Re: Purgatory?

€ R.L. Measures wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chunky Salsa
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> > € R.L. Measures wrote:
> >
> > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joseph Geloso
> > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > > > 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? ...
> > >
> > >
> > > **  The salvic blood of The Christ washes away even the sin of serial
> > > priestly pedophelia -- provided that less than 70 times 7 (490) kids were
> > > boinked.
> >
> > Less than 490?
> >
> > What if exactly 490?
> >
> > Are you so rigid as to claim that 489 instances of pedophelia can be
> > forgiven but 490 cannot?
>
>
> **  This is a hellish question since the book of Matthew is not clear
> about whether one should forgive 489-times or 490-times, so the safest
> course of action for a pedophile-priest is to play it safe and not mess-up
> the lives of more than 489 children.  However, this is apparently not a
> problem since no pedophile-priest has so far lived long enough to come
> even within a hundred children of the 489 mark.   (Fr. James A. Porter
> apparently holds the record at c. 250)

So, as Monty Python would say, 491 is "right out"?