Job 28:1-28
In Luke 23:34, Jesus prayed from the cross: "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do." Jesus prayed for every human who ever lived because the sins of all humans nailed Him to the cross. Acts 4:26-28. It cannot be possible that God, the Father, would fail to give Jesus that for which He prayed. Jesus' prayer can only mean that eventually God will save all living humans but at different levels of salvation.
Luke 20:37-38 plainly informs all readers that all humans are alive to God and that God will raise all the living from the dead. Revelation 20:5.
Many other scriptures attest to the fact that God will eventually completely separate all that He created from all influences of evil, purge all total evil from His universe, and recreate all of His original creations that have been tainted by sin. Romans 8:18-24; Romans 11:36; Colossians 1:15-20; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5; Ecclesiastes 3:14; Revelation 22:11-12; Daniel 12:2-3; John 5:28-29 and many others.
God has created different levels of salvation with different results for each. Jesus taught about some effects of these levels of salvation in John 12:25; Matthew 10:39; Matthew 16:25; Mark 8:35; Luke 9:24, and Luke 17:33. Those who reject Christ while living in the world do so because they are trying to save their sinful pleasures or their religious practices. But their worldly lives they are trying to save are actually their dead, sinful natures. This fact means that in the end of the world when Christ resurrects their cleansed, living souls that He created, He will dissolve their systems in order to separate their dead, sinful natures from their living souls. This separation will have the effect of destroying their former identities and personalities that they had in their lives on the earth. In other words, they will lose their former lives. Christ will recreate their living souls to be righteous people living on His recreated earth, but they will possess quite different identities and personalities than they had in their former lives on the earth. Christ will also recreate them to possess only the earthly righteousness that Adam and Eve had before they sinned. I Corinthians 15:40.
On the other hand, Christ taught that all those who hate their sinful lives, repent and accept Him as their Savior, will retain their identities and most of their personalities forever. God will give all persons saved by grace the eternal life of Christ and His perfect righteousness by which He can accept them into heaven to live with Him there forever. John 3:16; II Corinthians 5:17; Romans 8:17. The moment those saved by grace become born again, God will wash away the sinful natures of their souls and spirits with the blood of Christ and recreate them. I Corinthians 6:11; Revelation 1:5; II Corinthians 5:17. But God will allow them to retain their fleshly, sinful natures which, in His sanctification process, He will daily wash away with the water that flowed from Jesus on the cross as they daily repent and confess their sins. I John 1:8-9. But God will cleanse them and recreate them to live in heaven with Him in such a way as to allow them to retain their former identities and most of their former personalities forever. In other words, Christ will save their lives forever. John 12:25.
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