Every individual human being happens to be both quick and dead at the same time. God created man in His own image to have a totally good life. Genesis 1:27; Genesis 1:31. Man's fall into sin could not, and did not, annihilate the life and goodness that God had put into him. Ecclesiastes 3:14. Satan did succeed in causing man's life and goodness to become filthy with sin. Isaiah 64:6. Man's filthy condition meant that God could no longer accept the goodness of man in eternal fellowship with Him. Genesis 3:22-24. Man became eternally separated from God in a state of spiritual death. Sin and spiritual death is the same thing. Genesis 2:17. God cannot, and will not, allow any goodness and life that He has created to ever become permanently separated from Him. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Romans 11:29; Romans 11:36. God devised a plan to thoroughly cleanse mankind of all his sins and spiritual death, recreate him to be immune to sin, and place him in heaven if saved by grace or again in an earthly paradise with total access to fellowship with Him. Genesis 3:14-15; Genesis 3:20-21; Luke 20:38; Luke 23:34; Revelation 21:1-5. God prophesied in Genesis 3:14-15 and Genesis 3:20 that His plan would save all mankind. God prophesied in Genesis 3:21 that He would provide a special salvation for some humans by His grace. I Timothy 4:10.
God cursed total evil which is the Devil, and God cursed the ground into which He would put the three regions of death into which He would temporarily consign unrepentant sinners according to His judgment after their physical deaths. God never cursed humans whom He loves. Revelation 20:13; Hebrews 9:27. God has put into the hearts of all good parents who love their children to save both the obedient and disobedient ones if they are in danger. Would God demand any less of Himself?
Man could not have become totally evil when he sinned because if he had, he would have become demonic and could only do evil. Man must be both the quick and the dead. He is alive and dead at the same time. The doctrine of the depravity of man cannot mean that man became totally evil. This doctrine simply means that man's limited life and righteousness holds no power to cleanse himself from sin and restore himself to a pure fellowship with God. Romans 5:6; Romans 3:9-12. God had to intervene into man's history to do all the work necessary to save all mankind from spiritual death. John 12:47; I Timothy 4:10; I Corinthians 15:22.
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