In I Corinthians 15:22, God promised that He will recover every life He has ever created from the regions of the dead. In I Corinthians 15:26, God promised to destroy death itself, not living humans. In order to do this, God must separate all life from all death. In I Corinthians 15:27-28, God promised that "all things" will be made subject to Christ's rule. Since God created "all things," then God must recover and recreate all that He ever created that has been temporarily lost to the Devil. I Corinthians 15:35-43 refers to the various resurrections of all humans, some with celestial bodies meaning those saved by grace who will live in heaven, and some with terrestrial bodies, meaning those recreated humans who will live on a recreated earth. I Corinthians 15:44-49 refers specifically to the resurrections of all humans saved by grace since God will provide spiritual bodies like that of Christ's only to His recreated believers who will live with Him in heaven. I Corinthians 15:50 relates that all earthly bodies must die and return to the earth from which God created them. God will recreate the bodies of all humans based on their DNA record, not their earthly forms. I Corinthians 15:51-57 relates that particular resurrection called the Rapture of the Church. Since "this corruptible must put on incorruption," then the dead bodies of all living saints must be left behind when the Church rises to meet the Lord in the air. Only the incorruptible, recreated, spiritual bodies of the saints will rise to meet the Lord in the air.
God will provide a better salvation and a more abundant life to all who receive salvation by His grace. John 10:10. Saints saved by grace receive the everlasting life and righteousness of Christ Himself as a gift from God, thus becoming joint heirs with Christ and an inheritance with Him in heaven. John 3:16; II Corinthians 5:21; Romans 8:7. God will save by grace all who possess enough spiritual sense to realize that God loves them so much that He sacrificed Himself to save them. God provides salvation by grace to all who will repent of their sins and put their faith in Christ while still in the flesh and heavily burdened with sin. God has also promised that all His saints saved by grace will retain their former identities and most of their former personalities when He recreates their souls and spirits at the moment they believe and are "born again." Matthew 16:24-25.
All those who refuse God's spiritual salvation will be judged by Christ immediately following their physical deaths. Christ will judge spiritual believers only for their unconfessed, fleshly sins. God has forgiven and forgotten all their spiritual sins because He has already washed them away with the blood of Christ. Hebrews 9:27. Only Christ possesses the authority to judge unbelievers. John 5:22. For this reason, Christians should never judge anyone. Matthew 7:1. Christ will consign the souls and spirits of unbelievers to one of the three regions of the dead because their lives will still be filthy with sin. All judgment belongs solely to Christ, but as a general rule, unbelievers who have led good and moral lives, Christ will consign to that region called "the sea," which will also contain the cleansed sins of believers. Micah 7:19; Revelation 20:13. Unbelievers who have led carnal lives, Christ will consign to that empty region called "death." or the abyss, where they will suffer remorse and anguish for their sins. Christ will also consign the carnal nature of believers to this region until remorse causes them to repent of their fleshly sins. Luke 12:46; Matthew 24:51; Matthew 25:30. But Christ will retain their cleansed spirits and souls in heaven until they repent of their fleshly sins so that Christ can recreate their cleansed bodies to be rejoined with their souls and spirits in heaven. Believers who serve Christ well and who daily repent of their fleshly sins will not suffer this punishment. The worst of humanity who hate God and who practice deliberate rebellion and evil, Christ will consign to that region called "hell' where they will be tormented by flames for their cruelty and inhumanity. Revelation 20:13. But even the worst humans will retain some goodness and life which God will recover in the general resurrection.
In the general resurrection, faithful Jews will retain most of their former identities and personalities when God recreates them. Carnal unbelievers will lose most of their former identities and personalities when God recreates the goodness and life that He put into them when He first created them. What little goodness that is left in the rebellious humans in hell, God will recover to be recreated, but their goodness will be so widely scattered throughout the recreated human race that they will lose all of their former identities and personalities. Matthew 16:25.
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