Is Purgatory Real?

 The Saints in Purgatory

Are there really people who are not good enough, nor wicked enough, but are in some sort of limbo as to their final reward from Jesus?

We would then have to believe that there is some world or place where these people are being held. To what end? So they can make up their minds sitting around for hundreds of years? Can the living pray them into heaven?

Those last two questions should be quickl
y answered by Christians. We are given one life, then the judgement.

Hebrews 9:27–28 (NKJV): "And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment, so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation."

There is absolutely not a single verse in The Bible that says anyone has a second chance after death. There is not a single verse in The Bible that says the living can pray a dead person into heaven. There is not one verse anywhere in The Bible that says we can suffer for our dead loved ones to get them saved.

It would take a very long time to list and quote every verse, however, that says the dead know nothing and the wicked are destroyed at the Second Coming.

The wicked, those who have rejected the salvation of Jesus, have only one reward waiting: Eternal death.

Unfortunately, there are those in high religious places that deceive many with these false teaching. Even asking for money to help the process along.

Every Christian who reads The Bible should be able to discern the truth on these matters.

You cannot buy your way into heaven.

You cannot buy a loved one into heaven.

You cannot pray a dead person into heaven.

You cannot do any deed to make a dead person worthy of heaven.

Once a person dies, there is nothing left for any human, dead or alive, to do for that dead person. Their fate rests with Jesus.

If we look back on the parable of The Rich Man and Lazarus, even if you try and use that to come up with some type of pergatory, remember what Abraham said in that story: The fate of a person that dies is sealed. There is no second chance.