[Jedidah]

Purgatory is as man-imagined as that partition between so-called believers that we read about on this thread.

Of course the Bible talks about separating the wheat from the chaff and the sheep from the goats, but in neither case are both of those groups believers, but rather those whom the Lord knows vs. those He does not.

And it’s not your job or my job to make that decision for Him.

[MrChips]

I dunno. C.S. Lewis thought that purgatory was rather like taking a bath before one visits the Queen.

[A.A. Cunningham]

Purgatory is as man-imagined as that partition between so-called believers that we read about on this thread.

You omitted the caveat "in my unlearned opinion".

And it’s not your job or my job to make that decision for Him.

Stop digging before that hole you're in gets any deeper.

"And we charge you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother walking disorderly, and not according to the tradition which they have received of us." 2 Thessalonians 3:6

[Steve0113]

For 'man-imagined", you can't top sola scriptura and your grade-school theology.

[impimp]

“And it’s not your job or my job to make that decision for Him.”

Why did you say that? Is it “judgemental” to separate the Catholics from the non-catholics?

It is OUR decision to separate people. We don’t make the decision to separate for Him - we separate people because He tells us to. He founded a Church - the Catholic Church. And to have joint services causes scandal because it creates a false equivalence between the Real Body of Christ (i.e. the Catholic Eucharist) and the lie that is the Episcopal “Eucharist”.

[RobbyS]

Well, no Purgatory is the teaching of the Catholic Church. You disagree. If you are right, then it is “man-made.” if we are right, it is true doctrine. You have registered your vote. I vote the other way.