So, I was trying to get at why it appears to me that marks thinks a lack of faith in a person thousands of years ago gets them destruction but a lack of faith in a person now begets a different outcome.
John 15
1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
The branch not in Christ is gathered up and burned.
The branch in Christ that bears no fruit the Father carries away.
The branch in Christ that bears fruit is purged, cleansed, so it will bear more fruit. I see this being the person who believes, but who has lapses of faith.
The times of actively trusting God are fruitful times, and the purging is the removal of those things that are not of faith. That these are purged to produce more fruit tells us both that it is needed, and that this does not disqualify the branches.
Psalm 80
8 Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
9 Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.
Israel was God's vine. God's vintage was through Israel, and through the covenant made at Sinai. But Jesus came, the True Vine, with a new covenant.
Much love!