Joshua 6:24 KJB
God had the Israelite army to burn the city of Jericho to destroy the evil, pagan nature of the place. But God also had them to save the precious metals and put them into the treasury of the Lord. Even as wicked as Jericho was, it had some good in it. This same theme occurs again and again throughout the Bible. God punishes sin and evil, and sometimes destroys it with His fiery wrath, but something good always seems to be preserved. The harlot Rahab came to faith in God and hid two of Joshua's spies from the enemy and saved their lives. When the Israelites destroyed Jericho, Joshua saved her and her family alive. Joshua 6:25 (KJB).
God creates all humans in His image to be good and alive. Genesis 1:26-27; Genesis 1:31 (KJB). God can never lose anything He has ever created which means His living humans must live forever. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Luke 20:38 (KJB). But in order to live forever, every human must return to the faith that God put into them when He created them that God can save them alive forever. Habakkuk 2:4 (KJB). No matter how evil a human may become, he will still retain a small amount of that faith and goodness that God created him to be. Even Judas Iscariot became remorseful for his betrayal of Jesus, even though he refused to repent. Only goodness can be remorseful. Evil can never be remorseful. Matthew 27:3-5 (KJB). Jesus spoke to that spark of goodness still left in Judas Iscariot when Jesus called him "Friend." Matthew 26:50 (KJB).
Adam and Eve sinned for the same reason that all humans sin, because they had a weakness in their free will. God gives free will to every human He creates who are mature and intelligent. The Devil exploits that free will to cause every mature and intelligent human to sin, and when they sin, the Devil injects spiritual death into them all. The evil of spiritual death causes all humans to commit even worse sins and evils. Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:1-7; Genesis 3:15; Romans 5:12 (KJB). The Devil has planted the "seed" of spiritual death into every human who sins. But Jesus promised that His Father will root up every plant that He has not planted. Matthew 15:13 (KJB). This promise of Jesus can only mean that God will save every living human that He ever creates.
The Devil looks for a way to weaken God and eventually murder Him. John 8:44 (KJB). The Devil believes that God made a mistake in giving free will to humans because the Devil can misuse that free will to cause humans to choose to sin which becomes spiritual death which will eventually become eternal death which means God will lose a part of His creation that He loves forever and that loss will weaken God's power. The Devil also knows that no human will ever have the strength needed to get rid of his spiritual death, and so the Devil believed that he had trapped God into His eventual destruction. If God ever becomes weak, then He becomes subject to being murdered. But God, being Almighty and having all power over Satan and all evil, came to earth as a human and took all of the sins, evil, and spiritual deaths, that would have become eternal death, of all humans on Himself on a cross and suffered it all in the place of every human, and He rose from the dead with a complete victory over all sins, evil, and the Devil by turning eternal death into temporary death for all humans. Hebrews 2:9-18; II Timothy 1:10; I Corinthians 15:20-26; Revelation 1:17-18 (KJB).
God will prove that He did not make a mistake in giving free will to humans because He knows exactly how to cause every living human to return to faith in Him as their Savior of their own free will. Christ will save some of His living humans when they return to faith in Him that He washed away all of their sins and evil and annulled their spiritual deaths when He shed His blood and water on the cross for them. John 3:16; John 5:24 (KJB). But Christ will also visit all of the rest of humanity confined to the regions of death and on the earth in the end of the world, and He will cause them all to repent and return of their own free will to faith in Him as the Lamb of God their Savior. Revelation 5:11-14; Philippians 2:9-11 (KJB). Christ will then use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve 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 forever on His recreated earth, and He will cast their dead and evil natures into the eternal lake of fire. II Peter 3:9-13; Psalm 75:3; Matthew 13:36-43; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12 (KJB).
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