The Logic of Luke 20:38

The extended truth of Luke 20:38 can be summarized by a simple syllogism.

1.  The major premise.
God created all living humans in His own image. Genesis 1:27. God created all living humans as good systems capable of producing only positive and creative actions. Genesis 1:31. Proof that God's good and living systems still abides in every man is provided by the fact that even the worst men do some good for others.

2. The minor premise.
God is Almighty and cannot lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14. God's Love can never fail. I Corinthians 13:8. God's Word can never be broken. Numbers 23:19. If God could ever lose anything He has ever created to the Devil, then He would not be almighty; His love would fail, and His word would be broken. Such an event can never happen.

3.  Conclusion.
God must recover and recreate every good and living human He has ever created by liberating them from the spiritual death that has infected them. God will liberate all living and good humans from spiritual death through the death, burial, and resurrection of His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. Luke 20:38. God will liberate some living humans by His grace, and all others in a general resurrection in the end of the world. John 5:28-29. In this way, God will prove that His Almighty Power, His Love, and His Word can never be broken. I John 3:8.

Nowhere does the Bible teach that God will cast living humans into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:13-15 teaches that God will cast only dead humans into the lake of fire. God will have already recovered His good and living humans in Revelation 20:5, and God has promised to recreate them in Revelation 21:1-5. Revelation 21:5 sums it all up. God has created everything, and He will recover and recreate everything that has been sullied by sin. The Devil believes that he can destroy God by permanently destroying a part of God's creations, particularly humans. But Christ has triumphed over the Devil by liberating all of His creations, including all living humans, from permanent death by destroying the works of the Devil and death itself. I John 3:8; I Corinthians 15:20-28. Many other scriptures support this conclusion. John 12:47; John 16:33; Romans 8:18-25; Romans 11:29; Romans 11:36; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Colossians 1:15-20; Revelation 22:11-12.