Re: Purgatory?

On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 07:47:45 -0700, "Iconoclast" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

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>"Joseph Geloso" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>> On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 15:11:14 -0500, ";o)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> >On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:30:55 -0500, Joseph Geloso
>> ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote the following funny stuff in Usenet
>> >News'Froups! :
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>> >>If you admit:
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>> >>>nor do all Baptists, [enter Heaven]
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>> >>then how do you imagine you can guarantee to yourself that you will?
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>> >
>> >Because I know my Christianity is not false.
>> >Jesus Christ IS my Lord and Savior.... my ROCK. No question about
>> >that.
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>> Even if that were all that is required to enter Heaven -- which it's
>> really not -- how can you guarantee to yourself that you will
>> definitely persevere to the end, even in that? Or is it not necessary
>> to persevere to the end, in order to be saved? You have not posted
>> what you actually believe, that I have ever seen, so perhaps now would
>> be a good time to do it. Do you believe the doctrine of "once saved,
>> always saved?" Or not? What are the doctrines you believe?
>>
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>Doctrines?
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>You mean God chooses and that's it?  What doctrines are there.

Bam asked you to reiterate exactly what it is that you believe, and
even if you are sure he has already seen it, the fact remains that *I*
haven't seen it, so I would appreciate your reposting it now.

I have no problem explaining to you exactly what I believe, and one of
the reasons I have no problem with that is that I know what I believe.
Do you know what you believe, or are you fuzzy on it? Or is the sum
total of what you believe, just that the Catholic Church ain't it, and
that's the long and the short of it?

Please give a summary of exactly what your faith community teaches, or
else, what you personally believe. I think that's a fair question to
ask. In fact, the Scriptures say you should always be ready with an
answer to just exactly that.