and now I'd like to use this to springboard into an explanation of my understanding of these issues, 
First, all beings created in HIS image, ie, able to become HIS Bride by their free will, were created.
Your post is very strange to say the least. This is the gospel according to TedT, which is blatantly
"another" gospel.
Only our first parents were created after the image of God, with a free will ~ Adam stood as the head of his generation of flesh and blood. So, he is called the
first Adam by Paul, who was of the earth, earthly. Adam was
not a private person, but was appointed the representative as the head of all of his posterity by the appointment of God his Creator.
Once Adam sinned, which was
immediately, since God left him to the power of his own will, without giving him any assistance, or securing him in the state in which he was created, which God was not under obligation to do so ~ he lost God's image of wisdom, knowledge, understanding, and righteousness. All that proceeds from his loins now have his
fallen nature (image) that is
void of spiritual wisdom, knowledge, and understanding, and certainly of any righteousness.
Second, every creature in HIS image heard the proclamation of HIS gospel of salvation from any sin they might sin in the future:
You Then you quoted:
Col 1:23
Berean Standard Bible
...if indeed you continue in your faith, established and firm, not moved from the hope of the gospel you heard, which has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant.
Without going into this scriptures in depth, we will only say, that this true, in the sense that the heavens declare the glory of God, per Psalms 19.
It is also true that the apostles/prophets/Christians preached to all the known world in their day per Colossians 1:23 ~yet, folks
did not hear the truth of these things with the image of God, but with their
fallen image that Adam passed down to them. The image of God is restored in the creation of
the new man when one is born again ~ per:
Ephesians 4:24; Colossians 3:10; etc.
This gospel included the PROMISE of election that any who put their free will faith without any proof in the Son as their saviour from any sin would indeed be chosen to be saved from their sinfulness and would become HIS Bride. Any who rejected Him as their saviour by repudiating Him for any reason by faith, ie, without any proof of failure,
(Highlighted is done by me for discussion.)
This is one confused statement. You have created a definition for the word election,
that is contrary to its meaning, but one that serves to support your corrupt understanding of the gospel of
free justification by the obedience of Jesus Christ for God's elect.
What does the word election mean? It signifies
to single out, to select, to choose, to take one and leave another. Election means that God has singled out certain ones to be the objects of His saving grace, while others are left to suffer the just punishment of their sins. It means that before the foundation of the world, God chose out of the mass of our humanity, a certain number and predestined them to be conformed to the image of His Son. "Simeon has declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name" (
Act 15:14). We cannot do better than here amplify our definition of election by quoting from a sermon by the late C.H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) on "Things That Accompany Salvation": "Before Salvation came into this world, Election marched in the very forefront, and it had for its work the billeting of Salvation. Election went through the world and marked the houses to which Salvation should come and the hearts in which the treasure should be deposited. Election looked through all the race of man, from Adam down to the last, and marked with sacred stamp those for whom Salvation was designed. 'He must needs go through Samaria' (
John 4:4) said Election; and Salvation must go there. Then came Predestination. Predestination did not merely mark the house,
but it mapped the road in which Salvation should travel to that house. Predestination ordained every step of the great army of Salvation; it ordained the time when the sinner should be brought to Christ, the manner how he should be saved, the means that should be employed; it marked the exact hour and moment when God the Spirit should quicken the dead in sin, and when peace and pardon should be spoken through the blood of Jesus."
Any who rejected Him as their saviour by repudiating Him for any reason by faith, ie, without any proof of failure, would be enslaved by their sudden addiction to evil and, as unable to save themselves, would be self locked into sinfulness forever, fitted only for destruction, ie, banishment to the outer darkness.
"would be enslaved by their sudden addiction to evil"~By nature men are born into this world servants to sin and the devil. It does not come on them sudden being addicted to sin, through rejecting Christ. You have invented a system that even false prophets in the pass would have trouble believing.
As for those elect who chose to sin by rebelion to HIM (probably because they believed that since they were promised to be saved from condemnation to hell and would therefore never die they were safe to sin), they became the sinners who believed yet were never condemned though they had to live with the reprobate until they learned to come out from among those condemned already so they could be, John 3:18 with Matt 13:27-30.
One false invention needs another one to cover the others ones!
Have you never read so much as this:
Matthew 24:24....
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For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect."
It is
impossible to totally deceive the very elect, cannot be done. As I said above, your understanding is strange/demonic.
Third, after everyone had self created their eternal relationship with YHWH by their free will choice of faith without any proof as 1. never sinful (ie, holy), or 2. as never believing (ie, those condemned already) or as 3. believers who chose to sin, all sinners were flung down to Sheol, Rev 12:4-9, in the earth, a prison planet with a rehab centre in it, (ie, the church). From Sheol sinners are sown into the world, Matt 13:36-39, for the sanctification of the sinful elect to speed up the coming of the heavenly marriage and the heavenly age.
I'm coming back after meeting~RB
