Quote Originally Posted by Columcille View Post
It is my experience Dmarie, speaking on my own experience, that I have not read the complete Book of Mormon, Pearl of Great Price, D & C from page to page. Mormonism, of course, is not the topic of discussion. However, the fact you just happened to "pull up" the "Confession of Dositheus" with it being an outside reference not in my points, suggests you first got it from a third party source prior to directly getting it through the primary websites you mention. Now, perhaps you grew up Eastern Orthodox and just so happen to have read many Early Church Fathers, Councils, and such Confessions and other books of antiquity. However, if that was the case, you'd already have known that Dositheus changed his position later on and the correct Eastern Orthodox perspective. However, even as a Catholic I have not read the full amount of books out there.


As far as interchanging the terms based on my OP ***le, I should have marked "Intermediate State--Purgatory" rather than a slash mark to mean it as an "or" comment. As you see in Point 4 of my OP, I don't like to use the term because it has particular mental ideas that do not really convey the Eastern Catholic/Orthodox understanding. It is like getting a mental picture that Angels have wings, saints have halos, the devil has a pointed tail and pitchfork with horns, and the saints are sitting on a cloud playing harps 24/7. These images clearly have symbolic representation, but Heaven and Hell are nothing to really grasp completely by our mortal senses, since even the worst a person suffers here on earth cannot be expressed to the eternity of suffering awaiting those who are following after the Devil's schemes.

Greetings & Blessings.

Columcille, you are not being very nice, nor respectful....and a whole paragraph at that. I will refer you to read Jill's latest post.

In regards to the Intermediate State, so far you have not presented any specific Scriptural support or basis for this teaching. You have listed and provided "points" in an effort to try and prove a "concept", an "agnostic reticence." I have addressed and answered all of your points in my posts, and by your own words...
"I don't have to explain away the Intermediate State, I only state that there is one."

Your above statement is clear, and I think that you've explained this as fully as is possible...which is not.

Blessings...Dmarie