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“It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead that they may be loosed from their sins” (2 Macc 12:45)

A thought, does not a doctrine make! Another reason why we know the Apocryphal books are NOT Divinely-inspired Scripture.

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And note that this in regards to souls who died because of idolatry, a mortal sin for which there is no purgatory according to Rome. And which requires more special pleading to reconcile and use for support.

But it is not what Scripture or traditions say, but what Rome decrees anything says that determines truth and gives real assurance. If she does say so herself.

Have a God night.