Article completely misses how one is made perfect - its by Jesus not anything we do.
http://www.gotquestions.org/purgatory.html
Amen! He paid the price for our sin and He paid it in full. He completed the work. It is finished!! We are made perfect by the imputation of HIS perfect righteousness. We are righteous in HIM.
“For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.”
—2 Corinthians 5:21
Jesus asks us to help him to carry his cross.
He needs for us to meet him at least half way, otherwise why did he go through all that effort if he could just snap his fingers and make it all happen?
Heb 9:27
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
The concept of purgatory contradicts Heb 9:27.
The time to KNOW if you are saved is NOW... while you are still alive. There is NO purification of that which is corrupt after death... Death IS the purification of that which is corrupt. We are made perfect IN HIM through HIS sacrifice ALONE when we receive Him... and you cannot receive Him after death.
In Revelation is says that the 144,000 washed their robes clean.
I am OK with Jesus purging my sins, if I should die short of perfection...which is the likely state of all of us since none of us is perfect. Misunderstand all you want, but I wouldn’t mock it, you might need it.
God bless!