[Hacksaw]

Protestants are demonstrably wrong on Purgatory. The idea of Purgatory stems from Maccaabees, which Luther removed from the Bible. However, as that book points out, were there no purgaroty, there would be no need to pray for the departed, as we are instructed to do numerous times in both the Old and New Testaments.

What their argument is is that by being crucified, Jesus paid the penalty that souls would otherwise have to spend in purgatory. The question I had to this would be the case of a man who led a completely evil life, but begged forgiveness at the end of it. The response is that the rewards for a good life would be granted in Heaven, not by less time waiting to get into Heaven. But that would then imply that some in Heaven outrank others.

[iconoclast]

But that would then imply that some in Heaven outrank others.

Not necessarily. I respectfully refer you to C. S. Lewis' The Great Divorce.

Let me me know what you think of it.