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So is purgatory a concept found in the Bible?

It's time for The Line of Fire with your host, activist, author, international speaker, and theologian, Dr. Michael Brown,

your voice of moral, cultural, and spiritual revolution.

Michael Brown is the director of the Coalition of Conscience

and President of Fire School of Ministry. Get into the line of fire now by calling 86634 Truth.

That's 86634 Truth. Here again is Dr. Michael Brown.

We are getting into the word today. We are getting into Scripture. We are getting into the word today.

We are getting into scripture.

We are getting into theology.

And I welcome your calls.

866-6-6-3-4-3-4-8-4.

And I want to give you an opportunity to call,

a challenge, an opportunity, however you want to look at it, if you believe

that you can demonstrate the doctrine of purgatory, that some Christians will go through a period

of purging, of suffering in a redemptive way after death before being with the Lord forever and

ever.

If you believe in that concept and believe that you can demonstrate it's in the Bible as accepted by Protestants and Catholics alike, okay?

So what we would call the 66 books of the Bible, not including the Apocrypha.

If you believe you can make that case,

give me a call, 8663-4 Truth. Or conversely, if you believe that you can argue for the

canonicity of Second Maccabees and why we should take the testimony of Second Maccabees to point to purgatory,

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