Lighthouse said:
OK, I'll do it one more time for you, but you really need to learn to sue Wikipedia
for yourself:
Hades in Christianity
Main article: Hades in Christianity
Like other 1st-century Jews literate in Greek, early Christians used the Greek word "hades" as the translation for the Hebrew word "sheol." This use appears in Luke's story of Lazarus and the rich man. Both underworlds had originally been dark and gloomy with no relation to afterlife rewards or punishments. Since the writing of the Hebrew Bible, however, the popular concept of sheol had come to include particular judgment. Thus hades was seen as a place of comfort for the righteous (in the bosom of Abraham) and torment for the wicked. Here the dead awaited the universal resurrection on Judgment Day. Early church fathers defended this view of the afterlife against the view that the soul went immediately to heaven or to hell after the death of the body[3].
The doctrine of hades exists in substantially its original Christian form in the Eastern Orthodox Church. It also exists in its Old Testament form, as the abode of the unconscious dead, in certain other denominations, such as the Jehovah's Witnesses. In mainstream Western Christianity, however, it has largely been replaced by the concept of the soul going straight to hell, heaven, or (in Roman Catholicism) purgatory.
And what about 1 John 5:7 do you deny in regards to the concept of the Trinity?
I'm a big fan of the Trinity! The statement was that the word Trinity never
appears in scripture, just like the word purgatory never appears.
Look up some of those references and you'll see how others support the
ideal of purgatory with those scriptures, just like you support Trinity with
your quoted scripture.
here's a clue, purgatory is associated with the word "purge," which means to
cleanse or purify. There's alot of references to purification in scripture, like wheat
from chaff on the threshing floor, like silver purified or refined seven times...