I mentioned previously that I believed the salt was a symbol for religious sacrifice and the salt that loses its saltiness is the religious sacrifice that loses its holiness, such as the people who think the vaccine is the mark of the beast, the people who encourage disobedience to health protocols in the name of their religion, and the people who promote hurting security guards in the name of religion.
Now comes the question, what makes a religious practice lose its holiness? I believe a religious practice loses its holiness, when the religious practice loses its justice, so salt is more than just a symbol for religious sacrifice, it’s also a symbol for justice.
The salt that loses its saltiness is the justifier who loses his justification or his justifying behaviour or his justice.
To be salted with fire then, is to be justified with fire.
Whether the fire represents conscience, remorse, guilt, hard work, sacrifice, suffering, pain, humiliation, struggle, cleansing, or the sacrifice of Jesus on our behalf, is something I have not fully figured out yet,
But I do know that nobody on earth enjoys putting their hand in front of a fully lit fire because fire causes pain and discomfort.
So I would to salted with fire is to justified through difficulty, whether that difficulty involves pain or fear or the sacrifice of Jesus without our own imitation of his suffering, I have not figured out yet.
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