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Originally Posted by HBJ
Folks, if I'm going to believe in 1000 years of outer darkness, I might as well become a Catholic and pray for the dead and believe in purgatory!
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Couple points to "confuse" the discussion:
The Corinthians were baptized for the dead, did they not pray for them too? (I Cor 15.29)
Though the Catholic teaching of Purgatory was grotesquely distorted by Luther's time, did it not start out with scriptural support? (I Cor 3.13, 15)
The difficulty here is throwing out the truths of scripture with the errors and leaven.