Job 30:1-31
Evil entered into God's creations with the rebellion of Lucifer. Such a condition would cause suffering and doubt about God's Love forever if God did nothing about it. Such a condition would also call God's Love for His creations into question because all those who remained loyal to God would continue forever to wonder why God did not do something to get rid of evil. God also could not ban evil from His creations with a summary command because, in His innocence, He did not know how it got into His universe, and also such a summary command would leave His Love untested. Those who contend that if God is Almighty, then He should be able to ban evil from His universe without the need for suffering or the test of His Love, forget that God is also Holy. God's Holiness constrains Him to be creative in everything He does. In other words, God must be careful to get what He does right. If there were any chance that that which God does would make conditions worse instead of better, then God cannot do it.
God discovered that evil came from the bottomless pit, but He did not know how it wormed its way into His creations using the cloak of darkness which He had created in innocence. God had to devise a plan whereby He could use His Love to completely defeat evil, but also He could ban its subtle entrance into His created systems forever.
God is omniscient, but He only possesses an infinite knowledge of all that is good and creative. God knew nothing about evil until after Lucifer had rebelled. God discovered that evil emanates from negative consciousnesses within the bottomless pit which His Word calls devils. God's positive consciousness came to understand that chaotic, negative consciousnesses would have to be the opposite of creative consciousness; that is, it would seek only to destroy by annihilation all creative systems that it may touch. Even though negative consciousness cannot be creative, even its very existence would continuously seek to annul itself since existence itself has to be somewhat positive. This condition means that in some mysterious way which no positive consciousness can ever hope to understand, not even God's, negative consciousness both exists and nonexists at the same time. II Thessalonians 2:7; Revelation 17:8. Science has discovered that the universe holds a mathematical principle that both exists and nonexists at the same time that it calls virtual particles. This principle proves that such a condition is possible even though no one can understand it.
God gave the gift of free will to Lucifer so that he would have the liberty to create whatever good systems he desired. True love seeks to liberate, not control. God had no idea that Lucifer could misuse God's gift to choose to introduce evil into God's creations. One aspect of the criminal mind is that it often most harms those who try to be good to it.
God knew that He had to devise a plan to permanently defeat and ban all evil from all of His creations. By the use of His Omnipotent Love, He had to prove that the weakness in free will that allowed evil to come into His creations would never be able to annul His Love. God created a good system called the human race and deliberately gave it free will. Satan thought that God had made a huge mistake in doing this. Satan thought he could use that mistake to introduce an evil into man's being that would eventually become so vile in man that it would annul man's faith that God had put into His image in man, and thereby annul God's Love for man since God hates evil. Romans 12:3. In such a case, should Satan prove that God's Love can fail, he would thereby gain an advantage over God which would allow him to eventually murder God and gain control of God's good ideas so that he could misuse them to invent a universe based on evil systems of excessive pride and pleasure. Satan revealed his vile plans in his temptation of Christ as recorded in Matthew 4:1-11.
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