One of the great themes of the Bible reveals infallible and inerrant truths about God, about mankind, and about God's relationship with mankind. This truthful theme reveals that every person, except for one extraordinary man, has become a sinner because every person has been infected by a spiritual death and darkness which compels each person to commit sins.
God creates only good, useful, and beautiful systems. God creates His good systems from basic elements that He also created. For example, all mathematical systems are based on two basic ideas, the number one which is the basic idea for something and zero which is the basic idea for nothing. The basic elements of the periodic table produce all of the chemical systems of the universe, including life. The basic ideas of love and faith produce all good moral systems.
One of God's greatest creations, an angel named Lucifer, invented a method by which he could combine some of God's elements into destructive systems which produce only nothingness and deadness. God created a system called "pleasure" but meant for it to be used only in wise and controlled ways. Lucifer invented systems that greatly increased pleasure in the short run but proved to be destructive in the long run. Drugs and alcohol are two such systems. God knows how to use the two basic ideas called "excess" and "pride" in His creations of good systems. Lucifer combined these two basic ideas into a false and destructive system called "excessive pride." Lucifer applied excessive pride to his own being which caused him to believe that he could overthrow God and replace Him as ruler of the universe. God stripped Lucifer of all his good elements that He had put into his system and cast him to earth as a totally evil and empty entity called Satan. Ezekiel 28:13-19.
A rough approximation of that which happened with Lucifer's rebellion can be made with the following example. Automobile engines are useful systems involved in another useful system called transportation, if used in controlled ways. Those who engage in excessive gunning of automobile engines and excessive speed will usually shortly find themselves in a state of nothingness as far as transportation is concerned. Lucifer invented false systems that gunned some of God's good systems of ideas which caused God to reduce his false systems, including himself, to a state of nothingness. Lucifer has never created anything. He only misused God's good ideas to invent false systems. Nevertheless, even in a state of nothingness, Satan retained a system not created by God called "negative consciousness." God, and all of His good creations, know only a positive consciousness. Positive consciousness can get no idea whatsoever of what a negative consciousness could be except that it produces only false and destructive systems by misusing good ideas. Time and reality are positive systems produced by positive consciousness. Logically, this means negative consciousness can only come from some nonexistent realm which nonexists nowhere and at no time. In some mysterious way, negative consciousness emerged from this nonexistent realm to infect Lucifer and cause him to invent false systems. Satan still retains this negative consciousness and power. Ezekiel 28:15; II Thessalonians 2:7.
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