It wouldn't matter what you or I think. That's the scripture, this is what is written. I have faith, so I believe.
Incidentally, yes the Purgatory exists because Christ, in His mercy, set it up for us.
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And moreover, the low-grade works are burned off purifying the soul. That's what the Scripture says.
Which statement proves that Catholics think that works are what saves a person.
We believe in what the Church teaches on the subject. Here, thanks to the efforts of the Church and the mercy of God (1 Cor. 3:6), and on the foundation of Jesus Christ (verse 11) his works are tested and inferior works burn, but his soul is saved nonetheless (verse 15).
Read the Holy Bible once in a while, ye Protestants, rather than develop theories out of your own heads, and many of you-all will too be purified of your Protestantism and saved, and accepted in Heaven forever.
No, He didn't. The concept of purgatory is totally made up by the Catholic Church. To think that Christ forgives sins but man then has to somehow answer for them again is contrary to scripture and thus considered another gospel.
>>And moreover, the low-grade works are burned off purifying the soul. That's what the Scripture says.<<
No, that is NOT what scripture says. It says nothing about "purifying the soul" other then by the purifying shed blood of Christ. Even the verse you reference says nothing about "purifying the soul".
>>Read the Holy Bible once in a while<<
We do read scripture to "see if what you teach is true" and find it totally false. It's reading scripture that causes us to understand that what the Catholic Church teaches is in error and rife with paganism.
The Catholic Church has led people astray for centuries and will suffer the wrath of God. Those that stay in that "church" will be "partakers of her plagues".
Christ, in His mercy, died for us so that we don't have to face judgment.