Re: Purgatory?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joseph Geloso
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 03:28:20 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (€ R.L. Measures)
> wrote:
> 
> >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joseph Geloso
> ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 15:15:38 -0500, ";o)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> 
> >> >On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:30:44 -0500, Joseph Geloso
> >> ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote the following funny stuff in Usenet
> >> >News'Froups! :
> >> >
> >> >>On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 11:23:08 -0500, ";o)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >>>On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 21:10:36 -0500, Joseph Geloso
> >> >>><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote the following funny stuff in Usenet
> >> >>>News'Froups! :
> >> >>>
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>>*If* you arrive in Heaven. 
> >> >>>
> >> >>>I already know where I'm headed. Jesus said that those who trust in
> >> >>>Him and and accept Him as Lord and Savior WILL BE SAVED.
> >> >>
> >> >>He also said, "not everyone who says to me 'Lord, Lord,' will inherit
> >> >>the Kingdom, but only the one who does the will of My Father."
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >I don't just say "Lord, Lord" either, Joe. I LIVE my faith in the
> >> >Lord, and I trust Him totally.
> >> 
> >> Except when He says, "let me solemnly assure you: if you do not eat
> >> the Flesh of the Son of Man, and drink His Blood, yoiu have no life in
> >> you." There, you have to invent reasons not to trust Him.
> >
> >**  Spring, AD325:  Ritual cannibalistic sacrifice is spliced into the new
> >faith to make it more palatable to members of Rome's "pagan" churches.  
> >AD380, the new faith replaces paganism as the official state religion of
> >Rome and Sunday replaces Saturday as the official sabbath.
> 
> Is that directly from Laraine Boettner's book?

€  no
> 
> I wonder how it came about that for three centuries God's Church
> disobeyed Him in His command to "do this in my memory?"

€  The NT was not published until over a millennium later.  There was
ample opportunity for revision.  Without doing "this in my memory", there
would be no compelling reason to attend church.  

"If I did not go to Mass, I could not eat that day. The family sat around
the table and I was alone in the corner. If I missed confession, I could
not eat with the family. Nobody spoke to me. Nobody was allowed to comfort
me. All this was done in the name of God. It was the silence that hurt; it
is the silence that I remember." - Paul, age 28.

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