[annalex]

I think it would benefit every Protestant to have a prayerful conversation with St Paul.

The clear meaning of his words are talking about more reward or less reward and have nothing to do with salvation.

Correct, it says that both those with hay and stubble are saved and those with only stone and precious metal are saved. But it also speak that those with hay and stubble get the hay and stubble purged from them by fire. That is what Purgatory is.

[CynicalBear]

>>I think it would benefit every Protestant to have a prayerful conversation with St Paul.<<

Paul is dead. We are told not to contact the dead.

>>But it also speak that those with hay and stubble get the hay and stubble purged from them by fire. That is what Purgatory is.<<

No, that's not what purgatory is. There is no purgatory or purging time. That's all a figment of the imaginations of the Catholic Church.

[metmom]

That’s not what the Catholic church teaches nor is it what you claimed earlier.

You said it was a purifying of the soul from sins.

The judgment of the quality of our works is not the purifying of the soul from sin.