Standing Up
On and on
We are purified when we are forgiven. To think that there's some secondary or additional process needed to "make us ready for heaven" is superfluous and, IMO, an indication of an unwillingness to completely believe that Jesus could have actually paid the price for our sins by his sacrifice on the cross, and thereby made us heirs of heaven.
Something deep down in many people is the feeling that we are just too unworthy of such a gift, such that various add-ons and qualifiers have been invented that make us think we earned our place in heaven. One of the biggest hurdles for even professed Christians to get over is the feeling that we have to do something, suffer something, or endure something in order to make God consider us to have performed sufficiently to prove our worth to him.
I try to keep in mind this:
Rom 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
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