This was not purgatory. Purgatory is defined as a place where
souls go when they die in a state of grace, but all of their
guilt is not expiated yet. The catholics use a scripture in
the apocryphal books of macabees to support this. Purgaory
is where sould suffer to complete their redemption. Abraham's
Bosom was simply a place to wait. There was no suffering, and
the folks who were there understood atht it was merelya a matter
of time before heaven would welcome them because they put their
trust and hope in Him. They are totaly different, especially
since purgatory is a farsical catholic myth, and Abraham's Bosom
was evidently real.
Aside from the scripture that claims Christ lead a host of captives
free, I know of know scriptures that give any detail. I would
welcome any more thoughts, as this is merely my best guess at
this time.
White Buffalo
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> In a message dated 1/5/00 7:44:50 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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> > No-no. All the Godly who died before Christ go to a place in hell
> > called Abraham's Bosom. From there, they can see Hell and those
> > in Hell can see them. (Which is why the one Pharisee could see Lazarus)
> > Abraham's bosom and hell are separated by a chasm? When Jesus died, He
> > went to Hell, bridged the gap and brought those in Abraham's Bosom back
> > to Paradise with him.
> >
> > This is the big picture I remember, but I'm fuzzy on all the details...
> >
> > At 11:38 PM 1/5/00 +0800, Ernie wrote:
> > >Guys, thanks for the answer, but I'm still quite confused.
> > >Now, what about salvation for the ppl BEFORE Christ was born and was NOT
> > >within the Jewish community and the LAW?
> > >History tells us the Egyptians, Chinese, Indians and Chaldeans already
> had
> > a
> > >civilization then and the population could total up to easily a few
> million.
> >
> > >Did THEY go to hell with no chance of redemption?
> >
> > ========================================================
>
> Now I got a question.
>
> What are the Scripture references for something along these lines and if
> there isn't one where does this come from? I question this because I have
> never heard of anything of the sort except by the Catholics who told of
> purgatory, but I found no references to that either in a regular canonized
> Bible, not the ones the Catholics use.
>
> Iron Mike
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