[TheGunny]

While I do appreciate C.S Lewis, what about the scriptures? As far as I know and read in them, Christ's death and blood made me clean. Purgatory is a fictional place used by the “Church” to keep them in bondage. Im sorry about you and the Episcopalians...and you can keep the whole universal church thing.

[AnAmericanMother]

1st Corinthians 3:15.

[djrakowski]

If there’s no universal church, then what does Matthew 16:18 mean? Or 1 Timothy 3:15? What about the fact that God wills all men to be saved? If there’s no universal church (in whatever manner you define it - visible and institutional, or invisible and spiritual, or both at the same time), then how is that accomplished?

[djrakowski]

Christ’s death and blood is what makes us clean in purgatory, so I’m not sure why you’re drawing the distinction, as though it’s either Christ or purgatory. Rather, it’s Christ, through the means of purgatory.