Of course Christ freed us from the wages of our sin and Adam's -- the pains of hell and just punishment.
But purification "yet so as by fire" - does it not make sense? God's justice is such that no fault or flaw - the tiniest little sin - can stand in His presence.
15 posted on 05/25/2008 4:52:25 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother
(Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))