Rev 21:26-27
27 and nothing unclean and no one who practices abomination and lying, shall ever come into it, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb's book of life. NAS
This is what most Catholics quote to establish the need to be purged after death. However
Acts 10:15-16
15 And again a voice came to him a second time, "What God has cleansed, no longer consider unholy." 16 And this happened three times; and immediately the object was taken up into the sky.
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Acts 10:28
28 And he said to them, "You yourselves know how unlawful it is for a man who is a Jew to associate with a foreigner or to visit him; and yet God has shown me that I should not call any man unholy or unclean. NAS
John 13:11
11 For He knew the one who was betraying Him; for this reason He said, "Not all of you are clean." NAS
2 Peter 2:17-22
18 For speaking out arrogant words of vanity they entice by fleshly desires, by sensuality, those who barely escape from the ones who live in error, 19 promising them freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by what a man is overcome, by this he is enslaved. 20 For if after they have escaped the defilements of the world by the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and are overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first. 21 For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn away from the holy commandment delivered to them. 22 It has happened to them according to the true proverb, "A dog returns to its own vomit," and, "A sow, after washing, returns to wallowing in the mire." NAS
This verse can also be used to disprove the RCC concept one can fall in and out of grace over and over again!
Matt 5:25-26
25 "Make friends quickly with your opponent at law while you are with him on the way, in order that your opponent may not deliver you to the judge, and the judge to the officer, and you be thrown into prison. 26 "Truly I say to you, you shall not come out of there, until you have paid up the last cent. NAS
Catholics quote this Scripture to show that our "debts" need to be paid in this life or in purgatory and simply ignore:
Matt 6:12 'And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
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Matt 18:27 "And the lord of that slave felt compassion and released him and forgave him the debt.
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Col 2:13-15
13 And when you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions, 14 having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us and which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. 15 When He had disarmed the rulers and authorities, He made a public display of them, having triumphed over them through Him. NAS
If all our debts have been forgiven and if Christ has "cancelled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us"; what needs to be purged in purgatory?
The answer is nothing since Christ
paid it all!
Are the saints now in heaven or are they asleep in the grave? Yes, I know Catholics point to Revelation 5 to state they are alive in heaven. However, Revelation is future not present. Revelation 5 can show the validity of a pre-trib rapture.