What you are doing is assuming something and then adding to scripture to make your assumption true. So let us see ... "world of believers"? Let's apply it. After all what you do to one scripture you must do to the rest. God's version first, then yours:
God: John 15:19; "If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you."
brightfame52: "If ye were of the world of believers, the world of believers would love his own: but because ye are not of the world of believers, but I have chosen you out of the world of believers, therefore the world of believers hateth you."
God: 1st John 2:15; "Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him."
brightfame52: "Love not the world of believers, neither the things that are in the world of believers. If any man love the world of believers, the love of the Father is not in him."
Absurd? Then let us leave off adding to scripture and discover what is meant. The answer lies in the five main Offerings of Leviticus - of which, Christ is the fulfillment.
You will note that in Leviticus we have, in this order (i) the Burnt Offering, (ii) the Meal Offering, (iii) the Peace Offering. Not one of them addresses sin or sins. Why? Because they solve man's problems with God FOR GOD'S SAKE. Their meanings need a book, so i will not go into it. It is only when we come to the last two Offerings that man's sin ans sins are dealt with; (iv) the Sin (singular) Offering, and (v) the Trespass (plural) Offering. These two Offerings ALSO solve man's problems with God FOR GOD'S SAKE. In Egypt, God needed Israel alive BECAUSE He had made Promises to Abraham. The blood on the OUTSIDE of the door was for God, so that He could pass over that house. The Israelites neither ate the blood nor partook of it nor saw it once the door was closed.
God's purpose in creating man in Genesis 1:26-28 was that he might subdue and rule the earth. And according to 1st Corinthians 15:22 death needs to be subdued. That is, Christ must set the JUDICIAL terms for God to overthrow sin (singular). The wages of sin (singular) is death, not the Lake of Fire (Rom.6:23). For ALL men to be resurrected, "sin" (singular), the thing caused by ADAM'S TRANSGRESSION (Rom.5:12-14). If our Lord Jesus can create the judicial grounds for a righteous God, this righteous God can say that sin is dealt with and cause the dead, ALL OF THEM, to be raised. And this He does. So 1st Corinthians 15:22 continues with the sequence of the resurrection of ALL men. First Christ, then us Christians, and finally, at the end, "the rest of the dead" (Rev.20). In Revelation 21 we see that there is NO MORE DEATH. This has nothing to do with the Lake of Fire. It has everything to do with the physically DEAD.
But these DEAD, except for Jesus Christ, have SINNED; or "committed TRESPASSES". For this the wages are PERDITION (Isa.66:24). The word "perdition" is used interchangeably with "destruction", the "Lake of Fire" and "the Second Death". Vine's expository dictionary tells us the the Greek word for "perdition" does not mean annihilation, or "cessation of the senses". It gives the meaning as "exquisite lack of well-being". That is, a man in perdition is alive and in command of all his faculties, but is desperately unhappy. So both Isaiah 66 and Mark 9 confirm that "HIS (personal) worm will not die", and "HIS (personal fire will not be quenched." And if you study the Lake of Fire, or the Second Death, or Perdition, you will find in every case that LIVING MEN go there. But this creates a problem FOR GOD.
Romans 11 says that ALL Israel will be saved. But it also says that Israel remain blind until the fullness of the Gentiles comes in. According to Daniel, this is when God topples and crushes Gentile Government at Armageddon. ON WHAT BASIS CAN GOD EXTEND MERCY TO ISRAEL? Romans 11 says that they ALL have been concluded in unbelief. So how can they be saved? The answer is Jesus creates the JUDICIAL GROUNDS for God to forgive anybody He wants to
(Romans 9:16-23, 11:30-32). 1st John 2:2 says that our Lord died for the SINS (plural), or TRESPASSES of the WORLD. Does this mean that men won't go to the Lake of Fire? NO! Does it mean that God winks at trespasses? NO! It means that Israel can be forgiven BASED ON THE COVENANT IF GOD WANTS TO! And so Romans 11 says so, and a number of Israelite Prophets say so. 1st John 2:2 mentions us Christians, but then goes on to say that NOT ONLY OUR SINS are dealt with by Christ's death, but EVERY SINGLE TRESPASS ever committed.
Christ, by taking ALL SINS (trespasses) on Himself clear the way for God to have mercy on who He likes to.
Summary:
- Christ needed to create judicial grounds for very man to be resurrected, even those who are cast int the Lake of Fire. He thus dies for the "sin" (singular) of the whole world. Death is caused by Adam's nature passed on from man to man and if our Lord did not shed His blood for the SIN of the world, God could not legally raise all men from the dead. And so we have the "SIN" (singular) Offering.
- Christ needed to create judicial grounds for a righteous God to extend mercy to people He made a promise to. Christ pays the price for ALL SINS (trespasses) ever committed so that God can extend mercy to who He wants. This is one of His most profound works. It gives God the right, without hurting His holiness and righteousness, to prevent an unbeliever, like a new-born baby, from going to the Lake of Fire. At the same time is does not FORCE God to do anything. Hitler will no doubt pay the price and reap the wages of his acts. But the ten-year-old Mongolian child-sheep-herder who was killed by Genghis Khan, and never heard the gospel, can be released from the Lake of Fire based solely on these judicial grounds created by Christ. Thus, Christ is the fulfillment of the TRESPASS Offering.
