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To: franky1
hope you will be perfect at the appointed time

Not a problem. I think being washed in the blood of Christ once is enough, don't you think?

20 posted on 07/27/2007 6:06:31 PM PDT by tbpiper
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To: tbpiper

Re: Purgatory

Look at 1 Corinthians 3:14–15: “If the work which any man has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward. If any man’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.”

You see, the Latinate word purgatory means a purgation or burning by fire. Paul in these verses refers to a purgation process whereby a man is saved even though his works are burned away. This is precisely what the Catholic Church teaches. A person at death who still has personal faults is prevented from entering into heaven because he is not completely purified. He must go through a period of purgation in order to be made clean, for nothing unclean will enter heaven (cf. Rev. 21:27).

A key word is “faults”. A fault can be as small as saying an unkind word about your neighbor to another even though the “unkind word” is true.

Moses is an example when he met God. Moses could not look upon God for all the brillance, brillance being perfection.

God bless.


30 posted on 07/27/2007 7:59:23 PM PDT by franky1
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