Sin

Back in Luther’s day good works were used to help your life in purgatory be much shorter. Purgatory is the place where it is told we would go if we aren’t a person like the Pope, Paul, or Mother Theresa. It is a place where we are to wait until we are good enough to get to Heaven…it is the in-between place of earth and heaven, a place where we could make things right with God. They believed that Christ died but that only took care of the Original (Alien) sin. So they did good works to counter act the Actual (Proper) sin, which they didn’t feel the average person was ever good enough in their life time to take care of their proper sin. The church then sold indulgeses for those who were in purgatory…a piece of paper that said they were forgiven for a sin. You could buy them for you or for some one that has gone before you. Looking at this it just doesn’t make any sense to me, if it were really up to us we would never be good enough for God.
I brought up the words Alien sin that is the sin that is passed down person-to-person…human nature, sin since conception…Proper sin is the sin that comes from us, we are the source of the sin.

If you were asked right now on the spot… “If you were to die today are you going to heaven?” What would you say?

Back in the day most people would have said “ I hope I am a good enough person. I hope so…”What would you say?

I think that Christ died not only for the Original sin but for the Proper sin, he died so that we may have everlasting life in Him, He died for the salvation of all people. He died so that all our sins no matter what kind they are taken away, so that we may become righteous.

What does righteousness mean to you?

Thought for the day…

God Bless,
Kris