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You've not missed the passages, as they aren't there. The original manuscripts do not allude to anything even remotely like this doctrine. What you've heard is ( in its' modern day form ) only held by Roman Catholicism.

BTW, neither of the two common Catholic Bibles even contain the word purgatory.

Thgis doctrine is very definitely spurious; it disagrees with the Biblical position that once a person dies, their opportunities on Earth cease; once dead, the next event is always the judgement of their deeds ( Hebrews 9 : 27 ), not having any further, or other, opportunities. That's why one must choose "yes or no" to the question of salvation through Jesus Christ ( alone ) : there simply is no after-life second-chance

option in God's plan. ( Why would there be ? Anyone who had been to the "other side" would choose to be redeemed, after seeing what the options really looked like ! That's a no- brainer !! ) We are all judged ( unless the penalty has been paid for by Christ ) on our own decision. ( That precludes any possibility of anyone else "praying us into heaven", since that would be (A) through someone else's decision, and (B) through human intervention ( as opposed to our free will, the all-important deciding factor ). God offers to pay the debt - each individual absolutely must choose to accept or decline for him/herself.

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