Is Purgatory like a waiting room? Does it have elevator music and grocery store magazines from months ago?

Answer 1

Not a bad concept, but no banana.

Answer 2

What is this about purgatory?

This is said to be a place where human souls are conscious and going through fiery purging after death. Since the Bible clearly shows that the dead are unconscious, how could God be tormenting anyone in such a place? (Psalm 146:4 [145:4, Dy]) Actually, neither the word “purgatory” nor the idea of a “purgatory” occurs in the Bible.

Before examining the claim that common sense, the Word of God and tradition prove the existence of a purgatory, let us note what the teaching of purgatory really is. According to Cardinal Gibbons purgatory is “a middle state of temporary punishment, allotted for those who have died in venial sin, or who have not satisfied the justice of God for sins already forgiven. [The Catholic Church] also teaches us, that, although the souls consigned to this intermediate state, commonly called purgatory, cannot help themselves, they may be aided by the suffrages of the faithful on earth. The existence of purgatory naturally implies the correlative dogma—the utility of praying for the dead—for the souls consigned to this middle state have not reached the term of their journey. They are still exiles from heaven and fit subjects for Divine clemency”.

But does the Bible teach that man has a soul separate and distinct from his body that lives on after he dies? Does it teach that man is conscious after death? Does it teach that there is such a place as a burning hell of eternal torment? No!

Clearly the Bible says that at creation “man became a living soul”. That the lower animals are souls. That “the soul that sinneth, the same shall die”; and that the King of kings and Lord of lords “only hath immortality”.—See Genesis 2:7; Numbers 31:28; Ezekiel 18:4; 1 Timothy 6:16, Dy.

Further, according to God’s Word, hell is not a place of torment but the common grave of mankind. That is why we find in the Douay Version the Hebrew word sheol rendered not only 63 times “hell” but also once “pit” and once “death”; and why Msgr. Knox’s version repeatedly reads “place of death” where the Douay reads “hell”. In death man is like the lower animals, we are told at Ecclesiastes 3:19-21, and therefore, “Whatsoever thy hand is able to do, do it earnestly: for neither work, nor reason, nor wisdom, nor knowledge, shall be in hell, whither thou art hastening.”—Eccl. 9:10,

When a man dies, is the soul conscious anywhere thereafter? No. It is the living soul or creature that is conscious; and when a man or soul dies, his breathing, conscious existence ceases. Such is the indisputable Bible truth: “The living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all.” (Eccl. 9:5) The dead man has no more thoughts anywhere: “His spirit goes out, he goes back to his ground, in that day his thoughts do perish.” Where there is no conscious existence, no thought, there can be no pain or suffering, in other words, no purgatory.—Ps. 146:4

Answer 3

The Catechism of the Catholic Church defines purgatory as a "purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven," which is experienced by those "who die in God’s grace and friendship, but still imperfectly purified" (CCC 1030). It notes that "this final purification of the elect . . . is entirely different from the punishment of the damned" (CCC 1031).

The purification is necessary because, as Scripture teaches, nothing unclean will enter the presence of God in heaven (Rev. 21:27) and, while we may die with our mortal sins forgiven, there can still be many impurities in us, specifically venial sins and the temporal punishment due to sins already forgiven.

Two Judgments

When we die, we undergo what is called the particular, or individual, judgment. Scripture says that "it is appointed for men to die once, and after that comes judgment" (Heb. 9:27). We are judged instantly and receive our reward, for good or ill. We know at once what our final destiny will be. At the end of time, when Jesus returns, there will come the general judgment to which the Bible refers, for example, in Matthew 25:31-32: "When the Son of man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate them one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats." In this general judgment all our sins will be publicly revealed (Luke 12:2–5).

Peace and every blessing!

Answer 4

And dinner every night is liver and aspargus, while someone reads the entire series of National Geographic and Reader's Digests in the background.

Plaid polyester leisure suits are standard issue in Purgatory, too.

Answer 5

kind of. you know how after you get called into the doctors office after you were in the waiting room? and your in the room sitting on the butcher paper with no pants and no magazines and no music. so im pretty sure purgatory is like the room you wait for the doctor in with no pants.

or it could be like this:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=y97DVncbNnY

Answer 6

Purgatory is like Gotham City, just another fictional place.


However, if it wasn't for the fictional satan character the Bible would only be 2 pages long and end with the words
"...and God created Eve for Adam and they lived happily ever after. THE END"

Answer 7

Some believe in purgatory. This is a place where you go after you die to finish paying off your sins.

I have never understood this concept because it says that Christ's death and resurection was not enough.

Answer 8

Na, I believe is a never ending Stairway to Heaven with 70s music in the background.

Answer 9

There is no scripture that supports purgatory, it's a man made doctrine.

Answer 10

Purgatory is from the imagination of Dante (hence, Dante's Inferno) and did you know that he thought of all this because of his love for a woman?
Knowledge is power!

Answer 11

There is no such place as purgatory and you will not find it in the Bible.