Job 1:1-5
In the general resurrection of the dead that Jesus prophesied about in John 5:28-29, God will use His consuming fire to separate out and resurrect the good and living parts of all humans confined within one of the three regions of the dead. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:13. In addition to hell, two other regions of the dead exist, one called the sea and the other called death. Christ will resurrect the good and living parts of all humans within each region of the dead because they worshipped Him and put their faith in Him as their Savior as recorded in Revelation 5:13. God will recreate these living humans created in His image to live on His recreated earth. Revelation 21:1-5.
Resurrection can only mean to be brought back to life. In Revelation 20:11-15, God does not say that the dead are resurrected but that they do stand before God to be judged for their evil works. Spiritual death means permanent separation from God. God separates these dead from Himself forever by casting them into the lake of fire because in their spiritual deadness they were allied with Satan in his rebellion by refusing to ever repent of their sin and evil and put their faith in Christ. Unrepentant sin and evil and spiritual death are one and the same. Revelation 20:15. God promised in I Corinthians 15:26 that the last enemy that He will destroy will be death. God will fulfill this prophecy in Revelation 20:5 and Revelation 20:11-5 when He purges all spiritual death from His recreated universe by casting it into the lake of fire which lies outside of God's creations in a region of absolute chaos and negative consciousness. For this reason, it is called the second death.
God will destroy the regions of death called hell and death by casting them into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:14. In Revelation 21:1, God will eliminate the region of the dead called the sea by a means not specified. God has washed all of the spiritual deadness of believers saved by grace into the sea of forgetfulness which is probably the same as the sea of death. Micah 7:19. The dead that God casts into the lake of fire will retain some form of demonic, negative consciousness which will cause them to suffer in some unknown way. But Revelation 19:20 and Revelation 20:10 teaches us that the devil, the beast, and the false prophet will be cast into the lake of fire alive to be tormented forever. This fact can only mean that God will supply them with a positive consciousness which will suffer severe pain as God's creations now do because of sin. They will be so preoccupied with tremendous pain forever that they will never be able to concoct a plan to infect God's creations with sin again.
In Hebrews 9:14, God has promised those saved by grace that He will "purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?" This revelation seems to indicate that God will eliminate even their consciousness of their former spiritual deaths.
Hebrews 8:12 reveals that God will completely forget the sins and evil of all those saved by His grace. If the sea of death and the sea of forgetfulness is the same place, then God will eliminate the sea of death by forgetting all of the sin and evil of those saved by grace contained therein. This condition must also mean that God will forever nullify any conscious suffering of spiritual death by His believers saved by grace because He will have put their sins completely out of His Mind.
Monday, December 31, 2018
Saturday, December 29, 2018
Commentary on the Book of Job part one
Job 1:1-5
Two levels of perfection exist, a finite perfection and an infinite perfection. The infinite perfection can also be called Holiness which belongs only to God. The Bible (KJB) informs us that Job possessed finite perfection which simply means that he was as good and moral as it is possible for a sinful man to be. Job 7:20; Job 1:1.
The book of Job predates all other books of the Bible including Genesis. Verse five informs us that Job offered burnt offerings to God for forgiveness of his and his family's sins. This information provides proof that burnt offerings symbolize one of the methods that God uses to eliminate sin and evil from a person's life. Such Old Testament passages as Leviticus 9:7; Numbers 31:23; Deuteronomy 4:24 and 32:22 provide symbolic proof that God can use His consuming fire to purge sins from the lives of believers. Isaiah 6:6-7 provides further proof that God can cleanse sin from the lives of His believers by the use of His consuming fire. But at the time that Job offered his burnt offerings, he had not as yet received a revelation from God that a blood sacrifice must precede the burnt offering in order for the burnt offering to be effective for the removal of sin. Hebrews 9:22; Hebrews 13:10-13.
I Corinthians 3:11-15 teaches us that God will eventually purge sin from the lives of every human, not just those saved by grace. God preserves the good works of every human for reward, but God will burn forever the dead works of all humans including the sins of believers saved by grace for which they have never repented. God purges and forgives sins in the souls and spirits of believers saved by grace with the blood of Jesus the moment they believe. God daily purges and forgives the fleshly sins of believers saved by grace with the water from Jesus' side as they daily repent of them.
God prophesied in Isaiah 45:21-24 and Philippians 2:9-11 that a day will come when all humans not already saved by grace will repent and believe in Jesus. This prophecy will be fulfilled as recorded in Revelation 5:11-13. Jesus had to have sacrificed Himself on the cross before His Spirit could descend into hell to leave behind the sins of all mankind which He had to have done because He rose immaculate from the grave. Christ's descent into hell constitutes the purging of the sins of all mankind not already saved by grace by the use of His consuming fire. Jesus prophesied about this event in John 5:28-29. Jesus prophesied in Matthew 16:27 that God will reward every man according to his works. Romans 2:9-10 proves that God gives only positive rewards for good works, and that every man must be alive in order to receive these positive rewards. These teachings can only mean that God will recreate the good and living parts of all humans not already saved by grace to inhabit His recreated earth. Revelation 21:1-5. Revelation 22:11-12 teaches that God will effect an absolute separation of all His created goodness in every human from all of their dead sins in His final judgment of those still in their graves. John 5:28-29. All humans saved by grace will have already been resurrected to eternal life with God in heaven. Revelation 5:8-12.
Two levels of perfection exist, a finite perfection and an infinite perfection. The infinite perfection can also be called Holiness which belongs only to God. The Bible (KJB) informs us that Job possessed finite perfection which simply means that he was as good and moral as it is possible for a sinful man to be. Job 7:20; Job 1:1.
The book of Job predates all other books of the Bible including Genesis. Verse five informs us that Job offered burnt offerings to God for forgiveness of his and his family's sins. This information provides proof that burnt offerings symbolize one of the methods that God uses to eliminate sin and evil from a person's life. Such Old Testament passages as Leviticus 9:7; Numbers 31:23; Deuteronomy 4:24 and 32:22 provide symbolic proof that God can use His consuming fire to purge sins from the lives of believers. Isaiah 6:6-7 provides further proof that God can cleanse sin from the lives of His believers by the use of His consuming fire. But at the time that Job offered his burnt offerings, he had not as yet received a revelation from God that a blood sacrifice must precede the burnt offering in order for the burnt offering to be effective for the removal of sin. Hebrews 9:22; Hebrews 13:10-13.
I Corinthians 3:11-15 teaches us that God will eventually purge sin from the lives of every human, not just those saved by grace. God preserves the good works of every human for reward, but God will burn forever the dead works of all humans including the sins of believers saved by grace for which they have never repented. God purges and forgives sins in the souls and spirits of believers saved by grace with the blood of Jesus the moment they believe. God daily purges and forgives the fleshly sins of believers saved by grace with the water from Jesus' side as they daily repent of them.
God prophesied in Isaiah 45:21-24 and Philippians 2:9-11 that a day will come when all humans not already saved by grace will repent and believe in Jesus. This prophecy will be fulfilled as recorded in Revelation 5:11-13. Jesus had to have sacrificed Himself on the cross before His Spirit could descend into hell to leave behind the sins of all mankind which He had to have done because He rose immaculate from the grave. Christ's descent into hell constitutes the purging of the sins of all mankind not already saved by grace by the use of His consuming fire. Jesus prophesied about this event in John 5:28-29. Jesus prophesied in Matthew 16:27 that God will reward every man according to his works. Romans 2:9-10 proves that God gives only positive rewards for good works, and that every man must be alive in order to receive these positive rewards. These teachings can only mean that God will recreate the good and living parts of all humans not already saved by grace to inhabit His recreated earth. Revelation 21:1-5. Revelation 22:11-12 teaches that God will effect an absolute separation of all His created goodness in every human from all of their dead sins in His final judgment of those still in their graves. John 5:28-29. All humans saved by grace will have already been resurrected to eternal life with God in heaven. Revelation 5:8-12.
Thursday, December 13, 2018
God's Two Methods of Salvation part three
God's allowance of Satan's test of Job's faith symbolized God's test of His own image that He has put into every man. God has allowed Satan to tempt man into committing the worst evils imaginable in order to thoroughly test His Love for His creations. Even though God allows Satan to do his worst, God intends to do His best for mankind. Job's faith and righteousness could not have succeeded without God's help. Satan would succeed in destroying God's image in man if God did not help man. Job's burnt offering sacrifices symbolized his reliance on God's help. Even though God has allowed Satan to tempt man to commit the most horrible crimes against each other, nevertheless, God's Love in man cannot and will not fail. I Corinthians 13:8.
God's help for man came when His Son was nailed to a cruel cross taking all of the sin and evil and spiritual death of mankind on Himself. Satan intends to permanently ruin God's Love in man by holding him in spiritual death forever. Jesus suffered that eternal spiritual death in man's place and destroyed all of the evil works of the Devil in the process. Hebrews 3:14-18; I John 3:8. God's answer to Satan's mocking taunt "curse God and die" was that He would take that eternal curse and spiritual death on Himself on that cross and suffer man's curse and death in man's place. Without Christ's salvation of man, Satan would be able to claim the image of God in man as his own and torture man forever. In the process, Satan would prove that God's Love in man can be destroyed, that God is not Almighty, and that He can thus be killed and replaced with Satan's world. But Christ saved all mankind forever from that curse and death through His death, burial, descent into hell, and resurrection from the dead. John 6:33; John 12:47; I Timothy 4:10; John 1:29; Revelation 5:11-13.
Job's and the Old Testament burnt offering sacrifices symbolized Christ's descent into hell where He left behind the sins and evils of all mankind not saved by grace when He rose immaculate from the grave. By this manner, God saves His image in all persons not saved by grace. God cleanses their sin and evil by the use of His consuming fire. I Corinthians 3:11-15; Matthew 3:11-12. God has a special salvation for all persons saved by His grace. When they put their faith in the cross of Christ, God washes all their sin and evil away into the sea of forgetfulness by His use of the blood and water that flowed from Jesus' body on the cross. I Corinthians 6:11; Micah 7:19. Christ eliminated the eternal death of every person when He died on the cross, descended into hell, and was buried in the grave. But He gave His eternal life to every person when He rose from the dead, some directly to those saved by grace to live with Him in heaven forever, and all others by the use of His consuming fire to separate their life and goodness for Him to recreate to live on His recreated earth. Hebrews 2:8-9. By these two methods, God separates the sin and evil from every person, which is their spiritual death, preserves their lives which He created forever and casts their deaths into the lake of fire forever. John 12:47; John 6:33; Luke 20:38; I Corinthians 15:26; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15.
God's help for man came when His Son was nailed to a cruel cross taking all of the sin and evil and spiritual death of mankind on Himself. Satan intends to permanently ruin God's Love in man by holding him in spiritual death forever. Jesus suffered that eternal spiritual death in man's place and destroyed all of the evil works of the Devil in the process. Hebrews 3:14-18; I John 3:8. God's answer to Satan's mocking taunt "curse God and die" was that He would take that eternal curse and spiritual death on Himself on that cross and suffer man's curse and death in man's place. Without Christ's salvation of man, Satan would be able to claim the image of God in man as his own and torture man forever. In the process, Satan would prove that God's Love in man can be destroyed, that God is not Almighty, and that He can thus be killed and replaced with Satan's world. But Christ saved all mankind forever from that curse and death through His death, burial, descent into hell, and resurrection from the dead. John 6:33; John 12:47; I Timothy 4:10; John 1:29; Revelation 5:11-13.
Job's and the Old Testament burnt offering sacrifices symbolized Christ's descent into hell where He left behind the sins and evils of all mankind not saved by grace when He rose immaculate from the grave. By this manner, God saves His image in all persons not saved by grace. God cleanses their sin and evil by the use of His consuming fire. I Corinthians 3:11-15; Matthew 3:11-12. God has a special salvation for all persons saved by His grace. When they put their faith in the cross of Christ, God washes all their sin and evil away into the sea of forgetfulness by His use of the blood and water that flowed from Jesus' body on the cross. I Corinthians 6:11; Micah 7:19. Christ eliminated the eternal death of every person when He died on the cross, descended into hell, and was buried in the grave. But He gave His eternal life to every person when He rose from the dead, some directly to those saved by grace to live with Him in heaven forever, and all others by the use of His consuming fire to separate their life and goodness for Him to recreate to live on His recreated earth. Hebrews 2:8-9. By these two methods, God separates the sin and evil from every person, which is their spiritual death, preserves their lives which He created forever and casts their deaths into the lake of fire forever. John 12:47; John 6:33; Luke 20:38; I Corinthians 15:26; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15.
Wednesday, December 12, 2018
God's Two Methods of Salvation part two
Job happens to be the first book of the Bible that God wrote. In this first book, God describes His relationship with mankind since the fall of man. God also describes His relationship with His enemy Satan, the god of this world. II Corinthians 4:4.
After its description of Job's righteousness, the books begins with the sons of God appearing before Him. God allows Satan also to appear before Him as a former son even though Satan only comes to mock Him. Satan brags about his power to walk through the earth doing whatever evil he pleases. In his pride, he forgets that he has this power in the earth only because God allows it. God allows it because He is using Satan to fulfill His purposes.
Job symbolizes the image of God which He has put into every person He has created. Job's perfect righteousness was not the righteousness of Christ which He gives to everyone saved by grace. Job's righteousness stemmed from the image of God created in him. Even though Job was a sinner which he confessed, he had lived his life as close to his image of God in him as a sinful man possibly could. For this reason, God described Job as being as perfect as a sinful man can be, Job 7:20; Job 1:8. Job even offered burnt offerings to God for himself and his children just in case they had done something evil. The Old Testament burnt offerings symbolized God 's salvation by His consuming fire of all humans not saved by grace. I Corinthians 3:11-15. Some people have led very clean and moral lives by yielding to the image of God within them even though they are not saved by grace. Others have led very cruel and evil lives because they have rebelled against God and the image of God within them. Nevertheless, all humans have done some good and some evil. In the end of the world, God will resurrect all humans within the regions of the dead and recreate them to live on His recreated earth. God will reward them according to their good works. Those who did a lot of good works will retain some of their former identities and receive many rewards. Those who led evil lives will lose most of their former identities but their lives will be preserved in God's recreation of other humans. God will use His consuming fire to separate their living images which He created for His rewards, and will consign their separated total evil and death to the lake of fire forever. Matthew 16:24-25; Matthew 3:10-12; John 5:28-29; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 21:8; Revelation 22:11-12.
When Satan mocked God by claiming that Job only served God because of the blessings and protection that God had provided him, Satan revealed his plan for the whole human race. Satan took Job's children and everything he owned from him, including his health, and left him with absolutely nothing except the righteous image of God that was still within him. Satan even caused Job's wife to desire to be rid of him. When she told Job "curse God and die," she revealed Satan's plan for the whole of humanity. Satan desires to use evil to overwhelm and destroy the goodness that God has put into every man to the degree that even the image of God in every man dissolves into an evil curse against God. Should Satan succeed, he would completely destroy a part of God's creation and a part of God's Word, reveal God as being less than Almighty, and thus begin the downfall of God Himself. But God has promised that His Love, His creations, and His Word can never be diminished in the least. I Corinthians 13:8; Ecclesiastes 3:14; Matthew 24:35.
After its description of Job's righteousness, the books begins with the sons of God appearing before Him. God allows Satan also to appear before Him as a former son even though Satan only comes to mock Him. Satan brags about his power to walk through the earth doing whatever evil he pleases. In his pride, he forgets that he has this power in the earth only because God allows it. God allows it because He is using Satan to fulfill His purposes.
Job symbolizes the image of God which He has put into every person He has created. Job's perfect righteousness was not the righteousness of Christ which He gives to everyone saved by grace. Job's righteousness stemmed from the image of God created in him. Even though Job was a sinner which he confessed, he had lived his life as close to his image of God in him as a sinful man possibly could. For this reason, God described Job as being as perfect as a sinful man can be, Job 7:20; Job 1:8. Job even offered burnt offerings to God for himself and his children just in case they had done something evil. The Old Testament burnt offerings symbolized God 's salvation by His consuming fire of all humans not saved by grace. I Corinthians 3:11-15. Some people have led very clean and moral lives by yielding to the image of God within them even though they are not saved by grace. Others have led very cruel and evil lives because they have rebelled against God and the image of God within them. Nevertheless, all humans have done some good and some evil. In the end of the world, God will resurrect all humans within the regions of the dead and recreate them to live on His recreated earth. God will reward them according to their good works. Those who did a lot of good works will retain some of their former identities and receive many rewards. Those who led evil lives will lose most of their former identities but their lives will be preserved in God's recreation of other humans. God will use His consuming fire to separate their living images which He created for His rewards, and will consign their separated total evil and death to the lake of fire forever. Matthew 16:24-25; Matthew 3:10-12; John 5:28-29; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 21:8; Revelation 22:11-12.
When Satan mocked God by claiming that Job only served God because of the blessings and protection that God had provided him, Satan revealed his plan for the whole human race. Satan took Job's children and everything he owned from him, including his health, and left him with absolutely nothing except the righteous image of God that was still within him. Satan even caused Job's wife to desire to be rid of him. When she told Job "curse God and die," she revealed Satan's plan for the whole of humanity. Satan desires to use evil to overwhelm and destroy the goodness that God has put into every man to the degree that even the image of God in every man dissolves into an evil curse against God. Should Satan succeed, he would completely destroy a part of God's creation and a part of God's Word, reveal God as being less than Almighty, and thus begin the downfall of God Himself. But God has promised that His Love, His creations, and His Word can never be diminished in the least. I Corinthians 13:8; Ecclesiastes 3:14; Matthew 24:35.
Tuesday, December 11, 2018
God's Two Methods of Salvation part one
God created Adam and Eve to be completely righteous but also innocent. God has said that whatever He creates will last forever, and His Word cannot be diminished. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Numbers 23:19. God also gave Adam and Eve free will which He attached to their innocence. They could obey God and keep their innocence pure, or they could disobey God and cause their innocence and righteousness to become besmirched with filthy sin. They did not know about filthy sin, but they did know they should obey God. This means their innocence caused their fall to be only partly their fault. For this reason, God cursed Satan and the ground but He did not curse living humans whom He created.
But God allowed Adam and Eve to fall into sin as a part of His plan to completely purge His world of all sin and evil and recreate it, along with all humanity not saved by grace, to be a righteous world. II Peter 3:12-13; Revelation 21:1-5. God had a special plan of salvation by grace for all who will believe that Jesus shed His blood and water on the cross to thoroughly cleanse them from all their sin and that in His resurrection, Christ would give them His own life and righteousness by which they would become joint-heirs with Christ and thus allowed to live with Christ in heaven forever. I Peter 1:18-25; I Timothy 4:10; John 6:32-35; Romans 8:14-17. In John 6:33, Jesus explicitly states that He "giveth life unto the world." The word "world" means all mankind. Christ can never mean anything less than exactly that which He states. I Timothy 4:10 explicitly states that the living God exists as the Savior of all men. This statement can only be true if God actually saves all men. The phrase "especially of those who believe" can only mean that God has a special salvation for those who believe in Christ while still alive in the flesh.
God has two different plans of salvation. In His first plan, God saves by His grace all who, while still alive in the flesh, put their faith in the power of Christ to save them through His death, burial, and resurrection. John 3:16; I Corinthians 15:1-4. God prophesied about salvation by His grace when He clothed Adam and Eve in the skin of an animal whose blood He had shed. Genesis 3:21.
God has a second plan of salvation for the rest of humanity not saved by grace. God prophesied in Isaiah 45:21-24 and in Philippians 2:9-11 that a day will come when all of humanity will worship Him as God and Savior. This prophecy will be fulfilled as recorded in Revelation 5:11-13. Philippians 2:10 records that those saved by grace in heaven will worship God in the same way as those on earth and under the earth. In Revelation 5:13, those in heaven and on the earth and under the earth will all worship Christ as "the Lamb" which means they will all recognize Christ as the Savior of all mankind. Revelation 20:5 prophesies that God will resurrect these living humans who worshipped Him from the regions of the dead in the ground for Him to recreate to live on His recreated and righteous earth. Revelation 21:1-5. For this reason, God cursed the ground in Genesis 3:17 because He would have to consign unbelievers in His Son to one of the regions of the dead because He could not accept their sin and unbelief. Revelation 20:13. This means all those within the regions of the dead are partly alive and partly dead. God will cause the living parts of these humans to have faith in Him, but their dead parts which will never believe, God will consign to the lake of fire forever. Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:8.
In Genesis 3:20, God prophesied that He will save and preserve all living humans. God can never lose anything He has ever created. Romans 11:29; Romans 11:36. Jesus affirmed these same truths in Luke 20:37-38. God will certainly answer the prayer of His Son in Luke 23:34 and forgive and save all of His living humans. But God will never forgive that part of humanity which remains evil and dead and, just like the demons, totally reject and hate Christ. Matthew 12:31-32; Revelation 21:8; Revelation 22:11-12; Ecclesiastes 12:13-14.
But God allowed Adam and Eve to fall into sin as a part of His plan to completely purge His world of all sin and evil and recreate it, along with all humanity not saved by grace, to be a righteous world. II Peter 3:12-13; Revelation 21:1-5. God had a special plan of salvation by grace for all who will believe that Jesus shed His blood and water on the cross to thoroughly cleanse them from all their sin and that in His resurrection, Christ would give them His own life and righteousness by which they would become joint-heirs with Christ and thus allowed to live with Christ in heaven forever. I Peter 1:18-25; I Timothy 4:10; John 6:32-35; Romans 8:14-17. In John 6:33, Jesus explicitly states that He "giveth life unto the world." The word "world" means all mankind. Christ can never mean anything less than exactly that which He states. I Timothy 4:10 explicitly states that the living God exists as the Savior of all men. This statement can only be true if God actually saves all men. The phrase "especially of those who believe" can only mean that God has a special salvation for those who believe in Christ while still alive in the flesh.
God has two different plans of salvation. In His first plan, God saves by His grace all who, while still alive in the flesh, put their faith in the power of Christ to save them through His death, burial, and resurrection. John 3:16; I Corinthians 15:1-4. God prophesied about salvation by His grace when He clothed Adam and Eve in the skin of an animal whose blood He had shed. Genesis 3:21.
God has a second plan of salvation for the rest of humanity not saved by grace. God prophesied in Isaiah 45:21-24 and in Philippians 2:9-11 that a day will come when all of humanity will worship Him as God and Savior. This prophecy will be fulfilled as recorded in Revelation 5:11-13. Philippians 2:10 records that those saved by grace in heaven will worship God in the same way as those on earth and under the earth. In Revelation 5:13, those in heaven and on the earth and under the earth will all worship Christ as "the Lamb" which means they will all recognize Christ as the Savior of all mankind. Revelation 20:5 prophesies that God will resurrect these living humans who worshipped Him from the regions of the dead in the ground for Him to recreate to live on His recreated and righteous earth. Revelation 21:1-5. For this reason, God cursed the ground in Genesis 3:17 because He would have to consign unbelievers in His Son to one of the regions of the dead because He could not accept their sin and unbelief. Revelation 20:13. This means all those within the regions of the dead are partly alive and partly dead. God will cause the living parts of these humans to have faith in Him, but their dead parts which will never believe, God will consign to the lake of fire forever. Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:8.
In Genesis 3:20, God prophesied that He will save and preserve all living humans. God can never lose anything He has ever created. Romans 11:29; Romans 11:36. Jesus affirmed these same truths in Luke 20:37-38. God will certainly answer the prayer of His Son in Luke 23:34 and forgive and save all of His living humans. But God will never forgive that part of humanity which remains evil and dead and, just like the demons, totally reject and hate Christ. Matthew 12:31-32; Revelation 21:8; Revelation 22:11-12; Ecclesiastes 12:13-14.
Thursday, December 6, 2018
The Saved and the Unsaved
The identity and personality of every individual person constitutes a system created by God. God creates or destroys systems, but He never destroys the basic elements that compose every system. God has derived all of His basic, irreducible elements from His infinite set of Basic Ideas which constitutes the contents of His Eternal Mind. God's infinite set of Basic Ideas and God's Eternal Mind unite as One and the Same. John 1:1.
God created the physical laws of the universe to demonstrate His truth that systems can be created or destroyed, but the basic elements of every system cannot be destroyed. The same holds true for ideas. Systems of ideas can be created or destroyed but not the basic, irreducible ideas of those systems derived from the mind.
In Matthew 16:24-25; Matthew 10:38-39; Mark 8:34-35; Luke 9:23-24; Luke 17:33; and John 12:25, Jesus taught some profound truths about the kinds of individual human systems that God will preserve and those He will destroy. Those who "take up his cross" and follow Jesus must "deny himself;" that is, he must reject all sinful pleasures, and he must be willing to suffer persecution for his love for his Savior. Those who turn their backs to this sinful world and fix their eyes on Calvary, God will preserve their individual systems and most of their personalities in heaven with Him forever. Each person saved by grace must "lose his life;" that is, he must deny that he is a system attached to this sinful world in order to find his life in Christ.
But Jesus also taught that those who seek to "save his life shall lose it." Jesus meant that those who believe that their lives attach only to this sinful world, God will someday dissolve their individual systems, recover the good and living elements of their systems that He created and throw the evil elements of their systems away. Life inheres in goodness just as goodness inheres in life. Jesus prophesied about this event in John 5:28-29. In a general resurrection in the end of the world, God will dissolve the individual systems of all unbelievers still in their graves, recover their good and living elements and cast their evil elements into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15.
God can never lose the good lives of every person because He created them in His image. Genesis 1:27; Genesis 1:31. God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Romans 11:39; Romans 11:36; Luke 20:38. When Jesus taught that those who "will save his life shall lose it," He meant that in the end God will dissolve their individual, worldly systems by the use of His consuming fire, recover their good and living elements that He created and cast their dead elements into the lake of fire. Goodness is always alive, and spiritual death is always evil. John 5:28-29; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 22:11-12.
God will preserve the individual identities and most of the personalities of all humans saved by grace in heaven forever. In other words, those who lost their individual worldly lives; that is, they lost for Christ's sake that which they believed were their lives, God will retain their individual systems forever. Matthew 16:24-25. But those who try to save their worldly lives, God will dissolve their worldly systems in the end. They will lose their former individual systems, but God will recover the good elements of their lives to be recreated as new humans immune to sin to live on His recreated earth. God will cast their separated evil elements into the lake of fire forever. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5.
God created the physical laws of the universe to demonstrate His truth that systems can be created or destroyed, but the basic elements of every system cannot be destroyed. The same holds true for ideas. Systems of ideas can be created or destroyed but not the basic, irreducible ideas of those systems derived from the mind.
In Matthew 16:24-25; Matthew 10:38-39; Mark 8:34-35; Luke 9:23-24; Luke 17:33; and John 12:25, Jesus taught some profound truths about the kinds of individual human systems that God will preserve and those He will destroy. Those who "take up his cross" and follow Jesus must "deny himself;" that is, he must reject all sinful pleasures, and he must be willing to suffer persecution for his love for his Savior. Those who turn their backs to this sinful world and fix their eyes on Calvary, God will preserve their individual systems and most of their personalities in heaven with Him forever. Each person saved by grace must "lose his life;" that is, he must deny that he is a system attached to this sinful world in order to find his life in Christ.
But Jesus also taught that those who seek to "save his life shall lose it." Jesus meant that those who believe that their lives attach only to this sinful world, God will someday dissolve their individual systems, recover the good and living elements of their systems that He created and throw the evil elements of their systems away. Life inheres in goodness just as goodness inheres in life. Jesus prophesied about this event in John 5:28-29. In a general resurrection in the end of the world, God will dissolve the individual systems of all unbelievers still in their graves, recover their good and living elements and cast their evil elements into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15.
God can never lose the good lives of every person because He created them in His image. Genesis 1:27; Genesis 1:31. God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Romans 11:39; Romans 11:36; Luke 20:38. When Jesus taught that those who "will save his life shall lose it," He meant that in the end God will dissolve their individual, worldly systems by the use of His consuming fire, recover their good and living elements that He created and cast their dead elements into the lake of fire. Goodness is always alive, and spiritual death is always evil. John 5:28-29; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 22:11-12.
God will preserve the individual identities and most of the personalities of all humans saved by grace in heaven forever. In other words, those who lost their individual worldly lives; that is, they lost for Christ's sake that which they believed were their lives, God will retain their individual systems forever. Matthew 16:24-25. But those who try to save their worldly lives, God will dissolve their worldly systems in the end. They will lose their former individual systems, but God will recover the good elements of their lives to be recreated as new humans immune to sin to live on His recreated earth. God will cast their separated evil elements into the lake of fire forever. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5.
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