Indeed. And since most RCs believe they will end up in purgatory at their death, they must also judge Christ's work on the cross insufficient to cleanse them and God's grace not strong enough to save them in order to spare them this time-out in Nowheresville.
A most unsatisfying philosophy.
You speak of what you do not understand.
-A8
Indeed. And since most RCs believe they will end up in purgatory at their death, they must also judge Christ's work on the cross insufficient to cleanse them and God's grace not strong enough to save them in order to spare them this time-out in Nowheresville.
A most unsatisfying philosophy.
Not only does purgatory deny the sufficiency of the Blood of Christ, but the so called "sacrament of penance" also reveals a lack of trust in the precious Blood of Christ to have paid the full penalty for sin, by having some which must be atoned for in penance by humans.
Where the Roman Catholic religion makes its fatal error is incorrectly acknowledging the nature of sin, as well as the Infinite Holiness of God. Roman Catholicism ultimately makes man responsible for his own salvation.
Failure to recognize the state of unregenerate, fallen humanity as James so clearly illustrates, leads to man reaching up to God to prove his worthiness, when it is impossible for humanity that is infinitely guilty of all God's Law:
James 2:10
For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all.
Hell is for those who want to set things right with God by their own efforts, for it will take all eternity to try to remove even one sin, which is infinitely sinful to an Infinitely Righteous and Infinitely Holy God.