Re: Purgatory?

On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 05:10:11 -0800, John W
<john_weatherly47<no>@yahoo.com> wrote:

Joe wrote:

>>I don't know what your standards are, nor why you in particular will
>>want to come to the True Faith, if indeed you ever do. I do know that
>>you are a human being, and God is God. He is Omnipotent, and you are
>>not. Thus, He is perfectly capable of revealing the whole truth to
>>you, and all you have to do on your part is cooperate with His graces.
>
>Right backatcha, 

O.K.

>  If the above applies to non-Roman [Catholics]
>it applies to the Roman [Catholic Church] as well!

Indeed it does!

>
>John W
>
>>
>>May He bring you into the fulness of the Truth! Amen!
>
>He already has. 

Quite pointedly, not.

>It's YOU that needs the Truth revealed. Mary isn't a
>god. 

That's Catholic Dogma -- Mary isn't a god. True.

> And I've heard too many of you pagans say, "Mary is the 4th
>person of the Trinity." 

Pagans might say that, though I think pagans would be more likely to
see her as a "Goddess." Catholics see her as the Mother of God, which
is who she is. She is a human creature, incomparably blessed among all
human creatures, but a creature, nonetheless.

> Bull crap and HERESY!!! 

That's accurate -- it is heresy to think Our Blessed Mother is any
part of God -- she's not. The Catholic Church says she's not.

> I've heard that a
>dozen times if I've heard it once. From Catholics!

They were way off base, then.

>  And when you decide you are up to some TRUTH, I'll show you what a
>crock "purgatory" is.

As I said in another post, give it a go. I will read what you come up
with.