Tim Staples' argument: 'you can't separate the person from the works' — and Mike's rebuttal

Tim Staples (Catholic Answers) argues philosophically that since works are inseparable from the person, if the works go through the fire, so does the person. Mike responds that this is not a Bible argument — it overrides what the text explicitly says. The passage throughout separates 'the work' from 'the person' as two distinct subjects. Staples is telling the text what it cannot say.