[Mad Dawg]

I think you'd be surprised, as I was, to find how little of the idea of Purgatory is de fide. About all that's rock bottom is that for most, if not all, there is some kind of purging (Here, take this pill. Don't get too far from the bathroom) before entry into heaven.

However, the idea of the communion of the saints hinges on the question of the power of the Spirit to establish koinonia versus the power of death to divide.

We hold the Spirit prevails. Love is stronger than death.

[Elsie]

Love is stronger than death.

Hebrews 9:27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: