Protestants will go to Purgatory: My opinion

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I believe Protestants will go to Purgatory. I base this on the fact that their doctrine are partial truths and they lack certain valid sacraments.

They also believe they are doing this for God with good intensions, and try to convert us Catholics to theirs. I don’t think God will use it against them. I do believe in God’s mercy, He the Creator if he will’s it will send good practicing Christian Protestants to Purgatory… that is my opinion.

I myself cannot judge that they will go there, but I merely said, “I think” which is an opinion of man. The final judgement call is God himself.
 
I believe protestants will go to heaven as well.

God’s mercy is beyond our understanding.

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Anybody who is in Purgatory is on their way to Heaven. Protestants, Catholics, Orthodox, anybody who will enter Heaven must go through Purgatory for the temporal punishment for venial sins which have not been confessed at the Sacrament. Purgatory is the intense love that God has for us by making us pure and holy before entering Heaven. It has nothing to do with the half-truths or the misconceptions of protestants. It is my prayer that all may enter the Eternal Bliss of Heaven, and if that soul is to go through Purgatory, I pray that their time is as short as possible.
 
Catholics, Orthodox who are have not lost their grace but need to be cleanse of course are in purgatory. I believe the majority of dead good Protestants are in purgatory.
 
What about the Protestant Matyrs?

Many of us Catholics will be there, or be the longer, because we had all these graces available to help us on our way, and we didn’t make use of them. The Protestants have so much less.

Anyway, I think most of us are going to Purgatory.

I remember reading Catherine Marshall’s book, A Man Called Peter, about her minister husband, who was a good man who lived his whole life whole-heartedly for the Lord. After he died, she had a very real vision of him. He was tending beautiful roses in a garden, a work he loved but never had much time for on earth. He was at peace, but he had an air of being confused, and surprised, to be where he was, and if I recall, he was supposed to be learning something. It sounded like a good place, but it didn’t sound like heaven to me. Later when I converted and learned of Purgatory, I felt sure that was where he was.
 
I am currently reading the book Purgatory Explained: By The Lives and Legends of Saints, I haven’t finished. But purgatory is depicted to be so scary, it is said that none of the greatest suffering on earth can match the little suffering in purgatory. The siffering there is just like hell, the difference is that the people there is in the grace of God, and they bear their sufferings in perfect resignation to God’s will, thus they don’t despair and they want nothing than to expiate their sin as it is the will of God.
And it’s true, we Catholics who receive more graces than other religion will have to render a stricter account to our fault. The same goes for religious who receive more graces as compared to lay people.
 
Actually, I expect that nearly all Catholics will go to purgatory too. Why do people go to purgatory? To expiate their sins. No one with even one sin on his soul could enter heaven and be with God. Few of us have repented of our slight sins and even if we repent punishment can be deserved for such an ignoble deed.
I don’t recall any pope, bishop or saint ever saying that there are a higher proportion of one group or another in purgatory or heaven. None have said this about pagans even. Someone could have less means of grace but still be holier than Catholics in general. It just depends on how generously the person responds to God’s grace and loves Him.
 
Baptised Protestant children who die before the age of reason will go straight to heaven since Baptism completely cleanses them and they aren’t able to committ Mortal Sin.
 
Is this serious?:confused:

Whilst I know the fullness of Truth and have to live up to it in the Catholic Faith others do not know the fullness of Truth and therefore must live up to what they truly believe.

I am completely saddened by this thread.

We all only have the possibility of going to Heaven because of God’s Mercy.

When you are perfect in your faith then you may ‘think’ or ‘have ideas’ or ‘judge’ the state of others souls and their eternity.

I am appalled.

In my Living Prayer of life.
 
When we have masses said for the dead, we are assuming they are in purgatory. So yes, I also believe that protestants can make it into heaven, Manny. I believe that Catholics go to purgatory too.
 
Mannyfit75 said:
I believe Protestants will go to Purgatory. I base this on the fact that their doctrine are partial truths and they lack certain valid sacraments.

They also believe they are doing this for God with good intensions, and try to convert us Catholics to theirs. I don’t think God will use it against them. I do believe in God’s mercy, He the Creator if he will’s it will send good practicing Christian Protestants to Purgatory… that is my opinion.

I myself cannot judge that they will go there, but I merely said, “I think” which is an opinion of man. The final judgement call is God himself.
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For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.–1 Thessalonians 5:9-10
 
Mannyfit75 said:
I believe Protestants will go to Purgatory.
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Every single person will be judged separately. I hope finally we all will be in heaven. Maybe I’m too optimistic but God wants everybody to be there… The problem about protestants is that they preach some heresies and sometimes draw away catholics away from they Church, and it is very bad. Please remember that there are thousands of protestant churches, some are a little bit simlilar to Catolic Church, some are completely different. It’s not our job to think about what God may say to them, nobody knows. We have to faithful to the teaching of the pope, that’s the safest way to get to heaven.
 
Jesus taught about the reality of Hell–if you don’t believe in Hell or that some will suffer there you simply don’t believe in Jesus’ own words.
 
I’m sure there will be some saved and some damned; same with Catholics.
 
We cannot say whether or not typical Protestant doctrine is far enough detached from the Truth to eternally separate its followers from God. What we CAN say is that it is not the fullness of Truth, and is open to grave error, misdirection, and fallacy.

I would think that most “good Protestants” truly want to seek God, though, and so probably could eventually overcome false doctrines while in Purgatory.

And yes, I think that nearly all people who will go to Heaven will have some sort of pause in Purgatory first. To me, though, it seems that “time” in Purgatory is nearly irrelevant. A soul so filled with hope and faith could overcome any suffering.
 
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