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In a recent post, I compared our temporal world with God’s spiritual world. These two worlds are clearly different. Today I want to develop that a bit more. Specifically, I want to explore the interface…..the transition…..between the temporal and the spiritual worlds.

We all believe in death. Most of us believe in an afterlife. As a Christian, I believe in the paradise described in the Bible. The dominant religions…….Islam, Judaism, and Christianity………agree in general that paradise is real. In that vein, my Bible reading from yesterday is causing me some trouble. I ran across a line that jumped out at me. Jesus is talking about getting rid of things that might be problematic after we die. He gives several examples of removing a body part that is incompatible with paradise.

This is repeated three times…….so it is very important.

The lesson is this: paradise is so important that it is worth making a big temporal sacrifice to reach an eternal spiritual paradise.

“if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into the hell of fire.”

Jesus, ESV

This is clearly a metaphor. Jesus is not looking for a bunch of one-eyed Christians.

The passage that I’m struggling with follows these three metaphors. It jumps out at me because it just doesn’t seem to fit.

“Everyone will be salted with fire “

Jesus, ESV

It is important………because Jesus said it.

The first point is that whatever this transition at death process is……it will be universal……..nobody gets a pass……whether you are a believer…….or not.

Salt is good. It adds flavor, it preserves, it is essential for life. It is repeatedly used in the Bible as a metaphor for correct Christian living. We are taught to be the salt of the earth. To extend the metaphor, paradise………and everyone in it…….. will be “salty”. This is different from this temporal world and that implies a change…….a transition.

Fire?………not so much. Fire is destructive. It is painful……sometimes lethal. In specific applications it is useful. One of those is purification. We use it to cook our food and destroy germs. We use it to refine metals. In this verse, “fire” is the tool……the vehicle…….of transition………of purification.

When will this salting occur? It could be during our earthly lives. I can say that many events in my life have felt like being “salted with fire”. But, most people think that this will occur at or after our death.

“Everyone will be salted with fire”………..purified with fire.

What troubles me is the specifics of the process of purification by fire. Is this real fire that we must pass through to reach paradise……..sort of “hell light”……..AKA purgatory? Or is this purely metaphorical……..we walk into the light, meet Jesus and, in the blink of an eye, all of the bad that is in us………every last one of us…….is gone.

Or is it something in between?

I don’t know. Even the major religions can’t agree.

The lesson that I can take from this is that I will be a very different man……in paradise……..from the man I am now. There are many things that are a part of my life……every day…….that will have no place in paradise. And that transition…..that purification……..will be uncomfortable…….possibly even painful……..whether the “fire” is literal or metaphorical.

What to do?

It’s pretty basic. If I can begin the transition…….the purification…….now, at age 69, the adjustment at my death will be less of a shock.

I will, of course, fail. I doubt that I will come close to cleaning out every corner of my life. But every cobweb that I can knock down now will mean less “fire” later.

But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false

John, ESV

For this is why the gospel was preached even to those who are dead, that though judged in the flesh the way people are, they might live in the spirit the way God does.

Peter, ESV

Each one’s work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done.

Paul, ESV

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.” And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.”

God, ESV

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