DOES PURGATORY EXIST?
1 Thessalonians 5:23 (AMPC) And may the God of peace Himself sanctify you through and through [separate you from profane things, make you pure and wholly consecrated to God]; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved sound and complete [and found] blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah). Dear people of God, whilst majority of Christians believe in the existence of a Heaven and a Hell, the Roman Catholics believe in a third place called Purgatory where souls unqualified to enter heaven or hell would be cleansed or purged before final entry into heaven. This doctrine is based on the premise that there are two kinds of sins, the mortal sins that qualify people to go straight to hell at death and the venial sins that qualify people to first be purified in purgatory before entry into heaven. From today’s lead Holy Bible text above, we see that every human being is a spirit, has a soul and lives in a body. Now, when a pers...