Will their church collapse ? Will it be rebuilt with only good guys, like the US ?
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It depends on whether you accept Maccabees as Scriptural whether you deem belief in purgatory to be Biblical.
It's not.
It seems to be one of the main points of contention that make it difficult for Protestants on one side and Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodoxy on the other to settle the issue of Purgatory. While I believe in God, I'm agnostic to Christianity.
From the outside, debates like this seem to be impossible to settle satisfactorily because the two sides cannot agree on a common canon to interpret. In other words, the question looms whether a believer is to side with Luther + Calvin on the so called Deuterocanon's place in the bible, or the Roman and Eastern Church.
The very question of how the Bible should be compiled seems to be at stake.
Is purgatory the only difference you see? What about the worship of Mary, the apostles and angels?
Revelation 22:8-9 NKJV Now I, John, saw and heard these things. And when I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who showed me these things. [9] Then he said to me, "See that you do not do that. For I am your fellow servant, and of your brethren the prophets, and of those who keep the words of this book. Worship God."
No there's certainly other differences --Mary, the Eucharist, etc.. Just going with the one you mention ("the worship of Mary"), the two sides sometimes seem to be speaking past each other. Catholic/Orthodox doctrine holds that one should venerate Mary, but not worship. Protestants perceive it as worship, but Catholics perceive it as veneration.
But the bigger question that looms is: what is our criteria for what counts as scriptural and what is not scriptural?
There doesn't seem to be a simple answer to that sort of question.