One question remains: When does God forgive sins of weakness? In Mark 11:25, Jesus commanded His believers to forgive the sins of weakness of others who have wronged them whether they ask for it or not. God would never ask humans to do that which He would not do Himself. Therefore, one must conclude that God has already forgiven all of man's sins of weakness from the fall of Adam and Eve to forever. God displayed great compassion toward Adam and Eve when He visited them in the garden after they sinned. This means God had to have already forgiven them and by extension all mankind. In John 8:11, Jesus forgave the woman taken in adultery even though she never asked Him for it. Jesus often forgave others before they asked. This fact can only mean that sinners do not repent and believe in order to obtain forgiveness from God. They repent and believe because they have already been forgiven by God. Romans 2:4. God's predetermined forgiveness could account for all of His foreknowledge and predestination.
But God's forgiveness, by itself, does not save humans from sin. Forgiveness must be combined with cleansing from sin for men to be saved. Hebrews 9:22. God has accomplished that cleansing in two ways, by the blood and water that Jesus shed on the cross and by His cleansing fire when Jesus left all of the sins of all men not already saved by grace behind Him when He rose from the dead. Christ had to have left all of these sins behind in hell because He rose immaculate from the dead. Matthew 3:11-12.
Jesus washes the sins of believers saved by grace into the sea of forgetfulness and raises their souls and spirits to heaven when they die. But the rest of mankind descend into one of the regions of the dead following their physical deaths. Hebrews 9:27; Revelation 20:13. At the Great White Throne Judgment in the end of the world, God will raise the living parts of these dead that belong to Him and recreate them. John 5:28-29; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5. God will burn up their sins of weakness with His consuming fire, and consign their deliberate and rebellious sins, which are totally dead and evil, to the lake of fire forever. In this way, God will forever separate the goodness and life in man that He created from its spiritual death injected into man by the Devil. I Corinthians 3:12-15; Revelation 20:15.
God had to create the history of man because when Lucifer rebelled against God, it brought God's Love into question. How could Lucifer rebel when he knew that God loved him with an infinite Love? God dissolved Lucifer's system, recovered all of His goodness that He had put into him, and cast the totally evil part of him to the earth. Ezekiel 28:14-19. God created man to test His Love and prove that it can never fail. I Corinthians 13:8. For this reason, God had to allow Satan to do his worst to mankind in order to prove that His Love can pass even the most severe test. The book of Job. The Devil's aim was to use total evil to permanently ruin the life and goodness of man to prove that God's Love can fail. God passed His test when He allowed Himself to be nailed to a cruel cross to suffer man's permanent ruin in man's place to rescue all of the life of mankind from permanent ruin by the Devil. God also proved that He cannot be ruined by the Devil when He rose immaculate from the dead. I John 3:8.
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