RE: Yet another Catholic abuse scandal...
May 31, 2013 at 4:20 am
(This post was last modified: May 31, 2013 at 4:22 am by Consilius.)
(May 29, 2013 at 3:20 pm)wwjs Wrote:(May 29, 2013 at 11:09 am)Drich Wrote: There not.Let's say that they'll pray to God and ask him for forgiveness. Since I'm an atheist I couldn't have been a true Christian so I ask you for answer. Will they go
They are men in the end. Men do good things and men do bad things in the sight of God and other men. Being Christian does not mean we are free from sin. Paul talks about this in Romans, that we are not free from sin, that He himself was still a slave to sin even though He knows what he should do, he does not do it. It is the things he does not want to do (sin) those are the things he does repeatly. He goes on to say so long as we are bound to these bodies we are bound to sin. Christian Men are like any other in that we will be judged by the same God all must give an account to. Our self appointed titles Christian, pastor, priest, bishop, pope mean nothing before God, and do not save us because this is what we call ourselves. Christ will judge us based on what we have or do not have in our hearts.
A To hell
B To heaven
The answer is C…PURGATORY!
This is where people who die with sins on their heads go. People who go there are repentant for what they have done and want to be with God, but their sins won't let them because "nothing defiled shall enter heaven". It is a period of temporary suffering, in which people are 'purged' of their sins and eventually get into heaven.
Purgatory is a balance of God's mercy and God's justice.
