[Mrs. Don-o]

"If it is burned up, the builder will suffer loss but yet will be saved—even though only as one escaping through the flames." Yes, of course I'm familiar with that: but you said that's in "eternity," which it is not. There are no flames, no suffering, no punishment in eternity for the saved; that is for the damned.

The temporary, NON-eternal flames you (rightly) speak of, purifying the saved soul, are in some NON-eternal place or state. It is a place or state of purification. Which is the exact meaning of the term we use, "purgatory."

[aMorePerfectUnion]

The temporary, NON-eternal flames you (rightly) speak of, purifying the saved soul, are in some NON-eternal place or state. It is a place or state of purification. Which is the exact meaning of the term we use, "purgatory."

We only disagree on the "purifying the soul" and that it happens in eternity.

I say this because it is the actual works that are judged by flame and not the soul.

The believer now has a new nature, the life of Christ and is a tabernacle of the Holy Spirit. All because he has the righteousness of Christ imputed to him at the moment of saving faith.

I wish you well friend.