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Fr Ambrose:
But if someone’s work is burned up, that one will suffer loss; the person will be saved, but only as through fire.
1Cor. 3:15
In this you rejoice, although now for a little while you may have to suffer through various trials, so that the genuineness of your faith, more precious than gold that is perishable even though tested by fire, may prove to be for praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
1 Pet 1:6-7.
As you can see, the scriptures attest to the cleansing fire that burns the dross out of the gold.
Sure there is a “cleansing fire”. In paragraph I quoted, the Catechism gives this footnote for the “cleansing fire" : Cf. 1 Cor 3:15; 1 Pet 1:7.So now there *IS *a purifying fire …
But if someone’s work is burned up, that one will suffer loss; the person will be saved, but only as through fire.
1Cor. 3:15
In this you rejoice, although now for a little while you may have to suffer through various trials, so that the genuineness of your faith, more precious than gold that is perishable even though tested by fire, may prove to be for praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
1 Pet 1:6-7.
As you can see, the scriptures attest to the cleansing fire that burns the dross out of the gold.