Some teach that Purgatory is where a person has to suffer for their unforgiven sins and undergo purging before they can go to heaven. Like the painting Dante’s Inferno which shows different levels of hell, some believe that hell is made up of higher and lower levels and the lower the level, the greater degree of suffering. While the Bible doesn’t address this specifically, we do know that some who are more evil in this life will have to suffer more for their sins. Hitler will suffer more than the person who lived a pretty good life. The consequences of sin for the unsaved will be attributed to the degree to which they suffer. Instead of thinking of it as different levels of hell, it is really different levels of suffering. Revelation says that every person’s deeds are “recorded in the books” and everyone will be “judged according to their works” (Rev 20:12). For Christians, whose names are in the Book of Life, they will not be judged at that time because their sins were settled at Calvary but for “anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life [they were] thrown into the lake of fire” (Rev 20:15).
Posted on: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 04:30:07 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015