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ClementofA, is this off topic:
1 Peter 4:18 "And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?"
I don't guess you understand that all things which happened in relation to that Ancient Israel were a figure of what would happen world-wide. It does take most some time to understand that.
All you need do is to follow that Greek "polus" on through the NT to see that you are grasping at a wrong impression of that word. Try it and see if what you find supports your theory. Similarly the Greek, "pas." Do the same thing with that word, "all."
The words, "many" and "all", are relative in meaning. They are easy to get a wrong impression of and easy to give a wrong impression of. So it pays not to get too excited before investigating how those words are used in the broader context of the entire NT.
17 For it is time for judgment to begin with the family of God; and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who disobey the gospel of God?
18 And, “If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?
Peter asks these questions. Does he know the answer to them? Compare from the same chapter:
6 For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.
and from 1 Pet 3:
18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; 20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
Acts 3:21 whom it behoveth heaven, indeed, to receive till times of restoration of all, of which God spake through the mouth of all His holy prophets from the age.
Rom 5:18 Consequently, then, as it was through one offense for all mankind for condemnation, thus also it is through one just act for all mankind for life's justifying."
Rom 5:19 For even as, through the disobedience of the one man, the many were constituted sinners, thus also, through the obedience of the One, the many shall be constituted just."
https://www.tentmaker.org/books/hope_beyond_hell.pdf
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