[realpatriot71]

Here's the point I'm getting at. The Bible is the word of God, yes? If purgatory were such a big part of the "after-life" I think God would have spelled things out much better than what you have shown. One thing you can say about God is that He has always "Came with it". He shoots straight and doesn't mince words. You want to hold to a heathen doctrine, fine, but don't try and rationalize it to me by using the Bible out of context. The dead are just that, dead, my friend, and the no amount of human tradition can change that. You want to hold to the tradtions of fallible humans fine, but remember in the end, some people tried to show you what was correct.

[Conservative til I die]

If God always "comes with it" directly, like you said, then why didn't he lay out Sola Scriptura clearly? Because my friend, about 1.5 billion Christians don't agree with it. You Sola Scriptura people are in the minority.