This is where we remember the Poor Souls in Purgatory (those who are suffering for a time to cleanse all leftover impurities, and afterwards will go to heaven).
While the exact word "Purgatory" is nowhere mentioned in the Bible, here are several references.
1 Corinthians 3:15 (Paul mentions a place where the soul is saved "yet only as through fire")
Hebrews 12:23 (The Church of the firstborn are those who go straight to heaven, and those who go to Heaven after undergoing purgation, "the spirits of the just made perfect.")
2 Maccabees 12:46: "It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from sins."
Try to challenge THAT, heretics!
While the exact word "Purgatory" is nowhere mentioned in the Bible, here are several references.
1 Corinthians 3:15 (Paul mentions a place where the soul is saved "yet only as through fire")
Hebrews 12:23 (The Church of the firstborn are those who go straight to heaven, and those who go to Heaven after undergoing purgation, "the spirits of the just made perfect.")
2 Maccabees 12:46: "It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from sins."
Try to challenge THAT, heretics!

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