[aMorePerfectUnion]

if you are going to try and lecture the authors of the sacred text, at least get it right...

Actually, the author of that passage is God, via the direct inspiration of the Holy Spirit as He moved men to write.

The rooster is humble enough to crow without thinking he makes the sun rise. Go and do likewise.

actually, it doesnt say that to be absent from the body is to be present with the lord, it actually says:

I did not quote the passage. I declared its teaching.

[raygunfan]

you declared its teaching??? who are you compared to those who were there when it was written and experienced this???

and nowhere in your ‘declaring’ does it say that there is no purification by God of the deceased....and nowhere in your declaration does it prove that ‘to be absent from the body is to be with the lord’ cause it doesnt say that...you misquoted it....