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Purgatory is a holding cell after death that is not at all supported by Scripture.

After death comes the judgment for your deeds in this life. There is no such intermediate place after you die where you can somehow escape judgment.

But if you’ve received Christ, you’ve already been judged with him and have died with him, so there’s nothing left for those in Christ except for salvation and eternal life.

But if you’ve received Christ, you’ve already been judged with him and have died with him, so there’s nothing left for those in Christ except for salvation and eternal life.

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“Purgatory is a holding cell after death that is not at all supported by Scripture.”

The prison of the patriarchs is. Thus, there can be others that are not mentioned. Also, Purgatory is supported by scripture. Most Protestants simply refuse to accept scripture as scripture.

“After death comes the judgment for your deeds in this life. There is no such intermediate place after you die where you can somehow escape judgment.”

Purgatory is not an “intermediate place” anymore than Bosom of Abraham or the Prison of the Patriarchs. Everyone in Purgatory has been judged. They will all go to Heaven.

“But if you’ve received Christ, you’ve already been judged with him and have died with him, so there’s nothing left for those in Christ except for salvation and eternal life.”

There is also obedience.

But if you’ve received Christ, you’ve already been judged with him and have died with him, so there’s nothing left for those in Christ except for salvation and eternal life.

And now we can see why and how Catholicism has perverted the gospel of grace - there's no money pouring in if you no longer have indulgences, funeral Masses, alms giving, etc. for the dead in Purgatory. How do you think St. Peter's Basilica got built?

Purgatory is a holding cell after death that is not at all supported by Scripture.

One would think that it SHOULD be mentioned close to THESE Scriptures about death; but...

Psalm 13:3
Look on me and answer, Lord my God. Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death,

Psalm 90:5
Yet you sweep people away in the sleep of death— they are like the new grass of the morning:

Daniel 12:2
Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt.

John 11:12-13
His disciples replied, “Lord, if he sleeps, he will get better.”
Jesus had been speaking of his death, but his disciples thought he meant natural sleep.

1 Corinthians 15:51-52
Listen, I tell you a mystery:

We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed—in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.

For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.

Ephesians 5:14
This is why it is said: “Wake up, sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

1 Thessalonians 4:13
Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope.