Commentary on the Book of Job part fifty eight

                                      Job 25:1-6

When Jesus taught that the "worm" of man, which symbolizes his spiritual death, "dieth not," He had to have meant that every "worm" in the lake of fire possesses only a negative consciousness. They become wholly demonic with a hatred for all that is creative and good. This condition could mean  that in some strange way, they could actually enjoy suffering since suffering seeks to destroy positive consciousness. Jesus suffered on the cross because that negative consciousness called Satan attempted to reduce Christ's perfect positive consciousness to a negative one. Mark 9: 44, 46 and 48.

The being of every person possesses a positive consciousness and a negative consciousness inherited from the fall of Adam and Eve. The living image of God in every person, which is his positive consciousness, sins whenever it yields to the influence of its negative consciousness. All evil is also sin, but the difference between sin and evil is that sin happens because of a weakness in the free will of man, but evil can only be a deliberate rebellion against God. For this reason, sinful acts usually contain some elements of goodness, but deliberately cruel and selfish acts, of which a person refuses to repent, demonstrate that such a person has consciously yielded to the control of his negative consciousness in rebellion against God. God will forgive even the worst acts of rebellion against Him if a person seeks reconciliation with Him through repentance and faith in Christ. God's Love never fails. Jesus taught that God will forgive every act of sin and rebellion when a person repents and believes, but when a person rejects the Holy Spirit who calls him to repentance, then God will never forgive that rebellion. Matthew 12:31-32.

Eve's good life sinned because of a weakness in her free will when she was deceived by the Devil. But she deliberately committed an act of rebellion against God when she selfishly gave the forbidden fruit to Adam to eat because she wanted him to be fallen with her. Adam sinned when his good life had compassion on Eve's fallen condition, and he desired to fall with her so that he could protect her as best as he could. But Adam committed a deliberate act of rebellion against God when he desired to not lose his physical love with Eve, and He also knew fully well that he was deliberately disobeying God. I Timothy 2:14.

God fully explained the difference between sin and evil in Numbers 15:23-36. The sins of ignorance in these verses denote God's ability to cleanse and forgive these sins symbolized by the burnt offerings and sin offerings. But these verses also indicate that God will never forgive presumptuous sins, and He will separate that evil in man from Himself forever. Revelation 20:15. God commanded that the man who picked up sticks on the Sabbath be executed because he refused to repent by asking for a burnt offering or a sin offering for himself. God will cleanse and forgive all acts of sin and evil if sinners will avail themselves of Christ's Love and Mercy in repentance and faith. Even the worst acts of evil that a person can do become sins of weakness when a sinner repents, puts his faith in Christ's power to cleanse and forgive, and submits himself to the grace and mercy of God. God has given every person a measure of faith and repentance. Romans 12:3.

Because of this fact, God knows that the free will of every image of God in every person, which also contains his weakness for sin, will one day chose to return to repentance and faith in Christ as the Lamb who has already done all the work necessary to cleanse and forgive them of all their sins and save their good lives forever, some by His grace and all others in a tremendous worship service as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. But the total evil in man, which is his spiritual death of which he never repents, God will separate from him and cast it into the lake of fire forever. Revelation 20:11-15; Matthew 12:31-32.

Positive consciousness, being creative, seeks eternal life and/or immortality based on God's grace and mercy. Negative consciousness, being destructive, seeks even its own annihilation. Negative consciousness realizes that it must contain some form of misused self-consciousness because it recognizes that it is separate from absolute nothingness. It also realizes that it seeks the utter destruction of positive consciousness and creativity. Negative consciousness realizes its total evil, and therefore, it does not enjoy being conscious at all because even a misused self-consciousness comes to close to being creative. Negative consciousness actually seeks only annihilation. It seeks to merge with absolute nothingness. People who commit suicide do not seek a negative consciousness. They seek an annihilation of consciousness.