If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them
into the fire, and they are burned. John 15:6
I don’t see any
judging works narrative in this statement from Christ, I only see in Christ or not.
The person
himself is thrown into the fire, not his “works”.
It’s hard to imagine throwing a withered branch into a fire and it not burning.
Burn here in the Greek, “burned” refers to being
set on fire. It’s clear the person who is removed from Christ,
has returned to the former state where he was before being in Christ, and is cast into the fire and burned whereas the verse you are referring to pertains to “works” being tested by fire.
Set on fire is a reference to hell.
And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is so set among our members
that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and
it is set on fire by hell.
James 3:6
Paul said the same thing in 1 Corinthians 3 —-
- If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him.
If anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.
Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are. 1 Corinthians 3:15-17
JLB