The World and the Word

                                        The Word

God's Set of Ideas are Infinite, but most of the good systems that He creates from them are finite. This means the region of nonexistence that He accidentally caused must also be finite in that God destroys the three regions of death when He casts them into the lake of fire which will consume evil forever. Revelation 20:11-15. This fact means that God holds all the power He needs to eventually purge all evil that causes sin from all of His creations forever. God can create or dissolve any of His systems at will which makes them finite, but His Infinite Set of Ideas from which He forms those good systems remains forever in His Mind. God can also choose to retain some of His good systems forever. God has chosen to keep all humans saved by His grace with Him, with all their identities intact, forever in heaven. John 12:25

Innocence can be thought of as child like. In his excessive and obsessive pride, Lucifer thought that God's innocence was a weakness that he could exploit to overcome and murder God. Little did Satan know that God could use His innocence to voluntarily bear the entire weight of the evil and sins of all mankind and emerge from hell unscathed by it all to an immaculate resurrection to eternal life again. God is a just God. His Almighty Love can cause Him to suffer man's eternal, spiritual death in his place, but His justice would not allow His innocent Son to remain in hell forever. That same innocence that Satan thought was weakness became the very means by which God could rescue His living images in all humans whom He loves with an Almighty Love. Romans 5:10; Psalm 16:10-11.

The fact that God will eventually correct all false systems by eliminating all sin and evil from them and recreating them to be good systems means that His eternal will adheres to His foreknowledge and predestination. But God also allows humans to be free to choose to obey or disobey Him. When God tests a person and he chooses to obey God, then he simply conforms to the goodness that God has already given him, and he will be rewarded at the time of his recreation. When a person fails God's test by disobedience, that does not hinder God in the least. God simply cranks up His great, eternal engine of Love and goes to work to purge that false system of all of its sins and evil and return it to a good and creative system. Since God possesses eternity, He has all time on His side. In this way, God's predestination and man's free will can both exist at the same time. Ecclesiastes 3:14.

God is eternal. He never had a beginning, and He will never have an end. Yet, eternity also passes through time which can only have beginnings and endings. This means eternity encompasses all certainties which are all events that actually happen in reality, but also eternity must encompass all events which might happen which are contingencies. This means eternity must also be infinite because every time a contingency becomes a certainty, even more possibilities are created. Certainties belong to God's foreknowledge and predestination, but possibilities belong to free will. Revelation 1:18; Revelation 22:12-13.