We are in agreement on this bit.
This is where we part company, and where I am dreaming BIGGER.
I believe in Ultimate Redemption for all of humankind.
1 Corinthians 15:22
For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.
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There's much more to it than that, but you are so married to your idea that you will never dance with another. Kind of a theological Mike Pence-- you won't even have coffee with any idea but your own.
Your "ultimate redemption" premise creeps into every conversation. When and where it runs counter to scripture, you ignore those portions of scripture, choosing to brush those off while shining portions that you think support the idea.
In 1 Cor 15-- yes, it does say that
in Adam all die.... and it does say
in Christ all will be made alive. That doesn't mean that all will be saved and live forever. It doesn't say 'that' -- in fact, Paul explains it much differently, if you were to read all he wrote, instead of cherry-picking one verse to shine.
He puts it in terms of being in a heavenly house- the house of the Father, which is eternal-- or being away from that house, and absent from the Lord, and in a mortal house of flesh. We are not now, what we will become later. What we are now is but a down payment on our heavenly house, which is spirit. 2 Cor 5. Here's the thing-- he is contrasting spirit and flesh. Life and death. So though we are alive in the flesh, here and now-- this earthly plane is the abode of death. Everything here is dying and dies, and so by extension of the metaphor-- everything here is already dead (from the spiritual perspective).
The reconciliation that you think of as being somehow 'universal' is not. It is reserved for those who follow Christ and are raised from death to life in and through the spirit. Not for everyone, but only for those that "follow him" back to the Father and are found (judged) to be worthy of him and are thus rewarded and received and not 'cut off' from the tree of life, having their names erased from the book of life.
Paul says- we (who follow Christ) are therefore
full of courage and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord. So
then whether we are alive (in spirit)
or away (in the flesh),
we make it our ambition to please him. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be paid back according to what he has done while in the body, whether good or evil.
The important concept is that we are not from here. We are from there^^^^^^ and from the perspective of where we are from we have fallen to this place. In Adam (in the flesh) all die. We must rise from the dead and follow the one who overcomes the world- the Christ and like him, become overcomers of the world and return to the Father's house from whence we came. Not everyone will enter in. Scripture is clear on this.