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To deny the man this fate would be to condemn him ... These decisions are not for us to make. They belong to God.
And yet it seems we are able to make them. This is just one example of many where our immoral actions seem to determine (or influence) the afterlives of others. Like murdering an atheist 20 years before he would have converted. It doesn't seem right that someone should be able to determine another's afterlife like that. But you'll just say "purgatory" to handwave away any complications, as you always do in your convenient philosophy.
either to Purgatory, where he must suffer for much longer than a mere five or ten or twenty years, or to hell itself.
That doesn't make a lot of sense, does it? Why shouldn't he suffer as much as he would have? Why does someone else, through an immoral action, get to determine that someone else should suffer longer in purgatory? (And if it not they who determine it, but God, then they at least "cause" or influence it.)
That doesn't make a lot of sense, does it? Why shouldn't he suffer as much as he would have? Why does someone else, through an immoral action, get to determine that someone else should suffer longer in purgatory? (And if it not they who determine it, but God, then they at least "cause" or influence it.)
See the , which I've cited before. God beseeches us to always be ready, because none of us know the day or the hour. It is not the decision of some third party determines our afterlife; we alone determine that, by virtue of the state of grace (or lack thereof) we allow ourselves to be in at any given moment. And of course, if we sin, and are immediately repentant, but die on our way to confession, God sees that we made a perfect act of contrition, which includes an intention to confess at the earliest opportunity, and so we may enter into His kingdom despite this third party's intervention.
I like that there was an ad for toilet cleaner on that site.
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