The World and the Word

                                                         The Wheat and the Chaff

God has created evil humans to possess diminished living souls and spirits which cannot repent while alive in the flesh. Romans 9:14-24. But even the worst humans do some good works which emerge from their small souls and spirits. Revelation 22:12. But even these small souls and spirits, with their small amounts of good works, will repent and believe in Christ while in the fires of Hell as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. When God recovers their small, living souls and spirits with all of their small amounts of good works for Him to recreate to live on His recreated earth, God will dissolve their systems so that they will lose their former identities and personalities which they wrongly considered to be their lives on the earth. John 12:25. The most evil person who ever lived was probably Judas Iscariot, but Jesus appealed to that small amount of goodness still left in him when Jesus called him "friend" in Matthew 26:50.

God's Word describes how He creates humans in Romans 9:14-24. God creates some humans with small souls and spirits with few good works to do in their lives. God creates other humans with strong souls and spirits who do a lot of good works in their lives. But He creates them all to do His will. II Peter 3:9. He also gives them all free will so that some who tend to adhere to evil will choose to repent and believe in Christ while still alive in the flesh. At the time they become saved by grace, God will give them the perfect righteousness of Christ Himself with additional good works for them to do. On the other hand, some whom God created with strong, living souls and spirits will never choose to accept Christ as their Savior while still alive in the flesh. Nevertheless, God will save every living soul and spirit that He created in His image, some by His grace and all others by the use of His consuming fire in the end of the world. John 5:24; I Corinthians 3:11-15; I Corinthians 15:22; John 5:28-29; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 22:11-12; Ecclesiastes 3:14.

God must put His Love to the severest possible test. The Devil seeks to annul; that is, completely destroy at least one good soul and spirit that God created and loves. Job 1:8-12. God must allow Satan to persecute living humans to the fullest extent of his evil powers to prove that God can never lose any living human that He created in His image and whom He loves. I Corinthians 13:8; Ecclesiastes 3:14. Should God ever lose any of His good souls and spirits to the Devil, then all would be lost and humanity would become subject to a Ragnarok. God must put His Love to the severest test to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that His Love and creative powers can never fail.

Deliberate and willful sins of which a person never repents adheres to the spiritual death within the being of every human. Sins of the soul and spirit caused by a weakness in free will and the influence of evil will always repent and believe in God's power to cleanse and forgive based on the sacrifice, burial, and resurrection of His Son. God illustrated this fact in the story recorded in Numbers 15:22-26. When sin offerings and burnt offerings were made for the sins of "ignorance," which means weakness, then God forgave them. But God would "cut off" the person who willfully and deliberately sinned which meant God would send his living soul and spirit to one of the regions of the dead to await the judgment in the end of the world when God will use His fiery wrath to separate spiritual death from all living souls and spirits. Revelation 20:13. The man who picked up sticks on the Sabbath and refused to repent suffered this very sentence from God.

Adam and Eve sinned both in weakness and deliberately. Eve sinned in weakness when she ate the forbidden fruit, but she sinned deliberately when she gave the fruit to Adam because she selfishly desired to ruin him as well. Adam sinned in weakness when he ate the fruit so that he could fall to Eve's level to protect her, but he deliberately sinned when he ate the fruit so that he would not lose physical love with her. I Timothy 2:14. But God promised them a coming Savior, and when God made a sin offering for them by shedding the blood of an animal to make skins to cover them, Adam and Eve demonstrated their repentance and faith in the coming Savior by accepting God's sin offering for them. Genesis 3:15; Genesis 3:21. God saved Adam and Eve by His grace.

The Devil injected spiritual death, which is totally evil and foreign to humans, into Adam and Eve and all of their descendants when they sinned through weakness in their free will. Romans 5:12. The Devil seeks to use spiritual death to influence the soul and spirit of at least one human to sin to the extent that he annuls his spiritual life which God created and loves. But God will cause every living human to eventually repent and believe of their own free will through the death, burial, and resurrection of His Son, some through His grace and all others through the use of His consuming fire against evil. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14; I Corinthians 3:11-15. Once God has cleansed and forgiven the living souls and spirits of all humans of all their sins caused by the presence of foreign spiritual death within them, then He will be able to separate their living souls and spirits from their spiritual deaths which He will cast into the lake of fire forever. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Hebrews 2:9.