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Have you understood that as the Catholic posters on this thread have each expressed a different theology on natural evil, I’ve no way of knowing who is or isn’t an authority?Holy Scripture:It is…a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they be loosed from sin"(2 Mach. 12:46) St.Paul (1Cor. 3:ll) speaks of those who , having some remnants of sin mixed with good works, will be saved in the next life (through fire) Tradition: In the first centuries there was no explicit doctrine on purgatory, but they had the liturgical usage of prayers for the dead, reflected in the inscriptions of the Catacombs. From the time of St.Augustine the doctrine of purgatory was developed which continues substantially unchanged in the East and the West. The Scholastics treat of Purgatory as of something belonging to the doctrine of faith. Luther and Calvin were wrong, rejecting purgatory as a diabolic invention. There is in Purgatory a temporary pain of loss (privation of the vision and possession of God,) mitigated by the sure hope of entering paradise after due expiation. A pain of sense commonly is admitted by the Fathers and theologians, fire not excluded. Purgatory will only last to the day of judgement (Rev, 21"27 )"Nothing unclean shall enter Heaven’ Purgation is used to mean “purify or refine” as gold is refined in fire, impurities are removed, to make perfect in the spiritual sense.
Have you understood where the Catholic Church derived the doctrine of Original sin and it’s consequences? Or why Martin Luther left the Catholic Church? Or where Original justice preceeded Original sin and was lost until Jesus made it possible to be reinstated ?
Baptists believe we are not born with a knowledge of good and evil, we each acquire the knowledge as we grow up, and we can’t then have that knowledge purged out of us since it is part of who we are.
Bur how is this relevant to the thread topic?