Deuterocanonical Books

[Ilroy]

By that definition, Jerome removed them.

JJ

Wrong again…Jerome, along with many others of the time, had a personal opinion as to what should be considered scriptural. but, when the authority given to us by Christ, The Catholic Church, decided which were to be included Jerome submitted to said authority.

 

[Ilroy]

If Maccabees proves pugatory, then it proves that people guilty of idolatry are in purgatory. Because all those who died were carrying false idols with them, under their clothes. There was no repentance, no confession, nothing except death in their sin.

JJ

Maccabees isn’t the only passage that indicates purgatory…have a look through the NT without your preconceived notions and you will find many indications of purgatory. It is written that nothing unclean will enter Heaven…a dung heap covered over in snow is still a dung heap in much need of purgation.
It is also written that we will be made perfect before entering Heaven. A state of purgation sounds like the only logical way that we will be made perfect.

As for the idols thay were carrying, these were the spoils of war which they werwen’t supposed to have taken from the enemy…they were not worshipping them as if they were false gods so they weren’t breaking the commandment you are implying…

 

[holdencaulfield]

Maccabees isn’t the only passage that indicates purgatory…have a look through the NT without your preconceived notions and you will find many indications of purgatory. It is written that nothing unclean will enter Heaven…a dung heap covered over in snow is still a dung heap in much need of purgation.
It is also written that we will be made perfect before entering Heaven. A state of purgation sounds like the only logical way that we will be made perfect.

As for the idols thay were carrying, these were the spoils of war which they werwen’t supposed to have taken from the enemy…they were not worshipping them as if they were false gods so they weren’t breaking the commandment you are implying…

Well yes of course you can prove Purgatory from the New Testament. Martin Luther merely ignored it because he was mad at the Church for selling indulgences. Thats just the main example of it from the Old Testament.