Thoughts on Purgatory

[StephenL]

The Topic of Purgatory. I had a good theological discussion with my Mom and her friend about it. I basically told them. What do you do with a piece of meat that is not cooked? You put it on the Grill not to burn the meat but, to get rid of the diseases and get rid of some of the fat on it. You don’t want diseases in your Food! So that’s why you cook the meat to get it ready for the big meal! This is my thought about it. Purgatory is the fire from the grill. The Meat is us. The diseases in the meat are hatred, anger, lust and sin. So that’s why we cook the meat to get rid of the nasty things in our life in order for us to be prepared for God. The fire is God’s love!

 

[Contra_Mundum_1]

I think the grill analogy works. I tend to explain it as cleansing. We can’t be in the presence of God unless we are completely clean of all sin and healed from the effects of sin that left their marks on our souls.

 

[po18guy]

Great analogy!

Here is another: We are all invited to the heavenly banquet at the Father’s house, but we have the dirt of sin clinging to us. As with heaven, nothing impure may enter the Father’s house. We must first be cleaned up before we enter. Until we are purified, we are outside looking in. Yet, God has a place where we are cleaned and purified so that we may enter His house. Thus, Purgatory functions like God’s mud room.

 

[EIF5A]

I’m not sure how purgation works, but I do hope the memory of my sins are erased…

 

[simple_soul]

Really! The memory of our sins will be erased? I can not say I have ever read or heard that. Could some one supply a source on this teaching please? It may answer a few questions I have so I would be most appriciative.

 

[po18guy]

Really! The memory of our sins will be erased? I can not say I have ever read or heard that. Could some one supply a source on this teaching please? It may answer a few questions I have so I would be most appriciative.

Well, our glorified bodies will have the trait of “impassibility” which means, like Christ, that we will then be incapable of suffering. Recollection of sins would be a form of spiritual suffering would it not?

 

[EIF5A]

Really! The memory of our sins will be erased? I can not say I have ever read or heard that. Could some one supply a source on this teaching please? It may answer a few questions I have so I would be most appriciative.

I wrote I hope that our memories are erased, not that that’s the teaching…

 

[Brandall]

The Topic of Purgatory. I had a good theological discussion with my Mom and her friend about it. I basically told them. What do you do with a piece of meat that is not cooked? You put it on the Grill not to burn the meat but, to get rid of the diseases and get rid of some of the fat on it. You don’t want diseases in your Food! So that’s why you cook the meat to get it ready for the big meal! This is my thought about it. Purgatory is the fire from the grill. The Meat is us. The diseases in the meat are hatred, anger, lust and sin. So that’s why we cook the meat to get rid of the nasty things in our life in order for us to be prepared for God. The fire is God’s love!

My understanding on purgatory is far from complete but so are some other Catholic concepts. If I must stay there until I’m free from hatred, anger, lust, and sin, I’ll be there a very long time. Maybe how god is going to change me is just too far beyond my comprehension.

 

[TK421]

I believe in purgatory because I believe in Earth. Our continued life on Earth after conversation is living proof that God does not perform instantaneous heavenly assumptions. We suffer for that which we love. Even those that may experience no purging flame after death suffer for what they love.