good site

Standard Protestant template the two points of which I answered meny times here. From the site:

No amount of pain and suffering on your part can remit your sins

Indeed, but sin is not being remitted in purgatory. By the time one is in purgatory his sin has been wholly pardoned atoned for and remitted. Before Protestant charlatans criticize Catholic concepts they should study them a bit.

Paul in the 3rd chapter of 1st Corinthians says nothing about a judgment that occurs at the time of ones death

First, if the passage referred to the Second Coming of Christ as the time of the purgation, we would still have the concept of Purgatory intact, nmerely its application delayed. The author of this site is then making an argument the consequences of which he himself would not accept -- see his previous point.

Secondly, I can see how "the day of the Lord" refers to the Second Coming, because indeed it is at the second coming that our deeds and the Glory of Heaven will be made manifest to all. From that it does not follow that the purgation process (as opposed to its manifestation to others) takes place at the Second Coming. Indeed, we see that after the purgation the purified soul "is saved as if through fire". This means that the soul enters Heaven at that point.

It would be interesting to see what Tim Staples responded, as this page is childish work.

958 posted on 10/30/2011 11:46:28 AM PDT by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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