Replies

Thank GOD we Protestants who are saved know we won’t ever have to be in Purgatory. I guess that’s only for Catholics, LOL.

If Catholics are right about Purgatory--obviously I believe we are right--, all will be subject to it, not just Catholics.

But more than that, I would say that, if you are truly saved, you are already going through purgation, or "purgatory," right now. You are saved, but yet, I am sure, you continue to suffer. Why does God allow the saved to suffer in this life? How do you explain that?

For Catholics, suffering among the saved is a process of purification, it is redemptive. Whereas, Protestants seem to have great difficulty accounting for suffering among the saved. I have met more than a few atheists who were former Protestants, who rejected Christianity for the reason that they could not account for suffering based on their Protestant beliefs. You'll never find an informed Catholic who becomes an atheist for this reason -- for us, suffering is redemptive, a purgation, that is for our own good and the good of the world. "No pain, no gain," as they say.