where in the bible does it talk about the purgatory?
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Roman Catholic Christians who believe in purgatory interpret passages such as 2 Maccabees 12:41-46, 2 Timothy 1:18, Matthew 12:32, Luke 16:19-16:26, Luke 23:43, 1 Corinthians 3:11-3:15 and Hebrews 12:29 as support for prayer for purgatorial souls who are believed to be within an active interim state for the dead ...
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Protestantism. In general, Protestant churches reject the Catholic doctrine of purgatory although some teach the existence of an intermediate state. Many Protestant denominations, though not all, teach the doctrine of sola scriptura ("scripture alone") or prima scriptura ("scripture first").
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The Catholic Church holds that "all who die in God's grace and friendship but still imperfectly purified" undergo the process of purification which the Church calls purgatory, "so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven".
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Luke chapter 24 tells how Jesus leads the eleven disciples to Bethany, a village on the Mount of Olives, where he instructs them to remain in Jerusalem until the coming of the Holy Spirit: "And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he parted from them, and was carried up into heaven.
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In the Hebrew Bible the Book of Life—the book or muster-roll of God—records forever all people considered righteous before God. To be blotted out of this book signifies death. ... The Psalms also speaks of a book of the living: "Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.
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The main difference between Hell and Purgatory is that the Hell is a mythological place of, often eternal, suffering and Purgatory is a intermediate state for souls undergoing purification and destined for Heaven, affirmed to exist by some Christian denominations including the Roman Catholic Church.
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As for purgatory, no place in Scripture makes mention thereof, neither must we any way allow it; for it darkens and undervalues the grace, benefits, and merits of our blessed, sweet Saviour Christ Jesus.
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Armageddon, (probably Hebrew: “Hill of Megiddo”), in the New Testament, place where the kings of the earth under demonic leadership will wage war on the forces of God at the end of history. Armageddon is mentioned in the Bible only once, in the Revelation to John, or the Apocalypse of St. John (16:16).
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Catholics teach that Jesus died to redeem man from sin. They believe in immortality and that in death a person may be judged to go to Heaven, Hell, or Purgatory. ... If the death was expected, the priest may have already attended the person and performed the last rites, or final prayers and ministrations preceding death.
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Purgatory is often depicted as a mountain mostly due to Dante's Divine Comedy, but it is also sometimes depicted as a middle realm between Heaven and Hell or a level beneath Hell. In most instances, Purgatory is simply seen as a type of limbo perhaps suspended between the upper and lower realms of Heaven and Hell.
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In Canto III, the souls tortured here are the OPPORTUNISTS, they are those who did not take sides when they were still alive. In their afterlife, they were not claimed by heavens nor by hell and escorted by the fallen (angels) whom in the battle between God and Lucifer did not also take sides. They are the castaways.
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Medieval theologians accepted the association of purgatory with fire. Thus the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas considered it probable that purgatory was situated close to hell, so that the same fire that tormented the damned cleansed the just souls in purgatory.
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Content. In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: And then will I profess unto them, I never. knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
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The Bible says that the last day of the Feast of Tabernacles is on the 21st of the 7th month, according to the Hebrew calendar. This day was important because it also represents the end of the reign of Christ on earth that lasted 1000 years.
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The King James Version of Chapter 3, Verse 16 of the New Testament's Gospel of John, simply referred to as John 3:16, reads: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
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Matthew 5:17 is the 17th verse of the fifth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament and is part of the Sermon on the Mount. One of the most debated verses in the gospel, this verse begins a new section on Jesus and the Torah, where Jesus discusses the Law and the Prophets.
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John 17:22-23; Ephesians 4:11-13; Romans 8:29-30. Yom Kippur, or the Day of Atonement represents the Day of Judgment prophetically. One Yom Kippur to come, it will be the final day of judgment when every person's destiny will be sealed for all eternity.