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To: Mad Dawg
Tra La! The daffodils are blooming, the pagan fertility symbols are hopping across my lawn and attempting to destroy my garden, the pagan fertility festival -- aka, in the words of John of Damascus, "the queen of seasons bright" -- is less than two weeks away, and if you want to worship on a Saturday, you just go right ahead. In fact, if you want to think I'm going to hell for worshipping on a Sunday, have at it! I think it's silly, but it won't change one whit how much God loves both of us.

And this has what to do with the subject of Purgatory?

2,262 posted on 03/28/2007 8:14:21 AM PDT by Uncle Chip (TRUTH : Ignore it. Deride it. Allegorize it. Interpret it. But you can't ESCAPE it.)
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To: Uncle Chip
And this has what to do with the subject of Purgatory?

You said something about the doctrine of Purgatory which was not true. I pointed out that what you said was not what we teach. Instead of acknowledging your error you changed the subject FROM what the doctrine is TO whether or where there is Scriptural support for it. I pointed out that you were changing the subject. You became offensive and accusatory. I said that it was not a matter of grave concern to me whether we agreed or not. Evidently you did not follow how the conversation went, so I have recapitulated it.

But if you really want to talk about Purgatory, I will point out again that your equation of Purgatory to Hell is mistaken. By now you have also been reminded that there have been several other posts which deal with what some offer as Scriptural support for the doctrine. I have already made clear my position on the possibility of assembling conclusive arguments from Scripture. And I still think that claiming something is overwhelming does not make it so.

You have been trying to persuade many of some theory involving Simon Magus and what day of the week God wants us to worship on. I am not trying to persuade anybody of anything. Mostly I try to look at arguments and to clarify for myself the proposition under consideration. I think these things are too important for bitter debate, and I cop to getting irritable when gross errors of reason are made, for example arguing from probabilities to certainties.

I hope this is clear.

2,290 posted on 03/28/2007 3:46:40 PM PDT by Mad Dawg (Tactical shotty, Marlin 1894c, S&W 686P, Sig 226 & 239, Beretta 92fs & 8357, Glock 22, & attitude!)
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