This was posted a few days ago also so you never know . <| sep |> Yeah . That ' s why I ' m thinking of accepting Company As offer until Company B decides . Which is an asshole move on my part . But it ' s my life and I needwant a good job . <| sep |> 3 . 5 million people ? Where ? ??<| sep |> When the stars align and the RNG gods shower your soul . <| sep |> best reliever in baseball allowed to pitch in the playoffsFTFY <| sep |> nice Pwell good luck again on the find ! <| sep |> All well and good , but is there any Biblical evidence for the existence of a pleasant purgatory ? Yes . The most chilling line is probably from Mark 9 , where Jesus is talking about cutting off your hand or cutting out your eye if they ' ll send you to hell . Talking to his twelve , he says Everyone will be salted with fire . He ' s talking about eternal torment , and presumably his most avid admirers are going to avoid that except for that one guy . Talking to them , he says that everyone will be salted with fire i . e . even those who served at his feet are going to be toasted a little bit to make them presentable in heaven . He had the option of saying that everyone who would be saved from eternal damnation would also be saved from temporal punishment . He didn ' t . He threatened his own most faithful followers that they ' d be sauteed too . edit it ' s worth noting that salting purifies and preserves , which is exactly what Jesus is going for here . To be made fully and completely ready for heaven , his followers are going to be turned into jerky . In Matthew 5 he talks about paying debts . You won ' t get out of prison until you ' ve paid the last penny i . e . even for the saved you will eventually get out of prison , there is some measure of difficulty proportional to the wrongs done . Paul has similar ideas and is more straightforward . In 1 Corinthians 3 , he talks about how everyone ' s works will be tested with fire . These are people who will survive eternal judgment , but can either receive a reward or suffer loss but still be saved . Again , salvation was won by other means but there are still questions of how much of an asshole you were . If you read the deuterocanon , II Maccabees 12 is obviously most appropriate . edit In retrospect I realize you ' re probably asking about a preChrist pleasant purgatory . In which case I should be citing Abraham ' s bosom . In 4 Maccabees , the dead esp . martyrs are received by their forefathers and praised . In Luke 16 , Lazarus is in the same place not in complete communion with god , but not in torment . edit , edit I ' ll add , this is the only way Christianity , especially Protestant Christianity , can function . Without some measure of punishment even though salvation is assured , it ' d quickly devolve into uncontrollable antinomianism . You have to know you ' re one of the good guys , but also know that you can get your shit kicked .