How do you know he wasn't referencing some other source? You understand there were other writings besides scripture, right? And not all of them contained false information. It's not as if he couldn't reference a non-scriptural source regarding something that had occurred, such as the martyrdom of the mother and her sons.
Paul, a Pharisee, who knew the OT well, is not about to teach something that is not scriptural. Your insistence that he is citing a non-scriptural source is just an excuse.
I don't need to prove anything to you.
Then stop making false assumptions you refuse to support.
Is that not what Catholics typically believe is the purpose of purgatory? If not, then what is the purpose of purgatory in your understanding?
The concept of purgatory began with the Jews, not the Catholic Church. So you are forced to deny Jewish history. Besides, it's a standard derailer because you have been convinced we have no scriptural support, and don't answer any of my questions. So why should I answer yours?
LOL. No contradictions? That's a good one. Okay, here is some proof:
Tobit 6:5-7, “Then the angel said to him: Take out the entrails of this fish, and lay up his heart, and his gall, and his liver for thee: for these are necessary for useful medicines. 6 And when he had done so, he roasted the flesh thereof, and they took it with them in the way: the rest they salted as much as might serve them, till they came to Rages the city of the Medes. 7 Then Tobias asked the angel, and said to him: I beseech thee, brother Azarias, tell me what remedies are these things good for, which thou hast bid me keep of the fish? 8 And the angel, answering, said to him: If thou put a little piece of its heart upon coals, the smoke thereof driveth away all kind of devils, either from man or from woman, so that they come no more to them.”
Angels don't commit witchcraft. The smoke could have medicinal properties we don't know about.
This is describing superstition/magic/witchcraft as a way to drive "away all kind of devils". But, scripture condemns witchcraft.
Tobit 4:11 “For alms deliver from all sin, and from death, and will not suffer the soul to go into darkness.”
Tobit 12:9 “For alms delivereth from death, and the same is that which purgeth away sins, and maketh to find mercy and life everlasting.”
Alms are money or food given to the poor or needy as charity. No scripture teaches that salvation and the forgiveness of sins can be obtained by doing that. Scripture teaches that repentance and faith are required for salvation not works because otherwise we could boast about saving ourselves.
Almsgiving has nothing to do with salvation or the forgiveness of sins, it has to do with MERIT, a concept foreign to Calvinism.
Catholic Merit vs. Distorted Caricatures (James McCarthy)
2 Maccabbees 12:43, “And making a gathering, he sent twelve thousand drachms of silver to Jerusalem for sacrifice to be offered for the sins of the dead, thinking well and religiously concerning the resurrection.”
Once someone is dead their fate is sealed. There is no way of someone having their sin forgiven after they are dead. Scripture teaches that people only have judgment to look forward to after death, not a further opportunity to have their sins forgiven (Hebrews 9:27).
Purgatory is about cleansing the consequences of sin, not sin itself. You rail against a straw man.
Judith 1:5 “Now in the twelfth year of his reign, Nabuchodonosor, king of the Assyrians, who reigned in Ninive the great city, fought against Arphaxad and overcame him.”
Baruch 6:2 “And when you are come into Babylon, you shall be there many years, and for a long time, even to seven generations: and after that I will bring you away from thence with peace.”
The book of Judith incorrectly says that Nebuchadnezzar was the king of the Assyrians when he was the king of the Babylonians.
You borrowed these from CARM forum.
Personally I find it amusing that many of the same Protestants who knock Judith over
“Nebuchadnezzar, king of the Assyrians” would jump to the defense of the Book of Daniel over
Darius the Mede. Even though Darius the Mede is unknown outside of Daniel, many reply that he may be identified with Gubaru, Cyrus or Cyaxares II. Don’t get me wrong. I think they are right to defend Daniel. Personally, I think Darius the Mede can be identified with Cyaxares II, though I don’t rule out Cyrus. However, my point is that though Protestants will go through many lengths to give the undisputed portions of Scripture the benefit of the doubt,
while simultaneously reading the Deuterocanon with a close minded hermeneutic of suspicion identical to that of an internet fundy atheist.
In their book
Evidence that Demands a Verdict, Protestant Scholars and Apologists Josh and Sean McDowell say:
Though critics commonly assert that the Old Testament contains authentic contradictions, many Bible scholars have provided plausible harmonizations over the centuries. Alleged contradictions often arise from mistakes in interpretation, ignoring genre or literary devices, or through a host of other faulty assumptions. Such alleged contradictions require further research, and others have been satisfactorily resolved. But given the track record of scholarship in this area, we have good reason to believe that if all the facts were known, all alleged discrepancies would disappear. (Page 601)
. . . And yet much earlier, they are quick to say that the so-called “Apocryphal books” are non-canonical because
“they abound in historical and geographical inaccuracies’ and anachronisms.” (pg 38).
Counter arguments are never considered.
Baruch 6:2 says the Jews would serve in Babylon for seven generations where Jeremiah 25:11 says it was for 70 years. “And this whole land shall be a desolation and a horror, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.”
There are more, but this should suffice for now.
And I don't care that you don't care if I believe the Deuterocanons aren't scripture.
Stop this overly dramatic nonsense. I am not anti-Semitic at all.
But you have no problem denying the facts of Jewish history, never mind current Jewish practices like the Kaddish prayers.
That is what the person I was talking to seemed to think. I was not talking to you.
I couldn't care less about that because the early Jews weren't right about some things. So, that alone isn't a reason to reject them. I reject them because they contradict true scripture.
No, you reject the Deuterocanonicals because you have been trained to reject them, reinforced by anti-Catholic sites like the Calvinist CARM forum.
What you're saying here doesn't apply to me at all. I don't go by what flawed Protestants say, I go by what the Holy Spirit tells me.
The Holy Spirit didn't tell Martin Luther to reject the Deuterocanonicals, he rejected them because they conflicted with his erroneous opinions.