In the beginning, man had fellowship with God. The living parts of humans which God created still yearns for a return to faith which is fellowship with God. Some evil exists in the best of men, and some good in the worst of men. Jesus referred to this good and living part of each human in Luke 17:20-21. God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Romans 11:29. This fact indicates that such scriptures as Luke 20:38; John 5:28-29; I Corinthians 15:22; I Timothy 4:10; Revelation 20:5; and Revelation 21:5 can only mean that God will recover and recreate the good and living parts of all humans, some by grace and all others in a general resurrection in the end of the world. God must recover the living from the dead because Christ casts only the dead into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:11-15; I Corinthians 15:26.
The wages of sin is spiritual death which is eternal spiritual separation from God. But Christ suffered this eternal separation from God in every man's place when He died on the cross. John 12:47. Man's suffering for his own sins is always only temporary. God has destroyed sin, death, and the Devil through the death, burial, and resurrection of His Son in order to recover and recreate everything He ever created that the Devil threatens to permanently destroy by eternally separating it from God's Love. The Devil means to cause God's Love to fail. God, the Father, could not possibly fail to answer Jesus' cry from the cross in Luke 23:34. Jesus' cry can only mean that God will eventually forgive and recover every living part of all humans that He created.
Only the spiritual dead become eternally separated from God, never the good and living parts of humans. Nowhere does the Bible state that God separates the living parts of humans from Himself forever. In fact, Luke 20:38 teaches that to God all humans are alive. In another example, I John 3:8 states that Christ came to "...destroy the works of the Devil...," which is sin and death, not living humans. Ephesians 6:12 informs us that God has gone to war against spiritual darkness and evil, not living humans. I Corinthians 15:25-26 teaches that God intends to destroy all of the enemies of God and man including death, not living humans. I Corinthians 15:22 teaches that Christ intends to save the lives of all men from spiritual death. In Mark 9:43-48, Jesus taught that the "worm" of men will never die in the everlasting fire. The word "worm" in the Bible always symbolizes sin and evil, never living humans. In Mark 9:49-50, Jesus meant by His use of the word "salt" that every living human within the regions of the dead will be preserved by God's consuming fire when He separates their living parts from their deaths in the general resurrection. Humans saved by grace already have "salt" within themselves, but God will burn their unconfessed sins with His consuming fire. I Corinthians 3:11-15. The living parts of all humans not saved by grace will be separated from their spiritual deaths by God's consuming fire in the end of the world. I Corinthians 3:11-15. In addition, Colossians 1:20 informs that God will "...reconcile all things unto Himself..." God created all things. Colossians 1:16. God promised in Revelation 21:5 that "...Behold, I make all things new..." God created all things, including all humans.
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