Q: What does the Bible say about purgatory? Is there such a place?
A: No, there isn't; Scripture says nothing about a purgatory. This place where men must go after death to purge their sins is an invention of religion. The word purgatory comes from the word purge, and we are told that Christ "by Himself purged our sins" without any help from us (Heb 1:3 NKJV).
The Lord told the dying thief "today you shall be with Me in paradise" (Lk 23:43). This is important because Scripture calls this man a thief. Even his own testimony to the other thief was that "we are receiving what we deserve for our deeds" (Lk 23:41). In other words, he admitted that he had not been framed or misjudged, but had indeed committed crimes worthy of the death penalty. If there was a purgatory, certainly this man would have gone there, but we have the Lord's word for it that he did not.
Also, if anyone needed to go to purgatory, it was the sinful Corinthians. Yet Paul told even these believers they could be "confident" that "to be absent from the body" is "to be at home with the Lord" (2 Cor 5:8).
A: No, there isn't; Scripture says nothing about a purgatory. This place where men must go after death to purge their sins is an invention of religion. The word purgatory comes from the word purge, and we are told that Christ "by Himself purged our sins" without any help from us (Heb 1:3 NKJV).
The Lord told the dying thief "today you shall be with Me in paradise" (Lk 23:43). This is important because Scripture calls this man a thief. Even his own testimony to the other thief was that "we are receiving what we deserve for our deeds" (Lk 23:41). In other words, he admitted that he had not been framed or misjudged, but had indeed committed crimes worthy of the death penalty. If there was a purgatory, certainly this man would have gone there, but we have the Lord's word for it that he did not.
Also, if anyone needed to go to purgatory, it was the sinful Corinthians. Yet Paul told even these believers they could be "confident" that "to be absent from the body" is "to be at home with the Lord" (2 Cor 5:8).
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