Let's look at a couple of points taken directly from the Bible:
1 Peter 3:18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
3:19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
3:20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
We know several things:
1) They were not in heaven since there would have been no need for Jesus to go to them.
2) They were not in Hell since once you are in hell there is no getting out.
3)We know that they had committed some sins, but they were not serious to be sent to hell for them.
Revelation 21:27 And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.
This tells us you must be clean (Free of sin) to enter heaven. After they met Jesus they were able to enter heaven. That pretty much fits the criteria for purgatory.
The verses from Peter refer to the spirits of the “Sons of God” who were imprisoned in the bottomless pit for their disobedience, in the days of Noah. That’s the only sensible reason for that reference to be in there. Otherwise, you must conclude that Jesus only preached to people who had died long ago, and just skipped over the dead in all those intervening centuries.
The verse from Revelation also is not supportive of purgatory, since we know from Rev. 13:8 that the names were written in the Book of Life before the foundation of the world. Therefore, you can’t write your name in now by “purging” yourself.
There is no purgatory to have criteria for...
So that's how you get out of purgatory??? You meet Jesus???
Is this what they teach you in their homolies???
Man o Man...Pick up a bible and get a Christian education (from it)...
The place is called Abraham's Bosom...It had locked gates and only Jesus has the key...
Jesus went to Abraham's Bosom to preach to those folks...They accepted Jesus as their Savior and he unlocked the gate and they all went to heaven...
Abraham's Bosom is still there but the gate is flung wide open...It's empty...People no longer go there...
That gate is wide open...THAT is the gate that will not prevail against the church...Your so-called purgatory will not prevail against the church...It doesn't even exist for anyone any more...It is non operational...
Pick up a bible and learn stuff...