The identity and personality of every individual person constitutes a system created by God. God creates or destroys systems, but He never destroys the basic elements that compose every system. God has derived all of His basic, irreducible elements from His infinite set of Basic Ideas which constitutes the contents of His Eternal Mind. God's infinite set of Basic Ideas and God's Eternal Mind unite as One and the Same. John 1:1.
God created the physical laws of the universe to demonstrate His truth that systems can be created or destroyed, but the basic elements of every system cannot be destroyed. The same holds true for ideas. Systems of ideas can be created or destroyed but not the basic, irreducible ideas of those systems derived from the mind.
In Matthew 16:24-25; Matthew 10:38-39; Mark 8:34-35; Luke 9:23-24; Luke 17:33; and John 12:25, Jesus taught some profound truths about the kinds of individual human systems that God will preserve and those He will destroy. Those who "take up his cross" and follow Jesus must "deny himself;" that is, he must reject all sinful pleasures, and he must be willing to suffer persecution for his love for his Savior. Those who turn their backs to this sinful world and fix their eyes on Calvary, God will preserve their individual systems and most of their personalities in heaven with Him forever. Each person saved by grace must "lose his life;" that is, he must deny that he is a system attached to this sinful world in order to find his life in Christ.
But Jesus also taught that those who seek to "save his life shall lose it." Jesus meant that those who believe that their lives attach only to this sinful world, God will someday dissolve their individual systems, recover the good and living elements of their systems that He created and throw the evil elements of their systems away. Life inheres in goodness just as goodness inheres in life. Jesus prophesied about this event in John 5:28-29. In a general resurrection in the end of the world, God will dissolve the individual systems of all unbelievers still in their graves, recover their good and living elements and cast their evil elements into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15.
God can never lose the good lives of every person because He created them in His image. Genesis 1:27; Genesis 1:31. God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Romans 11:39; Romans 11:36; Luke 20:38. When Jesus taught that those who "will save his life shall lose it," He meant that in the end God will dissolve their individual, worldly systems by the use of His consuming fire, recover their good and living elements that He created and cast their dead elements into the lake of fire. Goodness is always alive, and spiritual death is always evil. John 5:28-29; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 22:11-12.
God will preserve the individual identities and most of the personalities of all humans saved by grace in heaven forever. In other words, those who lost their individual worldly lives; that is, they lost for Christ's sake that which they believed were their lives, God will retain their individual systems forever. Matthew 16:24-25. But those who try to save their worldly lives, God will dissolve their worldly systems in the end. They will lose their former individual systems, but God will recover the good elements of their lives to be recreated as new humans immune to sin to live on His recreated earth. God will cast their separated evil elements into the lake of fire forever. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5.
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