All Lucifer needed was to form a crack in God's armor, and he would be on his way to destroying God and appropriating all of God's Ideas to his own misuse to invent false systems as laws by which he would rule the universe. If Lucifer could have caused just one of God's good Ideas to become permanently filthy with sin, then he could prove that something was wrong with God's Ideas and thus His very Being. God's Infinite Set of Ideas corresponds to the Word of God which, in living form, is the Lord Jesus Christ. John 1:1. Lucifer's success would cause a crack in God's damn that would eventually widen into a flood that would wash God out of His universe. But from the rebellion of Lucifer to the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ, Satan has failed. Ezekiel 28:18; John 8:39-40, 44.
God has created absolutely everything, mental and material. Doubt and fear are ideas and feelings which emanate from God's Infinite Set of Ideas which He uses to create good systems, such as mankind. Doubt and fear within fallen man become objectified as ideas within his mind and as the physical feelings of emotions. God knows how to use doubt and fear as ideas in good systems to benefit mankind. Satan misuses doubt and fear to terrify mankind in his attempts to separate man permanently from God's Love. God knows how to use doubt and fear to elicit faith in man toward God. Should Satan succeed, that would become the crack in God's armor that would eventually cause the downfall of God. God's Being has thus been tested through the fall of mankind. Genesis 3:8-11; Job 1:6-12; Job 13:15; Matthew 4:1-11; Luke 22:42.
God welcomes this test of His Being. God created man for the very purpose of testing His Being. God has perfect faith in Himself that Satan cannot touch His Being, but God must prevent Satan from injecting doubt and fear as a permanent fixture into His creations. God has proven that His Love for mankind always conquers false systems made actual by Satan's injection of doubt and fear into mankind. God uses doubt and fear to prove the eternal value of His Love. Satan misuses doubt and fear to try to destroy God's Love. Should God refrain from this test, then Satan's misuse of doubt and fear would become a permanent fixture within God's creations. God will not allow this circumstance to happen. God has allowed His Love to be tested in order to eliminate Satan and his false systems from His creations forever. I Corinthians 13:8. Mankind had to fall so that this test would be a real one, but where man failed, God as a man, succeeded. This is the reason why God's Word refers to His gift of faith to man as being the same faith that Christ has in His Father. Acts 26:18. God deliberately allowed Satan to inject doubt and fear into His good system called man, thus causing good and evil to be joined together. But God's action was part of His plan to eliminate sin and evil permanently from all of His creations and prove the eternal value of His Love by becoming a perfect man Himself. Genesis 3:14-15.
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