Matthew 12:32
"And whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but he that shall speak against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, nor in the world to come."
Thus, if this sin will not be forgiven 'in the world to come', then it is logical that others sins will be forgiven in the world to come.
A more difficult text is this:
1 Corinthians 3:13-15
Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire."
This suggests that there will be a trial by fire - commonly understood to mean 'truth' - thus we could say that entering a post-corporeal state, that which is true (and thus real) survives, and that which is false (unreal) is burnt away. The essential person, however, remains.
St Paul continues:
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are."
Now this supposes that if man has become so entrenched in falsehood - in evil - that he has become evil himself and he therefore cannot survive - but again, he is not punished by an outside agency, he has destroyed himself.
This ties in with the notion, held by the Jews as well as others, that after death man is faced with himself, and the reality of what he has done and not done. The 'pain' and 'torment' therefore is the realisation of the 'error of one's ways' rather than anything inflicted upon him by an outside agency. In short, we judge ourselves, but not from an egoic standpoint, but from truth.
They say for the drowning man one's whole life flashes before one's eyes. Now is that the life he thinks he lead, or his life as it actually was? We are masters at convincing ourselves that we are doing what's best - but all too often the motive is entirely selfish. In the afterlife, there will be no self-deception.
So perhaps the limbic states are perhaps a gift and a grace, a time of retreat and recollection, a time of facing ourselves before we face God, so that every iota of shame is taken away.
Thomas