The World and the Word

                                   God's Plan

God planned every detail of His history of the human race in His Infinite Mind before He ever created its physical reality. Acts 15:18; Isaiah 48:5; Hebrews 4:3. In His mental plan, God allowed humans to choose of their own free will to sin and commit evil or to do good. God preserved the good for rewards, and He countered every sin and evil in order to turn every false system into a good one. God ultimately won His war against sin and evil, first in His mental plan and then in His created physical reality. Christ took the sins and evil of all mankind upon Himself on a cruel cross, descended into a fiery Hell, and rose victorious over all sins, evil, and spiritual death to gain a higher and a lesser form of salvation for every living human He had ever created. Revelation 21:5; Ecclesiastes 3:14; Genesis 3:20; Luke 20:38; I Corinthians 15:20-28.

Because God planned the entire physical history of humanity in His Mind before He created it, He was able to give prophesies in His Word about future events in order to show that His Word is true. But as time passes from moment to moment in man's history, God also creates physical reality as He goes. Isaiah 48:5-7. Every human who hears the gospel and decides to become saved by grace actually decided it in God's mental plan before the world began. Hebrews 4:3; John 2:24-25; John 6:64-65; II Timothy 1:9. Because God has a Perfect Mind and an Infinite Intellect, He was able to create a plan whereby He could cause all the rest of humanity not saved by grace to accept His lesser form of salvation of their own free will. Psalm 147:5; Ecclesiastes 3:14; Revelation 21:5. All living humans on the earth and all living humans under the earth confined to the regions of death will accept Christ's lesser form of salvation of their own free will. Revelation 5:11-14; John 5:28-29; I Timothy 6:13; Psalm 107:10-15.

Hebrews 2:14-15 clearly teaches that Jesus died on the cross to defeat the Devil and all the powers of spiritual death, not living humans. Ecclesiastes 3:14 clearly teaches that God can never lose anything He has ever created, and He created all living humans. Revelation 21:5 clearly teaches that God will make all things new, which must include all living humans. Living humans in a lake of fire would not be recreated and would be lost from God forever. I Timothy 4:10 clearly teaches that God is the Savior of all humans, especially those who become saved by grace. Revelation 20:5 clearly teaches that God will raise all living humans from the dead. Revelation 20:11-15 clearly teaches that Christ will cast only the spiritual dead into the lake of fire, not living humans. Many other scriptures teach that God will save all living humans that He created and loves. Genesis 3:20, Luke 20:38, Revelation 5:11-14, I Corinthians 15:20-28, Colossians 1:15-23. I John 3:8, John 5:28-29, Isaiah 45:20-25 indicate just a few of these scriptures.