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At the end of Mark IX, it mentions how everyone will be seasoned with fire and every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt. In verse L, the Bible tells us to have salt in ourselves and be at peace with one another. In context, does salt refer to encouragement for believers? What is the sacrifice refering to? Any thoughts?
Paul mentions that everyone's works will be tested with fire to see if they endure. Is this what it means to be seasoned with fire? Any thoughts?
These are very good questions. Here are my initial thoughts. When Jesus says 'you are the salt of the earth,' He is speaking about the life of the new man in the Holy Spirit which has those same qualities that salt has: it preserves things from going rotten, it promotes healing, and it makes things tasty. This is what the Christian is to be in the world.
As for the connection between fire and that salt, I think the fire is the trials and difficulties we go through, which form Christ in us more and more. So as we submit to the fires of tribulation and allow the Holy Spirit to do His work in us, we become more "salty", i.e. more beneficial to the world around us.
The testing by fire which Paul speaks of in 1 Cor. 3, he says is to reveal the quality of each one's work at the end. So this fire is not so much formative, but more final, to show how much we allowed God to form Christ in us through the troubles we endured in our lives.