This assumes human souls are like machines, with interchangeable parts,
God is a refiner, a restorer, a fixed.
Verses that relate to refining, purification, etc:
Malachi 3:2-3 esv
But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears?
For he is like a refiner's fire and like fullers' soap.
3 He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver,
and he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, and they will bring offerings in righteousness to the Lord.
1 John 3:3 esv
And everyone who thus hopes in him
purifies himself as he is pure.
Mark 9:49
For everyone will be salted with
fire.
Hebrews 1:3 ESV
He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power.
After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
Zechariah 13:9
And I will put this third into the fire,
and
refine them as one refines silver,
and
test them as gold is tested.
They will call upon my name,
and I will answer them.
I will say, ‘They are my people’;
and they will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’”
1 Peter 1:7 esv
So that the tested genuineness of your faith—
more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Isaiah 1:25 esv
I will turn my hand against you and will
smelt away your dross as with lye and remove all your alloy.
Isaiah 48:10 esv
Behold, I have
refined you, but not as silver; I have tried you in the
furnace of affliction
Psalm 66:10 esv
For you, O God, have tested us; you have tried us
as silver is tried.
Proverbs 17:3 esv
The
crucible is for silver, and the
furnace is for gold, and the Lord tests hearts.
Job 23:10 esv
But he knows the way that I take; when he has tried me, I shall come out as
gold.
Jeremiah 9:7 esv
Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts: “Behold, I will
refine them and test them, for what else can I do, because of my people?
Jeremiah 6:29 esv
The bellows blow fiercely; the lead is consumed by the
fire; in vain
the refining goes on, for the wicked are not removed.
Proverbs 25:4 esv
Take away the dross from the silver, and the smith has material for a vessel
Revelation 19:20 YLT
and the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who did the signs before him, in which he led astray those who did receive the mark of the beast, and those who did bow before his image; living they were cast -- the two --
to the lake of the fire, that is burning with brimstone
2 Corinthians 3:18 esv
And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord,
are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.
Revelation 20:10 YLT
and the Devil, who is leading them astray, was cast into
the lake of fire and brimstone, where [are] the beast and the false prophet, and they shall be tormented day and night -- to the ages of the ages.
Revelation 3:18 esv
I counsel you to buy from me
gold refined by fire, so that you may be rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself and the shame of your nakedness may not be seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, so that you may see.
1 Peter 5:10 esv
And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in
Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.
Titus 2:14 esv
Who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to
purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.
Ezekiel 22:18-22 esv
Son of man, the house of Israel has become
dross to me; all of them are
bronze and tin and iron and lead in the furnace; they are dross of silver. Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you have all become
dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem
. As one gathers silver and bronze and iron and lead and tin into a furnace, to blow the fire on it in order to melt it, so I will gather you in my anger and in my wrath, and I will put you in and melt you. I will gather you and blow on you with the fire of my wrath, and you shall be melted in the midst of it. As
silver is melted in a furnace, so you shall be melted in the midst of it, and you shall know that I am the Lord; I have poured out my wrath upon you.”
(Note: The Book of Ezekiel was written five or six hundred years before Christ appeared. Again, notice how various authors of scripture all say the same things. That is because of God!)
Psalm 12:6 esv
The words of the Lord are pure words
, like silver refined in a furnace on the ground,
purified seven times.
Revelation 14:10 esv
He also will drink the wine of God's wrath, poured full strength into the cup of his anger, and he will be
tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.
