1 Peter 3:18 - 20
'For Christ died for sins once and for all, a good man on behalf of sinners, in order to lead you to God. He was put to death physically, but made alive spiritually and in his spiritual existence he went to preach to imprisoned spirits. These were the spirits of those who had not obeyed God when he waited patiently during the days that Noah was building his boat.
This means these imprisoned spirits could still repent, that's why he preached to them
I don't think the Bible supports that amount of inference poured into the text.
Heb 9 "
it is appointed unto man once to die - and then comes the judgment" - no second chance in death.
Peter declares that the Spirit of Christ was actively working with OT saints - in real life -- not after their death.
1 Peter 1
10 As to this salvation, the prophets who prophesied of the grace that
would come to you made careful searches and inquiries, 11 seeking to know what person or time
the Spirit of Christ within them was indicating as He predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories to follow. 12 It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves, but you, in these things which now have been announced to you through those who preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven—things into which angels long to look.
1 Peter 3
18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made
alive by the Spirit, 19
by whom also He went and preached to the spirits in prison, 20 who formerly were disobedient,
when once the Divine longsuffering waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water. 21 There is also an antitype which now saves us—baptism (not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God), through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
1 Peter 3 is very specifically talking about the work of the Spirit preaching to those who lived at the time the ark was being built by Noah with the result that 8 were SAVED and the rest perished.
No mention at all of being purged of their sins after death -- via torment and suffering - in a place called purgatory.
no mention of Jesus going some place like Purgatory "while dead to preach to spirits in purgatory waiting to be purged of their venial sins and then be transferred into Heaven".
