We are in the confines of obamaville.
PLEASE! Repent and believe the Gospel...before it is too late.
Purgatory would imply we are being purged of our sins.
I see no evidence of this.
Jesus Christ spoke more about Hell than anyone else in the Holy Bible. You would not be wasting your time to see what He had to say about the place—and not in a metaphorical way; He spoke of it as a totally real and extremely unpleasant location that He visited once.
Try reading the first four books of the New Testament for more authoritative information. Thanks.
Hell is not eternal if one asks God for forgiveness and/or help. Dante was correct.
“By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.” —Psalm 137:1
Isn’t living on earth a little bit between heaven and hell? Its like a purgatory down here already. It would feel a whole lot better in the absence of leftists and other assorted cretins mucking up the planet.
Obviously, none of the above; we live in neither Heaven, nor hell, nor ‘purgatory’.
By His nature, God is perfect and cannot allow imperfection (sin) in His presence. Therefore, life on this is not Heaven. (Genesis 3:17-18: To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.”; Romans 8:22: “For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now.”)
Hell is the absence of God. There is no beauty, love, light, etc. in hell. Therefore, this is not hell. (Several descriptions of hell: 2 Thessalonians 1:9: They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might; Matthew 22:13: “Then the king told the attendants, ‘Tie him hand and foot, and throw him outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
God’s glory reflected in the earth: Psalm 19:1: The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.; Psalm 8:1: Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory in the heavens.)
‘Purgatory’ is a creation of the Roman Catholic church from the late 11th century. On the cross, Jesus told the thief who acknowledged Him as Lord that, “Amen, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise.” (Luke 23:43). This repentant thief claimed his guilt so, if he had to suffer in ‘purgatory’, I do not understand how Jesus could then have said what He said. (Incidentally, this verse also shows that salvation is through faith and that works follow from allowing Jesus to live through you.)