Ezekiel 47:11

The problem with the Dead Sea is not its salt. Salt is a good thing. The problem is that there is no life. In the *vision, God cured that problem. But he did not remove all the salt.

In the Bible, salt is sometimes a word picture. It seems to mean the good qualities that make some people different from other people (Mark 9:50). When God works in a person’s life, God cures that person’s bad state. But God does not remove the person’s own qualities. Instead, God uses those qualities for his own, good purposes.