[kosta50]

All in all, the suffering has made us closer to each other, and more importantly, closer to God as we trust more in him. This is what I think Forest Keeper was talking about

I know what he is talking about, and i understand what you are telling me. That doesn't answer my question: what happens to those who are never tested? Are they deprived of sanctification? And what happens to those who suffered more than your wife?

Are those who are not sanctified going to live in "basement" apartments in heaven and those who suffered more in heavenly penthouses? And where does it say so in the Bible?

[irishtenor]

Have you ever heard of anyone who was not tested? Everyone has moments, days, months, even years of trouble and termoil. Even me, though my son-in-law says that I just keep everything repressed.

[Mad Dawg]

As an aside: It is REALLY hard for me to imagine that anyone over the age of three has not been "tested". I think the Budhha was right that, in some respect, "life is suffering."

More generally star differs from star in glory, and I dare guess that saint differs from saint in kind and "amount" of sanctification.

(Just a wild conjecture, but it's suggested by Dante)