The World and the Word

         The Inerrant and Infallible Word of God

In Romans 8:23, the Apostle Paul wrote "and not only they" by which he could only have meant verse 21 which states that God will recreate everything that has been corrupted by evil, including all living humans. Paul then wrote "but ourselves also" by which he could only have meant that God will recreate all living humans saved by grace with spiritual bodies at the Rapture of the Church.

The Church often preaches that if a person hears or reads the gospel and realizes that he needs Jesus as his Savior, but he always rejects receiving salvation by grace until his physical death, then that person becomes lost from God forever in the lake of fire. But no verse in the entire Bible (KJB) states that idea. In fact, Romans 8:18-23 clearly teaches that God will recreate His entire creations that was subject to corruption and that must include all living humans. Luke 20:38. Colossians 1:15-23 clearly teaches that God will reconcile everything that he created back to Himself and that has to include all living humans. Jesus promises in Revelation 21:5, "Behold, I make all things new." That promise has to include all living humans. Jesus clearly taught in John 11:25 that He can give life back to a believer after physical death, and then He proved it by raising Lazarus from the dead. Since the King James Bible can only be the inerrant and infallible Word of God in English, then Jesus' phrase "though he were dead, yet shall he live" can only mean coming to faith after physical death. Revelation 5:11-14.

Jesus did tell some unbelievers in John 8:20-24 that "ye shall die in your sins," but He did not say they would be lost from God forever. Jesus also taught in Luke 13:3 and 5 that those who refuse to repent will "perish." But that word "perish" does not mean that living persons will be lost from God forever. That word means that God will dissolve that person's system in the end of the world, recover His good image of Himself that He put into that person and recreate his living nature to live on His recreated earth, and He will consign his separated, evil nature to the eternal lake of fire. Revelation 20:15; II Peter 3:10-13; Psalm 75:3. God will recreate His good image in that person to be a different but righteous person than he was in his life on the former earth. Only his earthly system with its good and evil natures will perish. John 12:25; Matthew 10:39; Matthew 16:25; Mark 8:35; Luke 9:24; Luke 17:33.

God created all good things, and God is the source of all good works. James 1:17. This fact can only mean that when Christ stated in Revelation 21:5, "Behold, I make all things new," He could only have meant that He will recover and recreate all of His good creations that have been stained by sin, including all living humans. Romans 11:36. Revelation 22:11-12 clearly teaches that in the end of the world God will effect an absolute separation of all that is good from all that is evil. Matthew 15:13; Matthew 13:36-43; John 5:28-29.