[metmom]

After seeing the number of posts here about purgatory and suffering, since it’s clear that they think suffering expiates sin, it would make perfect sense to the Catholic mindset to identify with His suffering.

They’re thinking it somehow accomplishes something when the something we need has already been accomplished (past tense, done deal) by Christ on the cross.

The wages of sin is death, not dying.

It wasn’t Christ’s suffering or dying that took away our sin, but rather by His death that it was done.

The empty cross is symbolic of the victory in overcoming sin and death by His finished death, not His continual dying.

[caww]

Had there been no Resurrection we would remain in our sins there would be no salvation....."If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins"....1 Corinthians 15:17 If God is eternal, then He cannot die.... If Jesus was dead and remained dead, then He could not be God.... His bodily resurrection proved He was more than a man...that He was God....as is written..."And if Christ has not been raised, then 'our preaching' is in vain and your faith is in vain.".........it also means that all who share the gospel message are frauds and liars. For... "We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified about God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised." (1 Corinthians 15:15).....