What is your idea of purgatory...?

Question

and from which passage of scripture and in what bible is this mentioned?

Answer 1

Purgatory is not found anywhere in the Bible. It is a doctrine of the catholic church, " It is known as the place that souls go after someone dies where they become purified to enter heaven. Catholic Purgatory is where souls are groomed for heaven."
However this is a false doctrine because Jesus never talks about an intermediary or a middle state in which one will be purified. He either talked about Heaven, which is his Father's house or hell.
The only chance or opportunity a person has to be purified is now, while one lives on this earth.Think about it, if one can be purified after death than everyone would be saved. If you believe in Christ and live a scrupulous life according to Jesus teachings, then you will go to heaven. However, if one doesn't believe and live a sinful life that person is going to hell.


The following verses reject the doctrine of pugatory, Matthew 25:5-10; Luke 16:26-31; Revelation 3:15, 16. There will be no "second chance" for anyone. "We have the choice in this life to accept or reject Jesus Christ. Our status in the after-life will be based upon that decision.

a. After death: judgment. Hebrews 9:27 b. Parable of the ten virgins: ".... and the door was shut." Matthew 25:1-10 "

There really is no need for a purgatory.
1. The doctrine of purgatory denies the completeness of our redemption and forgiveness through the work of Calvary, and it rejects the blood atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ. a. Jesus declared on the cross, "It is finished!" John19:30. b. "Ye are complete in Him." Paul said. Colossians 2:10 c. The sacrifice was made for us "once for all ... forever ..." Hebrews 9:11, 12, 25-28; 10:9-14; 1 Peter 3:18
Lastly, there are several doctrines in the catholic church that is not found in the Bible, for instance, the purgatory, the doctrine of praying for the dead, buying indulgences in order to receive salvation and many others. These are some reasons that Martin Luther protested against the catholic church, because some of its teachings were not based upon scripture or teaching of Christ. To clarify, not all of its teachings but some and they can be proved wrong base on the Bible.
May God bless.

Answer 2

Don't blame the Catholics for purgatory. The Jewish Rabbi believed that the soul of the deceased was consigned to a sort of purgatory for twelve months after death, during which time it was allowed to visit its dead body and the places or persons it especially loved. This intermediate state they called by various names, as “the bosom of Abraham,” “the garden of Eden,” “upper Gehenna.” The Sabbath was always a free day, and prayer was supposed to benefit those in this intermediate state.

This is also mentioned in Maccabees. The "sins" from which the dead were loosed were not mortal sins however but only those minor sins that prevented the souls from being in the company of a holy God and got them into purgatory which is a kind of purification for those not inherently evil and unsaved.

Answer 3

Purgatory is a place of purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven. Those who die in God's grace, but still imperfectly purified, go to Purgatory.

Here are some scriptural proofs:

Luke 12:59 - Jesus says "I tell you, you will never get out till you have paid the very last penny" (in other words, every sin we commit, although forgiven by Christ, must still be fully expiated)

In Matt. 12:32 Christ says some peole "will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come" showing there is forgiveness even AFTER we die.

Revelations 21:27 tells us "nothing impure will enter Heaven."

In 2 Maccabees 12:43-46 they pray for the dead, that they might be forgiven of their sins.

Paul tells us that, when we are judged, each man’s work will be tried. And what happens if a righteous man’s work fails the test? "He will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire" (1 Cor 3:15). This loss, this penalty, can’t refer to hell, since no one is saved there; and heaven can’t be meant, since there is no suffering ("fire") there. The Catholic doctrine of purgatory alone explains this passage.

Protesants called purgatory a Catholic "invention." This shows their lack of knowledge of Church history and dogma.

Purgatory has been upheld since the earliest days of the Church. Even the mother of St. Augustine asked that he pray for her soul. We see Purgatory mentioned time and time again in the writings of the Fathers and contemporaries of Christ and the Apostles.

Answer 4

Purgatory is the place or state wherein those who are saved by the grace of God, but who are not completely pure spiritually, are allowed to become spiritually purified before entering heaven. This is in contrast to the Protestant theory (never heard of by any Christian on earth until a few hundred years ago) that the grace of God allows us to somehow be smuggled into heaven along with all our spiritual baggage and impurities, "like dunghills covered with snow", to use the phrase coined by the inventor of the theory. Protestant theory says that we can sneak into heaven covered with filth. Catholic teaching for 2,000 years says that we can actually be made pure and clean by the grace of God before entering heaven. The Bible says nothing unclean can come before the throne of God. But of course the Bible would say that, since the Bible is composed of Jewish and Catholic writings, and was compiled by the Catholic Church for its own use.

Answer 5

Purgatory is like a 10 hour work day. It's way too long to be at work, but you might get Friday off.

Answer 6

It's nonexistent. Purgatory does not exist and there's nothing that even supports the idea in the Bible. Of course, Catholicism is barely a denomination of Christianity, only a little better than the Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses.

Answer 7

The tradition of the Jews is put forth with precision and clearness in 2 Maccabees. Judas, the commander of the forces of Israel,

making a gathering . . . sent twelve thousand drachmas of silver to Jerusalem for sacrifice to be offered for the sins of the dead, thinking well and religiously concerning the resurrection (For if he had not hoped that they that were slain should rise again, it would have seemed superfluous and vain to pray for the dead). And because he considered that they who had fallen asleep with godliness, had great grace laid up for them. It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from sins. (2 Maccabees 12:43-46)

At the time of the Maccabees the leaders of the people of God had no hesitation in asserting the efficacy of prayers offered for the dead, in order that those who had departed this life might find pardon for their sins and the hope of eternal resurrection.

Answer 8

A process of final purification.

“Nothing unclean shall enter it, nor any one who practices abomination or falsehood, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life” (Rev. 21:27).

Why can nothing unclean enter heaven? The Prophet Habakkuk says it’s because God is all holy, and He will not allow anything in heaven with Him to be less than holy and spotless: “Too pure are your eyes to look upon evil [O Lord], and the sight of misery you cannot endure” (Hab. 1:13).

Answer 9

Um , didn't the pope recently decree that purgatory was no longer necessary?

Answer 10

Purgatory isn't in the bible. It's a catholic man-made invention. Jesus did all that needed to be done on the cross. The only thing we have to do is accept his free gift of life.