The World and the Word

                                   The Ultimate Trump Card

God's Almighty Love for His creations happens to be His trump card that He will play to capture and eliminate every evil play of the Devil. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Proverbs 10:12; I Peter 4:8. This constitutes the central theme of the Bible (KJB). The significant message of Proverbs 10:12 is that God's Love "covereth all sins," not just some sins. I Peter 4:8 states that God's Love "shall cover the multitude of sins" which can only mean the entire, finite set of sins that the whole human race will commit. God intends to save from evil all of His creations that He loves. Romans 8:18-23; Colossians 1:15-23; I Corinthians 15:20-28; I Timothy 6:13; Revelation 21:5. God's Love effected His higher and lower forms of salvation through His self-sacrifice, burial, descent into Hell, and His immaculate resurrection from the dead. John 3:16. The sins and evil of every human nailed Jesus to the cross. But Jesus prayed from the cross that His Father would forgive every one of them. Luke 23:34. Since Jesus and His Father are One, then His Father could never fail to give to Jesus anything for which He would pray. John 10:30.

God's Almighty Love cannot fail. I Corinthians 13:8. God will save and recreate absolutely everything He has ever created and loves. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Revelation 21:5. If any living human were to be ever cast into the lake of fire, then that living person, created in God's image, would be lost from God forever. God's Almighty Love cannot allow that to happen. God will reconcile His entire creation to Himself. Colossians 1:20.

Many believe that salvation by grace happens to be the only form of salvation. Salvation by grace is a free gift. Ephesians 2:8-9. Those who hold to this view contend that if a person rejects God's gift of salvation by grace, then that person will be lost from God forever. This view is wrong for two reasons. First, this view supposes that the puny will of humans can block the Almighty Will of God. God will not give His glory to another, and therefore, He will not allow anything to check His Will. Isaiah 42:8. Jesus prayed that His Father's Will be done on earth to the same extent that He will do it in Heaven. God's Will is to fill Heaven with recreated humans saved by His grace, and therefore, His Will must be to fill His new earth with all other recreated humans. Matthew 6:10; Revelation 21:5.

Second, those who believe that God only saves by grace forget that God's Love, His Will, and His Intellect are all Almighty. Psalm 147:5. God can certainly devise a plan whereby He can cause every living human He has ever created and loves to repent and believe in the Lamb of their own free will. Revelation 5:11-14; Isaiah 45:20-25; Luke 1:37; Luke 3:6; Matthew 19:26; John 11:25. Since God's Almighty Love and His Almighty Will have declared in His Word that He is "not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance," then God must save all living humans with a higher and a lower form of salvation. II Peter 3:9. Who can thwart the Almighty Will of God?