Christ is sufficient and atoned for all sinners. All are justified, all are redeemed. Sanctification/Purification is a process, and that process may not be completed during this life time.True, but none of that is advocating for the OP's idea of everyone going to purgatory in order to back up their UR belief, and that being put into hell temporarily is what purifies us to be acceptable for God.
There is chastisement during sanctification, but that's an earthly process.
Because that's ultimately what this is about, pushing a UR belief and for them somehow it's everyone going to hell temporarily is how you eventually get saved. They'll put a Jesus veneer on it, but Jesus is not sufficient for that reconciliation.
Where it crosses a line, and I mean this is part of what caused the reformation in the first place, is the belief that Christ's atonement is not enough, you have to go through purgatory anyway, and it is purgatory that reconciles you to God.
I'd almost be sympathetic, even though disagreeing with it strongly because of a lack of scripture to back it up on, of the idea of unbelievers going through some sort of purgatory until they turn to Christ, even though that's not what the bible teaches, I can understand the desire for unsaved family members to have a 'second chance' to find salvation.
But as Jesus taught in Luke 16... the rich man didn't have a way out.
but where I lose my sympathy for that idea completely.. is teaching that those in Christ are also tormented in a mini hell until their impurities are "burned away". Because that makes the death of Christ meaningless. Because wasn't the point of their initial rabbit trail they started following based on the idea that a person in hell will eventually turn to Christ and be saved? For those who already turned to Christ.. putting them through hell too?
at that point I'm gonna have to say Galatians 1:8.
I mean the two of us? We're just arguing semantics.
Both of us are going to say that salvation involves a changed life.
For my part at least, the changed life is a result, and it is BECAUSE you are saved, and is not a part of HOW you get saved.
and I guess that's the nitty gritty for me. That sanctification is a result not a means of salvation.
I hope you can understand and agree with that.
Along similar lines, in Luke 12 Jesus taught:
“The servant who knows the master’s will and does not get ready or does not do what the master wants will be beaten with many blows. But the one who does not know and does things deserving punishment will be beaten with few blows. From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked ” (Lk 12:47-48).
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