Is There Such a Thing?

There is a difference of opinion between catholics and protestants on that. Catholics say, on the basis of tradition, church tradition, that only saints go directly to heaven. People who are not saints, must spend time in an intermediate realm called purgatory. They must suffer in order to take care of their minor sins. Only after those minor sins are taken care of are they able to enter heaven. According to catholics, there can be an tremendously long time spent in purgatories. The number of years in purgatory sometimes is a hundred thousand, 200 thousand,. this sortof thing. O course, these years are not necessarily human years, but the very fact that they