Job 10:1-22
God created man in His own image. Genesis1:27. These good and living parts of all humans, though soiled by sin, yearns for God's cleansing and reconciliation with God. God cleanses and forgives some humans by His grace with the blood and water that flowed from Jesus on the cross when they repent and believe while still alive in the flesh. In this way, God separates their spiritual deaths; that is, all of their weak and rebellious sins from them when they believe in the power of Christ through His sacrifice to save them. When they believe, God casts all of their separated sins into the sea of forgetfulness. Micah 7:19.
The good and living parts of all other humans not saved by grace will eventually repent and believe as prophesied in Isaiah 45:21-24 and Philippians 2:9-11.This prophecy will be fulfilled as recorded in Revelation 5:13. God will prove their salvation by the fact that they will worship Christ as "the Lamb" which they could not do unless they had come to believe that he is their Savior. God also proved this fact by Jesus' statement in John 11:25. Jesus prophesied that He will save the living parts of all humans within the regions of the dead. Revelation 20:5. God further proves this prophecy in Colossians 1:15-20 which teaches that God will reconcile all things which He created, which also must mean all humans, to Himself because of Christ's sacrifice which includes His descent into hell. Revelation 21:5 clearly states, "...Behold, I make all things new..." Since God created all things, then this statement could not be true unless God recovers and recreates all things He originally created. In fact, Romans 11:36 clearly states that all things that God has created will eventually come back to Him. But these living humans saved from the regions of the dead will not be saved by grace. They will be saved by the mercy of God, which is everlasting, and will be recreated to live on His recreated earth. Revelation 21:1-5; John 5:28-29; Revelation 22:11-12.
God will save all humanity not saved by grace by Jesus' descent into hell where He left behind all of man's sins which He bore on the cross. He proved this fact when He rose immaculate from the dead. All of the Old Testament burnt offering sacrifices symbolized God's removal of sins by the use of His consuming fire. I Corinthians 3:11-15 describes how God will use His consuming fire to cleanse and save all humans not already saved by His grace. God will complete the salvation of the living parts of all humans within the regions of the dead when He resurrects them to life as recorded in Revelation 20:5. God will recover and recreate these living humans to live on His recreated earth. Revelation 21:1-5. God will use His consuming fire to burn their spiritually dead and totally evil parts in the lake of fire forever. Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:8.
Job was greatly confused. Job's emotions ran the entire spectrum from complete despair and hopelessness to feelings of joy and acceptance by God. Job 10:16. God never blames men for having emotions. God never blames men for questioning Him. God wrote the Bible from man's point of view. Like man, the Bible is a finite book which connects to the Infinite. Man is a finite creature who will eventually reconnect to an everlasting, merciful God. For this reason, some parts of the Bible which could not have been directly inspired by the Holy Spirit, such as letters written by pagans or Paul's quotes of pagan poets in Acts 17:18, were nevertheless given by inspiration of God so that they relate an infallible and inerrant description of man's condition with all of his hopeless emotions as well as the joys of his faith. Even the scribal errors and the man made contradictions in the Bible teach the inerrant truth that man is a fallible creature whether he sins or contradicts other writers or simply makes mistakes in arithmetic.
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