God meant exactly that which He said through the mouth of John the Baptist in John 1:29. Christ came to purge all sin from all humanity, some by His grace, and all others by consigning them to one of the regions of the dead in order to subject them to His consuming fire by which He will separate their total evil from their goodness and life which He created so that He can cleanse and recreate it. John 12:47; I Corinthians 3:12-15; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; Matthew 3:10-12; Ecclesiastes 3:14. God has proven to the Devil that His Love cannot be destroyed or even diminished.
Satan deceived Eve and caused her to sin because of her weakness. God's gift to her of free will caused her weakness. God knew that she could sin, but God also knew that through sin in the lives of humans, God could test His Love to the utmost and prove to His creations that His Love can never be destroyed. As long as sin and the Devil remained in God's universe, His Love would be in doubt, but God devised a plan to prove that His Love is all-powerful and to purge all sin from His universe forever. While the Devil was deceiving Eve, God had devised His own plan that through Adam and Eve He would destroy the Devil and all his works. God gave free will to Lucifer as a loving gift, but God did not know that this gift would cause a weakness for sin. At that time, God knew nothing about sin. God is Almighty and Holy, but He is also innocent. This fact does not mean that God is not Omniscient. God possesses an infinite knowledge of all that is good and holy. At the time that God gave free will to Lucifer, God knew nothing about sin because it is wholly negative and empty. Sin derives from negative consciousness which is less than nothing. The idea of nothing is positive because God can use it in creative systems like mathematics. All through the Bible, God refers to sin as being vanity and less than nothing. Isaiah 40:17; II Corinthians 12:9.
Nothing is a creative idea for God and man and constitutes a useful element in all positive systems. But nothingness which is not an idea must nonexist. Yet, it remains the source of all that is destructive and evil. Nothingness which is not an idea cannot be a part of positive reality, and yet in some mysterious way, it can have a destructive effect on reality. For example, all correct mathematical calculations are positive and creative systems. 2-2=0 is one such system. The zero represents the idea of nothing which is the useful result of this positive system. But if one mentally subtracts the two twos, the minus sign, and the equal sign as elements of this system, then one still has the idea of the zero which is useful in reality. But reality itself is a positive system. If one then mentally subtracts the idea of zero from this calculation which represents reality, then one is left with absolute nothingness which cannot be an idea and one cannot mentally grasp it. But one also notices when this mental experiment reaches the level of absolute nothingness, then it has also mentally destroyed both the positive calculation and the idea of nothing itself. Sin has a similar effect on human systems and reality. Sin constitutes an attempted negation of reality.
Eve sinned because of her weakness caused by free will. But her failure was a part of God's plan to rescue all of His creations from doubt about God's Love which Lucifer had instilled in them through his rebellion. All of God's creations must have complete faith and confidence in the power of God's Love to protect them from destruction, or negative consciousness will continuously inject destructive fear and doubt into God's creations throughout eternity. The Devil thought that he could completely destroy the life and goodness that God had put into Eve, and thereby destroy God's love for her. His effort was all a part of the Devil's plan to begin the process of destroying God Himself by destroying a part of His Love. But God's plan was to take Adam and Eve's sin on Himself on a cruel cross and suffer their eternal destruction in their place to prove that His self-sacrificial Love cannot be destroyed. God then rose from the dead to prove His Love was still alive and able to rescue all mankind from eternal destruction. John 12:47; I Timothy 4:10; I John 3:8.
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