Where in the Bible can I find the word Purgatory?

Answer 1

Peace!
The word purgatory is not in the Bible. You will also not find the word Holy Trinity but the doctrines are there. Read 2 Maccabees 12,43-46: Luke 12, 58f; 1 Peter 3,18-20; Revelation 5, 3.13.

Answer 2

The word bible is not in the bible either, for the concept of what God says about purgatory try theses scriptures: Luke 12, 58f; 1 Peter 3,18-20; Revelation 5, 3.13.

Answer 3

Purgatory is not in the bible. It is another Catholic invention.
* The doctrine of Purgatory, established by Gregory I 593

Answer 4

I am not Catholic, nor do I believe in Purgatory, but before Jesus paid the price the dead in Christ went to Paradise, a place of waiting (we now have access to heaven). Even still the non-believer who dies awaits final judgement before entering hell.

Perhaps this has inspired the Catholic teaching?

Let us pray for all believers - especially while they still live - instead of dividing amongst ourselves!

Answer 5

no longer in uncomplicated words is the be conscious purgatory no longer interior the Bible, the conception isn't both. i understand of no Christian faith that clings to that nonsense, except Catholics. God created hell for devil and the different fallen angels, initially.

Answer 6

You can't because purgatory is an invention of the Catholic Church, and refutes scripture.

Answer 7

nowhere

The belief about purgatory comes from paganism (as much of Catholic beliefs and practices do) and can be found in Dants's inferno

you cannot even find the idea of purgatory in the Bible

Answer 8

That, as nothing defiled can enter heaven (Apoc. 21:27), souls with the slightest stain upon them must go through a process of purgation before coming face to face with Him "whose eyes are too pure to behold evil" (Hab. 1:13).

"I am thy father's spirit, Doomed for a certain term to walk the night, And for the day, confined to waste in fires Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature Are burned and purged away!" (Hamlet, Act 1, scene 5).




That there is a "prison," a place of temporal punishment, where souls (whose guilt of sin has been forgiven) go to make restitution for their transgressions:

"I (Christ Jesus) say to thee, thou wilt not come out from it, until thou has paid the last penny" (St. Matt. 5:25-26).




That the prayers, good works, acts of mercy, of the living help the souls of the departed who are in purgatory.

"Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of" (Tennyson).

"Lay this body anywhere: be not concerned about that: but one favor do I beg of you, that wherever you may be you will always make a remembrance of me, when you stand at the altar of God" (St. Monica to her son St. Augustine).

Catholics Believe

That the New Testament came after the Church;
That the Church did not come after the New Testament.
That before a line of the New Testament was written:
Christ established His Church;
The Apostles preached Christ and Him crucified;
St. Peter converted 3000 Jews;
The Council of Jerusalem assembled;
The Jewish law was abrogated.


"If the Apostles had not left us any writings, would it not have been our duty to be guided by the rule of that tradition which they delivered to those to whom they entrusted the churches? A rule asserted by many of the barbarous nations believing in Christ, who, not possessing any written language, have the words of salvation written without language, have the words of salvation written without paper and ink, in the hearts by the Spirit, and carefully preserve the ancient doctrines delivered to them." (Adv. Heresies, lib. iii, c. 4.).

That the authority for the inspiration, and interpretation, of the books in the Bible rests upon the living testimony of the maker of the Bible, Christ's Church.

It does not take much exercising of brains to realize that without a living, Divinely instituted authority there is no way of knowing, with certitude, whether the writings in the Bible were inspired by God, or what those writings really mean. Therefore, the most manifest sign of true wisdom, in matters religious and moral, is the brain action of Catholics listening to the Voice of Christ expressed through the Divinely guaranteed "brains" of the Church of Christ.

Answer 9

pAGE > find = Purgatory

Answer 10

The same place you find the word "trinity" and "original sin" Sparky