“None of this applies to me, a former weekly Mass-going RC, raised devout, altar boy lector, confession-going, and later (during 6 years after I actually became born again) CCD teacher, Cath. Bible study and charismatic participant, and knows both the profound differences btwn Biblical “
I would say you are one of those who did not understand the Catholic doctrine. Indeed, your misunderstanding is very clear on this subject regarding Purgatory. You were born again at Baptism...but, let’s not argue semantics. Your admission to believing in false theology is worrisome. How in the hell (literally) did you get where you are? Come home Daniel1212, come back to the true faith.
You have now descended into more blatant false accusations as well as irrationality. Rather than any misunderstanding at all being clear on this subject, you have utterly failed to show any at all on my part while it is I who has substantiated both Catholic as well as Biblical teaching on Purgatory.
And as for born again at baptism, that is not Scriptural since Scripture teaches and shows that it is the faith which is expressed in baptism and following the Lord that appropriates the washing of regeneration, "purifying their hearts thru faith" (Acts 10:43-47; 15:7-9) and infants (which id when most Catholics are baptized) cannot and need not repent and believe with all their heart, which are the Scriptural requirements for baptism. (Acts 2:28; 8:36,37)
Moreover, the idea that such Catholic effects regeneration makes a mockery of Scriptural regeneration with its profound basic changes in heart and life (such as I realized, praise God) considering that this is not what baptized Catholics manifest, as instead your church is overall spiritually dead. As I found out experientially.
And as "Your admission to believing in false theology is worrisome," it is your cognitive dissonance (or lying) that is worrisome, since the only admission to believing in false theology was to being a Catholic. And which I was prayerfully led out of and into evangelical fellowship by seeking to obey and serve the Lord of Scripture, thanks be to God!
Thus the call to you is to come back to the true faith, that of the NT church in which distinctive Catholic teachings are not manifest in the only wholly inspired substantive authoritative record of what the NT church believed.