[bdeaner]

No so. After the “Particular Judgment”, the soul remains in the “Place of the Dead” or “Hades” or the “Bosom of Abraham”; in any event, the soul rests, we hope,”...in a place of light, in a place of green pasture, in a place of refreshment, from where pain and sorrow and mourning are fled away.” until the Last Jugment. And in the end, b, it is only by God’s mercy that any join the sheep.

Wow, that sure seems like hair-splitting to me. The process of pain and sorrow and mourning being 'fled away' doesn't seem to necessarily conflict with purgatory -- a purification by which temporal consequences of sin -- pain, sorrow, mourning, etc. -- are also 'fled away,' in a certain sense, through purgation.

[Kolokotronis]

“Wow, that sure seems like hair-splitting to me.”

Really? Its what The Church has always believed. Whatever hair splitting may have gone on finds its origins in the innovative (and lucrative) theological monstrosity of purgatory which was, as you must know, among the precipitating causes of the Great Schism and later on, the shattering of the Church in the West in the Protestant Reformation.

One cannot believe in something like purgatory and be an Orthodox Christian.