This theology does not advocate universal salvation. This theology advocates universal recreation.
In this theology, God condemns lost sinners to torment forever in a lake of fire. This lost condition constitutes a part of the being of every human since the fall of man. This lost condition equals total rebellion against God. This lost condition allies itself with the rebellion of Satan, and is totally evil. Atheists have given their consciousnesses over to this way of thinking. The deepest part of Adam's sin was that he knowingly and willfully disobeyed God. In this respect, Adam became allied with Satan. To a degree, the consciousness of Adam and all his progeny became allied with negative consciousness; that is, demonic consciousness. God cursed this demonic consciousness when He cursed the serpent and the ground. God's project is to separate all humans from this demonic consciousness either by using salvation by grace or by His consuming fires of hell. God never forgives total rebellion because total rebellion never repents. He can, and must, condemn it to be preoccupied with torment forever so that it can never infect His creations again like it did with Lucifer's rebellion. Genesis 3:8-11, 14-19, 21; II Timothy 4:10; Revelation 20:14-15; Revelation 22:11.
All of the Old Testament animal sacrifices, including the burnt offering, symbolized some aspect of the finished work of Christ in His life, death, burial, and resurrection. Hebrews 9:26. Jesus bore the sins of all mankind when He died on the cross. Isaiah 53:6. When Jesus descended into hell, He left behind all of the sins of all men not saved by grace to be burned by God's consuming fire. Psalm 22:6; Mark 9:48-49; Leviticus 2:8-13; Matthew 3:11-12. The Bible often uses the term "worm" to symbolize man's sin. Isaiah 66:24; Exodus 16:19-20. The Biblical term "salt" symbolizes that which preserves the lives of men. Leviticus 2:13; Mark 9:49. The lives of all those saved by grace do not descend with Christ into hell because their sins have already been cleansed by the shed blood and water of Christ on the cross. The lives of all sinful men have descended with Christ into hell where their sinful systems were burned in order to liberate the good elements of those systems to be used by God to recreate a new human race to live on His recreated earth. Revelation 21:5. But their rebellious nature; that is, their demonic consciousnesses which are capable of inventing false systems called sin, God will condemn forever to the lake of fire. Revelation 20:14-15. Every aspect of the finished work of Christ for the spiritual salvation or the recreation of mankind is interconnected. In other words, the burnt offering does not work without the blood sacrifice, and both do not work without Christ's perfect life and resurrection. Hebrews 13:10-13.
The rebellious part of man's nature extends from Satan's rebellion. Satan injected his rebellion into the whole of humanity when Adam fell. Excessive pride constitutes a sinful system which is the basis for all sinful systems. Excessive pride invents the idea that one can replace God's rule with one's own invented systems. But in order to do this, one must first get rid of God. In this way, excessive pride became the basis for the sins of lying and murder. Excessive pride caused Satan to lie about God in order to discredit Him and provide a reason to try to kill Him. Excessive pride also became the basis for all other sins. Ezekiel 28:1-19; Genesis 3:1-5, 15; John 8:44-45.
Sinful systems are always inventions, never creations. Only God can create. Sinful systems may cause heightened pleasure and excitement in the short run, but they always prove to be destructive in the long run. Hebrews 11:25. One invents sinful systems when one steals God's true and good ideas and arranges them into a false system. For example, the calculation 2+3=6 is a false system even though every element of it is a true and good idea. This example provides a simple illustration of that which Lucifer did when he rebelled against God. Lucifer allowed a false system called "excessive pride" to enter into his consciousness and he acted on it. Both "excessive" and "pride" are good and true ideas as God knows how to use them. Every human possesses some of this same form of rebellion within him. John 8:44.
When a Christian believer dies, his soul and spirit immediately return to God because God has already thoroughly cleansed him from all his sins by the blood of Jesus and has recreated his soul and spirit by the power of the Holy Spirit. II Corinthians 5:8. When an unbeliever dies, his soul and spirit descends into hell where God's consuming fire burns up all his sinful systems in order to liberate God's good and true elements which return to God to be used in His future recreation of the earth and mankind. I Corinthians 3:15; Revelation 21:5. However, the unbeliever's negative consciousness which is his rebellious nature remains in hell to be later cast into the lake of fire. God never forgives rebellion because it never repents. Revelation 20:14-15
No comments:
Post a Comment