How do those who reject both predestination and purgatory justify their beliefs?

For the sake of this question: Predestination = from the foundations of the universe, God chose who will be saved. Purgatory = a place where people suffer / are purified, and afterwards, they go to heaven. Now, the difference between heaven and hell is quite large (positive infinity and negative infinity). In the predestination case, the gap between those that go to heaven and those who go to hell is justified as follows: God chose to save some, and Jesus' blood paid their debt. In this case, salvation is a binary choice by God. In the purgatory case, everything looks more continuous: the gap also makes sense in that: depending on how "sinful" one was, one spends less or more time in purgatory. Now, what I don't understand about the Arminian case is as follows: *) there lacks a binary choice by God (since there was no predestination) *) yet, the suffering/punishment after death is _not_ continuous -- there's no purgatory Thus it seems very weird that on a continuous scale of human sinfulness, in the absence of a binary choice by God, the gain/loss after death is so different. ## Note Suggestions / clarifications to this question welcome.