The existence of a creative realm of positive consciousness, and the nonexistence of a destructive realm of negative consciousness could explain God's statement in Isaiah 45:7 where He said, "I ...create evil." Since God possesses only an Infinite Consciousness of all positive creations, then He may have accidentally and unwittingly established an opposite realm of negative consciousness when He created the universe. God did not learn about false systems invented by negative consciousness until Lucifer's rebellion. No doubt, God created the feelings of "pain" and "sorrow," but only to be used in future creative systems such as the sacrifice of His Son on the cross. Satan uses "excessive pain" and "excessive sorrow" to be destructive effects of his false systems. God may have confessed in Isaiah 45:7 that He is the source of pain and sorrow, but also that He did not know that these feelings could be misused in false systems in destructive ways.
Because of the fall of Adam and Eve, all mankind has become infected with negative consciousness which ineluctably produces sinful and evil systems. Whenever a person surrenders to his negative consciousness, wholly rejects God and righteousness, and becomes deliberately cruel and evil, then that person has become allied with the rebellion of Satan, will never seek forgiveness, and will never receive God's forgiveness for that totally evil part of his nature. God never forgives total evil in Satan or men. God has determined that He will cast all spiritual deadness, which is totally evil, into the lake of fire in the end of the world. Matthew 12:31-32; Revelation 20:11-15.
God created Adam and Eve in His own image which meant they were good and righteous, although also innocent. Genesis 1:27, 31. Their goodness did not dissolve because they sinned. Their goodness simply became sullied by sin. Isaiah 64:6. To this day, man still retains his image of God. God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Romans 11:36; Revelation 21:5; Revelation 4:11. In the end of the world, God will recover all of His goodness and image which He put into all humans and recreate a new, righteous humanity to live on His righteous, recreated earth. But all humans saved by grace will have already been recreated to live with God in heaven. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; Colossians 1:15-20.
Although total evil has become a part of man's nature, it is foreign to man. Satan injected sin into man like poison. The goal of the Devil is to so thoroughly poison the image of God in man that he completely ruins it and causes it to be separated from God forever. The Devil aims to prove that God can lose that which He loves to evil, and by that also prove that God cannot be Almighty. Should the Devil succeed, he will weaken God, become equal with God, and possibly able to destroy God and take over His universe. But should any human totally surrender to evil, he still cannot lose his image of God that is in him. Job 1:11-12; Luke 17:20-21.
But God proved the Devil wrong when Jesus got up from the grave. Love cannot fail. Love cannot be destroyed. I Corinthians 13:8. Christ now holds the keys of hell and death which the Devil thought belonged solely to him. Revelation 1:18. Christ has destroyed all of the works of the Devil; that is, spiritual death and sin. I John 3:8. Christ came to destroy the works of the Devil, not humans whom He created and loves. Christ came to destroy death itself, not humans who spiritually die. I Corinthians 15:26. Christ will destroy hell and death and all total evil, which has poisoned mankind, by casting it into the lake of fire forever. Revelation 20:11-15. Christ will recover all that He has created and loves, purge it of all sin, and recreate it. Colossians 1:20; I Corinthians 3:12-15; Revelation 21:1-5. The Devil and evil are the enemies of God, not humans whom He created in His image. Ephesians 6:12.
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