tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10759573.post112537410228346621..comments2024-01-31T09:32:52.132+11:00Comments on One Bread, One Body: A Lengthier Response on the PurgatoryJeff Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10766263101941796485noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10759573.post-1125479904650890912005-08-31T19:18:00.000+10:002005-08-31T19:18:00.000+10:00Caitlin,My experience is different. My suffering h...Caitlin,<BR/><BR/>My experience is different. My suffering here on earth is such that it is enough for me that we are told to say "even so Lord Jesus come" to make all of what is wrong in this world to be made right.<BR/><BR/>The purpose of suffering is to draw us in faith to God and his Christ. Faith is precious to God for without it we can not please him. so Caitlin, let us call on his name Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10759573.post-1125436450283408292005-08-31T07:14:00.000+10:002005-08-31T07:14:00.000+10:00Hmm...(just stumbled across your blog when checkin...Hmm...(just stumbled across your blog when checking my site stats) I have often thought that purification occurs during this lifetime, but as we live on a fundamentally flawed plane of existence, I don't know that it is possible for the average joe to be made holy solely on this earth. Obviously, this is not sola scriptura (but then, I wouldn't be Catholic if that's what I professed), but I caithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01375033650335875046noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10759573.post-1125398252233039752005-08-30T20:37:00.000+10:002005-08-30T20:37:00.000+10:00Jeff,The purgatory the Roman Church speaks about i...Jeff,<BR/><BR/>The purgatory the Roman Church speaks about is after death where as scripture teaches that such purification is here while we are alive. It does not matter what would be Jew thinks or an Orthodox believer thinks, the issue is that of the church's official teaching and I'd say that purgatory is distinctively Roman. The philosophy of Protestants is to subject the teaching of the Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com