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To: kawaii
I'm even more suspect of the idea of a non-instantaneous purgatory...

Whether purgatory is instantaneous, or is experienced in time as we here on Earth understand time, or is experienced in a manner completely different from "time" is ... not a matter of doctrine. And the "number of days" indulgence, formerly used but now replaced, referenced a "number of days" of public, Earthly pennance. It did NOT reference "time" (again, it is not taught definitively whether souls in Purgatory experience "time" in a way we would understand it) in Purgatory, although many misunderstood it that way.

64 posted on 01/29/2007 11:50:23 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: ArrogantBustard

The whole notion is anti-biblical nonsense; folks die and go to heaven or hell until the final judgement when all are judged.


67 posted on 01/29/2007 11:55:16 AM PST by kawaii (Orthodox Christianity -- Proclaiming the Truth Since 33 A.D.)
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