Christ is perfect It is His righteousness that we obtain when we are saved God sees us clothed in the perfect righteousness of Christ. There is no further purification needed Either His blood is sufficient or it is not.
If you do think you are perfect, then maybe there will be no purgatory for you.
No Christian claims to be perfect. Christians are however forgiven off all sins by the one time sacrifice of Christ on the cross.
There is nothing, nothing else at all, that can cleanse us from our sins.
No amount of praying by your momma, no appeals to Mary....nothing but the blood of Christ.
but when I die, I could be burning like crazy in purgatory for thousands of years, because no one is praying for me..
You are essentially saying Christ is not sufficient. That is blasphemy.
Christians are perfect when they are in Christ, when they are born of the Spirit. The new nature is perfect.
The only sin left is in the flesh, and when this body of flesh dies, all that’s left is the perfect new nature.
“Bernadette Soubirous (visionary of Lourdes) said something to the effect, you all say I’m a saint this, I’m a saint that, but when I die, I could be burning like crazy in purgatory for thousands of years, because no one is praying for me.” That is close to contradicting Jesus and the Bible. In fact, it does contradict the Bible. It adds to what Jesus accomplished on the cross when there is not one morsel you or I or Bernadette could add to what ONLY GOD can do for you. To believe you must or can add to that Deity work to ‘complete’ it is contradicting what The Bible teaches and Jesus did for you on the Cross.