In John 12:47, Jesus clearly taught that He came "to save the world." He did not say that He came only to save some humans by His grace out of the world. The word "world" in the Greek means "the ordered arrangement of the cosmos, including mankind." In other words, Jesus taught that He came to restore the original order of the world as He created it, including all of mankind. God is Almighty. His will can never be thwarted. Christ is Almighty God, and this means He cannot fail to rescue His entire creation, including all mankind. Revelation 21:5.
God revealed His plan to save His entire creation, including man, from its fallen condition in the beginning. Satan had injected sin and evil into mankind in order to attempt to so thoroughly ruin the life and goodness that God had created man to be that Satan could prove that God is not almighty and thus could be defeated and killed. God cursed the Devil. Genesis 3:14. God cursed the ground because He knew He would have to punish most of humanity by consigning them to one of the three regions of the dead called the sea, death, or hell located within the earth. Revelation 20:13. God never cursed the good and living part of man that He had created. God also knew that He would spare humans saved by grace from this punishment except for those who died in unconfessed sins whom God might temporarily consign to the region called death. God knew that the good life of man temporarily separated from Him within one of the regions of death would so desperately yearn to be restored to fellowship with Him that one day they all would erupt into a tremendous worship service recognizing God as their only Savior. Revelation 5:13. Because of this return to faith, God will separate and recover their good lives in a general resurrection for Him to recreate to live on His recreated earth. John 5:28-29.
God also knew that in order for Him to save the good lives of humans by grace or by recreation, He would have to devise a plan to cleanse their good lives from all of the poison of sin that threatened to completely ruin their good lives and separate them from God in spiritual death tortured by the Devil forever. God's plan was that He would allow the Devil to put all of the poison of the sins of all mankind on Himself on a cruel cross to suffer their eternal death in their place. In this way, by taking their deserved punishment on Himself, Christ would liberate all mankind from eternal separation from God either by His grace or by His recreation. Genesis 3:15; Genesis 3:20. Luke 20:38 and Luke 23:34 denote God's salvation of all living humans. Genesis 3:21; II Corinthians 5:21; and I Peter 1:18-25 denote all living humans saved by God's grace. God saves by His grace all who become washed from their sins by the blood and water that flowed from Jesus' body on the cross. Revelation 1:5; Ephesians 5:23-27. All of the rest of humanity within the regions of the dead, Christ will save by His consuming fire when He separated their sins from their good lives when He descended into hell and rose immaculate from the dead. I Corinthians 3:12-15.
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