Is Purgatory in the Holy Bible?

Attack greatness, and in the speckles of its prominence, shine.

The prayer, “May s/he rest in peace” everyone says is a prayerful wish that the soul of a departed who is yet to rest in peace, rests in peace. 

If s/he has rested or one is sure the soul has arrived to the blissful abode, the prayer may be wistful and unnecessary. Hence, anyone who says the above prayer, irrespective of religious inclination and denomination, intrinsically professes Purgatory as real. Why not, what is Purgatory?

Purgatory, according to Catholic Church doctrine, is an intermediate state after physical death in which those destined for heaven "undergo purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven".^[1] Only those who die in the state of grace but have not in life reached a sufficient level of holiness can be in Purgatory, and therefore no one in Purgatory will remain forever in that state or go to hell.

So what’s your problem?

You question the term purgatory as a condition to belief as if your name is in the dictionary; yet you answer your name. Wait, do you have a bible? Read the following

Romans 3:23, “for all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.”

Revelations 21:27, “nothing unclean will enter the presence of God in heaven.”

1 John 1:8,10, “If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

                                If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.”

1 Corinthians 3: 13,"...it will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one

                                one has done."

More Texts

Is 35:8, 52:1
Zech 13:1-2
1 cor 3:15
Lk. 12:47-48, 58-59
Rev. 21:27
Heb 12:22-23

Job 14:13-17,

¹³ Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol,
    that thou wouldest conceal me until thy wrath be past,
    that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
¹⁴ If a man die, shall he live again?
    All the days of my service I would wait,
    till my release should come.
¹⁵ Thou wouldest call, and I would answer thee;
    thou wouldest long for the work of thy hands.
¹⁶ For then thou wouldest number my steps,
    thou wouldest not keep watch over my sin;
¹⁷ my transgression would be sealed up in a bag,
    and thou wouldest cover over my iniquity.

 

Have considered the teachings of your pastors in relation to your life as a Christian in the light of the Scriptures?

 Now read this:

1 Corinthians 3:10-15 

^“10 According to the commission of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and another man is building upon it. Let each man take care how he builds upon it. ¹¹ For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. ¹² Now if any one builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble— ¹³ each man’s work will become manifest; for the Day  will disclose it, because it will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. ¹⁴ If the work which any man has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward. ¹⁵ If any man’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.”

What is through FIRE?

Your unbelief could be likened to someone who refuses to enter a taxi, because the term TAXI is not written in the Bible.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church defines purgatory as a "purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven," which is experienced by those "who die in God’s grace and friendship, but still imperfectly purified" (CCC 1030). It notes that "this final purification of the elect . . . is entirely different from the punishment of the damned" (CCC 1031). 

The purification is necessary because, as Scripture teaches, nothing unclean will enter the presence of God in heaven (Rev. 21:27) and, while we may die with our mortal sins forgiven, there can still be many impurities in us, specifically venial sins and the temporal punishment due to sins already forgiven.