Re: Purgatory?

On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 03:10:11 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (€ R.L. Measures)
wrote:

>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joseph Geloso
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 14:53:14 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (€ R.L. Measures)
>> wrote:
>> 
>> >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joseph Geloso
>> ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 16:58:30 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (€ R.L. Measures)
>> >> wrote:
>> >> 
>> >> >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joseph Geloso
>> >> ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >> On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 17:11:55 +0000, Alan Ferris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> >> >> wrote:
>> >> >> 
>> >> >> >On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 17:09:32 -0500, Joseph Geloso
>> >> >> ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >>Whatever your reasons for doing so, you should seek to verify
>> >> >> >>everything I've said. No one ought to choose this or that religion
>> >> >> >>based solely on what *I* say.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >Whose word should they base it on?
>> >> >> 
>> >> >> People should use the mind that God gave them, and find out the truth,
>> >> >> in whatever ways truth opens up to them.
>> >> >
>> >> >**   The rub is that there are many humans who claim to be God's earthly
>> >> >representatives, yet who proffer a wide assortment of contradictory
>> >> >truths.
>> >> 
>> >> Which brings us back to exactly why God provided One Pope for His One
>> >> Church.
>> >
>> >€  In the early years, God's Holy Church provided a bishop of Rome and a
>> >bishop of Constantinople.
>> 
>> Saint Andrew was never in competition with his brother, Saint Peter,
>> for the Primacy. 
>
>**  the dodge.
>
>>There is still a Patriarch in Constantinople, and
>> when God restores to His Church the unity that is her right, that
>> Patriarch will be Catholic, in a state of joy.

The Patriarch of Constantinople used to recognize the Patriarch of
Rome as the legitimate Pope, and one day will again.