No, the final cleansing (purging) of the soul of all its inclinations toward sin before we are united with God in Heaven. Peace.
If purgatory is for “cleansing” then why did your church claim that paying it money would shorten the time. The church certainly cannot do anything for the dead that Christ didn’t do once and for all with the payment of his blood. It’s a fantasy created for monetary gain by the roman church.
There is zero evidence in the scriptures that indicate explicitly or implicitly that a person's soul goes thru any kind of fire after death...It makes no biblical sense and it contradicts the scriptures, like most Catholic dogma...Your religion may teach anything it wants of course, but so can the Mormon and Izlamic religions...
We are the Christianity of the Christian bible...The Catholic Church has created its own religion based on its customs, traditions, and laws that are not only outside of the Christian scriptures but in so many places contradict the Christian scriptures...
Either the Catholic religion is not true, or the Bible is not true...How do you think you can defend your religion by arguing against the Christian scriptures???