RomeSweetHome wrote:Aieno Wrote
Jesus taught very strongly against the "traditions of men". Traditions of men who assumed Moses chair. These traditions were more accurate than the traditions of the RCC since they were actually based on interpretations of the law.
That is your personal opinion. I disagree.
Aieno Wrote
Other than Luke who was a, Greek physician, all the writers of the NT were Jews. Matthew, John, Peter, and James all personally knew Jesus and other than Paul and Mark these are the only people who wrote NT books. Paul spent 3 years in the wilderness before he started preaching being taught of the Holy Spirit. Paul of all the Bible authors was the best educated and was in fact a Pharisee; Peter commends Paul's epistles as being equal with the "rest of the Scriptures". If purgatory were a viable concept Paul of all the writers would be the one who would teach it since 2 Maccabees is a book written by a Pharisee.
aha but Paul does teach Purgatory, you have to read between the lines.
Protestants ignore Biblical statements that contradict their position, and they contradict their
own position, thus proving that their position is false, since the Truth, by definition, cannot contradict itself.
First Protestants cannot produce even
one verse in scripture that states that there is no Purgatory, or that states that every person goes immediately to heaven or hell at the moment of death.
St. Paul brings out this process of "Purgation" in several of his letters- in 1st Corinthians chapter 3 he is saying in verse 10 that;
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according to the grace of God that is given to me as a wise 'architect', I have laid a foundation; someone else has built on it. Don't lay any other foundation other than that which laid, which is Jesus Christ, and if anyone builds on this foundation- that is on Christ- with gold, silver and precious stones OR with wood hay and stubble, every mans work will be tested, the day of the Lord will reveal what kind of work you've done, if any mans work remains or endures which he has built he will receive a reward, but if any mans work is burned up; he shall suffer loss, he himself shall be saved but so as by fire."
So St Paul does teach Purgatory.