Suddenly, iniquity was found in Lucifer. This evil seemed to come from nowhere because it actually came from nowhere. Evil comes from the abyss, from absolute nothingness which non exists nowhere and at no time. How Lucifer's fall could happen remains a mystery, even to God. II Thessalonians 2:7. This mystery does not diminish God's omniscience one iota because God possesses an infinite knowledge of His positive Ideas. Nothing can be known about absolute nothingness. It is a kind of anti-knowledge. One can speculate that when God created His positive creations, then perhaps He also inadvertently non created, as a kind of balance, a nonexistent abyss. Isaiah 45:6-7. In some mysterious way, the abyss can generate negative consciousnesses which can infect God's positive creations. Perhaps, Lucifer became infected with one or more of these demons. Jesus encountered these demons often in His earthly ministry, and He always threw them back into the abyss. Jesus did at one time inject some demons into some swine, but He also knew that even the swine would not tolerate their presence. God does not know how these demons get into His positive creations, and therefore, He does not know how to ban them permanently by an arbitrary command. God could issue such a command, but since the nature of the demons is to be disobedient, they could always simply come back. However, God has devised a plan through the fall of man to test His Love Himself and so prove its infinite worth that He will then be able to cleanse and recreate His universe to a state so pure that all negative consciousnesses will be permanently banned from ever being able to enter into it. II Peter 3:12-13; Revelation 21:3-5; Colossians 1:15-20.
Three aspects of man's being exists. On the highest level, man can be loving and self-sacrificial, like Jesus. This condition constitutes that part of man which still remains in the image of God. On a lower level, man has been made weak by the injection of sin into his being. This weakness causes sins to become inevitable in his life, and he often finds himself confused about what is good and what is evil. On the lowest level of man's being, he deliberately chooses to be evil. This is the level of deliberate rebellion against God. This is the serpent in man. God cursed the serpent and the ground. God never forgives total evil. Like the Devil himself, total evil must be separated from God forever and cast into the lake of fire in the ground.
God's project is to restore man wholly to the image of God by rescuing him from his weakness by salvation by grace or his recreation. God will also separate total evil from man's being and consign it to the lake of fire. God has accomplished this victory over evil in man by His shed blood and water on the cross, and by His descent into hell which is the consuming fire of God. Repentant sinners become saved while on earth by the grace of God through their faith that the shed blood and water of Christ will cleanse them of all sin so that God can recreate their souls and spirits. Christ left all of the sins of mankind behind in hell when He rose from the dead. This means that when God consigns unrepentant sinners to hell, His purpose is to separate their original goodness from their sins by using His consuming fire so that He can recreate a pure, righteous human race to live on a recreated earth. Jesus rose from the dead to prove that sin and the Devil can never destroy His Love or His Being.
Faith always overcomes doubt and fear. God has compassion on man's weakness for sin because of his doubt and fear. God's heart goes out to man because he is helpless to save himself. So in His Love, God became a man Himself to gain the victory over sin for man and in his place. Repentant sinners become saved because God gives them the faith that Jesus has in Himself. Unrepentant sinners become recreated because of Christ's faith that hell could not hold Him. Both are saved by Christ's resurrection from the dead. I Corinthians 15:12-23.
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