Re: Purgatory?

On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 07:29:19 -0700, "Iconoclast" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

>The Catholic "Church" is not even Christian, 

On the contrary, we believe in Jesus Christ, in Whom alone we find
salvation. That makes us Christian.

>Catholics and other cults assume that one earns or must work to keep
>salvation.
>The Gospel is that those whom God chooses will work, but not in expectation
>of reward or keeping salvation.

Do they work expecting to be damned, then?

>There isn't the SLIGHTEST hint of the "Gospel" in Catholicism.
>
>I know you wont understand this because it is explained quite nicely in John
>12:40.
>
>Goodbye.  I find it non-productive to converse with those whom God has
>turned over to Satan.

Actually I am a Christian by the standards of all the Evangelical
believers. I have prayed the "sinner's prayer," I have turned my life
and my will over to Jesus Christ as my Personal Lord and Saviour, and
I am saved, by the standards of anyone who believes that all you have
to do is believe on Jesus and you're saved.

Because I love Him, I also desire to overcome my own sins, with His
help, for love of Him. That is where Catholicism comes in. Anyone who
does not desire to be converted from his own sins will likely never
find Catholicism, but to anyone who does desire it, the Church gives
the means of salvation as in salvation from sin.