God's Eternal Reality part two

God created man in His own image. This means God gave man free will and the basic ideas necessary to create only good systems. God created man to pass through time, but God observes man as living in eternity. This means that God alone determines who man is and what he will become.

Man has become infected by sin which is the opposite of creativity. Sin causes chaos. It is a destructive force based on negative consciousness. Negative consciousness inheres in demons which somehow emerged from a nonexistent chaos called "the deep" in Luke 8:31 and "the bottomless pit" in Revelation 20:1. The Bible constantly refers to sin as being equal to vanity which means both excessive pride and emptiness. Excessive pride equals emptiness because one images oneself to be something which one is not. Since sin cannot be something, then it must have emerged into reality from nonexistence which one could also call absolute nothingness. Nothing itself is a real idea useful in reality. Thus, sin must emerge from less than nothing which equals absolute nothingness. Job 10:21-22. In Luke 8:18, Jesus meant that the only thing which can be taken from a man with nothing is nothingness itself which leaves him in a state of absolute nothingness. How negative consciousness, which equals sin and excessive pride, could emerge into reality from a nonexistent abyss to infect Lucifer and cause his rebellion against God constitutes a mystery which not even God can understand. II Thessalonians 2:7.

God has devised a plan to completely purge all sin and negative consciousness from His entire creations, including all mankind. Colossians 1:15-20; Romans 8:18-23; Revelation 21:5.

God has created absolutely everything that is positive and good whether visible or invisible. God created a good system called science. Modern science has discovered that every person's life, past and future, is determined by every decision made in every moment of that person's life. In this respect, each person's finite consciousness happens to be quite similar to God's eternal, creative consciousness. This fact means that the reality of each person's life consists of not just the passage of time from birth to death but also of every decision made in every moment in that life which affects both its past and future.

God has provided a special salvation by His grace for every human through the sacrifice of His Son. Every human has free will. God waits for every human who hears the gospel of His grace to decide whether to accept or reject His salvation by grace through faith. John 3:16. The moment any person accepts Christ as his Savior, that decision determines that person to be a believer from his birth to his eternal future. God possesses infinite knowledge, but only of His eternal creations. This means God waits for a believer to decide to accept Christ as Savior, but at the moment of belief, God has also predetermined that believer to have been saved for all eternity. This fact makes both God's predestination of salvation by grace and man's free will to accept that salvation true at the same time. John 6:37; Ephesians 1:9-14.

God's Eternal Reality part one

Consciousness, even an Infinite Consciousness, can only establish reality by means of decisions made. Consciousness begins to establish reality by deriving reality from possibilities and order from chaos. In order to do this, consciousness must first separate something from nothing and make decisions as to what to do with that something. This process necessitates the passage of time for a finite consciousness, but for an Infinite Consciousness, this process necessitates both the passage of time and an eternal reality.

When an artist paints a picture, he must first decide what to paint and how to paint it. Before any system can be created, decisions must be made. The same holds true for reality itself. All healthy. finite consciousnesses possess the same reality because God has created this reality, and He requires us all to agree to experience the same reality.

Reality cannot be an illusion. God has not created an illusion. Infinite Consciousness has created a reality that is just as real as He is. A person cannot be accidentally killed by an illusory, stray bullet. Bullets are real. Our reality is just as real as we are.

All reality begins with decisions made. In every moment, God makes decisions that determines the infinite past and infinite future of the eternal reality. These moments themselves are infinite. For God, these infinite moments of time do not pass through time except as they relate to finite consciousnesses. For God, moments of time consist of an infinite set of creative decisions that God makes. God possesses free will.

The creation of reality begins with creative, chosen plans. Creative plans make up the contents of consciousness. For God, His Infinite Consciousness and the Infinite Contents of His Consciousness are One and the same. John 1:1. God puts Ideas together in His Mind to create real systems. These Ideas are basic and have always existed. The fact that finite consciousness cannot reduce its basic ideas by analysis indicates that the Infinite Set of Basic Ideas must be eternal. The reality that God has created exists outside of Himself, but the basic ideas and systems of that reality God has derived from the Infinite Set of Basic Ideas that is One with Himself. As an example, the artist must decide what picture to paint and how to paint it according to basic ideas in his mind. He must use colors which are the basic ideas outside of his mind to create a system which is the picture comprised of a combination of these basic ideas. God creates reality in a similar manner.

God's Love for all Mankind. II Timothy 4:1 part two

God accomplished the salvation of all humans through the death, burial, and resurrection of His Son. God has provided a special salvation for all who will believe that the blood and water that Christ shed on the cross has the power to permanently cleanse them of all their sins while they are still alive in the flesh. Revelation 1:5; I Peter 1:18-23. God will thoroughly cleanse the souls and spirits of all such believers with the blood of Jesus and recreate their inner nature. II Corinthians 5:17. God will cleanse the outer fleshly nature of all such believers with the water that flowed from Jesus on the cross as they daily confess and repent of their sins. John 13:1-10; I John 1:9. Eventually, Christ will present His Church to God as being thoroughly cleansed and pure. Ephesians 5:25-27. God will recreate the souls and spirits of all these special believers the moment they are born again, but God will wait to recreate the bodies of these believers, which holds their sinful nature, at the Rapture of the Church. Philippians 3:20-21. God will give these believers more than just the original righteousness that He created them to be. God will give His Church the perfect righteousness of Christ by which God will allow them to live with Him in heaven forever. Romans 8:14-17; II Corinthians 5:21.

God will provide a lesser salvation for the rest of humanity not saved by grace through Christ's descent into hell. The Old Testament burnt offering sacrifices symbolized God's cleansing from sin by the use of His consuming fire. Leviticus 1:9. God will cleanse from sin every human within the regions of the dead by the use of His consuming fire. Matthew 3:11-12; I Corinthians 3:11-15. God created everlasting fire to use against total evil, not for the good life that He put into humans. Matthew 25:41. Since Christ bore the sins of all humanity on the cross, He had to have left the sins of all humans not saved by grace behind Him in hell when He rose immaculate from the dead. Salvation by God's consuming fire is based on this fact. But this fiery separation of the good life of man from the total evil of his sins does not become actual until the general resurrection in the end of the world. John 5:28-29; Revelation 20:5. But in order for all live humans within the regions of the dead to be saved by God's consuming fire, they must repent and put their faith in Christ. Isaiah 45:21-24 and Philippians 2:9-11 prophesy this event and Revelation 5:13 the fulfillment of this prophecy. God will recover and recreate absolutely everything He has ever created, including all live humans. Revelation 21:1-5; Romans 8:18-23; Colossians 1:20. God will allow all recreated, live humans to live in the recreated paradise of His new earth with bliss and immunity from sin forever. Revelation 21:1-5. God will consign the separated spiritual deaths of humans to the lake of fire forever. Revelation 20:15; Revelation 21:8.

God's Love for all Mankind. II Timothy 4:1 part one

Every individual human being happens to be both quick and dead at the same time. God created man in His own image to have a totally good life. Genesis 1:27; Genesis 1:31. Man's fall into sin could not, and did not, annihilate the life and goodness that God had put into him. Ecclesiastes 3:14. Satan did succeed in causing man's life and goodness to become filthy with sin. Isaiah 64:6. Man's filthy condition meant that God could no longer accept the goodness of man in eternal fellowship with Him. Genesis 3:22-24. Man became eternally separated from God in a state of spiritual death. Sin and spiritual death is the same thing. Genesis 2:17. God cannot, and will not, allow any goodness and life that He has created to ever become permanently separated from Him. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Romans 11:29; Romans 11:36. God devised a plan to thoroughly cleanse mankind of all his sins and spiritual death, recreate him to be immune to sin, and place him in heaven if saved by grace or again in an earthly paradise with total access to fellowship with Him. Genesis 3:14-15; Genesis 3:20-21; Luke 20:38; Luke 23:34; Revelation 21:1-5. God prophesied in Genesis 3:14-15 and Genesis 3:20 that His plan would save all mankind. God prophesied in Genesis 3:21 that He would provide a special salvation for some humans by His grace. I Timothy 4:10.

God cursed total evil which is the Devil, and God cursed the ground into which He would put the three regions of death into which He would temporarily consign unrepentant sinners according to His judgment after their physical deaths. God never cursed humans whom He loves. Revelation 20:13; Hebrews 9:27. God has put into the hearts of all good parents who love their children to save both the obedient and disobedient ones if they are in danger. Would God demand any less of Himself?

Man could not have become totally evil when he sinned because if he had, he would have become demonic and could only do evil. Man must be both the quick and the dead. He is alive and dead at the same time. The doctrine of the depravity of man cannot mean that man became totally evil. This doctrine simply means that man's limited life and righteousness holds no power to cleanse himself from sin and restore himself to a pure fellowship with God. Romans 5:6; Romans 3:9-12. God had to intervene into man's history to do all the work necessary to save all mankind from spiritual death. John 12:47; I Timothy 4:10; I Corinthians 15:22.

God's Complete Salvation part three

Sin causes spiritual death which is eternal separation from God. Genesis 3:22-24. But Jesus died that eternal death in every man's place on the cross. Hebrews 2:8-9. How is it possible that an eternal, living God could ever die an eternal death? The answer lies in the fact that God is Eternal Love. I John 4:8. God's Love is infinite and all-powerful. Psalm 147:5. An Infinite and Almighty God cannot be diminished or increased in any way, not even by eternal death. Infinity also cannot be divided or multiplied. This means that any part of the Infinite must be equal to the whole. While Jesus walked the earth, He appeared to His believers to be but a part of God. John 14:28. But although Jesus did put off a part of His power and glory when He came to earth, He nevertheless held an equality with His Father and the Holy Spirit at all times as He willed. Matthew 26:53; John 19:11; John 4:34. The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are all eternally equal to each other, being One God. John 10:30; I John 5:7.

There exists a kind of hole in eternity similar to a black hole in space. This hole in eternity corresponds to the three days that Jesus was dead, and God was separated from Himself. Yet, the world did not end, and Satan did not take over the universe. How could such an event be possible? The simple answer is that Eternal Love happens to be far more powerful than eternal death. Satan counted on eternal death being more powerful. Even when separated from Himself in eternal death, the Almighty Power of God's Love could not be diminished in the least. Just as a black hole in space sucks in all matter that comes near it, that three day hole in eternity sucks in all the sins and deaths of all humans. I John 3:8; I Corinthians 15:22-26. Through His creation of humanity, God has tested His Love and has proven that His Love can never fail. God tested His Love because the rebellion of Lucifer had brought the power of His Love into question. I Corinthians 13:8.

The good and living parts of every human yearns for a return to fellowship with God. Romans 8:21-22. God saves some humans by His grace to show the world that He is still here and can still save. Matthew 5:16. But God's Love does not give up on the rest of humanity whom He must temporarily separate from Himself by consigning them to one of the three regions of the dead because they are still filthy with sin and evil. Revelation 20:13; Hebrews 9:27. But God will allow the living parts of these dead humans to repent and return to fellowship with Him. The Bible prophesies that this event will happen as recorded in Isaiah 45:21-24 and Philippians 2:9-11, and it will be fulfilled in Revelation 5:13. However, the living parts of these dead humans must wait until after the millennial reign of Christ for God to permanently separate their lives from their deaths in a general resurrection of all that are left in their graves. John 5:28-29. God will use His consuming fire to effect this eternal separation. Christ made this salvation possible by His descent into hell. God will recover the good and living parts of all humans within the regions of the dead for Him to recreate to inhabit His recreated earth. Revelation 21:1-5. God will consign the spiritual deaths of these humans to the lake of fire forever. Revelation 20:13-15; Revelation 21:8; Revelation 22:11-12.

God's Complete Salvation part two

In the beginning, man had fellowship with God. The living parts of humans which God created still yearns for a return to faith which is fellowship with God. Some evil exists in the best of men, and some good in the worst of men. Jesus referred to this good and living part of each human in Luke 17:20-21. God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Romans 11:29. This fact indicates that such scriptures as Luke 20:38; John 5:28-29; I Corinthians 15:22; I Timothy 4:10; Revelation 20:5; and Revelation 21:5 can only mean that God will recover and recreate the good and living parts of all humans, some by grace and all others in a general resurrection in the end of the world. God must recover the living from the dead because Christ casts only the dead into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:11-15; I Corinthians 15:26.

The wages of sin is spiritual death which is eternal spiritual separation from God. But Christ suffered this eternal separation from God in every man's place when He died on the cross. John 12:47. Man's suffering for his own sins is always only temporary. God has destroyed sin, death, and the Devil through the death, burial, and resurrection of His Son in order to recover and recreate everything He ever created that the Devil threatens to permanently destroy by eternally separating it from God's Love. The Devil means to cause God's Love to fail. God, the Father, could not possibly fail to answer Jesus' cry from the cross in Luke 23:34. Jesus' cry can only mean that God will eventually forgive and recover every living part of all humans that He created.

Only the spiritual dead become eternally separated from God, never the good and living parts of humans. Nowhere does the Bible state that God separates the living parts of humans from Himself forever. In fact, Luke 20:38 teaches that to God all humans are alive. In another example, I John 3:8 states that Christ came to "...destroy the works of the Devil...," which is sin and death, not living humans. Ephesians 6:12 informs us that God has gone to war against spiritual darkness and evil, not living humans. I Corinthians 15:25-26 teaches that God intends to destroy all of the enemies of God and man including death, not living humans. I Corinthians 15:22 teaches that Christ intends to save the lives of all men from spiritual death. In Mark 9:43-48, Jesus taught that the "worm" of men will never die in the everlasting fire. The word "worm" in the Bible always symbolizes sin and evil, never living humans. In Mark 9:49-50, Jesus meant by His use of the word "salt" that every living human within the regions of the dead will be preserved by God's consuming fire when He separates their living parts from their deaths in the general resurrection. Humans saved by grace already have "salt" within themselves, but God will burn their unconfessed sins with His consuming fire. I Corinthians 3:11-15. The living parts of all humans not saved by grace will be separated from their spiritual deaths by God's consuming fire in the end of the world. I Corinthians 3:11-15. In addition, Colossians 1:20 informs that God will "...reconcile all things unto Himself..." God created all things. Colossians 1:16. God promised in Revelation 21:5 that "...Behold, I make all things new..." God created all things, including all humans.

God's Complete Salvation part one

God provides some form of salvation for all humans. Hebrews 7:25; II Peter 3:9; I Corinthians 15:22. Eventually, in one way or another, all living humans, created by Him, will come back to faith in Him. Man can have no part in God's salvation whatsoever. Man happens to be far too weak and sullied by sin to ever be able to cleanse and heal himself. Romans 5:6. The pride of man, which was the sin that the Devil injected into the human race, causes man to believe that somehow, in some way, he can at least contribute to his own salvation. Exodus 19:8. God had already provided for the complete salvation of the Hebrew people, but they still wanted to do something that they believed would make them righteous and acceptable with God.

God liberated the Hebrews from bondage in Egypt entirely by means of blood and burnt offering sacrifices. Exodus 12:5-10. The Old Testament blood sacrifices symbolized God's salvation by His grace of all believers in the sacrifice of Christ on the cross. The Old Testament burnt offerings symbolized God's salvation of the living parts of all humans confined to the regions of the dead with a general resurrection in the end of the world. John 5:28-29; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:5. Salvation by grace and sanctification comes from the Holy Spirit washing the believer from his sins with the blood and water that flowed from Jesus' body on the cross. Revelation 1:5; John 13:1-10. Salvation of the living parts of humans in the general resurrection comes from Jesus' descent into hell to leave the sins of all dead humans behind there forever. This had to have happened because Jesus bore all the sins of mankind on the cross but rose from immaculate from the grave.

Although Christ accomplished salvation by grace as He hung on the cross, this salvation does not become actual for the believer until the Holy Spirit washes and sanctifies him with Christ's spiritual blood and water. John 6:63; I Corinthians 6:11. To the same degree, although Jesus left all of the sins of all humans not saved by grace behind Him in hell when He rose immaculate from the grave, the actual separation of the living believer from his sins and spiritual death by God's use of His consuming fire does not occur until the general resurrection from the dead in the end of the world. I Corinthians 3:11-15; John 5:28-29. God provides a home in heaven for all believers saved by grace. I Peter 1:3-4. God provides a home on His recreated earth for all His living humans that He rescues in the general resurrection. Revelation 21:1-5.