The Results of the Fall
God commanded Noah and his family to "multiply, and replenish the earth." Genesis 9:1. These Adamic humans retained their souls, their intelligence, and their free wills. But each of their beings were still divided into their living souls and spirits that God had created, and their evil, spiritual deaths injected into them by Satan which caused their living souls to sin. The Adamic race could never become overpowered by evil, but each of them could still choose to sin or do good according to the choices of their free will.
All sin can become evil, and all evil can become sin. The difference resides in repentance and faith. God will cleanse and forgive all sin, no matter how evil it may be, because He holds the power to change a false system into a good system which amounts to reconciliation with God. Colossians 1:15-20. But the slightest sin will become evil if the human that committed it refuses to repent and believe that God can cleanse and forgive it. Numbers 15:32-36; Matthew 12:31-32. God can forgive sins, but He never forgives evil because it never repents. Because of the death, burial, and resurrection of His Son, God holds the power to cleanse and forgive, through the blood and water that flowed from Jesus on the cross, all of the sins of all believers while they are still alive in the flesh. Matthew 26:28; Ephesians 5:25-27; Revelation 1:5. God holds the power to annul the spiritual deaths of all believers saved by His grace the moment they believe. John 5:24.
But Christ's Spirit also descended into hell to leave behind all of the sins and evil of the rest of humanity that He bore on the cross. Christ had to have left all of their sins and evil behind in hell because He rose immaculate from the dead. I John 2:2. Based on this fact, God will use His appearance to all living humans confined within the regions of the dead in order to cause them to repent and believe in Christ who will save them for His recreation forever by His mercy. Revelation 5:11-14. In the end of the world, God will use His consuming fire, which is His wrath against sin and evil, to separate the lives of these humans from their sins and evil for Him to resurrect and recreate to live on His recreated earth. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5. God will also use His consuming fire to separate their totally evil, eternal deaths from their living souls and spirits for Him to cast their total evil into the eternal lake of fire. Revelation 20:15; I Corinthians 3:11-15.
God punished Adam and Eve for their sins, but He did not curse them. God cursed only the Devil and the ground that holds eternal death. God has determined that all humans will only suffer temporarily for their sins. God blames the Devil alone for the evil he injected into humans because of their sins. Evil is foreign to humans. Genesis 3:14-21. Although God is completely innocent and blameless, He feels partly guilty because, in the beginning of His creations, He had no idea that evil even nonexisted much less that it had some kind of negative power to influence free will in God's lesser, intelligent creatures that would cause them to sin. Free will is not a weakness in God, but it is in His lesser creations. Isaiah 45:7. Had Christ, in His great Love, not come to earth to sacrifice Himself on a cruel cross to purge all evil from all living humans and provide for the cleansing and forgiveness of their sins through His shed blood and water and His descent into Hell, then all human life would have become spiritually dead and lost from God forever. Matthew 26:28; Hebrews 2:9. But God can never lose anything He has ever created, and His Love can never fail. Ecclesiastes 3:14; I Corinthians 13:8; Revelation 21:5.
God will forever destroy the first death by becoming the second death which is the lake of fire which is also God's eternal wrath against sin and evil. I Corinthians 15:26; Revelation 20:14. Christ will liberate all living humans from the first death which would have been their eternal deaths had Christ not come to gain the victory over the first death by His resurrection from the dead. Revelation 1:17-18. Christ will destroy the first death through His resurrection so that He can reclaim the living souls and spirits of all humans because they all belong to Him. Since Christ gained power over Hell and Death and possesses the power to destroy the first death entirely, then He must also possess the power to save all lost sinners after their physical deaths. I Corinthians 15:26; John 11:25; Luke 20:38; Deuteronomy 32:22; Hebrews 2:9; Psalm 36:6; I Corinthians 15:22; Revelation 20:14; Revelation 20:5; Genesis 3:20; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12; Acts 24:15; II Timothy 4:1; Daniel 12:2-3; Isaiah 66:22-24; I Corinthians 3:11-15; John 12:47-48; John 5:28-29; Colossians 1:15-23; Romans 11:36; Revelation 4:11; Isaiah 45:21-24; Revelation 5:11-14.
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