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Navarre Bible on 1 Corinthians 3:11-15
We cannot be sure that St Paul is here referring to purgatory; but it is quite in order to interpret “he will be saved, but only as through fire” in that sense. – Navarre Bible, Saint Paul’s letters to the Corinthians, p. 47 (2005) The Navarre Bible is a production of Opus Dei and features…
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Bellarmine on 1 Corinthians 3:11-15
The following are some thoughts of Robert Francis Romulus Bellarmine (Robert Bellarmine was canonized by Pope Pius XI in 1930, and declared a Doctor of the Universal Church in 1931.) on 1 Corinthians 3:11-15. I don’t present this as though it is the only thing that Roman Catholics have ever said about this, nor as…
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Response to Heschmeyer’s Purgatory Thought Experiments
Joe Heschmeyer at Shameless Popery has provided some “thought experiments” regarding purgatory (link to his post). Heschmeyer has two similar experiments – in both cases an object is dropped and broken. Heschmeyer asks whether the object’s owner can forgive the breaker of the object and still demand that the person who broke it clean up…
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εξο της παρεμβολης addresses Purgatory using Turretin
Danny at εξο της παρεμβολης has provided an interesting three-part series on Purgatory relying (especially in part 2) on the real Turretin to provide some solid criticism of the innovated doctrine of Purgatory and its impact on the doctrine of sola fide. Part 1 (link)Part 2 (link)Part 3 (link) Enjoy! -TurretinFan To God be the…
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When was Purgatory Invented?
PhatCatholic recently addressed a question related to the question above, by posing the following question (link to source): When was Purgatory first talked about? PC answered: The earliest reference to Purgatory that scholars have found so far comes from The Acts of Paul and Thecla, which was written around 160 AD. In that work, we…
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Indulgences for Reading Scripture
One Catholic blogger, who found a cute way to avoid mentioning Dr. White’s name without being offensive, has a post in which he points out that Indulgences can be gained in Roman Catholicism by reading Scriptures. (link) He believes this to be a counter-argument to Dr. White’s point that it is useless for Catholics (given…