Hello and welcome to focus the Catholic answers podcast for living

understanding and defending your Catholic faith. I am Cy Kelle, your host.

And does the Bible teach us that we get immediate entrance

into heaven after death?

We hear that a lot.

There's even TV commercials to that effect

and lots of websites that will teach that and many

Christian communities teach that so is that true well we'll ask the guy who wrote

the book purgatory is for real good news about the afterlife for those who aren't perfect yet.

Carla Bousard, Carlo, thanks for being here with us.

Sigh Kellett, thanks for having me buddy. It's always great to be on with you.

Yeah, let's see if we can get all the way through because we tried to record this once before and the power and the entire neighborhood went out.

So maybe there is some kind of attack upon us.

We'll see man. We plead the precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ on this

one man. Cover us in the blood of Christ. Amen brother. All right so some of our

Protestant brothers and sisters, they have a scriptural objection

basically to the idea that there's any period of purification after death.

And so basically they'll say the doctrine of purgatory contradicts Bible teaching on the immediacy after heaven.

So I thought I would start by giving you a couple examples of that.

Do you want me to give you both examples that I have or one or what?

Yeah sure sure.

All right go ahead.

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