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If all men are saved, why are some still condemned?
Because you do not use the word "saved" correctly in the proper context it is being used.

First, salvation is correcting the fall. That is as simple as it can get. If your explanations of salvation do not align with the fall, you have something incorrect.

Adam sinned plunged mankind, not at few men, into Death and Sin. All men die. all men sin because they are dead. If Christ is going to correct the fall, assuming that you agree with this premise, then He must of necessity save those that fell due to Adam. Since all men fell, then all men are saved. However, the word saved must be qualified. First, because we are speaking of Christ's redemption of man. Secondly, it should always be qualified or understood to be saying "saved from death and sin".
These are some of the text that show this correlation; II Cor 5:14-19; Col 1:15-20, John 5:28-29, Rom 5:14-19, I Cor 15:20-22. John 12:32, Acts 24:15, Acts 23:6.

If you show that Christ's Work was partial, then you need to show also just what part of the universe was saved. He saved the created universe. The universe by Genesis also suffered the pangs of death and corruption. Or is man the only thing that dies?

The fact that all men will be raised also speaks to the fact that Christ died for ALL men, mankind.

However, back to Adam. Adam did not have a problem walking with God. God created man for a very specific purpose. Adam was doing this walking, was in a personal, intimate relationship with God. He was created to be prophet, king and priest of God's creation. God redeemed for mankind these three offices. We also know that man was to be conformed to God's Image. That is the work that Adam was in the process of performing when he sinned. By sinning, death came and death wrought more sin, and man's union with God was terminated.

There was nothing wrong with the walk, it just could not take place. Christ overcame death and sin IN ORDER THAT MAN COULD AGAIN BE IN UNION WITH HIM. Man can again do so, but God has left, as He did with Adam, the free choice to choose whether to serve God or Satan.

This latter portion is called the salvation of man as opposed to the salvation or redemption of mankind. Once you have that understood, the rest of Scripture should fall into place.
The Incarnation was specifically to redeem His creation of which man is only a part.

The first part, redemption is objective. It is imposed on mankind. Mankind has nothing to do with it, cannot change it, did not contribute anything to it. God our of love for His creation redeemed it for Himself. However, the part dealing with walking with God is all man's decision. That does not mean Grace is not involved, nor that God is not active. In fact, it is all God here as well, because He calls all men to repentance. The Holy Spirit was poured out upon all flesh for the specific purpose of God calling them to repentance.

However, some men will refuse to believe. Others will believe for a time and depart.

By putting the salvation of man into the salvation or redemption of mankind you have Christ accomplishing the purpose of which man was specifically created to perform. You have Adam's walk with God as the problem in the fall rather than the sin.

You not only limit God's redemptive plan, but you then want Christ to do the work for which man was created to perform. Another way of saying it, Christ is now walking with God. He replaced man and his role in creation.