Hmmm it's tough to say which has less scriptural/historical support: the idea that folks will just disappear into heaven in some sort of pre-second-coming rapture, or that folks get to 'work off' sins in some sort of inter-life-death-waiting-room.
doesn't ROCOR have something very similar with the concept of the toll-houses?
I've finally found a post of yours I can (almost) agree with! 8~)
Certainly, of the two, the latter is far more contrary to Scripture and borders on heresy by explicitly denying that the atonement of Jesus Christ upon the cross has paid for the sins of His sheep.
The bizarre notion of purgatory always reminds me of the after-death waiting room scene in "Beetlejuice."
Purgatory is a dangerous, ungodly fiction.
We don't do the work in Purgatory. God does. He burns off the dross so nothing impure will enter heaven.