The Results of the Fall
Demons do not commit sins. Sins can be forgiven. Demons commit only acts of total evil which cannot be forgiven. This fact accounts for Jesus' statement in John 15:22. If Jesus had not come to rescue the lives of all humanity, then the Devil would be able to annul the lives of all humans, causing them to become demonic and spiritually dead forever without even the ability to commit sins. But Jesus came to make sure that all humans would no longer be able to hide their sins from Him, as Adam and Eve tried to do, and that all humans would eventually choose of their own free will to return to the faith that God had put into their living souls and spirits when He created them. Christ will save some by His grace while they are still alive in the flesh, and He will save all others in a great worship service as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. Luke 20:38. Just as Adam and Eve came out of trying to hide their sins and returned to faith in Christ, so the whole human race will eventually come out of hiding their sins and return to faith in Christ because Eve is the mother of all living. Genesis 3:20; Luke 20:38. If Jesus had not come to save humanity, then the good lives of the whole human race would have become totally evil and lost from God forever. God's Love cannot allow that to happen. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Hebrews 2:14-17; Colossians 1:15-20; Revelation 21:5.
Over time, the entire human race, except for Noah and his family, turned to the worship of idols and to the practice of evil which God cannot forgive because it never repents. Matthew 12:31-32. The Devil appeared to be winning his battle with God in his desire to annul the living souls and spirits of most of humanity. But God had not cursed the souls and spirits of Adam and Eve, and God had not allowed Satan to claim the life of Job even though the Devil deliberately disobeyed God and tried to annul Job's spirit. The fact that the souls and spirits of all humans belonged to God gave Him the right to counterattack against the worst that the Devil was trying to do to them.
The Adamic race knew fully well that evil had become a part of its being and that it could willfully practice evil if it so chose to do. But Noah and his family chose to practice repentance and faith. By their blood sacrifices, Noah and his family admitted to God that they were hopeless sinners whom only God could save.
The pre-Adamic race had become solely the victims of an inherited evil acquired by its intermarriages with the Adamic race. Their evil was not their fault. They were like innocent children who had become dirty while playing outside. Even the Adamic race had lost much of its knowledge of good and evil in its intermarriages with the pre-Adamic race. Genesis 6:5-7.
God did not kindle His wrath against the humans who had become overwhelmed by evil. They all still retained that spark of faith that He had put into their souls and spirits. God's heart grieved for them, but He could not accept them back into fellowship with Him because a pure and holy God cannot abide the nastiness of evil. But God could cleanse them of all that evil and recover all their living souls and spirits that still retained faith in Him. But for God to dissolve their systems to completely separate their living souls and spirits from their evil practices meant that He would have to kill all of their physical bodies. Genesis 6:7.
God did not kindle His wrath against these fallen humans because their evil was not their fault. So He did not use His consuming fire to kill and cleanse them. God decided to use the Water of His Word to kill and cleanse them. The water that Jesus shed on the cross symbolizes the Water of God's Word. God had the right to create them, and He had the right to kill them. The Devil had put their living souls and spirits on the verge of annihilation, but God stepped between them and the Devil. In effect, God let the Devil know that before he could annul the good lives of these fallen humans, he would have to go through Him first. The Devil would have to annul God before he could annul the lives of all humans. John 3:16. For this reason, the water that flowed from Jesus on the cross was in the waters of the great flood. I Peter 3:18-22.
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