Anyone else wants to answer the question put to Van?
He believes Matthew 5:22-26 is NOT about saved believers because that would mean they were cast into hell, but he is wrong about them being cast into hell itself when they are being cast, as in left behind on earth when that fiery calamity comes on the earth that Jesus will send in Luke 12:40-49 for not being ready. Van is avoiding Matthew 18:21-35 when this is the same as Matthew 5:22-26 where Jesus is repeating this warning again but in more detail in that same book of Matthew.
Therefore that casting out & hell fire translated from Gehenna is not the lake of fire but the fire that is coming on the earth as Peter warned of in 2 Peter 3:3-14. Is not Gehenna as the valley of Hinnon described in Revelation 18:1-25 of the unburied bodies in the land of flames when one third of the earth is burned up ( Revelation 8:7 )?. is there not a casting out of unrepentant saints in the bed of the great tribulation in Revelation 2:18-25? Did not the fall of Babylon in Revelation 18:1-25 happened after the rapture when the 3 angels sets up the hour of temptation that shall try all upon the earth? Revelation 14:1-11
So Matthew 5:22-26 is not about loss of salvation, but loss of being a part of the firstfruits of the resurrection thus left behind from attending the Marriage Supper in Heaven, but will be resurrected after the great tribulation after Satan is defeated & put in the pit for a thousand years per Revelation 20:1-6. When they die after being left behind; they are with the Lord. Revelation 7:13-17 as Paul confirms below.
2 Corinthians 5:7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight
8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. 9 Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him. 10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. 11 Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences. KJV