Re: Purgatory?

On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 11:10:04 +0000, Alan Ferris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

>On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 18:51:58 -0500, Joseph Geloso
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 17:14:17 +0000, Alan Ferris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 17:15:01 -0500, Joseph Geloso
>>><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>>>I have a bit of a problem referring to the Baptist Faith, or the
>>>>Baptist system of religion, as a "Church." That is not what it is.
>>>>Baptists, as long as they are properly baptized, are members of
>>>>Christ's One Church, and that Church subsists in the Catholic Church.
>>>
>>>Joseph, are you aware of what the word church means and why any faith
>>>can use it?
>>
>>>From Kirke, meaning "the Lord's." The Church is the People belonging
>>to the Lord.
>
>Indeed it is the Lord's house.  As I remember that is not up to you to
>decide. 

Indeed it is up to God to decide.

> I would have though you trying to tell your Lord which and
>which is not his house is a bit against his teachings. 

I do not tell the Lord who are His and who are not His. But He has
given specific means of finding where the truth is.

> But I stand to
>be corrected if you can show me where he gives you such rights.

As to what I said in the sentence just above, it is in the First
Epistle of Saint John:
1 John 2:19
1 John 4:6

>
>>>You appear really silly trying to deny it to others.  Especially when
>>>you seem to be harming the very acts of your own Church to reach out
>>>to these other faiths.
>>
>>The Church does not refer to Protestant faith communities as
>>"Churches." I am being consistent with that.
>
>Who Cares what your Church refers to Joseph.  This is your problem.

Saint John wrote, in what is referenced just above, that whoever is of
God *does* care what the Apostolic Church says.