In Matthew 13:12; Matthew 25:29-30; Luke 19:26; Mark 4:25; and Luke 8:18, Jesus taught that those who possess something will have more given to them, but that those who possess nothing will have even that nothingness taken from them. All of the good ideas within them, including the useful idea of nothing, belongs to God and He will recover all that belongs to Him. Romans 11:36. Those who possess only the idea of nothing will have even this idea recovered by God so they will be reduced to absolute nothingness. This is their deadness. Their deadness, which can also be called their negative consciousness, God will cast into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is something. It is God's consuming fire. It is a useful system created by God to constantly reduce the dead to negative consciousness. Their torment will be their constant yearning to return to positive consciousness, but their torment will forever prevent them from ever negatively affecting God's reality again. Revelation 20:15.
Revelation 21:8 describes these absolute dead. In their lives, they misused the goodness and life that God had given them. This was their sin and evil. They tended to replace the good systems that God created them to be and to have with negative and destructive systems. The unbelievers did not have faith. The murderers negated life. The whoremongers negated the good system of love called marriage. The liars negated the truth. The sorcerers negated the healthy mind. The idolaters joined with the Devil in trying to negate God Himself. Negative consciousness conditioned much of their lives, and God will cast their deadness into the second death called the lake of fire.
But Jesus also taught that those who have something will be given even more. Everyone who has ever genuinely loved, has ever given good things to others, has ever practiced kindness and morality, have demonstrated that they possess the image of God that He created them to be. They have practiced some of the good and creative systems that God put into their lives. John 3:27; Genesis 1:27. God will give them more. Those who receive Christ by faith while still alive in the flesh will receive the gifts of grace and sanctification while still in the flesh and eternal life with God in heaven forever. John 3:16. Those who fail to find faith while still in the flesh will still find faith as prophesied in Isaiah 45:21-24 and as fulfilled in Revelation 5:13. All those saved by grace will receive recreated bodies and return to God in prior resurrections, but the general resurrection will be reserved for all those who still lie in their graves. John 5:28-29; Revelation 20:5. God will recover and recreate all of His life and goodness that He has put into every man because it all belongs to Him, some by His grace and all others in the general resurrection. God will allow all humans recreated in the general resurrection to live on His recreated earth, Revelation 21:5.
In the end, God will purge all sin and evil from His universe and recreate it so that sin and evil will never be able to enter it again. God will not allow the false trinity called the Devil to be reduced to negative consciousness. God will cast the beast, the false prophet, and the devil alive into the lake of fire. God will deliberately replace their negative consciousness with a positive consciousness so that they will feel the direct burning of the flames forever. The negative systems that the Devil introduced into God's reality often produced terrible pain in the lives of humans. God will make sure he gets what he deserves. God will subject the Devil to his own attempt to ruin God's reality forever. The Devil possesses a high degree of intellect even though it is negative. He can often easily deceive humans. God will make certain that the Devil becomes so absorbed in such terrible pain that he will never be able to even think of any way to infect God's creations with sin again forever. Revelation 19:20; Revelation 20:10.
Tuesday, September 18, 2018
Wednesday, September 12, 2018
Less than Nothing part one
Psalm 62:9 teaches that sinners are "lighter than vanity." It happens to be no accident that the word "vanity" means both "excessive pride" and "nothingness." Lucifer rebelled against God because he invented a false system called "excessive pride" which proved to be only destructive and all destruction reduces toward nothingness. Good systems always produce useful effects. False systems, such as broken down automobiles, produce only nothing as far as transportation is concerned. All through the Word of God, He equates sin, which is always a false system, with vanity. Psalm 39:5; Proverbs 22:8; Isaiah 41:9; Jeremiah 10:15; Jeremiah 16:19; Romans 8:20; Ephesians 4:7; II Peter 2:18 provide a few examples of these scriptures. Isaiah 40:17 even describes vanity as being "less than nothing."
The Infinite Consciousness of God establishes reality. Reality consists of basic elements and good and useful systems composed of these basic elements. Systems can be reduced to basic elements, but the basic elements cannot be reduced. The idea of nothing is a useful basic element in all good systems. In fact, God identifies and separates every basic element by the use of the idea of nothing. Humans identify and separate every object in sight by the use of the idea of nothing called space.
Yet, even though the basic idea of nothing cannot be separated or reduced, Isaiah 40:17 describes vanity as being "less than nothing." This can only mean that whatever "less that nothing" is, it cannot exist within the realm of reality. Since only reality can exist, then "less than nothing" can only nonexist. "Less than nothing" equates with a realm of absolute nothingness which nonexists nowhere and at no time. God possesses infinite knowledge and power within the realm of reality. God can possess no knowledge of absolute nothingness except to the extent that it has a destructive effect on reality. II Thessalonians 2:7. In some mysterious way, Lucifer became infected with absolute nothingness which caused him to misuse some of God's basic ideas to invent a false system called "excessive pride" which equates with vanity in that it attempts to reduce God's perfect reality, and God Himself, to absolute nothingness. The Devil's project equates vanity with sin and evil.
Nothing exists without consciousness. But what could this nothing be since only consciousness can establish the idea of nothing as a basic idea in reality? Without consciousness, absolutely nothing nonexists nowhere and at no time. But if reality requires positive consciousness, perhaps absolute nothingness requires negative consciousness. Perhaps Lucifer rebelled because he became infected by a negative consciousness. God evidently deduced this fact when He said that vanity was "less than nothing." Isaiah 40:17. Positive consciousness can get no idea whatsoever of what the power of negative consciousness could be since absolute nothingness nonexists.
Vanity means emptiness, and the idea of emptiness comes closer to absolute nothingness than does the idea of nothing. The idea of nothing qualifies reality, but the idea of emptiness indicates an absolute nothingness although positive consciousness can get no idea of where or what it could be. There exists no where or what to absolute emptiness. A simple thought experiment reveals that the mind can get no idea of absolute emptiness. Always, the mind can only get the idea of emptiness qualified by something. Positive consciousness can only imagine reality. One always imagines emptiness as being black or grey, which is something. Even if one tries to imagine empty space, one always pushes something to its edges even if that something is only one's mind.
The Infinite Consciousness of God establishes reality. Reality consists of basic elements and good and useful systems composed of these basic elements. Systems can be reduced to basic elements, but the basic elements cannot be reduced. The idea of nothing is a useful basic element in all good systems. In fact, God identifies and separates every basic element by the use of the idea of nothing. Humans identify and separate every object in sight by the use of the idea of nothing called space.
Yet, even though the basic idea of nothing cannot be separated or reduced, Isaiah 40:17 describes vanity as being "less than nothing." This can only mean that whatever "less that nothing" is, it cannot exist within the realm of reality. Since only reality can exist, then "less than nothing" can only nonexist. "Less than nothing" equates with a realm of absolute nothingness which nonexists nowhere and at no time. God possesses infinite knowledge and power within the realm of reality. God can possess no knowledge of absolute nothingness except to the extent that it has a destructive effect on reality. II Thessalonians 2:7. In some mysterious way, Lucifer became infected with absolute nothingness which caused him to misuse some of God's basic ideas to invent a false system called "excessive pride" which equates with vanity in that it attempts to reduce God's perfect reality, and God Himself, to absolute nothingness. The Devil's project equates vanity with sin and evil.
Nothing exists without consciousness. But what could this nothing be since only consciousness can establish the idea of nothing as a basic idea in reality? Without consciousness, absolutely nothing nonexists nowhere and at no time. But if reality requires positive consciousness, perhaps absolute nothingness requires negative consciousness. Perhaps Lucifer rebelled because he became infected by a negative consciousness. God evidently deduced this fact when He said that vanity was "less than nothing." Isaiah 40:17. Positive consciousness can get no idea whatsoever of what the power of negative consciousness could be since absolute nothingness nonexists.
Vanity means emptiness, and the idea of emptiness comes closer to absolute nothingness than does the idea of nothing. The idea of nothing qualifies reality, but the idea of emptiness indicates an absolute nothingness although positive consciousness can get no idea of where or what it could be. There exists no where or what to absolute emptiness. A simple thought experiment reveals that the mind can get no idea of absolute emptiness. Always, the mind can only get the idea of emptiness qualified by something. Positive consciousness can only imagine reality. One always imagines emptiness as being black or grey, which is something. Even if one tries to imagine empty space, one always pushes something to its edges even if that something is only one's mind.
Monday, September 3, 2018
Two Great Themes of the Bible part five
Another great theme of the Bible repeats itself throughout it. A good system becomes sinful because of the misuse of some of its created elements, but God works to eliminate the sinfulness that invaded the system until the system becomes wholly good and useful again. For example, in the story of the prophet Joseph and his brothers, the sin of hatred entered into a system based on brotherly love. Joseph's brothers sold him into slavery in Egypt. But God worked in Joseph's life to elevate him to become the Prime Minister of Egypt so that he could provide food for his family in a time of famine. When Joseph met his brothers again, remorse for their sin replaced their hatred, forgiveness replaced animosity, and brotherly love again became the basis of this good system. God worked the sin out of this family system, saved Joseph's family from starvation, and restored this good family system. Joseph said it best in Genesis 50:20.
This same theme repeats itself throughout the Word of God. This theme repeats in the story of Jacob and Esau, the story of Judah and Tamar, the story of Samson, the story of king David and Bathsheba, the story of the prophet Jonah, and many others. In the story of Samson, God always forgave Samson's sins of weakness until Samson allowed his hair to be cut. In this sin, Samson rebelled against God. He thought he could be strong without God. Judges 16:20. God did not forgive Samson's sin of rebellion until his hair grew back and their covenant was restored. Sins of continuous rebellion never repent and God never forgives them, but when a sinner repents of a sin of rebellion then God forgives because of His mercy toward the sinner's weakness. God sent Samson to a type of hell for his rebellion, but Samson repented and his hair grew back, and God used him again to destroy His rebellious enemies. Judges 16:28.
Someday, as John 5:28-29, II Timothy 4:1, Revelation 20:5, and Revelation 20:11-15 reveal, God will repeat this theme when He separates and recovers all of His life and goodness that He has put into man and recreates it. God will also separate from man all of his unrepentant evil and deadness and cast it into the lake of fire forever. Samson's restoration to God's favor symbolized God's recovery of all His goodness and life that He put into man. The Philistines whom Samson destroyed symbolized all of man's rebellious evil and deadness that God will forever purge from His universe.
The Bible also reveals that a time will come when all of the life and goodness that God has put into man will repent of its sins of weakness and will seek restoration to God's favor. Philippians 2:9-11 repeats the prophecy of Isaiah 45:21-24 that one day all of humanity not already saved by grace will bow to God, admit that God has given them righteousness and strength, and be ashamed of their sins which will show remorse and repentance. God reveals in Isaiah 45:22 that all of humanity will look to Him and be saved. Revelation 5:13 reveals the very day when this prophecy will be fulfilled. All of the life and goodness that still remains within humanity within all the regions of the dead will worship God on that day. They will praise Christ for His "...blessing, and honor, and glory, and power..." Humans cannot have such an attitude toward God without repentance and faith. They will recognize that God holds almighty power over sin and death and that He will rescue their lives from eternal death. Revelation 20:5 reveals that God will recover all of His life and goodness that He put into all humans when He created them for Him to recreate. Revelation 20:11-15 reveals that God will cast all of the separated rebellious deadness and evil in mankind into the lake of fire forever. Revelation 21:8; Revelation 22:11-12. This resurrection and restoration will not apply to believers saved by grace because they will have already been resurrected in the Rapture in the case of the Church, in the resurrection of Christ in the case of the Old Testament saints, and in the resurrection of the Tribulation saints in the beginning of the millennial reign of Christ. I Thessalonians 4:16-17; Matthew 27:52-53; Revelation 20:4-6. All believers saved by grace will live with Christ forever in heaven. Believers rescued in the general resurrection God will recreate to live on His recreated earth. John 5:28-29; Revelation 21:1-5.
This same theme repeats itself throughout the Word of God. This theme repeats in the story of Jacob and Esau, the story of Judah and Tamar, the story of Samson, the story of king David and Bathsheba, the story of the prophet Jonah, and many others. In the story of Samson, God always forgave Samson's sins of weakness until Samson allowed his hair to be cut. In this sin, Samson rebelled against God. He thought he could be strong without God. Judges 16:20. God did not forgive Samson's sin of rebellion until his hair grew back and their covenant was restored. Sins of continuous rebellion never repent and God never forgives them, but when a sinner repents of a sin of rebellion then God forgives because of His mercy toward the sinner's weakness. God sent Samson to a type of hell for his rebellion, but Samson repented and his hair grew back, and God used him again to destroy His rebellious enemies. Judges 16:28.
Someday, as John 5:28-29, II Timothy 4:1, Revelation 20:5, and Revelation 20:11-15 reveal, God will repeat this theme when He separates and recovers all of His life and goodness that He has put into man and recreates it. God will also separate from man all of his unrepentant evil and deadness and cast it into the lake of fire forever. Samson's restoration to God's favor symbolized God's recovery of all His goodness and life that He put into man. The Philistines whom Samson destroyed symbolized all of man's rebellious evil and deadness that God will forever purge from His universe.
The Bible also reveals that a time will come when all of the life and goodness that God has put into man will repent of its sins of weakness and will seek restoration to God's favor. Philippians 2:9-11 repeats the prophecy of Isaiah 45:21-24 that one day all of humanity not already saved by grace will bow to God, admit that God has given them righteousness and strength, and be ashamed of their sins which will show remorse and repentance. God reveals in Isaiah 45:22 that all of humanity will look to Him and be saved. Revelation 5:13 reveals the very day when this prophecy will be fulfilled. All of the life and goodness that still remains within humanity within all the regions of the dead will worship God on that day. They will praise Christ for His "...blessing, and honor, and glory, and power..." Humans cannot have such an attitude toward God without repentance and faith. They will recognize that God holds almighty power over sin and death and that He will rescue their lives from eternal death. Revelation 20:5 reveals that God will recover all of His life and goodness that He put into all humans when He created them for Him to recreate. Revelation 20:11-15 reveals that God will cast all of the separated rebellious deadness and evil in mankind into the lake of fire forever. Revelation 21:8; Revelation 22:11-12. This resurrection and restoration will not apply to believers saved by grace because they will have already been resurrected in the Rapture in the case of the Church, in the resurrection of Christ in the case of the Old Testament saints, and in the resurrection of the Tribulation saints in the beginning of the millennial reign of Christ. I Thessalonians 4:16-17; Matthew 27:52-53; Revelation 20:4-6. All believers saved by grace will live with Christ forever in heaven. Believers rescued in the general resurrection God will recreate to live on His recreated earth. John 5:28-29; Revelation 21:1-5.
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