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'Saved as through fire' is an idiom/analogy, not a description of a purifying fire experience

Responding to Catholic Apologists on Purgatory 00:19:31 – 00:20:35

Addressing the specific phrase Catholics emphasize in v. 15

The phrase 'saved yet so as through fire' means escaping largely unharmed while things around you burn — like someone whose house catches fire but who themselves escape without injury. The phrase is pulled out of its sentence context by Catholics to imply the person passes through fire. But the sentence says: 'his work is burned... he himself will be saved.' The person never gets burned — only the works do.
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@Balduc13679 The church in AD 200 looks very very different from the Roman Catholic Church of today. And there was none of the teachings about purgatory, the literal presence of Christ in the elements, teachings about Mary and the righteous acts of t...

@Balduc13679 The church in AD 200 looks very very different from the Roman Catholic Church of today. And there was none of the teachings about purgatory, the literal presence of Christ in the elements

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Responding to Catholic Apologists on Purgatory @ 00:19:31

2018-03-21

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