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[Cristian_B]

Please reread the Sacred Scripture in post #18. Then look at the foundation of Christ’s Church on Peter the Rock, with His authority to bind and loose.

You have absolutely no authority for your false conclusion.

It is not a false conclusion. Are you telling me that sin is something pure? This is what you say. Nothing impure can enter in Heaven. We can enter with venial sins, therefore venial sins are pure. Does this sound logical to you?

 

[JRKH]

It is not a false conclusion. Are you telling me that sin is something pure? This is what you say. Nothing impure can enter in Heaven. We can enter with venial sins, therefore venial sins are pure. Does this sound logical to you?

Of course no one is saying that one can enter heaven with unrepentant sin, even venial sin, on their soul.
However, you are forgetting about the Catholic Doctrine of Purgatory wherein the soul is purged of such imperfections that still remain.

Peace
James

 

[Cristian_B]

Of course no one is saying that one can enter heaven with unrepentant sin, even venial sin, on their soul.
However, you are forgetting about the Catholic Doctrine of Purgatory wherein the soul is purged of such imperfections that still remain.

Peace
James

Doesn’t the Bible say that we are already perfected trough the blood of Christ? Is the Bible wrong?

 

[kage_ar]

Doesn’t the Bible say that we are already perfected trough the blood of Christ? Is the Bible wrong?

Would you give the chapter and verse you are quoting (as well as version of Scripture) so we can go deeper?

 

[Cristian_B]

Would you give the chapter and verse you are quoting (as well as version of Scripture) so we can go deeper?

For by one offering (or sacrifice) He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified. ~Hebrews 10:14 NKJV (parenthesis mine).

 

[Bookcat]

For by one offering (or sacrifice) He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified. ~Hebrews 10:14 NKJV (parenthesis mine).

Doesn’t the Bible say that we are already perfected trough the blood of Christ? Is the Bible wrong?

The Bible is not wrong…but one must understand it…and together not just a verse taken from the whole.

Notice in your verse even it says those who are being sanctified …not past tense.

The death and resurrection of Christ is what perfects us…but this must be applied personally…and in time.

Those who are newly baptized …they are of course pure. But then we often fall into venial sins…and have attachments to such sins…and thus the blood of Christ must continue to purify us (the one offering)…and for those who have not been fully purified on earth…but who die “in Christ” …(not in mortal sin which separates us from his life) …his love will purify prior to heaven for as Revelation says nothing impure enters heaven…

So yes it is true:

*For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified. *(RSV CE and ESV)

It is His one offering that is our sanctification…he does not die and rise again!

 

[kage_ar]

For by one offering (or sacrifice) He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified. ~Hebrews 10:14 NKJV (parenthesis mine).

Christ’s blood does wash away our sins.

That blood is applied at Baptism, in Confession, in purgatory, none of these disagree with the verse you quote (squishy version that the NKJV is) …