Commentary on the Book of Job part seventy five

                                    Job 29:1-25

Someday, God will learn exactly how evil emerges from the darkness of the bottomless pit to infect His creations. At that time, God will use His consuming fire to absolutely separate and recover all of the goodness that He created, cleanse it of all of the taint  of sin and the corruption of evil, and recreate a righteous heaven and earth. God will also cast separated death, which is totally evil, into the lake of fire forever. Revelation 20:7-9; Revelation 20:14-15; Revelation 22:11-12.

But the mystery which the positive Consciousness of God will never be able to understand is exactly how any form of consciousness, even if negative, could form within chaos. One can speculate that negative consciousness would have to be the opposite of positive consciousness; that is, destructive instead of creative. But that would mean that negative consciousness would seek to annul itself. In some mysterious way that positive consciousness cannot hope to understand, negative consciousness both exists and nonexists at the same time. II Thessalonians 2:7; Revelation 17:8-9.

Job yearned for his former days of joyful fellowship with God, prosperity, and the respect of others. Yet, God allowed the Devil to take it all from him except his life. Why? Job 2:6.

Job happens to be symbolic of the fate of the entire human race. Few humans have ever suffered the loss of everything they love, and yet all humans must suffer to some extent because of their sins and the attacks of the Devil. But the one thing that God will never allow the Devil to take is the life of any person. God created that life in His image and put it into every person. God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14. Because God created man's life to be good, then a measure of faith still resides within the life of every human. Romans 12:3; Luke 20:38; Genesis 3:20.

Many humans claim to be atheists, but a spark of God's faith still resides within the image of God still within the inner being of every one of them. God knows exactly how to reawaken that faith in every human, some by His grace and all others in a great worship service as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14.