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GDR Member  Posts: 6202 From: Sidney, BC, Canada Joined: Member Rating: 2.2 |
RC Priest writes: This is what Purgatory can be. The Church’s catechism states that it has not determined whether it is a place or a process or both. The point is though that purification takes place, and all Christian’s believe this. Catholics calls this Purgatory. This is a complex subject so if anyone wishes further detail on certain elements of my post, then please say so. If not, view this as a brief response correcting the misconceptions about the faith/works controversy, as well as an intro to the subject of Purgatory. I found your post informative. In some ways the idea of purgatory makes me think of CS Lewis's allegory "The Great Divorce".Basically I hear him saying that it is the sin of focusing on the love of self to the detriment of the love of others that separates us from God. As humans, when we talk about purgatory we are unable to describe it in terms that don't involve space and time. If some how we could think outside of space and time, then purgatory could well be consistent with either teaching. My time as a Christian has always been in a protestant church but I find it hard to be critical of a church that numbers among its adherents Mother Theresa and Jean Vanier. I think it is important that we listen to each other and see what we can learn from each other. Everybody is entitled to my opinion. 
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