In the end of the world, God will use His consuming fire to separate all of the total evil and deadness of all men within the regions of the dead from their lives and goodness that He put into them when He created them so that He can recreate them. God will have already saved and recreated all men saved by His grace. Christ cleansed all believers saved by His grace with His shed blood and water on the cross, but God does not activate this salvation until the Holy Spirit baptizes the repentant believer into the Body of Christ. I Corinthians 12:13. To a similar degree, Christ has already left behind all the sins of all men not saved by grace in the fires of hell, but God does not activate this separation and salvation from sin until the end of the world. I Corinthians 3:12-15; John 5:28-29; John 5:24; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5.
Man's sin exists on three levels at the same time. In the end, God will separate all of the total evil and spiritual deadness from mankind and cast it into the lake of fire which is the second death. The second death constitutes the destruction of the first death. I Corinthians 15:26; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:8; Revelation 22:11-12. God will forgive and cleanse all of man's sins of weakness that man has allowed to sully the life and goodness that God put into man when He created him. God will forgive and cleanse these sins of weakness either by Christ's shed blood and water or by God's consuming fire. The deliberate and rebellious sin that the Devil injected into man compels him to commit sins of weakness. Deep within man's heart, he realizes this truth and strives with futility to free himself from the totally destructive effects of rebellious sin. This helpless struggle activates God's Love and compassion for man which has caused God to do that which is necessary to save man. God equates man's deliberate sin with total evil and will cast it into the lake of fire, but God will forgive and save the goodness and life of man that man allowed to become sullied by rebellious sin. I Peter 1:18-19; I Corinthians 3:12-15. God will also honor the self-sacrificial love within man which lacks the power to save himself by providing for man's salvation through the all-powerful life, death, and resurrection of His Son. Genesis 1:27; Genesis 3:15; Genesis 3:20-21.
Most humans display some aspects of all three levels of Adam and Eve's sins in their lives. At the highest level, humans will sacrifice themselves for family or country. But this highest level does not seem to exist in the sociopath. At the middle level, all humans have committed some sins of weakness as when two unmarried lovers give in to temptation. Most addictions are caused by sins of weakness. At the lowest level, some humans give up on God and decide to become deliberately cruel and evil, as with Nazis and most criminals. God always forgives sins of weakness, but God never forgives rebellious sins because these are totally evil and dead and allied with Satan. God will use His consuming fire to separate all total evil from the lives of every human not saved by grace and cast it into the lake of fire in the end of the world. Revelation 20:11-15. God washes the sins of believers saved by grace into the sea of forgetfulness, but God will also eliminate this sea by a means not specified. Revelation 21:1.
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