[rzman21]

The church fathers on the state of purification after death (purgatory). http://www.cin.org/users/jgallegos/purg.htm

[TexConfederate1861]

That is a great link, but be careful when using Tertullian, or Origen. Both died heretics.

[CynicalBear]

Good grief. That site reads like the pagan mystical rights of voodoo. The first on the list is a quote out of the Acts of Paul, which even Tertullian declared heretical. If you follow the teaching in that book do you also ascribe to women pastors?

That’s the book where the woman who supposedly was supposed to have been burned for listening to Paul’s teaching that all should stay virgins in order to get into heaven. While she is being readied for burning she sees “the Lord in the likeness of Paul” even though Jesus said they would not see Him again untill His coming at the end of time. Then when they lit the fire the ground opened up and hail and water came down and she wasn’t burned. As you read the stories of Thecla the virgin in that book you can understand why Tertullian called it heretical.

It becomes obvious by the writings that by the year 200AD the pagan influences had begun to engrane themselves into the “religion” of those the CC calls “church fathers”.

I get the impression that you read that stuff as if it is scripture. It’s pagan through and through as is much of the doctrine of the RCC.