The Good Thief
For most Christians the story of the Good Thief who died next to Jesus shows us that we can repent and come to Christ at any point in our lives and receive salvation. No crime is too heinous, no age is too late. For many Protestants, however, the story of the Good Thief is also used to attack the concept of purgatory. Most hold the view that when Jesus says to the man hanging next to him, ‘today you will be with me in paradise’, he is telling us that we will all go immediat