Do you thing we protestants especially Southern Baptist will ever it out of purgatory?
Sure. If you get INTO Purgatory, you're going to get OUT, and you'll be taking the Up escalator.
I found a good analogy in C.S. Lewis's Voyage of the Dawn Treader, when Eustace has been turned into a dragon by his own greed. He tries to remove the dragon skin himself to become a boy again, but can't peel it off - there's another layer underneath. Aslan (the Christ figure) offers to peel it, and it all comes off at once. Eustace compared it to peeling a scab - painful but good.
That's what's going to happen to us in Purgatory - all the scabs of sin that we've accumulated in our lives are going to be completely removed, and we will finally become the people God meant us to be.
The efforts you make in this life determine whether God will buff those sins off with a nice soft cloth, or whether He will be getting out the WIRE BRUSH.
We Catholics believe we have been “given much” through the gift of our faith.
We have access to the seven sacraments which provide us with unbelievable graces.
Having said that, since we have been given such extraordinary grace, we are held to a higher standard than non-Catholics.
We can have all our sins forgiven before death, through the Last Rites, even if we our contrition is imperfect, and we have access to many opportunities to eliminate all debts while on earth.
So, a Catholic who avails himself of these opportunities can spend little or no time in purgatory.
A Catholic who ignores these opportunities, or who ignores Church teaching, on the other hand, will be accountable for it. He who is given much will have much expected of him.
So, a validly baptized protestant, who is perfectly contrite on his deathbed, and who has led a life trying to do God’s will, and who has not committed any very serious sins, could actually spend less time in purgatory than a Catholic.
Since none of us know the day nor the hour of our final judgement, I like knowing I’ve got the power of the sacraments in my corner.