No, because scripture informs us otherwise. John 20:31 31 But these are written that you may believe[a] that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.
And yet to that Catholics must believe in more in order to be saved.
If Jesus had a problem with Maccabees or any other writings, why did Jesus not say so,
By the same token, purgatory. Huge turn from the rest of scripture. Such an important required doctrine surely would have been explained by the Author of our salvation. Offering prayer to mortal saints departed, I would love to have heard what Paul would have said had he known that the faithful he had instructed in the Gospel would so quickly disregard the "one intercessor between God and man". But since Catholics 'wrote the Bible', I wonder what they would have done with first second and third letters to the Catholics from Paul?
Where did Lazarus go between death and resurrection?
Jesus wept for his friend, and prayed for him.
What was the point, if at death all is decided already?