1 Cor 10:15 describes what happens when the final cleansing or purging of our sins happens before we enter heaven. Purge, hence the name Catholics have come up with Purge-atory…Purgatory.
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You should get a new bible. The one you have is defective.
And once again, you ares wrong in your assumption.The book of Maccabees is held as canonical scripture by the Catholic, Orthodox, and Oriental Orthodox churches (except for the Orthodox Tewahedo)
I looked this up at Wikipedia and I’m confused. Is there actual historical evidence of the Maccabees, or do all that is known of the conflicts come from stories in the Bible?
Neither is the account of Mary’s appearance in Fatima to three children. She showed the children a vision of hell and those suffering in it. She said many people go to hell because they have no one to sacrifice for them and pray for their conversion.
The Blessed Mother was also asked whether two village girls who had recently died were in heaven. Mary replied one was, but the other was in Purgatory.
One need not be a religious scholar or perfect person, but faith and practice is necessary.
Neither hell nor a purgatory is a place apart from the present moment. These are lifestates, not different places. Even faith as tiny as a mustard seed has the potential to grow into salvation with practice. Calling forth faith and practice even in a hellish state, an animal state or a state of anger or even a heavenly state of rapture or theoretical awakening, can lead to the stage of non-retrogression, where, no matter the degrees of hell and suffering, or animality, if strong faith and practice is maintained, one can reach the stage of non-retrogression.
By analogy a person learning to drive a car only in an empty parking lot, is not yet ready for difficulty of driving on a speeding highway. One must be tested against adversity.
Otherwise the term “purgatory,” is just a term with expedient meaning.