It seems to me that your interpretation thinks a field of earth can be saved with the foundation of Jesus the Messiah but not a man. It seems to me that your view would cling to a personal interpretation of a small portion of First Corinthians, while ignoring and or denying the same author's words elsewhere.
“It seems to me that your interpretation thinks a field of earth can be saved with the foundation of Jesus the Messiah but not a man.”
If you do not understand the use of word pictures, then you cannot understand Paul - or Jesus. If you see a man planting a field and think, “That man is planting himself!”, then we have no way to communicate.
“a personal interpretation of a small portion of First Corinthians, while ignoring and or denying the same author’s words elsewhere. “
Nope. But if you want to know what Paul meant by “building” in 1 Cor 3, the best place to look IS 1 Cor 3, where Paul defines it:
“After all, who is Apollos? And who is Paul? We are simply God’s servants, by whom you were led to believe. Each one of us does the work which the Lord gave him to do: 6 I planted the seed, Apollos watered the plant, but it was God who made the plant grow...
...You are also God’s building. 10 Using the gift that God gave me, I did the work of an expert builder and laid the foundation, and someone else is building on it.”
So - is Paul talking about himself? Or is he writing “To the church of God which is in Corinth, to all who are called to be God’s holy people, who belong to him in union with Christ Jesus, together with all people everywhere who worship our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours...”
Very clear. That he uses a different word picture 3 chapters later to make a different point is irrelevant, since he tells us who is the field, and who is the building he is describing in 1 Cor 3 IN 1 Cor 3!
Associating 1 Cor 3 with purgatory makes no sense even if someone believes in Purgatory, but then, someone who believes in Purgatory is rejecting the entire New Testament, which utterly and completely rejects the idea that Christians are “imperfectly purified” and need to pay the penalty of their own sins through suffering and pain.
The Good News is this:
16 For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not die but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to be its judge, but to be its savior.
18 Those who believe in the Son are not judged; but those who do not believe have already been judged, because they have not believed in God’s only Son. - John 3