I would NOT want to be the priest, bishop, cardinal or pope who stands before THE LORD JESUS CHRIST to be judged after they spent their life and ministry telling people that the BLOOD OF CHRIST was not sufficient to provide full and complete Salvation!
Of course, the planet has long been hip to the fact that the whole “purgatory” schtick was a scam to fleece the suckers, who would pony up ca$h to “buy” their loved ones out of there.
God is NOT at all amused by this fraud!
Infants entered into the Covenant in the OT when they were eight days old so it's obvious that they should enter into the New Covenant through baptism while infants as well. But lots of people like to pretend that since it there is no explicit example of an infant being baptized that it's wrong to do so. Wrong in spite of the fact that whole households are baptized and a household encompassed everyone in the family and even the slaves they owned.
Prayers for the dead are clearly mentioned in the Old Testament, and purification as if by fire is clearly mentioned in the New Testament. So, it's there but not clearly singled out and specifically mentioned.
Therefore both Purgatory and infant Baptism are based on Scripture at the very least as much as the use of contraceptives to murder your children is. All three things are clearly part of the True Faith because Christ and the Apostles never specifically mentioned that they are wrong.
It's always really funny to see people who say murdering infants with contraceptives is fine because it's not mentioned in Scripture turn around and pontificate that something taught in the Old Testament is not true because it's not explicitly mentioned in the New Testament. It's funny because it's absolute proof of the fact that those who pretend to rely on Scripture Alone are never consistent.
They can't be consistent because in reality they rely on their own Self Alone rather than Scripture.
Anyone who starts with throwing out part of the Scriptures isn't basing what they believe on the Scriptures no matter what they've been taught to the contrary. They're relying on and worshiping their own, Most High and Holy Self who they grant the authority to ignore, twist, and even throw out Scripture if they don't like what it says.
As for standing before Christ, none of the folks you mention will have any problem due to believing in Purgatory because Purgatory is based directly on Scripture. Scripture the Protestant crowd threw out in spite of the fact that Christ and the Apostles never mentioned that there were any errors in the Old Testament.
The people who are going to have a real problem are those who have to explain why they saw nothing wrong with throwing out portions of the Scriptures, murdering their own children with contraceptives, and telling others that when incarnate on earth Christ was either too stupid to make Himself understood or a liar when He said, “this is my Body”.
me neither....on the other hand there would be none....the Blood of Jesus Christ is he gift of eternal salvation, Catholics know that and they carried that belief through 1,600 years of trevail so that even protestants could avail themselves of the gift.....HOWEVER, every one of us is fully free to REJECT the gift of God which we do if we do not follow His direct, and quite easy to understand, instructions."upon this rock (Peter) I will build My church, and the gates of Hell will not prevail againsg it"....I'll accept that, and follow her rules.