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Originally Posted by Nucholza
Right, but couldn't that be purgatory still? Purgatory is a place where you wait and be judged for your sins and you either redeem yourself or end up going to hell. Couldn't keeping Smokey from leaving the island be their test? Richard begged the priest for forgiveness for the murder he committed and the priest told him he wouldn't give him absolution and that Richard would have to earn it himself through penance, but that he wouldn't live long enough for that to happen. Then Jacob brings Richard to the island and give him the "gift" of living "forever". Then Isabella shows up and tells Hurley that they have to stop Smokey from leaving or else they'll be going to Hell.
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Jacob did say to Richard that "whatever you did before doesn't matter, what you do from this point on does".
What i think is, and i have come to the same conclusion long ago even tho they said it wasn't that the island is purgatory. Those that fail and die on the island go to hell(I could be wrong but i don't think i have seen a ghost of someone that actually died on the island, have we?). The spirits seen on the island are guides trying to keep their loved ones on the path to heaven(notice Richard about to give in and Isabella keeping him from doing that, with Hugo's help of course). Think about it, Jacob says we must keep the darkness on the island or else it will consume the world. So maybe that is the test of purgatory, notice throughout all stories many people go to hell but many few go to heaven. So maybe the person that takes Jacob's place is allowed passage to heaven. Or i could be totally wrong but this is how the show is currently protraying it.