[Salvation]

Not wages due.

But reparation performed. As an example, let’s say I offended someone by what I said, but I never said “Please forgive me.” while I was on earth.

That reparation is then part of my stay in Purgatory.

[metmom]

Forgiven is forgiven.

Semantics don’t change the fact that Catholics think they have to somehow atone for their sin.

It doesn’t happen and it can’t happen because the wages of sin is DEATH, not a stay in purgatory. If God intended that, He would have said that.

He didn’t.

[boatbums]

Not wages due. But reparation performed. As an example, let’s say I offended someone by what I said, but I never said “Please forgive me.” while I was on earth. That reparation is then part of my stay in Purgatory.

So, my suffering in Purgatory is making reparations to the person I offended how??? God is getting even with me for something I did wrong? Where does His forgiveness factor in? Forgiving someone is giving up my right to get even with them. When God forgives, He doesn't keep reminding us of our faults. As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our sins from us. Now where there is forgiveness of sins, there is no longer any offering for sin. Jesus paid our penalty for our sins, he took the "getting even with" in our place. There is no need for a "stay" in Purgatory since Jesus Christ is our place of cleansing/purgation.

But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God. (John 1:12,13)