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**Yes, indeed, Luther figured this out (more than) four centuries ago (I'm sure you didn't mean 'decades'), merely by reading the Holy Scriptures and having no cause to invent imaginary doctrines. What a concept!**

But it is supported in Holy Scripture. Think about the passages I referenced.

The concept of a waiting place away from God for damned souls is covered. But there is a final judgment, and those whose souls whose names are not written in the book of life get tossed into the lake of fire (which is the second death), where the beast and his prophet are tossed.

However I do not think that "hell" is such a different place then "purgatory". Although I have no proof and am only extrapolating on my meager understanding of God. I am inclined to view it as C.S. Lewis:

"I willing believe that the damned are, in one sense, successful, rebels to the end; that the doors of hell are locked on the inside. I do not mean that the ghosts may not wish to come out of hell, in the vague fashion wherein an envious man 'wishes' to be happy: but they certainly do not will even the first preliminary stages of that self-abandonment through which alone the soul can reach any good. They enjoy forever the horrible freedom they have demanded, and are therefore self-enslaved: just as the blessed, forever submitting to obedience, become through all eternity more and more free."