Rev Randy
Sometimes I pretend to be normal
This "pain' aspect seems to confuse some and they end up thinking RCs believe in some sort of mini-hell. I'm not understand the Roman concept to be anything of that sort.Yes.
No. Purgatory does not exist to 'administer pain'. Spiritual or physical pain may be an aspect of their healing. All healing that is deep down has suffering involved. Protestants, especially the health and wealth Gospel ones, see pain and suffering as purely evil, absent of redemptive properities.
In order to PERFECT them and also satisfy justice.
No, it is a place of becoming perfect.
Imagine your soul is a wooden board. Nails, representing sins, are hammered into it. Jesus removes those sins. Yet, the holes, the damage of the nails remains.
That's the goal of purgatory
Any pain that may exists is not 'administered' by God. Is the release of suffering from the individual.
You are not seeing suffering as being a redemptive factor for the believer.
Purgatory is a place to deal with your garbage. Rehab is not easy. Your infatuation with sin has indeed, now the healing must begin. No one is forcing pain on you necessarily. The pain is the release of years of spiritual pain brought on by your own actions.
Correct me if I'm wrong but wouldn't finding oneself in Purgatory mean you've made it(destined for heaven)? i mean I understand purgatory is not for the damned but for the elect. So any pain or shame, it would seem should be overshadowed by the fact one is destined to be with God.
Am I understanding the belief in the right manner?
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