Does the bible talk about Purgatory anywhere? Response Provided by Joe Wade

The Bible makes it clear that salvation is available through Jesus Christ alone.

Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.  (Acts 4:12)

Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”  (John 14:6)

Jesus Christ, through His death and resurrection, has paid for our sins.

He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.  (1 John 2:2)

And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.  (Hebrews 10:10)

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace.  (Ephesians 1:7)

The Bible also makes it clear that we are not saved by anything that we do.

Know that a person is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ.  So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.  (Galatians 2:16)

For we maintain that a person is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.  (Romans 3:28)

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith — and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God — not by works, so that no one can boast.  (Ephesians 2:8,9)

There are a number of false gospels that the Bible speaks against.  One of those false gospels is the teaching that people are partly saved by Jesus, and partly saved by their own good works.  Some of the organizations that are teaching this false gospel are the Catholic Church, the Mormon Church, and the Jehovah’s Witnesses.

In accordance with their false teaching about salvation, the Catholic Church has presented the idea of Purgatory.  This is the idea that people, after they die, are sent to a place between earth and heaven, where they can continue to pay for their own salvation.  However, Purgatory is a false teaching, and did not come from the Bible.  The Catholic Church adopted the idea of Purgatory from ancient pagan traditions.

The Bible teaches us that we can only be saved by putting our faith in the sacrifice of Jesus Christ as payment for our sins.

But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify.  This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe.  There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.   God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement, through the shedding of his blood — to be received by faith.  (Romans 3:21-25)

If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.  For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.  As Scripture says, “Anyone who believes in him will never be put to shame.”  (Romans 10:9-11)

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.  (John 3:16)