Sunday, May 27, 2007

Purgatory: The reasoning behind it.

First and foremost we have to understand, what is Purgatory?

Purgatory, simply define is "purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven". In an even more simplify manner, purgatory is a place where souls are purge off all its sins before it proceeds to ascend into heaven.

Purgatory, is a place of suffering, a place of cleansing, a place of purging, a place of forgiving and a place of atonement. Purgatory is a place which is generally concluded to be a place which is experienced by those "who die in God’s grace and friendship, but still imperfectly purified" . One must clearly understand, that the suffering that the souls suffer in purgatory, though alike in many ways of the sufferings of the damned in hell, is still entirely different.

Why must we suffer and purify ourselves in purgatory? The purification is necessary because, it is clearly stated in the bible "somewhere in the book of revelations" that nothing unclean will enter the presence of God in heaven. We have to understand that even though we may die with our sins forgiven, there can still be many impurities in us, specifically venial sins and also the feelings of regrets and unworthiness. Jesus Christ died on the cross to redeem our sins, such sacrifice for us who are not worthy of him. Yet instead of being grateful, most of us, if not all of us, tend to take that sacrifice for granted. We tend to blatantly ignore him. We only tend to seek him in dire times of need. Do anyone of you honestly believe that his death will wash away all your sins, every single one of them just because you believe that he died for you?
Believing in the word is not sufficient. Practising the word is also not sufficient. Living the word is what we need to do. And if any of you live your live ignoring God and sinning like hell everyday assuming that because you believe he died to save your sins therefore you will go to heaven, please... do not be a moron.
Now, this is why purgatory comes into purpose. Jesus Christ redeems your place for you in heaven. That is as much as he does for you. He even guides you there. You want to go there as well very very much. But now... ur cloths are all dirty...its all torn up. Do u really wanna go in heaven looking like that. You need to clean yourselve first. Now he died so you may go to heaven. He died to wash away your sins. You are dirty... He gives you the opportunity to clean yourselve up... He gives you a bathroom, he gives you a water heater, he provides the electricity, the water, the light, heck he even provides you the shampoo, toothbrush, toothpaste shower cream and etc etc. But, for goodness sake, you don't expect the lord to bath you right?
After all you dirtied yourself. He has done most of the part... is it absurd to accept the fact that you at least have to bath your ownself before you ascend to heaven? Its not a matter of whether God cares whether ur clean or not...
Its a matter or whether you care how God would feel seeing you in heaven looking like that.
It all comes down to respect.

Why would anyone go to purgatory? To be cleansed, for "nothing unclean shall enter heaven". Again that is found somewhere in revelations. Anyone who has not been completely freed of sin and its effects is, to some extent, "unclean." Through repentance he may have gained the grace needed to be worthy of heaven, which is to say, he has been forgiven and his soul is spiritually alive. But that’s not sufficient for gaining entrance into heaven. He needs to be cleansed completely. It is entirely correct to say that Christ accomplished all of our salvation for us on the cross. But that does not settle the question of how this redemption is applied to us. Scripture reveals that it is applied to us over the course of time through, among other things, the process of sanctification through which the Christian is made holy. Sanctification involves suffering and purgatory is the final stage of sanctification that some of us need to undergo before we enter heaven. Purgatory is the final phase of Christ’s applying to us the purifying redemption that he accomplished for us by his death on the cross. Christ redeem our sins by suffering and dying and that logic applies to us also if anyone of you were asking why do we need to suffer to clean our sins.

And to all the people who claims that because purgatory is not clearly stated in the bible, therefore they are not taking it into account into their belief. I have no valid argument on that, except just a friendly reminder; God gave us the bible, the word of God. But God also gave us a mind. Our mind. Which is the work of God. Think and open your mind. That is all I could say.

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