I do not believe purgatory is biblical, I find no example of it in the bible, therefore it causes greater anguish to pray for those who have lost all hope.
Same here, TLLo’M, I think your fate is sealed once you die. I don’t find purgatory biblical.
Here are some biblical references that are used to support the concept of Purgatory.
http://www.scripturecatholic.com/purgatory.html
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.
Correct...There is no biblical evidence for a purgatory...
Just another tactic to keep them in bondage to their religion...
Correct...There is no biblical evidence for a purgatory...
Just another tactic to keep them in bondage to their religion...