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Why let so many perish?

Can something die that is already dead? Will God's wrath kill anyone as if they actually already had life?

The bottom line is that not everyone exists as God exists. The existence of the creation is an illusion. Nothing is permanent.

The flower blooms and then quickly fades. Everything comes and goes, and when it is around we call it something to give it identity, but soon find out that what it was (a dog) is now something else (organic compost) and in a matter of months it will be something else (tree food or fertilizer.)

There is nothing in all of creation to contrast this to, for everything in creation is likewise in flux.

Even the stars seem permanent enough, fixed in the sky, but
stellar time-frames show them to be in transition as well. What we call the stars and sun today, will be different then what they were in the past and what they will become in the future. Black-holes churn galaxies, and if the extent of a black-hole will gobble us today or millions of years from now, is hard to tell. What if the extent of the light-eating black hole was moving toward us right behind the sun-shine on our face, just slightly slower then the speed of that light-ray? Do we even know that the sun is there, or has it been destroyed right before it sent out the light that we basked in a minute ago?

The point is that nothing that has an identity has any true existence. Everything is only a relative time frame from becoming something else. Creation has identities within it, but they are gone as suddenly as they arrive.

Of course if there is something beyond creation, then we could make a contrast:

Psalm 90:2-3
2 Before the mountains were born
or you brought forth the earth and the world,
from everlasting to everlasting you are God.

3 You turn men back to dust,
saying, "Return to dust, O sons of men."
See also: Psalm 103:15-17

This Eternal Life found in Jesus and poured out for our consumption, is not a quantity of life ... as if to say more, or longer then our own, but it is beyond our own. It is above our temporal life, that is in flux. Eternal Life is LIFE AS God lives it.

God is unchanging, when we are in flux, and for us to partake of Eternal Life is to become as fixed and permanent as He is.

It is in contrast to this Life, that it is said that man's soul is dead. We are without this life, unless and until it is imparted and infused within us.

John 6
53Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 54Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. ... 62What if you see the Son of Man ascend to where he was before! 63The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life. 64Yet there are some of you who do not believe." For Jesus had known from the beginning which of them did not believe and who would betray him.

We already know that reconciliation is for everyone, but is Eternal Life given to all?

John 17:
"Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you. 2For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him. 3Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. 4I have brought you glory on earth by completing the work you gave me to do. 5And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began. 6"I have revealed you to those whom you gave me out of the world. They were yours; you gave them to me and they have obeyed your word. 7Now they know that everything you have given me comes from you. 8For I gave them the words you gave me and they accepted them. They knew with certainty that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me. 9I pray for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given me, for they are yours. 10All I have is yours, and all you have is mine. And glory has come to me through them. 11I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name—the name you gave me—so that they may be one as we are one. 12While I was with them, I protected them and kept them safe by that name you gave me. None has been lost except the one doomed to destruction so that Scripture would be fulfilled.

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Here is the article's index:

1. page 1 (titlepage):How man can redeem God.
2. page 2:"Why is God doomed?"
3. page 3:So what am I saying?
4. page 4: Why let so many perish?
5. page 5:"What do we do now?"
6. page 6:"What motivation do we have left?"

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