Unmerited grace isn't a doctrine, its the definition of charis. Grace is by definition unmerited. But your statement said Jesus earned i.e. merited grace. And if unmerited grace is a catholic doctrine why didnt you say that? You said the exact opposite. Grace being unmerited is biblical, not roman catholic.
I didn't say Jesus
earned unmerited grace. His death on the cross is the
source of unmerited grace. Please quote me accurately by using the quote feature.
But back to my initial question. Can you show us a verse where Jesus earned infinite grace?
No such verse exists. You are presupposing a falsehood that Catholicism does not teach. It's a straw man fallacy.
I'm not off topic. You gave the false assertion that we think that by catholics going to confession Jesus didn't do enough. That has never been a concern of mine. However the catholic teaching on penance and purgatory does in fact call in to question Jesus' sacrifice not being sufficient.
And my 'tone' isn't hostile or insulting. Unless quoting your ccc is considered hostile? Paul also said expose false teachings Eph 5:11.
Misrepresenting the CCC with isolated paragraphs is bearing false witness.
Exodus 20:16
Proverbs 6:16-19
Paul also taught against the scandal of disunity. The Bible never attacks the Church. Fashioning attack weapons from the CCC is a form of witchcraft IMO.
The purpose of purgatory is to purify us so that we are thoroughly holy and thus fit for heaven. It is part of the process by which we gain "the holiness without which no one will see the Lord" (
Heb. 12:14).
But the process of purification doesn’t start in purgatory. It starts in this life, and in Protestant circles it’s known as
sanctification. (Catholics also use this term, though not always in exactly the same fashion; the term
justification is also used in both circles though not always in the same ways.)
Now, where does sanctification come from? Is it something God gives us by his grace or something that happens apart from his grace?
Protestants will agree with Catholics that it is the product of God’s grace in our lives.
But why is God giving us this grace? Is it because of what his Son did on the Cross or is it separate from that?
Once again,
Protestants will agree with Catholics that it is because of what Christ did on the Cross that God sanctifies us.
So sanctification–the process of being made holy–is something that happens to us
only because of Christ’s death on the Cross.
Sanctification–including the final stage of sanctification in purgatory–
thus presupposes the sufficiency of Christ’s sacrifice. It is so sufficient that it is not only enough to justify us but enough to sanctify us as well. The difference is that (to use language in a Protestant way) justification is something that happens at the beginning of the Christian life while sanctification is something that happens over the course of it.
Purgatory & The Sufficiency Of Christ’s Sacrifice – Jimmy Akin