Mortimer
Gold Member
Yesterday I listened to a Orthodox Priest he explained what "sins and passions are". And he said after death our passion are still with us, and thats why we are not in heaven if we do not fight our passions. He quoted the Bible saying "Where there is sin there is no God and where God is there is no sin". That made somehow sense but yet I think the orthodox still reject the concept of Purgatory but all of a sudden the purgatory made totally sense to me. Because we need to get purified to get saved from all sins, but it is also wrong that someone who was a convinced christian cannot enter heaven because of some sins or passions though no one is a saint everyone has a passion even if he is a convinced christian. So purgatory made totally sense that we are purified and then enter sinless heaven. It doesnt make any sense if they reject purgatory. Opinions?