Posted on 04/27/2021 5:25:46 AM PDT by Old Yeller
OK. So please explain it to us Protestants. Seriously. I've only set foot in a Catholic church once in my life. I'd like to hear it from someone who knows.
I thought it was a ski area for bad Catholics.
Which is not the homosexual infested, pedophile protecting, cocaine fueled orgies in the Vatican religion based in Rome.
If Catholics expect people to believe Catholicism is a Christian religion much less the body of Christ, it needs to corporately and individually from the top down, clean up its act and live in accordance to the holiness found and ordained in Scriptrue..
Purgatory, by default, says that the blood of Jesus is not enough to forgive and cleanse us from sin.
What blasphemy.
Funny, it sounds to me like a parable on forgiveness. Just as Jesus says at the end.
(bookmark to read later after you all have this figured out )
“If we confess our sins”
Hmm sounds familiar...
And if we dont confess our sins are we still saved?
Bump
Because we all know Protestant clergy have always been pure as the driven snow....
Exactly!
Salvation/justification by a decision made in this temporal life alone, when The God graciously offers an option through the gospel of Christ alone to the human who has arrived at the age of accountability.
I take it you don’t believe the Bible, the Word of God. Guess I’m wasting my time (of course).
If you mean “Jesus”, simply write “Jesus”.
Of course I believe the Bible! My interpretation may be different than yours but hey its all good!
Amen.
“The Catechism of the Catholic Church defines purgatory as a “purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven,”
Maybe this is why the powerful politicians in DC who are Catholics don’t seen to worry about backing policies like abortion on demand. No matter what I do, as I am dying a priest will wave his hands over me and I’ll go straight to Heaven or at worst, I’ll end up in Purgatory and work my way there.
Gladly! Thanks for asking!
The Catechism of the Catholic Church defines purgatory as a “purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven,” which is experienced by those “who die in God’s grace and friendship, but still imperfectly purified” (CCC 1030). It notes that “this final purification of the elect . . . is entirely different from the punishment of the damned” (CCC 1031).
The purification is necessary because, as Scripture teaches, nothing unclean will enter the presence of God in heaven (Rev. 21:27) and, while we may die with our mortal sins forgiven, there can still be many impurities in us, specifically venial sins and the temporal punishment due to sins already forgiven.
More info can be read here ... https://www.catholic.com/tract/purgatory
As I bleive in the Bible, it says as you rightly put it,
to confess our sins...IOWs, to repent.
What if we “believe” but never repent?
Certainly there is something in the Bible that adresses this no?
LOL! I've been on that mountain. Wrecked a knee on some hellish moguls there.
Yep becasue asnow covered pile of dung is still a pile of dung and it will never be pure. Thankfully Jesus died for us so we can be forgiven and made pure
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