Leviticus 18:5,21 KJB
In this chapter of Leviticus, God warned His people not to practice any of the evils of any of the pagan nations that surrounded them. God's people were to refrain from the practices of incest, adultery, homosexual acts, and sex with animals, all of which the gods of the pagans allowed. But the worst evil that the gods of the pagans allowed was that if any parent of a child, usually a baby, were to cast their child alive into a fiery pit that burned before an idol, then that god would reward them with prosperity. But these pagan gods were really just devils who influenced these pagan people to practice the most horrible evils. The fiery pits that were before these gods actually represented the burning Hell, and the burning of innocent children in those fires represented the desire of the devils to utterly destroy the good and living natures of all humans whom God creates in His image. Genesis 1:26-27 (KJB). The desire of Satan and all evil is to reduce the good and living natures of all humans to total evil, as are the devils, so that he can prove that God's Love can fail which he believes will eventually give him the opportunity to find a way to murder God. All sins and evil are destructive, and the temptations of the devils that humans will only gain pleasure and prosperity through the practice of sin and evil are nothing but cruel lies. Genesis 3:1-5; John 8:44 (KJB). God can never lose anything He has ever created, and His Love can never fail. Ecclesiastes 3:14; I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB).
God promised His people that if they obeyed His "statues" and "judgments," then they would live in them, and since whatever God gives lasts forever, then they would live forever. Romans 11:29 (KJB). By this promise, God did not mean that His people would not sin because all humans inevitably sin. Romans 3:23 (KJB). But a part of God's Word happens to be that humans should repent of their sins and evil and keep the faith that God puts into them when He creates them that God can and will save them from all sins and evil. Genesis 1:31; Romans 10:13 (KJB). The sacrifice of clean animals by the Hebrews represented this statue from God. God's Son fulfilled this promise from God through His sacrifice, death, burial, and resurrection. I Corinthians 15:1-4 (KJB). Those who put their faith in the power of Christ to save them while still alive in the flesh will receive His everlasting life and salvation by His grace. John 5:24; John 3:3 (KJB). But since God can never lose anything He has ever created, then He must find a way to save the rest of humanity. I Timothy 4:10 (KJB).
All of this means that God's promise of everlasting life to all humans who keep His "statues" and "judgments" must be a different form of salvation than that of grace. Leviticus 18:5 (KJB). Persons who become saved by grace must at least believe that God can directly cleanse them of all sins and evil when they repent, as did the Old Testament saints who became saved by God's grace. Psalm 51:1-12 (KJB). But God puts His light of goodness and faith into every human that He creates. Genesis 1:31 (KJB). God can never lose that. For this reason, even the most evil humans who ever lived knows deep within themselves that they are doing wrong when they sin or do evil acts. God can never lose to the Devil anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14 (KJB). Because of this fact, Christ, near the end of the world, will visit all of His good and living humans on the earth and confined to the regions of death, and when they see His tremendous majesty and love, they will all repent and return to faith in Him as their Savior. Christ will then use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve all of their beings to separate their repentant, living natures from their dead and evil natures so that He can recreate their living natures with new bodies to live on His recreated earth forever, and He will cast their dead and evil natures into the eternal lake of fire. Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; II Peter 3:9-13; John 5:28-29; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB). These recreated humans will not possess the very righteousness of Christ as does those saved by grace, but they will be recreated in the righteous image of God as was Adam and Eve before they sinned. But those Hebrews who refrained from the evils of the world, and who tried to keep God's Law, will enjoy a special place on God's new earth because they will be the citizens of the state of Israel which will rule the entire earth. Isaiah 66:12-24 (KJB).
Since God loves all humans, then what does He love about them? If humans became totally evil in the fall of the human race, then God could only hate them because they all would be demonic. If humans were demonic, they would be incapable of doing any good at all. But even the most evil humans do some good in life which demonstrates that they still retain that good nature that God put into them. Those scriptures that relate that humans are worth nothing can only mean their dead and evil natures. Romans 3:10 (KJB). Romans 2:1-29 teaches that all humans possess a good nature created by God and an evil nature instilled into them by the Devil. Genesis 3:15 (KJB). Even the rich man in Hell demonstrated that he still retained his good nature when he showed compassion for his brothers when he requested that God send Lazarus to warn them about Hell. Luke 16:19-31 (KJB). God can only love that which is good, and so God loves and will save every good and living nature of every human He ever creates. I Timothy 4:10; II Timothy 1:10; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB).
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