All of this means that believers saved by grace never lose their salvation. Salvation by grace consists of a cleansing and sanctification process accomplished through the shed blood and water from Jesus on the cross. But permanent salvation by grace indicates the extended truth that God never retracts anything He has ever given. James 1:17. God never goes back on His Word. God never loses anything He has ever created, including the lives of all men. Luke 20:38; Numbers 23:19; Ecclesiastes 3:14.
God created man in His own image. Genesis 1:27. God created man to be a good system. Genesis 1:31. According to God's Word, He can never lose the life and goodness that He has ever put into every man He has ever created. The life and goodness of man has become sullied by sin, but God has a plan to cleanse and forgive that sin either through the blood and water that Christ shed on the cross which becomes salvation by grace, or by the use of His consuming fire in hell by which He will separate and recover the goodness and life that He put into every man for Him to recreate. All of mankind not saved by grace will receive a lesser salvation because Christ left all of their sins behind in hell when He descended into it. This fact has to be true because Christ bore all of man's sins on the cross, descended into hell, but rose immaculate from the grave. All of the Old Testament burnt offerings symbolized this type of salvation. God poured His consuming fire into the abyss in order to accomplish this purpose. Revelation 1:5; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Romans 8:18-23; Revelation 21:5; Ephesians 4:9-10; Deuteronomy 32:22; Psalm 86:12-13; Amos 7:4; Revelation 20:5; John 5:28-29.
Adam and Eve committed sins on two levels; that is, sins of weakness which God always cleanses and forgives and deliberate sins which never repents and God never forgives. Luke 23:34; Matthew 12:31-32. Man's sins of weakness sully the life and goodness that God created man to be, but God will cleanse and recover all of His goodness and life in man either by the blood and water that Jesus shed on the cross or by His consuming fire that holds all of the sins of mankind that Christ left behind when He descended into hell. Christ casts only the spiritual death of man into the lake of fire, not their lives. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:14-15. All of the lives of man left in one of the three regions of the dead will repent and turn to faith in Christ as prophesied in Isaiah 45:21-24 and as fulfilled in Revelation 5:13. Revelation 22:10-15 describes God's absolute separation of all the filth of mankind which is their deadness from their goodness and life which He created. God can only reward living persons, not dead ones. Revelation 22:12.
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