So Jesus Christ lied to the thief on the cross because the thief would not be with Christ in Paradise that very day but instead, he'd be dead until some later date.
Folks who call Jesus Christ a liar aren't Christian no matter what they call themselves.
Good point. But you just disavowed Purgatory.
There was no punctuation in the Bible when written so a sentence that reads ‘I tell you, today you’ll be in paradise....’ is really ‘I tell you today, you’ll be in paradise....’
Otherwise, how do you reconcile this with the scripture that tells us the dead in Christ will rise upon His return? Surely there’s not ‘dead in Christ’ in the graves but the thief got to go to heaven..........right?