“If there was no purgatory, man would invent it”

By Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI

images-2“I would go so far as to say that if there was no purgatory, then we would have to invent it, for who would dare say of himself that he was able to stand directly before God.

And, yet we don’t want to be, to use an image from Scripture, ‘a pot that turned out wrong,’ that has to be thrown away; we want to be able to be put right.

Purgatory basically means that God can put the pieces back together again. That He can cleanse us in such a way that we are able to be with Him and can stand there in the fullness of life.

Purgatory strips off from one person what is unbearable and from another the inability to bear certain things, so that in each of them a pure heart is revealed, and we can see that we all belong together in one enormous symphony of being.”

3 Comments

  1. spookchristian on November 2, 2014 at 1:17 pm

    Purgatory is already an invention.. it has already been invented by satan,, and the roman catholic so called church propagate that lie, to this day.. since it was started as a cash cow for the vatican..along with indulgences.



  2. Askme on November 2, 2014 at 6:06 pm

    Fascinating. Biblically, we stand before God completely justified by the once-for-all atonement of Christ. The process of being made holy happens on earth and is known as sanctification- being make like Christ. Could you direct me to the scriptural support for purgatory, if you have a chance? Many thanks.



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