My thoughts, entirely.
Once you’r dead, your chance has passed.
As for the spirits of the dead, when I was a child I asked an elderly lady next door if she believed in ghosts. I forget what generated the question, but I think it was some movie.
Anyway, her answer has always stuck with me. She said, “No. The people in Heaven don’t want ot come back, and the people in Hell can’t come back”.
She said, “No. The people in Heaven don’t want ot come back, and the people in Hell can’t come back”.
Sounds like a wise woman! Even if you believe in purgatory, they are stuck there too, according to Catholic dogma. Which is why this really shouldn’t be a Catholic vs. Protestant issue, because this man is clearly in violation of Catholic teaching in and of itself.
Purgatory is not a “second chance”. We are sanctified throughout our lives on earth by the blood of the lamb once we have accepted his freely given salvation. We were saved, we are being saved through Him.and we wil be saved By Him. Once dead we are either to heaven or to hell. Those condemned by their own deeds to help do not go through purgatory, there is no second chance unless God wishes. Those going to heaven undergo the final washing of their residual.sins. this is by the blood of the lamb. This is the final ‘step’ of sanctification, this is purgatory. You arrive fully purified in heaeven as no evil can be in His presence. In the state of purgatory you are not given chances, you are going to heaven not to help.