Ezekiel 28:1-19 Isaiah 14:12-17
Lucifer was God's wisest and most beautiful creation. God created Lucifer with love. God wanted Lucifer to know that he was wise and beautiful. In order to do this, God had to give him self-awareness and free will. God wanted Lucifer to be like Him in many ways.
But God appeared to be naive and innocent when He created Lucifer. God cannot be charged with making a mistake for creating Lucifer because God knew absolutely nothing about evil. God expected Lucifer to create only good systems. Habakkuk 1:13 relates that God can see the effects of sin, but God cannot look on sin directly. This condition accounts for why the Father turned His face away from Jesus on the cross. Matthew 27:46; Psalm 22:1,6.
Evil is a mystery even to God. II Thessalonians 2:7. This does not mean that God is not omniscient. God possesses an infinite knowledge of all that is good, but He cannot directly know sin.
God cannot directly observe sin because God has a positive consciousness, a consciousness of goodness only. God created Lucifer and mankind to have only a positive consciousness. A positive consciousness seeks only to create good systems. A negative consciousness seeks only to destroy good systems.
The source of all evil lies in the abyss. Luke 8:31 calls it "the deep." Revelation 20:3 calls it "the bottomless pit." It is a place of nonexistence and absolute nothingness. Yet, in some mysterious way, negative consciousnesses can emerge from absolute nothingness in an attempt to possess living beings.
In the story of the maniac of Gadara in Luke 8:26-37, the demons that possessed the man cried out that they knew Jesus was the Son of God. They did this only because they were deathly afraid of Jesus and hoped only to placate His wrath. These demons begged Jesus not to exile them back to the abyss. Negative consciousness hates the abyss. It is nowhere and at no time, and there is nothing there of which to be conscious. There, demons can only wail in the agony of emptiness. Jesus displayed His mercy even to the demons by sending them into a herd of swine instead of the deep. But the herd of swine killed themselves to get rid of the demons, and so the demons went back to the abyss anyway. I John 3:8 teaches us that Jesus came to destroy the works of the Devil. In other words, Jesus came to purge all evil from His world.
God knew nothing about the abyss or evil until after Lucifer had rebelled. This happened because there was nothing to know. God only knows an infinite goodness. That is all that is worth knowing. Sin equals vanity or emptiness. Romans 8:20.
Lucifer began to love his own beauty and wisdom. Ezekiel 28:15 relates that suddenly evil was found in him. This evil came from nowhere. It came from the abyss. Lucifer invented a false system called "excessive pride." Negative consciousness has no ideas of its own. Lucifer had to steal God's ideas in order to invent false systems such as "excessive pride" and "excessive pleasures" which prove only to be destructive. All of God's ideas stolen by Lucifer were good in themselves. "Excessive" and "pride" and "pleasure" are all good ideas as God knows how to use them in creative systems. Lucifer could not create anything. He could only invent false systems that are always destructive.
Ezekiel 28:17-18 relates that God destroyed Lucifer with fire and exiled his ashes to the earth. Hebrews 12:29 teaches us that "...God is a consuming fire." God burned up Lucifer in order to recover His good elements that God had put into him, and He exiled his "ashes," symbolic of his negative consciousness, to the earth. This relates how Lucifer became the Devil. God used His good ideas to create Lucifer as a good system. God had to have recovered all of Lucifer's good elements because the Devil became totally evil.
But on the earth, the Devil or Satan did not lose his negative consciousness. He could still invent false systems called "lies" by which he could attack God's next creation, the finite, but innocent, consciousness of mankind. Satan could no longer use God's ideas directly, but he remembered some of them, and by using these shadow ideas, he formed his lies.
Positive consciousness can get no idea of how a negative consciousness can do anything or even how it can exist in a nonexistent state. We do know that a negative consciousness can possess no ideas of its own. A negative consciousness, which is a demon, can only invade a positive consciousness in order to get out of the abyss and have a means to invent destructive systems from the good ideas that it finds there.
Monday, May 29, 2017
Thursday, May 25, 2017
God's Creations
God created all things for His pleasure, and all things belong to Him. Revelation 4:11. God literally created every object of consciousness; that is, all things material and abstract, visible and invisible. Colossians 1:16-17.
Two forms of God's creations exist, the first being the basis of the second. First are the irreducible elements of creation such as "red," "round," "straight," and "justice." All the rest of His creations consist of true combinations of these basic elements. God's wisdom constitutes His ability to think and plan according to His creative use of these basic elements and ideas. I Corinthians 2:7 and Acts 15:18 relate how God used His wisdom meticulously to plan His creations and the course of world history.
Hebrews 4:3 relates that God views creation and world history as being already finished. God sees His creations in an eternal sense. God can narrow the focus of His Mind to concentrate on the passage of time through history, but God can also broaden His Mind to encompass eternity. Finite minds can only focus on the passage of time through history.
God uses the basic elements of His creations such as "gravity," "electromagnetic energy," and "chemicals" to form very complicated systems such as the universe and life. God called all of His creations "good." "Good" means they are useful, beautiful, and life producing.
One of the basic, essential elements of God's creations is the idea of nothing. God uses the idea of nothing to put space between His various creations in order to give them form, identity, and orderliness. God also uses the idea of nothing to exclude any idea not useful to any particular system. For example, the element carbon does not belong in the useful system called "water."
God also uses the idea of nothing to indicate certain areas of nonexistence called "absolute nothingness." Absolute nothingness means chaos and an absence of creative consciousness. Absolute nothingness is always destructive. Destructive systems called "sin" emerge from absolute nothingness. This effect does not mean that sin is not real. Sinful systems have a truly destructive effect on creative systems.
Psalm 19 and Romans 1:19-20 relate the irrefutable logic that creativity and order can only come from a mind. All of creation is based on information. Only minds can store and use information to create useful systems. God possesses an Infinite Mind. Psalm 147:5. This principle extends to all of God's creative ideas including the laws of physics, mathematics, logic, quantum mechanics, and the extremely complicated laws that govern the creation and maintenance of life.
Certain experiments in quantum mechanics, such as the two-slit experiment, have revealed that only consciousness can collapse a wave-function to a particle. In other words, consciousness exists as the only known entity that can turn energy into matter. Brains consist of matter that can only be collapsed by consciousness. Therefore, consciousness had to have preceded all forms of matter.
This principle proves that God's Infinite Consciousness had to have created all the energy and matter of the universe. First God said, "Let there be light" and all forms of energy were created. Genesis 1:3. Then, God collapsed some of this energy into particles by which He formed the universe with all its laws that govern its orderliness and beauty. Genesis 1:6.
Two forms of God's creations exist, the first being the basis of the second. First are the irreducible elements of creation such as "red," "round," "straight," and "justice." All the rest of His creations consist of true combinations of these basic elements. God's wisdom constitutes His ability to think and plan according to His creative use of these basic elements and ideas. I Corinthians 2:7 and Acts 15:18 relate how God used His wisdom meticulously to plan His creations and the course of world history.
Hebrews 4:3 relates that God views creation and world history as being already finished. God sees His creations in an eternal sense. God can narrow the focus of His Mind to concentrate on the passage of time through history, but God can also broaden His Mind to encompass eternity. Finite minds can only focus on the passage of time through history.
God uses the basic elements of His creations such as "gravity," "electromagnetic energy," and "chemicals" to form very complicated systems such as the universe and life. God called all of His creations "good." "Good" means they are useful, beautiful, and life producing.
One of the basic, essential elements of God's creations is the idea of nothing. God uses the idea of nothing to put space between His various creations in order to give them form, identity, and orderliness. God also uses the idea of nothing to exclude any idea not useful to any particular system. For example, the element carbon does not belong in the useful system called "water."
God also uses the idea of nothing to indicate certain areas of nonexistence called "absolute nothingness." Absolute nothingness means chaos and an absence of creative consciousness. Absolute nothingness is always destructive. Destructive systems called "sin" emerge from absolute nothingness. This effect does not mean that sin is not real. Sinful systems have a truly destructive effect on creative systems.
Psalm 19 and Romans 1:19-20 relate the irrefutable logic that creativity and order can only come from a mind. All of creation is based on information. Only minds can store and use information to create useful systems. God possesses an Infinite Mind. Psalm 147:5. This principle extends to all of God's creative ideas including the laws of physics, mathematics, logic, quantum mechanics, and the extremely complicated laws that govern the creation and maintenance of life.
Certain experiments in quantum mechanics, such as the two-slit experiment, have revealed that only consciousness can collapse a wave-function to a particle. In other words, consciousness exists as the only known entity that can turn energy into matter. Brains consist of matter that can only be collapsed by consciousness. Therefore, consciousness had to have preceded all forms of matter.
This principle proves that God's Infinite Consciousness had to have created all the energy and matter of the universe. First God said, "Let there be light" and all forms of energy were created. Genesis 1:3. Then, God collapsed some of this energy into particles by which He formed the universe with all its laws that govern its orderliness and beauty. Genesis 1:6.
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