Does the treasury of merit exist?

[De_Maria]

This quote from Bishop Moussa has to do with the Coptic objection to the concept of purgatory. It is not about how you understand purgatory as working, but the implications of this idea to the Orthodox.

You presented it as an objection to Catholic Teaching.

You said “But you never said anything about confession did you? You said this was a funeral liturgy. Do you hold confession at a funeral?”, showing that you apparently did not understand that I was bringing up confession just as an example of a sacrament, not to start a new discussion.

The point is, you said that your Church teaches they can give absolution to a corpse.

All-caps posting like this reads like the whining of a screaming eight year old.

I’m not accustomed to talking with people who continually forget what they previously said. I’m not keeping count, but this is not the first time in this discussion that you denied something you previously said. To me that signals that:
a. you either don’t know what you’re talking about.
b. you don’t care what you say as long as you contradict something.

I’ve already posted my understanding of it (post 232: “…and this is what I was going to say before others suggested that there might be other explanations…”), which I stand by and was only forced to reconsider when a Coptic friend of mine (perhaps in error; again, I need to ask my priest about this) asserted that there was in fact no absolution in the text.

So, are you posting what you stand by or what you reconsidere?. As for me, I simply took your comment seriously and responded to what you said. I highlighted the text you presented which said:
Our Church absolves the soul** of the departed **during the prayer.

This is purportedly the Coptic Orthodox view on the Prayer for the Departed.

I am not sure what you’re trying to say here, but…yes, I am quite new to Coptic Orthodoxy. I only had the opportunity to begin attending liturgies after moving to Albuquerque about two months ago, so I am still very new to to the faith. Thanks for pointing that out (I think).

Then I suggest you study your new found faith before you begin to make claims you can’t back up.

Yes, you’ve repeated this enough. Again, though, I do not accept the retroactive approach to history of your apologetics.

Whether you accept it or not doesn’t matter. What matters in this discussion is whether you can provide evidence to support your claims.

Of course. Everyone’s experience is his own. I’ve never understood what people here thought they were proving by pointing that out…

What is hard to understand is why you’re here when you left the Catholic faith. You’re certainly not here to learn, since you object to every explanation. And then, when pressed for reasons, you present arguments you admit you don’t understand.

Alright… :ehh:

Purgatory is not part of Apostolic teaching, any of our arguments notwithstanding.

Good bye. You may have the last word. I’ll not reply to anymore of your messages.

Sincerely,

De Maria