[Salvation]

Good works — choosing life

Bad works — sins of the flesh — bad choices.

Not talking about money here, but the choices we make in life.

As I explained above, when a sin is confessed, God forgives that sin. Purgatory is the reparation and restitution that we did NOT do on earth. All souls must be pure before they enter heaven. If the person never apologized for gossiping or other sins to the person hurt — that’s the part of penance that takes place in Purgatory.

[ScubieNuc]

Good works — choosing life

I know I said that I wouldn't "gum up" your thread, but this quote confused me. Are you saying that "choosing life" is the same as believing in Jesus and that this choice is a "good work"?

If so, that contradicts this scripture verse:

Eph 2:8-9 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.

Exercising your faith by believing in Jesus is not a "work". "Work" is a physical undertaking, like eating, drinking, lifting, etc..

Besides, scripture also tells us that our righteousness or everything we do to be righteous (which includes "good works") is as filthy rags.

Isa 64:6 But we are all as an unclean [thing], and all our righteousnesses [are] as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

Titus 3:5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;