The World and the Word

                                                Freedom versus Tyranny

God has also provided a lower form of salvation for all living humans that He created in His image. Genesis 1:27; Genesis 8:20-21. Everything that God created is good. He loves it all and it can never be permanently ruined. God can never lose any of His goodness that He puts into every human that He creates. God's Almighty Love can never fail. I Corinthians 13:8; Ecclesiastes 3:14; Genesis 1:31.

God grieved because He had to destroy every living human for their evil in the great flood except for Noah and his family who found grace in His sight. Genesis 6:5-7; Genesis 6:8-10. After the flood, God commanded Noah to offer burnt offering sacrifices which symbolized this lower form of salvation which God would provide for all living humans not saved by grace. Genesis 8:20-21. God determined to include all living humans not saved by grace in His lower form of salvation accomplished by Christ's descent into Hell where He left all of their sins and evil behind when He rose immaculate from the dead. Psalm 16:10. God created Hell only for the cursed, which is the evil nature of humanity, and for the Devil and his angels, not living humans. God never cursed the living natures of Adam and Eve or any of their descendants. Genesis 3:14-20; Matthew 25:41. The existence of Hell expresses God's fiery wrath against evil which He will use to forever separate His living image in all humans confined within the regions of death from their evil, spiritual deaths which He will cast into the lake of fire. God will cause all living humans confined within the regions of death to repent and return of their own free will to faith in the Lamb who can cleanse them of all sins and evil by the use of His fiery wrath. Revelation 5:11-14; I Corinthians 3:11-15. God will resurrect all of His living humans from the regions of the dead and recreate them to live on His recreated earth. Deuteronomy 32:22; Matthew 3:11-12; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; Matthew 5:5; Matthew 6:10.

In Genesis 8:21, when God used the phrase, "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake...," He meant that He would remove all living humans from the ground that He had cursed in Genesis 3:17. In other words, God will not subject any of His living humans to an eternal curse. God's phrase "...for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth..." means that every living human needs to repent of the sins and evil in their nature. The imagination is evil, not the heart. God's phrase, "...neither will I again smite any more every living thing as I have done," means that God will rescue every living human confined within the regions of death. God's destruction of all evil humans in the great flood happened to be a potential eternal destruction of their good lives as well. But because God grieved over the loss of His living humans, He provided a means through His fiery wrath against evil itself, to rescue all of His living humans from all of the regions of death. Such scriptures as Genesis 3:20; Luke 20:38; I Timothy 6:13; I Timothy 4:10; II Timothy 4:1; I Corinthians 15:26; I John 3:8; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 22:11-12 and I Peter 3:18-20, among many others, attest to the fact that God will rescue all of His living humans confined within the regions of the dead by means of Christ's descent into Hell upon their repentance and faith that their Lamb can save them. Revelation 5:11-14.