The World and the Word

                                           The Word

God has divided His written Word into three categories as it applies to mankind. God addressed the book of Job and the first eleven chapters of Genesis to all mankind. God addressed the rest of the Old Testament to the Israelite people whom He chose to write His Word and through whom He would bring His Messiah into the world for the salvation of all mankind. God addressed the New Testament to His Church and to all Old Testament and Tribulation saints whom He would save by His grace.

God's written Word connects directly to His Infinite Mind, and God holds the power to connect the finite mind to His Infinite Mind through the faith of the believer. But the written Word can only be finite to the finite mind because of its limited power. I Corinthians 2:16.

God's message to the entire human race in the first eleven chapters of Genesis and the book of Job is that He will provide a higher and a lower form of salvation for the whole human race. God saved Adam and Eve and Job with His highest form of salvation which is by His grace. Genesis 3:21; Job 19:25-27. Adam and Eve faithfully practiced the blood sacrifices that God gave them which demonstrated their faith in God's promised Savior who would come to cleanse them of all their sins and evil by His blood sacrifice for them. Genesis 3:15; Genesis 4:4. Job believed that His Redeemer, who is God Himself, would cleanse and sanctify him until he would "come forth as gold." Job 23:10.

But God also assured Adam and Eve that He would provide a lesser form of salvation for every human who would ever live. God told Adam to call his wife's name Eve because she would be the "mother of all living." Genesis 3:20. God has created in His image the living souls and spirits of all humans. God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14. God assures humanity in Psalm 36:6 that He will preserve all life, including all humans. Whatever God preserves, He preserves forever. God confirms in Luke 20:38 that all humans are forever alive to Him. I Corinthians 15:21-22 informs humanity that while all humans suffer spiritual death because of Adam's sin, God will resurrect the lives of all humans. I Timothy 4:10 plainly teaches that Christ will save the lives of all humans, especially those saved by His grace. Revelation 20:5 prophesies that in His final judgment, Christ will recover His created lives of all humans whom He had to temporarily consign to one of the three regions of the dead because they would not believe in Him while still alive in the flesh. In John 5:28-29, Jesus prophesies that in a general resurrection in the end of the world He will resurrect His good, living souls that He created, and cast all of their evil into the lake of fire. No verse in the Bible states that God will ever cast living humans into the lake of fire, only dead ones who are totally evil. Revelation 20:15.