Originally posted by Lion Heart
It gets more confusing,
"God's plan for you is simple. Your loving Father wants to give you all good things--especially eternal life. Jesus died on the cross to save us all from sin and the eternal separation from God that sin causes (CCC 599-623).
WheN he SAVES (emphases mine), he makes us part of his Body, which is the Church (1Cor 12:27-30). We thus become united with him and with Christians everywhere (on earth, in heaven, in purgatory).
1 Cor 12
27 Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
28 And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.
29 Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles?
30 Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?
Listen to what the Apostle Paul teaches in;
1 Cor 15
1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;
2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
At the first council at Jerusalem, the Apostles and elders came together to consider certain questions that had been brought up by religious zealots, saying that christians must obey the law of Moses and be circumsiced; after much debate on the matter ; the next verse is the councils conclusion for the brethern at the church in Antioch.
Acts 15
29 That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
No observances of Sacraments, not praying to siants, or the dead; just simply trust in GOD.
Other gospels teach all sorts of diferent observances, in order to eventually be saved; these are all man made in origin, to snare those that just want someone to "tell me what I must do" , instead of seeking the way themselves.
Paul wrote;
Gal 1
6 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:
7 Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
9 As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.
Purgatory is another one of those ASSUMPTIONS.
RICHARD