"As you know, biblically, indulgences are heretical - because they add to the once for all sacrifice of Christ. Justification is a forensic legal declaration and an imputed reality by the perfect righteousness of Christ credited to everyone who believes in Him (2 Cor. 5:21; Romans 5:1). No other "suffering for sins" is necessary. No other penance needs to be paid. And no other righteousness will do. The Pope's righteousness as well as mine is nothing but filthy rags before a holy God (isaiah 64:6).
Purgatory is a manmade fictitious place. Like another blogentator so rightly asserted: if the Pope has the power to absolve sins through applying merit from the Treasury and relieve suffering in Purgatory by a thousands of years so that those precious souls can enter glory, why wouldn't he exercise a modicum of love and apply all the righteousness in the Treasury of Merit to all who are in Purgatory so that all could enjoy the joy of the Lord immediately and be relieved from the suffering they're in?
Christ is sufficient! (2 Cor. 3:5) – you need not ever look any place or to anyone else."
~Steve Camp
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