>purgatory isn't real bro!>will have to go through purgatory until they accept it's realPottery
How is the idea of purgatory any different from the idea that you have to reincarnate one more time to pay off your bad karma and end Samsara?
>>18069131Purgatory is just social mobility in Hades.
>>18069131>>18069202>>18069483https://www.enjoyhell.com
>>18069732based schizo baptist shitposter
>>18069735>schizoNo, sorry, I have to take that away from you. I am the very picture of mental health.
>>18069131This life on earth is the real purgatory. >>18069732>inb4 enjoy hellSalvation is by faith alone. However, this life is a test. First, to see if you will accept Jesus Christ. Second, to see how you serve him, and God will reward his own by degrees in the Kingdom of Heaven.
>>18069131The reason purgatory is a retarded idea is because dead people aren't conscious about anything. They are asleep until resurrection day.Can you imagine dying 6k years ago and being conscious all these years waiting for resurrection?
>>18069745Fanfiction.Plenty of stories of people who died having conscious spirits in the afterlife. The rich man and Lazarus. The saints in heaven asking for God to avenge their blood.
>>18069745>[...][T]he rich man also died, and was buried;>And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.>And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.>But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.>And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.>Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house:>For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.>Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.>And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent.>And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.Ready to admit you are lying, or are you going to double down?
>>18069740You definitely aren't lol
>>18069741Earthly life is no test, nor is there any purgatory but the blood of Christ. First, there is no purgatory since in no way is burden placed upon any man to his salvation, since Christ has performed all in the stead of the elect and purchased every spiritual gift from faith to eternal life for all those for whom He died. Second, earth is no test, since man is dead in sin until raised to new life by the Spirit of God for Christ's sake, and even the new creation, though his acts are partly good, so it is impossible for him to do anything without sinning to some degree. So far from being a test, the only outcome of such a test imposed on mankind to see how righteous they could be would be the damnation of all and everyone. The purpose of this life is to the praise of His glorious grace, the object of creation is the end and not the means, namely that God would be glorified in mercy shown to the elect, and in wrath shown to the reprobate.
>>18069794Men will be rewarded "according to their works" in Heaven thougheverbeit ("being over 5 cities, 10 cities" etc).This doesn't mean anyone earns salvation. Getting into Heaven in the first place is by the atonement of Jesus Christ alone.
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