Job 25:1-6
God created mankind as good and living systems. Genesis 1:27; Genesis 1:31. Satan sought to annihilate these good and living systems by reducing them to absolute nothingness and thereby prove that God's Love can fail. God allowed Satan to reduce humanity to a hopeless condition for self-salvation when Satan caused Adam and Eve's good and living systems to become soiled and stained by sin which has an evil effect on man's living systems. Satan knew that a Holy God would never be able to accept them again into His fellowship as long as they were marred by sin. Because of their fallen condition, Satan counted on holding them in hell forever.
Adam and Eve sinned because of a weakness in their free will. God was not responsible for this weakness since He had no idea whatsoever that His loving gift of free will to Lucifer could be misused. The good and living systems of all humanity became soiled by the influence of evil. Before evil entered heaven and then humanity, God had and has infinite knowledge of all that is creative and holy. This fact means God is omniscient since evil is a kind of anti-knowledge which seeks to utterly destroy all that is good and creative, reducing it to absolute nothingness. But God provided Himself as a Lamb who would sacrifice Himself in man's place to become man's sin and spiritual death so that He could cleanse and forgive the good and living systems of all humans, some by the blood and water that flowed from Jesus on the cross and all others by His use of His consuming fire.
God holds the power to save all living humans from the sin that causes spiritual death by cleansing and forgiving them and by His power to recreate their good systems that has been marred by sin. God employed repentance and faith as the means whereby every living human will sooner or later return to the protection of His Love. Evil is total rebellion against God and therefore never repents. All evil is totally evil and is the spiritual death which God will separate from all living humans for Him to cast into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:15. Because Christ became the sin and spiritual deaths of all humans, He can separate the total evil in all humans from them for its destruction in the lake of fire, and He can cleanse and forgive all the sin that soils man's living systems when they repent and put their faith in His power to save them. The absolute dividing line between spiritual death and salvation is repentance and faith which returns the living systems of humans to the protection of God's Love. God has given every living human a measure of faith which He will renew in every person, some by His grace when they repent and believe while still in the flesh and all others in a great worship service as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. Romans 12:3.
Adam and Eve sinned because of a weakness in their free will, but they also deliberately disobeyed God. God provided a plan to save their good and living systems from the stain of sin by giving them, and all humans, repentance and faith in His power through His sacrifice to return them to the protection of His Love. Total evil in man never repents, but God will separate this spiritual death from man and cast it into the lake of fire. In the Great White Throne Judgment in the end of the world, God will use His consuming fire to separate and recover all living humans not already saved by grace from spiritual death by casting it into the lake of fire which is also God's eternal consuming fire. God can make this separation because Christ suffered man's eternal spiritual separation from God in man's place. Matthew 27:46; Hebrews 2:9. God saved the living systems of all mankind from the sin that would eternally soil it and claim it and reduce it to eternal spiritual death. Christ also saved the living systems of every man by becoming his spiritual death in his place. That part of Christ's Spirit which suffered man's eternal spiritual death has become the eternal lake of fire which forever separates man's eternal life from his eternal death. Hebrews 12:29 does not state that God possesses a consuming fire. This verse clearly states that God is a consuming fire. I Corinthians 15:26; I Corinthians 15:22; Luke 20:38; Colossians 1:15-20; I John 3:8; John 11:25-26.
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