The Results of the Fall
Satan seeks to exploit the free will of humans so that at least one of them will choose to become so evil that his spiritual life that God created and loves will become annulled, spiritually dead, and lost from God forever. Job 1:11; Job 2:5; Job 2:9. God will never allow His free will that He lovingly gave to humans to be misused to that extent. Should the Devil succeed, he would win his war with God by proving that God's Love is not Almighty if He cannot protect even one living soul that He created and loves. But God devised a plan whereby He would be able to cause every living human who ever lived to choose of their own free will to return to faith in Him so that He will save every one of their living souls and spirits that He created and loves, some by His grace and all others in a great worship service as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. John 5:24; Romans 12:3; Luke 20:38.
When God came to earth in human form, He put Himself between the human race and the Devil. In effect, He told the Devil that in order for him to attempt to cause the eternal deaths of the living souls and spirits of all humans whom He loves, then the Devil would have to go through Him first. John 12:46-48; John 12:31-32; John 16:11; I John 3:8; Hebrews 2:9. I John 3:8 clearly teaches that Christ came to "destroy the works of the Devil," not living humans. God does nothing halfway. God will absolutely eradicate all the works of the Devil which means He will save all living humans. The Devil had no choice but to accept Christ's challenge, and so he threw all of the evil and sins of the world onto Christ on the cross in his attempt to murder God and annul His Living Spirit forever. I John 2:2; John 8:44; II Corinthians 5:19. If Christ came to reconcile "the world unto Himself," then surely He cannot fail to do exactly that. Christ allowed His sinless body to die knowing that He held the power to raise it from the dead and thereby change the eternal deaths of all humans into temporary deaths. Hebrews 2:9; Revelation 1:18; John 11:25-26. When Christ died, He dismissed His Living Spirit to descend into hell to leave behind all of the sins and evil of all humans not saved by grace. Humans saved by grace never go to any of the regions of death because all their sins and evil has been washed away by the blood and water from Christ on the cross. Christ had to have accomplished this because He rose immaculate from the dead. Jesus' complete victory over spiritual death meant that during the Tribulation period, God will appear to the living souls and spirits of all living humans confined within the regions of the dead to cause them all to freely choose to be saved by His mercy by returning them to the faith that He put into them when He created them. Romans 12:3; Revelation 5:11-14.
God's absolute victory over spiritual death meant that He had the power to completely destroy the first death and replace it with a second death which applies only to spiritual death itself, not living humans. The Spirit of Christ destroyed the first death by becoming the second death which is God's consuming fire; that is, the lake of fire which will forever consume the spiritual deaths of all humans that the Devil has injected into the beings of all humans and which happens to be foreign to all humans. I Corinthians 15:26; Revelation 20:14; I Corinthians 3:11-14; I John 3:8; Revelation 20:5; Proverbs 10:12; Deuteronomy 32:22. Proverbs 10:12 clearly teaches that "...Love covereth all sins," not some sins.
In Christ's Judgment in the end of the world, He will use His consuming fire, which is His wrath against evil, to separate the living spirits and souls of all humans within the regions of the dead from their spiritual deaths because they all will have returned to faith in Him. I Corinthians 3:11-14; Revelation 5:11-14. Christ will raise their living souls and spirits from the dead for Him to recreate with new bodies to live forever on His recreated earth. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5. All of the Old Testament burnt offering sacrifices symbolized this event. Genesis 8:20.
Wednesday, April 29, 2020
Tuesday, April 28, 2020
The World and the Word
The Results of the Fall
Reality consists of a duality; that is, a consciousness of everything of which a consciousness can be conscious, abstract or concrete. This concept means that consciousness must be a thing in-itself, and its objects must be something other than consciousness. Others contend that since no consciousness can be conscious without something of which to be conscious, and no something can be distinguished from nothing without consciousness, then reality must be a unity of consciousness with its objects. Actually, both concepts can be said to be true depending on how a particular consciousness evaluates reality.
The Bible (KJB) informs that the Word of God is the same as God Himself. John 1:1. Since God would have to be infinite in order to be God, then the Word of God would have to be infinite information which constitutes the infinite contents of the Infinite Consciousness of God. Psalm 147:5. Since the Holy Spirit would have to be the infinite extent of God's Consciousness, then God can be said to be an Infinite Reality which has to be also an Infinite Unity. But John 1:1 also informs that the Word of God was with God which argues for the Infinite Duality of God's Consciousness. The fact that God created the universe argues for the Duality of God's reality since the material universe exists outside of God's Consciousness. However, since the Holy Spirit has to be the infinite extent of God's Consciousness, including every sub-atomic particle in His universe, then God must also be the Infinite Unity of an Infinite Reality. Since the Bible informs that God is both a Trinity and a Unity, then both concepts must be true and real throughout an eternal reality. Deuteronomy 6:4; Matthew 3:16-17.
God can only possess an Infinite Creative Consciousness since every system that He creates can only be good and useful. But when Lucifer rebelled, God discovered that He must have accidentally and unwittingly created a nonexistent region of which no positive consciousness, including His own, can be conscious. Isaiah 45:7; Isaiah 40:17; II Thessalonians 2:7. If a positive consciousness cannot be conscious of something, then that something does not exist as far as that consciousness is concerned. God called this nonexistent region the bottomless pit since it seems to be nowhere and at no time as far as positive consciousness is concerned. Job 10:21-22. Job seemed to be making a perfect description of a black hole.
Evil emerged into God's creations under the cover of darkness that God created long before He created light. Genesis 1:2. Jesus spoke about evil as hiding in darkness and emerging from darkness. John 3:19-20. Since God can know only a positive creativity and order, then He could have known absolutely nothing about the evil that causes chaos hiding within the darkness when He created the world. Chaos equals the bottomless pit from which negative consciousnesses that God calls "devils" somehow emerged into heaven under cover of darkness to exploit the free will of Lucifer and cause him to choose to rebel against God. Isaiah 45:7; Isaiah 14:12-17.
Reality consists of a duality; that is, a consciousness of everything of which a consciousness can be conscious, abstract or concrete. This concept means that consciousness must be a thing in-itself, and its objects must be something other than consciousness. Others contend that since no consciousness can be conscious without something of which to be conscious, and no something can be distinguished from nothing without consciousness, then reality must be a unity of consciousness with its objects. Actually, both concepts can be said to be true depending on how a particular consciousness evaluates reality.
The Bible (KJB) informs that the Word of God is the same as God Himself. John 1:1. Since God would have to be infinite in order to be God, then the Word of God would have to be infinite information which constitutes the infinite contents of the Infinite Consciousness of God. Psalm 147:5. Since the Holy Spirit would have to be the infinite extent of God's Consciousness, then God can be said to be an Infinite Reality which has to be also an Infinite Unity. But John 1:1 also informs that the Word of God was with God which argues for the Infinite Duality of God's Consciousness. The fact that God created the universe argues for the Duality of God's reality since the material universe exists outside of God's Consciousness. However, since the Holy Spirit has to be the infinite extent of God's Consciousness, including every sub-atomic particle in His universe, then God must also be the Infinite Unity of an Infinite Reality. Since the Bible informs that God is both a Trinity and a Unity, then both concepts must be true and real throughout an eternal reality. Deuteronomy 6:4; Matthew 3:16-17.
God can only possess an Infinite Creative Consciousness since every system that He creates can only be good and useful. But when Lucifer rebelled, God discovered that He must have accidentally and unwittingly created a nonexistent region of which no positive consciousness, including His own, can be conscious. Isaiah 45:7; Isaiah 40:17; II Thessalonians 2:7. If a positive consciousness cannot be conscious of something, then that something does not exist as far as that consciousness is concerned. God called this nonexistent region the bottomless pit since it seems to be nowhere and at no time as far as positive consciousness is concerned. Job 10:21-22. Job seemed to be making a perfect description of a black hole.
Evil emerged into God's creations under the cover of darkness that God created long before He created light. Genesis 1:2. Jesus spoke about evil as hiding in darkness and emerging from darkness. John 3:19-20. Since God can know only a positive creativity and order, then He could have known absolutely nothing about the evil that causes chaos hiding within the darkness when He created the world. Chaos equals the bottomless pit from which negative consciousnesses that God calls "devils" somehow emerged into heaven under cover of darkness to exploit the free will of Lucifer and cause him to choose to rebel against God. Isaiah 45:7; Isaiah 14:12-17.
Monday, April 27, 2020
The World and the Word
The Results of the Fall
God commanded Noah and his family to "multiply, and replenish the earth." Genesis 9:1. These Adamic humans retained their souls, their intelligence, and their free wills. But each of their beings were still divided into their living souls and spirits that God had created, and their evil, spiritual deaths injected into them by Satan which caused their living souls to sin. The Adamic race could never become overpowered by evil, but each of them could still choose to sin or do good according to the choices of their free will.
All sin can become evil, and all evil can become sin. The difference resides in repentance and faith. God will cleanse and forgive all sin, no matter how evil it may be, because He holds the power to change a false system into a good system which amounts to reconciliation with God. Colossians 1:15-20. But the slightest sin will become evil if the human that committed it refuses to repent and believe that God can cleanse and forgive it. Numbers 15:32-36; Matthew 12:31-32. God can forgive sins, but He never forgives evil because it never repents. Because of the death, burial, and resurrection of His Son, God holds the power to cleanse and forgive, through the blood and water that flowed from Jesus on the cross, all of the sins of all believers while they are still alive in the flesh. Matthew 26:28; Ephesians 5:25-27; Revelation 1:5. God holds the power to annul the spiritual deaths of all believers saved by His grace the moment they believe. John 5:24.
But Christ's Spirit also descended into hell to leave behind all of the sins and evil of the rest of humanity that He bore on the cross. Christ had to have left all of their sins and evil behind in hell because He rose immaculate from the dead. I John 2:2. Based on this fact, God will use His appearance to all living humans confined within the regions of the dead in order to cause them to repent and believe in Christ who will save them for His recreation forever by His mercy. Revelation 5:11-14. In the end of the world, God will use His consuming fire, which is His wrath against sin and evil, to separate the lives of these humans from their sins and evil for Him to resurrect and recreate to live on His recreated earth. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5. God will also use His consuming fire to separate their totally evil, eternal deaths from their living souls and spirits for Him to cast their total evil into the eternal lake of fire. Revelation 20:15; I Corinthians 3:11-15.
God punished Adam and Eve for their sins, but He did not curse them. God cursed only the Devil and the ground that holds eternal death. God has determined that all humans will only suffer temporarily for their sins. God blames the Devil alone for the evil he injected into humans because of their sins. Evil is foreign to humans. Genesis 3:14-21. Although God is completely innocent and blameless, He feels partly guilty because, in the beginning of His creations, He had no idea that evil even nonexisted much less that it had some kind of negative power to influence free will in God's lesser, intelligent creatures that would cause them to sin. Free will is not a weakness in God, but it is in His lesser creations. Isaiah 45:7. Had Christ, in His great Love, not come to earth to sacrifice Himself on a cruel cross to purge all evil from all living humans and provide for the cleansing and forgiveness of their sins through His shed blood and water and His descent into Hell, then all human life would have become spiritually dead and lost from God forever. Matthew 26:28; Hebrews 2:9. But God can never lose anything He has ever created, and His Love can never fail. Ecclesiastes 3:14; I Corinthians 13:8; Revelation 21:5.
God will forever destroy the first death by becoming the second death which is the lake of fire which is also God's eternal wrath against sin and evil. I Corinthians 15:26; Revelation 20:14. Christ will liberate all living humans from the first death which would have been their eternal deaths had Christ not come to gain the victory over the first death by His resurrection from the dead. Revelation 1:17-18. Christ will destroy the first death through His resurrection so that He can reclaim the living souls and spirits of all humans because they all belong to Him. Since Christ gained power over Hell and Death and possesses the power to destroy the first death entirely, then He must also possess the power to save all lost sinners after their physical deaths. I Corinthians 15:26; John 11:25; Luke 20:38; Deuteronomy 32:22; Hebrews 2:9; Psalm 36:6; I Corinthians 15:22; Revelation 20:14; Revelation 20:5; Genesis 3:20; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12; Acts 24:15; II Timothy 4:1; Daniel 12:2-3; Isaiah 66:22-24; I Corinthians 3:11-15; John 12:47-48; John 5:28-29; Colossians 1:15-23; Romans 11:36; Revelation 4:11; Isaiah 45:21-24; Revelation 5:11-14.
God commanded Noah and his family to "multiply, and replenish the earth." Genesis 9:1. These Adamic humans retained their souls, their intelligence, and their free wills. But each of their beings were still divided into their living souls and spirits that God had created, and their evil, spiritual deaths injected into them by Satan which caused their living souls to sin. The Adamic race could never become overpowered by evil, but each of them could still choose to sin or do good according to the choices of their free will.
All sin can become evil, and all evil can become sin. The difference resides in repentance and faith. God will cleanse and forgive all sin, no matter how evil it may be, because He holds the power to change a false system into a good system which amounts to reconciliation with God. Colossians 1:15-20. But the slightest sin will become evil if the human that committed it refuses to repent and believe that God can cleanse and forgive it. Numbers 15:32-36; Matthew 12:31-32. God can forgive sins, but He never forgives evil because it never repents. Because of the death, burial, and resurrection of His Son, God holds the power to cleanse and forgive, through the blood and water that flowed from Jesus on the cross, all of the sins of all believers while they are still alive in the flesh. Matthew 26:28; Ephesians 5:25-27; Revelation 1:5. God holds the power to annul the spiritual deaths of all believers saved by His grace the moment they believe. John 5:24.
But Christ's Spirit also descended into hell to leave behind all of the sins and evil of the rest of humanity that He bore on the cross. Christ had to have left all of their sins and evil behind in hell because He rose immaculate from the dead. I John 2:2. Based on this fact, God will use His appearance to all living humans confined within the regions of the dead in order to cause them to repent and believe in Christ who will save them for His recreation forever by His mercy. Revelation 5:11-14. In the end of the world, God will use His consuming fire, which is His wrath against sin and evil, to separate the lives of these humans from their sins and evil for Him to resurrect and recreate to live on His recreated earth. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5. God will also use His consuming fire to separate their totally evil, eternal deaths from their living souls and spirits for Him to cast their total evil into the eternal lake of fire. Revelation 20:15; I Corinthians 3:11-15.
God punished Adam and Eve for their sins, but He did not curse them. God cursed only the Devil and the ground that holds eternal death. God has determined that all humans will only suffer temporarily for their sins. God blames the Devil alone for the evil he injected into humans because of their sins. Evil is foreign to humans. Genesis 3:14-21. Although God is completely innocent and blameless, He feels partly guilty because, in the beginning of His creations, He had no idea that evil even nonexisted much less that it had some kind of negative power to influence free will in God's lesser, intelligent creatures that would cause them to sin. Free will is not a weakness in God, but it is in His lesser creations. Isaiah 45:7. Had Christ, in His great Love, not come to earth to sacrifice Himself on a cruel cross to purge all evil from all living humans and provide for the cleansing and forgiveness of their sins through His shed blood and water and His descent into Hell, then all human life would have become spiritually dead and lost from God forever. Matthew 26:28; Hebrews 2:9. But God can never lose anything He has ever created, and His Love can never fail. Ecclesiastes 3:14; I Corinthians 13:8; Revelation 21:5.
God will forever destroy the first death by becoming the second death which is the lake of fire which is also God's eternal wrath against sin and evil. I Corinthians 15:26; Revelation 20:14. Christ will liberate all living humans from the first death which would have been their eternal deaths had Christ not come to gain the victory over the first death by His resurrection from the dead. Revelation 1:17-18. Christ will destroy the first death through His resurrection so that He can reclaim the living souls and spirits of all humans because they all belong to Him. Since Christ gained power over Hell and Death and possesses the power to destroy the first death entirely, then He must also possess the power to save all lost sinners after their physical deaths. I Corinthians 15:26; John 11:25; Luke 20:38; Deuteronomy 32:22; Hebrews 2:9; Psalm 36:6; I Corinthians 15:22; Revelation 20:14; Revelation 20:5; Genesis 3:20; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12; Acts 24:15; II Timothy 4:1; Daniel 12:2-3; Isaiah 66:22-24; I Corinthians 3:11-15; John 12:47-48; John 5:28-29; Colossians 1:15-23; Romans 11:36; Revelation 4:11; Isaiah 45:21-24; Revelation 5:11-14.
Saturday, April 25, 2020
The World and the Word
The Results of the Fall
The Devil did not count on God becoming a human and dying the eternal deaths of all humans saved by grace and all humans within the regions of the dead and rising on the third day victorious over the first death so that He could change their eternal deaths to temporary deaths and give them eternal life. Satan has no faith whatsoever in God's Love. Hebrews 2:9; Revelation 1:18; I Corinthians 15:26. When Jesus' Spirit descended into Hell, He gained power over all three regions of the dead. He went to the bottomless pit to preach the gospel to the lost spirits killed in the flood and rescued them from eternal death. Christ cleansed them all of their sins when they repented by washing them in the water that He shed on the cross. The great flood contained that same water which separated their total evil from them with the deaths of their bodies. I Peter 3:18-20. Because Christ descended into Hell, He could use His consuming fire, which equals His wrath against evil, to separate the eternal deaths of all those in the Sea, Death, and Hell from their eternal lives, resurrect their eternal lives and cast their eternal deaths into the lake of fire. All through the Bible (KJB), God directs His wrath against sin and evil itself, never against living humans whom He created and loves. God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; I John 3:8; Ephesians 6:12; II Peter 3:9; Luke 20:38; John 1:29; John 5:28-29; I Corinthians 3:11-15.
God gave the burnt offering to Noah to symbolize the fact that God will rescue the living souls and spirits of all Adamic humans confined to one of the regions of death. All living humans that God saves by His grace will be washed in the blood and water that He shed on the cross. Christ has saved the lives of all pre-Adamic humans by washing away the evil in their bodies and cleansing their living spirits of all sin by the water He shed on the cross. Christ has also saved their bodies by recreating them. Christ has saved the living bodies of all the Old Testament saints saved by grace by recreating them when He rose from the dead. Matthew 27:52-53. Christ will bring the recreated bodies of the Church saints with Him to change them into spiritual bodies like His in the Rapture of the Church. I John 3:2; II Corinthians 5:1-5. Christ will recreate the bodies of the Tribulation saints and resurrect them in the beginning of His millennial reign. Revelation 20:4 and 6. But Revelation 20:5 clearly teaches that after the thousand year reign of Christ, He will resurrect the living souls and spirits of all humans within the regions of the dead, and Revelation 21:1-5 teaches that He will recreate their bodies to live on His recreated earth. God states in Revelation 21:5: "Behold, I make all things new..." Since God created "all things," including all living humans, then He must resurrect the good lives of all His humans that He created. Revelation 4:11. God will cast only the dead and evil parts of man's being into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:11-15. God annuls the spiritual deaths of the souls and spirits of all humans saved by His grace the moment they believe. John 5:24; Galatians 2:19-20. God will cleanse with the Water of His Word and recreate the living bodies of all humans saved by His grace in the Rapture of the Church. Ephesians 5:25-27.
The Devil did not count on God becoming a human and dying the eternal deaths of all humans saved by grace and all humans within the regions of the dead and rising on the third day victorious over the first death so that He could change their eternal deaths to temporary deaths and give them eternal life. Satan has no faith whatsoever in God's Love. Hebrews 2:9; Revelation 1:18; I Corinthians 15:26. When Jesus' Spirit descended into Hell, He gained power over all three regions of the dead. He went to the bottomless pit to preach the gospel to the lost spirits killed in the flood and rescued them from eternal death. Christ cleansed them all of their sins when they repented by washing them in the water that He shed on the cross. The great flood contained that same water which separated their total evil from them with the deaths of their bodies. I Peter 3:18-20. Because Christ descended into Hell, He could use His consuming fire, which equals His wrath against evil, to separate the eternal deaths of all those in the Sea, Death, and Hell from their eternal lives, resurrect their eternal lives and cast their eternal deaths into the lake of fire. All through the Bible (KJB), God directs His wrath against sin and evil itself, never against living humans whom He created and loves. God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; I John 3:8; Ephesians 6:12; II Peter 3:9; Luke 20:38; John 1:29; John 5:28-29; I Corinthians 3:11-15.
God gave the burnt offering to Noah to symbolize the fact that God will rescue the living souls and spirits of all Adamic humans confined to one of the regions of death. All living humans that God saves by His grace will be washed in the blood and water that He shed on the cross. Christ has saved the lives of all pre-Adamic humans by washing away the evil in their bodies and cleansing their living spirits of all sin by the water He shed on the cross. Christ has also saved their bodies by recreating them. Christ has saved the living bodies of all the Old Testament saints saved by grace by recreating them when He rose from the dead. Matthew 27:52-53. Christ will bring the recreated bodies of the Church saints with Him to change them into spiritual bodies like His in the Rapture of the Church. I John 3:2; II Corinthians 5:1-5. Christ will recreate the bodies of the Tribulation saints and resurrect them in the beginning of His millennial reign. Revelation 20:4 and 6. But Revelation 20:5 clearly teaches that after the thousand year reign of Christ, He will resurrect the living souls and spirits of all humans within the regions of the dead, and Revelation 21:1-5 teaches that He will recreate their bodies to live on His recreated earth. God states in Revelation 21:5: "Behold, I make all things new..." Since God created "all things," including all living humans, then He must resurrect the good lives of all His humans that He created. Revelation 4:11. God will cast only the dead and evil parts of man's being into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:11-15. God annuls the spiritual deaths of the souls and spirits of all humans saved by His grace the moment they believe. John 5:24; Galatians 2:19-20. God will cleanse with the Water of His Word and recreate the living bodies of all humans saved by His grace in the Rapture of the Church. Ephesians 5:25-27.
Friday, April 24, 2020
The World and the Word
The Results of the Fall
The pre-Adamic race possessed spirits which were a consciousness of God, but they did not have souls which meant they did not have intelligence by which they could discern a clear difference between good and evil as the Adamic race had acquired. The Adamic race that merged with the pre-Adamic race also lost much of its superior intelligence which caused it to become greatly confused about the difference between good and evil. Although Noah and his family may have become slightly mixed with the pre-Adamic race, they still retained their superior intelligence and souls by which they still possessed a clear understanding of the difference between good and evil. This meant that from Noah's time through the rest of human history, God would hold every human fully responsible for their choices as to whether to do good or to sin, or for evil actions themselves for which they would never repent. Any sin for which a human refuses to repent becomes totally evil and adheres to the spiritually dead nature of man. Any evil act that a human may commit becomes a sin when they repent because of their renewed faith in the grace and mercy of God who will always cleanse and forgive them. In Christ's Judgment in the end of the world, God will recover and recreate the living souls and spirits of all humans confined within the regions of the dead because they will have repented and believed, but He will consign their separated dead and totally evil natures to the lake of fire forever. Genesis 8:21; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-8; Revelation 22:11-12; Genesis 3:20; Luke 20:38; II Timothy 4:1; Revelation 5:11-14.
God further promised in Genesis 8:21 that He would never again "smite;" that is, kill, every "living thing" which meant all humans and mammals and birds. Genesis 7:21-22. God had become grieved because He had to kill all humans overwhelmed by evil through no fault of their own. God became further grieved because He had to consign their living spirits still stained by sin to the bottomless pit. This condition became the closest that the living spirits of any humans ever came to being annihilated by the force of evil. This annihilation is the goal of Satan. But God sent the Spirit of Christ to preach the gospel to them in the prison to renew their faith and consciousness of God when they all repented. I Peter 3:18-22. God promised that He would never again allow the living souls and spirits of any future humans to ever again come close to being annihilated by the Devil even though He would still have to consign all of those not saved by His grace to one of the regions of the dead. Genesis 8:21; Revelation 20:13. This promise was the meaning of Noah's burnt offering sacrifice. Genesis 8:20.
When the pre-Adamic race merged with most of the Adamic race, the intelligence of the pre-Adamic race improved, but the intelligence of the Adamic race became severely lessened to the extent that they lost some of their free will. The Devil succeeded in so overwhelming these fallen humans with the force of evil that God had to exterminate them from the earth. The Devil knew that God would have to consign their sinful spirits and souls to one of the regions of the dead, and he believed they would have to stay there forever which meant that their fallen spirits and souls would become annulled and lost from God forever. But the Devil did not count on God suffering their eternal deaths for them. God can never lose anything He has ever created and loves. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Romans 11:29; Romans 11:36; Psalm 36:6; I Corinthians 13:8.
The pre-Adamic race possessed spirits which were a consciousness of God, but they did not have souls which meant they did not have intelligence by which they could discern a clear difference between good and evil as the Adamic race had acquired. The Adamic race that merged with the pre-Adamic race also lost much of its superior intelligence which caused it to become greatly confused about the difference between good and evil. Although Noah and his family may have become slightly mixed with the pre-Adamic race, they still retained their superior intelligence and souls by which they still possessed a clear understanding of the difference between good and evil. This meant that from Noah's time through the rest of human history, God would hold every human fully responsible for their choices as to whether to do good or to sin, or for evil actions themselves for which they would never repent. Any sin for which a human refuses to repent becomes totally evil and adheres to the spiritually dead nature of man. Any evil act that a human may commit becomes a sin when they repent because of their renewed faith in the grace and mercy of God who will always cleanse and forgive them. In Christ's Judgment in the end of the world, God will recover and recreate the living souls and spirits of all humans confined within the regions of the dead because they will have repented and believed, but He will consign their separated dead and totally evil natures to the lake of fire forever. Genesis 8:21; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-8; Revelation 22:11-12; Genesis 3:20; Luke 20:38; II Timothy 4:1; Revelation 5:11-14.
God further promised in Genesis 8:21 that He would never again "smite;" that is, kill, every "living thing" which meant all humans and mammals and birds. Genesis 7:21-22. God had become grieved because He had to kill all humans overwhelmed by evil through no fault of their own. God became further grieved because He had to consign their living spirits still stained by sin to the bottomless pit. This condition became the closest that the living spirits of any humans ever came to being annihilated by the force of evil. This annihilation is the goal of Satan. But God sent the Spirit of Christ to preach the gospel to them in the prison to renew their faith and consciousness of God when they all repented. I Peter 3:18-22. God promised that He would never again allow the living souls and spirits of any future humans to ever again come close to being annihilated by the Devil even though He would still have to consign all of those not saved by His grace to one of the regions of the dead. Genesis 8:21; Revelation 20:13. This promise was the meaning of Noah's burnt offering sacrifice. Genesis 8:20.
When the pre-Adamic race merged with most of the Adamic race, the intelligence of the pre-Adamic race improved, but the intelligence of the Adamic race became severely lessened to the extent that they lost some of their free will. The Devil succeeded in so overwhelming these fallen humans with the force of evil that God had to exterminate them from the earth. The Devil knew that God would have to consign their sinful spirits and souls to one of the regions of the dead, and he believed they would have to stay there forever which meant that their fallen spirits and souls would become annulled and lost from God forever. But the Devil did not count on God suffering their eternal deaths for them. God can never lose anything He has ever created and loves. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Romans 11:29; Romans 11:36; Psalm 36:6; I Corinthians 13:8.
Wednesday, April 22, 2020
The World and the Word
The Results of the Fall
God's salvation of Noah and his family by His grace because of their faithful blood sacrifices symbolized the fact that God will never allow the light of faith that He has put into every human to ever go completely out. Romans 12:3. In addition, the fact that God had Noah build an Ark to lift his family above the waters of the flood symbolized the fact that God will never allow the living souls and spirits of all humans saved by His grace to ever go to any of the regions of the dead following their physical deaths. Genesis 6:8-9.
The earth's oceans and seas symbolize God's creation of the Sea of forgetfulness which is one of the regions of the spiritual dead. The volcanoes and lava of the earth symbolize the region of death called Hell. The center of the earth, which is bottomless, symbolizes that region of spiritual death called Death which God probably unwittingly and accidentally created when He created the universe. Revelation 20:13; Isaiah 45:7. God consigns the souls and spirits of all humans not saved by grace to one of these regions of the dead following their physical deaths according to how they lived. Hebrews 9:27.
After God saved Noah and his family from the flood, God had Noah offer a new kind of sacrifice, the burnt offering. Genesis 8:20. Noah had to also offer the blood sacrifice before the burnt offering, but God had to have desired a burnt offering for a reason. All through the Old Testament, the burnt offering symbolizes the fact that in the end of the world, God will save the living souls and spirits of all humans confined within the regions of the dead by the use of His consuming fire which constitutes His wrath against sin and evil, not living humans. Deuteronomy 32:22; Deuteronomy 4:24; Numbers 31:23; Leviticus 1:4; Leviticus 6:8-13. The fire on the altar that never goes out symbolized the lake of fire that forever separates the spiritual deaths of all humans not saved by grace from their good lives that God will recover for Him to recreate. Leviticus 9:6-7; Leviticus 5:10; Leviticus 16:24; I Corinthians 3:11-15; I John 3:8. Jesus came to destroy the works of the Devil which equals evil and spiritual death, not living humans whom He created and loves. Luke 20:38.
The covenant that God made with Noah consisted of two parts. The first was that the burnt offering should follow the blood sacrifice to symbolize God's salvation of all living humans confined within the regions of the dead. Jesus accomplished this salvation when His Spirit descended into Hell. Jesus had to have done this because He had to have left behind in Hell all of the sins and evil of all humanity not saved by grace that He bore through His passion, but He rose immaculate from the dead. In other words, God used His consuming fire to separate forever His living humans from their spiritual deaths. The second part of the covenant was that humans in the future should establish governments with the power to keep a check on the evil actions of humans. Genesis 8:21; Genesis 9:6.
God's covenant with Noah also provided him and all humanity with two promises. God removed the curse that He had put on the ground from having any more evil effect on humans. Genesis 8:21. The pre-Adamic race inherited evil from Cain, and they had also absorbed evil from the cursed ground because Cain had taught them to grow food. This condition meant that the evil within the pre-Adamic race could not be their fault. They had become overwhelmed by evil. This condition meant that God had to "smite;" that is, kill the living bodies of these humans soaked in evil even though that evil was not their fault. God's decision caused Him great anguish because He had to kill something that He had created. Genesis 8:21; Genesis 6:6-7. God set His rainbow in the clouds to promise humanity that He would never again destroy all living systems with a flood. God does not anguish over killing humans who deliberately practice evil.
Nevertheless, God also provided for the salvation of the living spirits and inherited souls of the pre-Adamic race when He consigned their lives, still stained by sin, to the bottomless pit. When Jesus' Spirit descended into Hell, He came and preached the gospel to them that if they repented and believed in Him, He would wash away their sins with the water He shed on the cross. They all believed and He saved them. No doubt, God also resurrected them and created new, righteous bodies for them. Genesis 8:21; I Peter 3:18-19.
God's salvation of Noah and his family by His grace because of their faithful blood sacrifices symbolized the fact that God will never allow the light of faith that He has put into every human to ever go completely out. Romans 12:3. In addition, the fact that God had Noah build an Ark to lift his family above the waters of the flood symbolized the fact that God will never allow the living souls and spirits of all humans saved by His grace to ever go to any of the regions of the dead following their physical deaths. Genesis 6:8-9.
The earth's oceans and seas symbolize God's creation of the Sea of forgetfulness which is one of the regions of the spiritual dead. The volcanoes and lava of the earth symbolize the region of death called Hell. The center of the earth, which is bottomless, symbolizes that region of spiritual death called Death which God probably unwittingly and accidentally created when He created the universe. Revelation 20:13; Isaiah 45:7. God consigns the souls and spirits of all humans not saved by grace to one of these regions of the dead following their physical deaths according to how they lived. Hebrews 9:27.
After God saved Noah and his family from the flood, God had Noah offer a new kind of sacrifice, the burnt offering. Genesis 8:20. Noah had to also offer the blood sacrifice before the burnt offering, but God had to have desired a burnt offering for a reason. All through the Old Testament, the burnt offering symbolizes the fact that in the end of the world, God will save the living souls and spirits of all humans confined within the regions of the dead by the use of His consuming fire which constitutes His wrath against sin and evil, not living humans. Deuteronomy 32:22; Deuteronomy 4:24; Numbers 31:23; Leviticus 1:4; Leviticus 6:8-13. The fire on the altar that never goes out symbolized the lake of fire that forever separates the spiritual deaths of all humans not saved by grace from their good lives that God will recover for Him to recreate. Leviticus 9:6-7; Leviticus 5:10; Leviticus 16:24; I Corinthians 3:11-15; I John 3:8. Jesus came to destroy the works of the Devil which equals evil and spiritual death, not living humans whom He created and loves. Luke 20:38.
The covenant that God made with Noah consisted of two parts. The first was that the burnt offering should follow the blood sacrifice to symbolize God's salvation of all living humans confined within the regions of the dead. Jesus accomplished this salvation when His Spirit descended into Hell. Jesus had to have done this because He had to have left behind in Hell all of the sins and evil of all humanity not saved by grace that He bore through His passion, but He rose immaculate from the dead. In other words, God used His consuming fire to separate forever His living humans from their spiritual deaths. The second part of the covenant was that humans in the future should establish governments with the power to keep a check on the evil actions of humans. Genesis 8:21; Genesis 9:6.
God's covenant with Noah also provided him and all humanity with two promises. God removed the curse that He had put on the ground from having any more evil effect on humans. Genesis 8:21. The pre-Adamic race inherited evil from Cain, and they had also absorbed evil from the cursed ground because Cain had taught them to grow food. This condition meant that the evil within the pre-Adamic race could not be their fault. They had become overwhelmed by evil. This condition meant that God had to "smite;" that is, kill the living bodies of these humans soaked in evil even though that evil was not their fault. God's decision caused Him great anguish because He had to kill something that He had created. Genesis 8:21; Genesis 6:6-7. God set His rainbow in the clouds to promise humanity that He would never again destroy all living systems with a flood. God does not anguish over killing humans who deliberately practice evil.
Nevertheless, God also provided for the salvation of the living spirits and inherited souls of the pre-Adamic race when He consigned their lives, still stained by sin, to the bottomless pit. When Jesus' Spirit descended into Hell, He came and preached the gospel to them that if they repented and believed in Him, He would wash away their sins with the water He shed on the cross. They all believed and He saved them. No doubt, God also resurrected them and created new, righteous bodies for them. Genesis 8:21; I Peter 3:18-19.
Tuesday, April 21, 2020
The World and the Word
The Results of the Fall
Many atheists contend that if God is Almighty then why did He not simply ban all evil from His creations with a summary command. These critics forget that every intelligent system that God ever created can think and feel on its own. They would wonder if God had not been dishonorable and afraid in refusing to do battle with evil. They would wonder if God doubted the power of His own Love by avoiding war with evil. This doubt within God's creations would simply leave a constant opening for negative consciousnesses to misuse free will to invade God's creations again and again, as they had done in the case of Lucifer. God had to do battle with evil to prove to His intelligent creations that His Love would cause Him to lay down His own Life to save a fallen race from eternal spiritual death. John 3:16; John 15:13.
God had to directly confront the Devil's challenge that His gift of free will to Lucifer and humanity had been a mistake that the
Devil could exploit to cause human souls and spirits to choose to practice total evil which would annihilate them and prove that God's Love for His creations is not Almighty. God had to create a human history to give humans time to exercise their free will. God had to allow the Devil to do his worst to humanity to prove that no matter how much they had to suffer, the Devil would never be able to cause them to choose to become totally evil and lost from God's Love forever. God would sustain the faith and love for Him that He had put into the souls and spirits of every human and cause every human, sooner or later, to return to that faith in Him and love for Him of their own free will when He would cause every one of them to observe the Lamb of God who would suffer their spiritual deaths Himself in order to liberate them from it and reclaim them for His own. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14. God had to intervene in human history to prove that His Almighty Love will never allow Satan to annul the living souls and spirits of every human whom He loves. The fact that God's Love constrained Him to take this action actually verifies His Almighty Love. Had God summarily dismissed evil from His creations, then the eternal extent of His Almighty Love would have forever remained in question within His creations. I Corinthians 13:8.
Since God suffered the eternal deaths of all humans in their place on the cross, then what part of God eternally died? Jesus dismissed His Living Spirit into His Father's hands when He died. Both were still alive. Luke 23:46. Jesus' sinless body suffered a temporary death, but He rose from the dead victorious over evil and eternal death. Eternal death could not hold His innocent Spirit. During those three days of Jesus' bodily death, He gained the victory over eternal death by extracting the living souls and spirits of all humans from eternal death by replacing it with a temporary death. Revelation 1:18. Humans live because Jesus lives. Humans saved by grace obtain the eternal life of Christ Himself, and humans saved from the regions of death obtain a recreated life on God's recreated earth. Colossians 3:1-4; Revelation 21:1-5. For these reasons, God created the two regions of death called the Sea and Hell and changed the bottomless pit into a place of temporary death to hold the temporary deaths of all humans not saved by grace. This is the first death which God will destroy by casting Death and Hell into the lake of fire and destroying the Sea by another means. Revelation 20:11-14; Revelation 21:1; I Corinthians 15:26.
In the general resurrection in the end of the world, God will use His consuming fire, which is the same as His eternal wrath against evil, to dissolve the individual systems of every human within the regions of the dead to extract their living souls and spirits from their eternal deaths which are totally evil. Luke 3:16-17. God will be able to do this because all of these living humans will have previously repented and returned to faith in Christ of their own free will as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. John 11:25.
The consuming fire of God will become the lake of fire which will forever consume the separated, totally evil, and spiritually dead part of every human's being. In this way, the consuming fire of God, equivalent to His eternal wrath against evil, becomes the eternal deaths of all humans. However, God's eternal death does not detract from God's eternal Life in the least. In a sense, God's eternal wrath against evil is an attribute of His eternal Life. God remains always eternal and infinite. The infinite transcends mathematics which is always finite. Any subtraction from the infinite still leaves the infinite. God lives forever. Psalm 147:5; Revelation 1:8; Revelation 1:18.
Many atheists contend that if God is Almighty then why did He not simply ban all evil from His creations with a summary command. These critics forget that every intelligent system that God ever created can think and feel on its own. They would wonder if God had not been dishonorable and afraid in refusing to do battle with evil. They would wonder if God doubted the power of His own Love by avoiding war with evil. This doubt within God's creations would simply leave a constant opening for negative consciousnesses to misuse free will to invade God's creations again and again, as they had done in the case of Lucifer. God had to do battle with evil to prove to His intelligent creations that His Love would cause Him to lay down His own Life to save a fallen race from eternal spiritual death. John 3:16; John 15:13.
God had to directly confront the Devil's challenge that His gift of free will to Lucifer and humanity had been a mistake that the
Devil could exploit to cause human souls and spirits to choose to practice total evil which would annihilate them and prove that God's Love for His creations is not Almighty. God had to create a human history to give humans time to exercise their free will. God had to allow the Devil to do his worst to humanity to prove that no matter how much they had to suffer, the Devil would never be able to cause them to choose to become totally evil and lost from God's Love forever. God would sustain the faith and love for Him that He had put into the souls and spirits of every human and cause every human, sooner or later, to return to that faith in Him and love for Him of their own free will when He would cause every one of them to observe the Lamb of God who would suffer their spiritual deaths Himself in order to liberate them from it and reclaim them for His own. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14. God had to intervene in human history to prove that His Almighty Love will never allow Satan to annul the living souls and spirits of every human whom He loves. The fact that God's Love constrained Him to take this action actually verifies His Almighty Love. Had God summarily dismissed evil from His creations, then the eternal extent of His Almighty Love would have forever remained in question within His creations. I Corinthians 13:8.
Since God suffered the eternal deaths of all humans in their place on the cross, then what part of God eternally died? Jesus dismissed His Living Spirit into His Father's hands when He died. Both were still alive. Luke 23:46. Jesus' sinless body suffered a temporary death, but He rose from the dead victorious over evil and eternal death. Eternal death could not hold His innocent Spirit. During those three days of Jesus' bodily death, He gained the victory over eternal death by extracting the living souls and spirits of all humans from eternal death by replacing it with a temporary death. Revelation 1:18. Humans live because Jesus lives. Humans saved by grace obtain the eternal life of Christ Himself, and humans saved from the regions of death obtain a recreated life on God's recreated earth. Colossians 3:1-4; Revelation 21:1-5. For these reasons, God created the two regions of death called the Sea and Hell and changed the bottomless pit into a place of temporary death to hold the temporary deaths of all humans not saved by grace. This is the first death which God will destroy by casting Death and Hell into the lake of fire and destroying the Sea by another means. Revelation 20:11-14; Revelation 21:1; I Corinthians 15:26.
In the general resurrection in the end of the world, God will use His consuming fire, which is the same as His eternal wrath against evil, to dissolve the individual systems of every human within the regions of the dead to extract their living souls and spirits from their eternal deaths which are totally evil. Luke 3:16-17. God will be able to do this because all of these living humans will have previously repented and returned to faith in Christ of their own free will as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. John 11:25.
The consuming fire of God will become the lake of fire which will forever consume the separated, totally evil, and spiritually dead part of every human's being. In this way, the consuming fire of God, equivalent to His eternal wrath against evil, becomes the eternal deaths of all humans. However, God's eternal death does not detract from God's eternal Life in the least. In a sense, God's eternal wrath against evil is an attribute of His eternal Life. God remains always eternal and infinite. The infinite transcends mathematics which is always finite. Any subtraction from the infinite still leaves the infinite. God lives forever. Psalm 147:5; Revelation 1:8; Revelation 1:18.
Monday, April 20, 2020
The World and the Word
The Results of the Fall
The Devil had no choice but to accept God's challenge, and in response the Devil had God's Son nailed to a cruel cross on a hill in Jerusalem around 31 A.D. The Devil tried to break God's will and win the war by throwing the entire weight of all the sins and evils of all humanity on Christ on the cross in His attempt to break God's Love for His creations. But God's Love prevailed because it is Almighty, and His Spirit in the water that flowed from Jesus' riven side went back in time and filled the worldwide flood that both killed and cleansed the entire human race that was destroyed by the flood. Because Noah and his family were saved by God's grace, they were washed in the blood and water that flowed from Jesus on the cross.
Even though God had cleansed the fallen humans of all evil that would have annulled their spirits and have caused them to be lost from God forever, the sins of the fallen race still stained their spirits, and because humans have to suffer temporarily for their sins, then God had to consign these fallen spirits to the bottomless pit until Jesus could come and preach the gospel to them. When Jesus' Spirit descended into hell, He went to this prison and preached to these fallen spirits whose bodies had been killed by the flood. Jesus informed them that He could wash away their sins with the Water of His Word and forgive them. They all believed His gospel, and He rescued all their spirits and inherited living souls from this region of spiritual death. No doubt, Christ resurrected them and recreated them with new bodies, but the Bible does not inform as to where He allowed them to live after their recreation. I Peter 3:18-21; John 11:25.
Many atheists have charged God with being cruel for destroying the fallen human race in the flood and for instructing the Israelite army, at times, to kill every man, woman, and child in some of the cities that they took in war. But actually, God was very merciful in these actions. Humans suffer greatly because of sin and evil. If God did not utterly destroy evil whenever it takes control of humanity, then it would persist for a very long time in history causing many more people to suffer much more pain and death because of it than necessary. The Lord has decided to make a short work on the earth in order to alleviate as much pain and suffering as possible. Romans 9:28.
Generals of evil armies cause as much suffering and pain to their foes as possible, even after the war is over. But generals of good armies know they must make their wars as short as possible in order to save lives and alleviate the sufferings of both friend and foe. In order to do this, they know that they must attack the enemy with as much ferocity and brutality as possible. For these reasons, the Allies fire bombed Dresden, Germany and dropped two atomic bombs on Japan in WWII.
The Devil had no choice but to accept God's challenge, and in response the Devil had God's Son nailed to a cruel cross on a hill in Jerusalem around 31 A.D. The Devil tried to break God's will and win the war by throwing the entire weight of all the sins and evils of all humanity on Christ on the cross in His attempt to break God's Love for His creations. But God's Love prevailed because it is Almighty, and His Spirit in the water that flowed from Jesus' riven side went back in time and filled the worldwide flood that both killed and cleansed the entire human race that was destroyed by the flood. Because Noah and his family were saved by God's grace, they were washed in the blood and water that flowed from Jesus on the cross.
Even though God had cleansed the fallen humans of all evil that would have annulled their spirits and have caused them to be lost from God forever, the sins of the fallen race still stained their spirits, and because humans have to suffer temporarily for their sins, then God had to consign these fallen spirits to the bottomless pit until Jesus could come and preach the gospel to them. When Jesus' Spirit descended into hell, He went to this prison and preached to these fallen spirits whose bodies had been killed by the flood. Jesus informed them that He could wash away their sins with the Water of His Word and forgive them. They all believed His gospel, and He rescued all their spirits and inherited living souls from this region of spiritual death. No doubt, Christ resurrected them and recreated them with new bodies, but the Bible does not inform as to where He allowed them to live after their recreation. I Peter 3:18-21; John 11:25.
Many atheists have charged God with being cruel for destroying the fallen human race in the flood and for instructing the Israelite army, at times, to kill every man, woman, and child in some of the cities that they took in war. But actually, God was very merciful in these actions. Humans suffer greatly because of sin and evil. If God did not utterly destroy evil whenever it takes control of humanity, then it would persist for a very long time in history causing many more people to suffer much more pain and death because of it than necessary. The Lord has decided to make a short work on the earth in order to alleviate as much pain and suffering as possible. Romans 9:28.
Generals of evil armies cause as much suffering and pain to their foes as possible, even after the war is over. But generals of good armies know they must make their wars as short as possible in order to save lives and alleviate the sufferings of both friend and foe. In order to do this, they know that they must attack the enemy with as much ferocity and brutality as possible. For these reasons, the Allies fire bombed Dresden, Germany and dropped two atomic bombs on Japan in WWII.
Saturday, April 18, 2020
The World and the Word
The Results of the Fall
Demons do not commit sins. Sins can be forgiven. Demons commit only acts of total evil which cannot be forgiven. This fact accounts for Jesus' statement in John 15:22. If Jesus had not come to rescue the lives of all humanity, then the Devil would be able to annul the lives of all humans, causing them to become demonic and spiritually dead forever without even the ability to commit sins. But Jesus came to make sure that all humans would no longer be able to hide their sins from Him, as Adam and Eve tried to do, and that all humans would eventually choose of their own free will to return to the faith that God had put into their living souls and spirits when He created them. Christ will save some by His grace while they are still alive in the flesh, and He will save all others in a great worship service as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. Luke 20:38. Just as Adam and Eve came out of trying to hide their sins and returned to faith in Christ, so the whole human race will eventually come out of hiding their sins and return to faith in Christ because Eve is the mother of all living. Genesis 3:20; Luke 20:38. If Jesus had not come to save humanity, then the good lives of the whole human race would have become totally evil and lost from God forever. God's Love cannot allow that to happen. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Hebrews 2:14-17; Colossians 1:15-20; Revelation 21:5.
Over time, the entire human race, except for Noah and his family, turned to the worship of idols and to the practice of evil which God cannot forgive because it never repents. Matthew 12:31-32. The Devil appeared to be winning his battle with God in his desire to annul the living souls and spirits of most of humanity. But God had not cursed the souls and spirits of Adam and Eve, and God had not allowed Satan to claim the life of Job even though the Devil deliberately disobeyed God and tried to annul Job's spirit. The fact that the souls and spirits of all humans belonged to God gave Him the right to counterattack against the worst that the Devil was trying to do to them.
The Adamic race knew fully well that evil had become a part of its being and that it could willfully practice evil if it so chose to do. But Noah and his family chose to practice repentance and faith. By their blood sacrifices, Noah and his family admitted to God that they were hopeless sinners whom only God could save.
The pre-Adamic race had become solely the victims of an inherited evil acquired by its intermarriages with the Adamic race. Their evil was not their fault. They were like innocent children who had become dirty while playing outside. Even the Adamic race had lost much of its knowledge of good and evil in its intermarriages with the pre-Adamic race. Genesis 6:5-7.
God did not kindle His wrath against the humans who had become overwhelmed by evil. They all still retained that spark of faith that He had put into their souls and spirits. God's heart grieved for them, but He could not accept them back into fellowship with Him because a pure and holy God cannot abide the nastiness of evil. But God could cleanse them of all that evil and recover all their living souls and spirits that still retained faith in Him. But for God to dissolve their systems to completely separate their living souls and spirits from their evil practices meant that He would have to kill all of their physical bodies. Genesis 6:7.
God did not kindle His wrath against these fallen humans because their evil was not their fault. So He did not use His consuming fire to kill and cleanse them. God decided to use the Water of His Word to kill and cleanse them. The water that Jesus shed on the cross symbolizes the Water of God's Word. God had the right to create them, and He had the right to kill them. The Devil had put their living souls and spirits on the verge of annihilation, but God stepped between them and the Devil. In effect, God let the Devil know that before he could annul the good lives of these fallen humans, he would have to go through Him first. The Devil would have to annul God before he could annul the lives of all humans. John 3:16. For this reason, the water that flowed from Jesus on the cross was in the waters of the great flood. I Peter 3:18-22.
Demons do not commit sins. Sins can be forgiven. Demons commit only acts of total evil which cannot be forgiven. This fact accounts for Jesus' statement in John 15:22. If Jesus had not come to rescue the lives of all humanity, then the Devil would be able to annul the lives of all humans, causing them to become demonic and spiritually dead forever without even the ability to commit sins. But Jesus came to make sure that all humans would no longer be able to hide their sins from Him, as Adam and Eve tried to do, and that all humans would eventually choose of their own free will to return to the faith that God had put into their living souls and spirits when He created them. Christ will save some by His grace while they are still alive in the flesh, and He will save all others in a great worship service as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. Luke 20:38. Just as Adam and Eve came out of trying to hide their sins and returned to faith in Christ, so the whole human race will eventually come out of hiding their sins and return to faith in Christ because Eve is the mother of all living. Genesis 3:20; Luke 20:38. If Jesus had not come to save humanity, then the good lives of the whole human race would have become totally evil and lost from God forever. God's Love cannot allow that to happen. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Hebrews 2:14-17; Colossians 1:15-20; Revelation 21:5.
Over time, the entire human race, except for Noah and his family, turned to the worship of idols and to the practice of evil which God cannot forgive because it never repents. Matthew 12:31-32. The Devil appeared to be winning his battle with God in his desire to annul the living souls and spirits of most of humanity. But God had not cursed the souls and spirits of Adam and Eve, and God had not allowed Satan to claim the life of Job even though the Devil deliberately disobeyed God and tried to annul Job's spirit. The fact that the souls and spirits of all humans belonged to God gave Him the right to counterattack against the worst that the Devil was trying to do to them.
The Adamic race knew fully well that evil had become a part of its being and that it could willfully practice evil if it so chose to do. But Noah and his family chose to practice repentance and faith. By their blood sacrifices, Noah and his family admitted to God that they were hopeless sinners whom only God could save.
The pre-Adamic race had become solely the victims of an inherited evil acquired by its intermarriages with the Adamic race. Their evil was not their fault. They were like innocent children who had become dirty while playing outside. Even the Adamic race had lost much of its knowledge of good and evil in its intermarriages with the pre-Adamic race. Genesis 6:5-7.
God did not kindle His wrath against the humans who had become overwhelmed by evil. They all still retained that spark of faith that He had put into their souls and spirits. God's heart grieved for them, but He could not accept them back into fellowship with Him because a pure and holy God cannot abide the nastiness of evil. But God could cleanse them of all that evil and recover all their living souls and spirits that still retained faith in Him. But for God to dissolve their systems to completely separate their living souls and spirits from their evil practices meant that He would have to kill all of their physical bodies. Genesis 6:7.
God did not kindle His wrath against these fallen humans because their evil was not their fault. So He did not use His consuming fire to kill and cleanse them. God decided to use the Water of His Word to kill and cleanse them. The water that Jesus shed on the cross symbolizes the Water of God's Word. God had the right to create them, and He had the right to kill them. The Devil had put their living souls and spirits on the verge of annihilation, but God stepped between them and the Devil. In effect, God let the Devil know that before he could annul the good lives of these fallen humans, he would have to go through Him first. The Devil would have to annul God before he could annul the lives of all humans. John 3:16. For this reason, the water that flowed from Jesus on the cross was in the waters of the great flood. I Peter 3:18-22.
Friday, April 17, 2020
The World and the Word
The Results of the Fall
God is Omniscient, but He knows only an infinite good and positive reality. Evil emerged into Lucifer and through Satan into humanity from a nonexistent place of absolute nothingness that God calls the bottomless pit. Revelation 20:3; Revelation 9:1; Luke 8:31. Positive consciousness can know nothing about absolute nothingness except by using the positive and useful idea of nothing to indicate its nonexistence. II Thessalonians 2:7; Isaiah 40:17. When God used the phrase "counted to Him less than nothing, and vanity," in Isaiah 40:17, He indicated that He had learned that an absolute nothingness nonexists. The idea of nothing has a useful and creative purpose in positive reality. This means positive consciousness makes the idea of nothing real as an idea. But whatever happens to be less than nothing can only nonexist as far as positive reality is concerned. The Bible (KJB) consistently refers to evil as being "vanity," which means both excessive pride and absolute emptiness.
Luke 8:31 indicates that negative consciousnesses, which God calls devils, can emerge from the bottomless pit to infect good living systems causing all kinds of destructive problems including insanity. They create absolutely nothing. They desire only to invent false systems by misusing God's good ideas, and to attempt to annul good systems such as the soul and spirit of the maniac of Gadara. Once within the realm of positive reality, they have no desire to return to the deep. They seek only to be destructive of positive systems by attempting to annul them. They even desire to annul themselves as indicated by the suicide of the pigs into which they entered. When Jesus cast them out of the maniac, they did not desire to go back to the deep or remain in positive reality. Through the suicide if the pigs, they seemed to desire absolute annihilation. People who commit suicide do not desire any form of life after death. They seem to seek only total annihilation.
Satan's counterattack against God's special protection of humanity caused God to severely test His gift of free will and faith that He had put into every human, the Adamic race by special creation and the pre-Adamic race by inheritance from Cain and other intermarriages with the Adamic race. Because of the weakness of the entire human race, Satan succeeded in causing the entire human race, except for Noah and his family, to become completely devoted to the practice of evil. This condition became the lowest point in human history, and it caused the entire human race, except for Noah and his family, to abandon its worship of God and turn to the worship of idols. Romans 1:18-23. Nevertheless, every evil human still retained that spark of faith within their living souls and spirits which belonged to God and which God knew would someday return to Him of their own free will. Isaiah 45:21-24; Philippians 2:9-10; Revelation 5:11-14; John 11:25.
God had to allow Satan to do his worst to humanity in his attempt to cause humans to choose to totally abandon faith in God, become demonic and totally spiritually dead, and lost from God forever. The story of the maniac of Gadara in Luke 8:26-39 symbolizes this attempt by the Devil. The worst that Satan did to Job also symbolizes the Devil's attempt to totally ruin a part of God's creations. God had to prove that His gift of free will to humans was not a mistake. God had to prove that despite the worst that Satan can do to humanity, every human will one day choose to return to faith in Him. After the Devil has done his worst and has failed, God reserves the right to counterattack against the Devil to protect the living souls and spirits of all humans from annihilation. But God bases His protection of humanity on His own intervention into history to take the spiritual deaths of all humans, and all of their sins and evil that results from that death, upon Himself on a cruel cross and rise from the dead victorious over death and all evil. Hebrews 2:9; Hebrews 2:14-15; I John 3:8; I Corinthians 15:26; I Corinthians 15:22; Revelation 1:18; John 11:25.
God is Omniscient, but He knows only an infinite good and positive reality. Evil emerged into Lucifer and through Satan into humanity from a nonexistent place of absolute nothingness that God calls the bottomless pit. Revelation 20:3; Revelation 9:1; Luke 8:31. Positive consciousness can know nothing about absolute nothingness except by using the positive and useful idea of nothing to indicate its nonexistence. II Thessalonians 2:7; Isaiah 40:17. When God used the phrase "counted to Him less than nothing, and vanity," in Isaiah 40:17, He indicated that He had learned that an absolute nothingness nonexists. The idea of nothing has a useful and creative purpose in positive reality. This means positive consciousness makes the idea of nothing real as an idea. But whatever happens to be less than nothing can only nonexist as far as positive reality is concerned. The Bible (KJB) consistently refers to evil as being "vanity," which means both excessive pride and absolute emptiness.
Luke 8:31 indicates that negative consciousnesses, which God calls devils, can emerge from the bottomless pit to infect good living systems causing all kinds of destructive problems including insanity. They create absolutely nothing. They desire only to invent false systems by misusing God's good ideas, and to attempt to annul good systems such as the soul and spirit of the maniac of Gadara. Once within the realm of positive reality, they have no desire to return to the deep. They seek only to be destructive of positive systems by attempting to annul them. They even desire to annul themselves as indicated by the suicide of the pigs into which they entered. When Jesus cast them out of the maniac, they did not desire to go back to the deep or remain in positive reality. Through the suicide if the pigs, they seemed to desire absolute annihilation. People who commit suicide do not desire any form of life after death. They seem to seek only total annihilation.
Satan's counterattack against God's special protection of humanity caused God to severely test His gift of free will and faith that He had put into every human, the Adamic race by special creation and the pre-Adamic race by inheritance from Cain and other intermarriages with the Adamic race. Because of the weakness of the entire human race, Satan succeeded in causing the entire human race, except for Noah and his family, to become completely devoted to the practice of evil. This condition became the lowest point in human history, and it caused the entire human race, except for Noah and his family, to abandon its worship of God and turn to the worship of idols. Romans 1:18-23. Nevertheless, every evil human still retained that spark of faith within their living souls and spirits which belonged to God and which God knew would someday return to Him of their own free will. Isaiah 45:21-24; Philippians 2:9-10; Revelation 5:11-14; John 11:25.
God had to allow Satan to do his worst to humanity in his attempt to cause humans to choose to totally abandon faith in God, become demonic and totally spiritually dead, and lost from God forever. The story of the maniac of Gadara in Luke 8:26-39 symbolizes this attempt by the Devil. The worst that Satan did to Job also symbolizes the Devil's attempt to totally ruin a part of God's creations. God had to prove that His gift of free will to humans was not a mistake. God had to prove that despite the worst that Satan can do to humanity, every human will one day choose to return to faith in Him. After the Devil has done his worst and has failed, God reserves the right to counterattack against the Devil to protect the living souls and spirits of all humans from annihilation. But God bases His protection of humanity on His own intervention into history to take the spiritual deaths of all humans, and all of their sins and evil that results from that death, upon Himself on a cruel cross and rise from the dead victorious over death and all evil. Hebrews 2:9; Hebrews 2:14-15; I John 3:8; I Corinthians 15:26; I Corinthians 15:22; Revelation 1:18; John 11:25.
Wednesday, April 15, 2020
The World and the Word
The Results of the Fall
In Genesis 6:3, God removed the special protection of His Spirit that suppressed the fleshly nature of humans which meant the evil side of their natures that caused them to sin. God allowed the evil side of man's nature to compete with his good side on an equal basis. God did this to prove that even the worst that Satan could do to humans could never cause the living souls and spirits of humans to ever choose to become totally evil, spiritually dead, and lost from God's Love forever. Ecclesiastes 3:14; I Corinthians 13:8. The fact that God allowed the Devil to take absolutely everything from Job except his life symbolized the fact that God knew that the faith that He has put into the living souls and spirits of all humans will, sooner or later, cause every human who ever lived to choose to return to repentance and faith in God their Savior. Romans 12:3; Isaiah 45:21-24; Revelation 5:11-14. Satan disobeyed God's command to spare Job's life and tried to annul it. Job 2:9.
In his suffering, Job sometimes despaired and believed that he would lose his life. Job 3:1-26; Job 10:19-22. Yet, the faith that God had put into his living soul, though greatly subdued, never failed. Job 13:15-16. Likewise, the faith that God has put into the living souls of every human cannot fail. Romans 12:3. God will renew that faith in all humans saved by grace when they repent and believe that Jesus has washed away all their sins and evil with His holy blood that He shed on the cross. The moment they believe, God extends His special protection to them. Some of them may suffer greatly in life, but they can never lose their salvation by grace. John 10:27-30. God will allow the Devil to do his worst to all humans not saved by grace when He must consign their good and evil natures to one of the regions of death following their physical deaths. Hebrews 9:27. God will renew His faith in all humans tormented in the regions of the dead when He reveals Himself to them in a great worship service as the Lamb of God who can resurrect them alive from the dead. Isaiah 45:21-24; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Luke 20:38.
Over time, because evil "men of renown" ruled the human race, and the living souls and spirits of humans proved to be too weak to successfully combat their evil natures, all humans became wicked except for Noah and his family. Noah and his family continued to offer the blood sacrifices which symbolized the fact that while the light of faith that God has put into every living human can be greatly suppressed, it can never entirely be put out. Genesis 6:8-9. Even though God had to destroy the evil natures of the pre-Adamic race and that part of the Adamic race that had intermarried with them in a great flood that symbolized the cleansing water that flowed from Jesus on the cross, and He had to consign their sinful spirits to the bottomless pit, they never lost that little light of faith that God had put into their living spirits. God proved this fact when Jesus came to preach the gospel to them after His resurrection to renew their faith and rescue them from that region of death. I Peter 3:18-22.
In Genesis 6:3, God removed the special protection of His Spirit that suppressed the fleshly nature of humans which meant the evil side of their natures that caused them to sin. God allowed the evil side of man's nature to compete with his good side on an equal basis. God did this to prove that even the worst that Satan could do to humans could never cause the living souls and spirits of humans to ever choose to become totally evil, spiritually dead, and lost from God's Love forever. Ecclesiastes 3:14; I Corinthians 13:8. The fact that God allowed the Devil to take absolutely everything from Job except his life symbolized the fact that God knew that the faith that He has put into the living souls and spirits of all humans will, sooner or later, cause every human who ever lived to choose to return to repentance and faith in God their Savior. Romans 12:3; Isaiah 45:21-24; Revelation 5:11-14. Satan disobeyed God's command to spare Job's life and tried to annul it. Job 2:9.
In his suffering, Job sometimes despaired and believed that he would lose his life. Job 3:1-26; Job 10:19-22. Yet, the faith that God had put into his living soul, though greatly subdued, never failed. Job 13:15-16. Likewise, the faith that God has put into the living souls of every human cannot fail. Romans 12:3. God will renew that faith in all humans saved by grace when they repent and believe that Jesus has washed away all their sins and evil with His holy blood that He shed on the cross. The moment they believe, God extends His special protection to them. Some of them may suffer greatly in life, but they can never lose their salvation by grace. John 10:27-30. God will allow the Devil to do his worst to all humans not saved by grace when He must consign their good and evil natures to one of the regions of death following their physical deaths. Hebrews 9:27. God will renew His faith in all humans tormented in the regions of the dead when He reveals Himself to them in a great worship service as the Lamb of God who can resurrect them alive from the dead. Isaiah 45:21-24; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Luke 20:38.
Over time, because evil "men of renown" ruled the human race, and the living souls and spirits of humans proved to be too weak to successfully combat their evil natures, all humans became wicked except for Noah and his family. Noah and his family continued to offer the blood sacrifices which symbolized the fact that while the light of faith that God has put into every living human can be greatly suppressed, it can never entirely be put out. Genesis 6:8-9. Even though God had to destroy the evil natures of the pre-Adamic race and that part of the Adamic race that had intermarried with them in a great flood that symbolized the cleansing water that flowed from Jesus on the cross, and He had to consign their sinful spirits to the bottomless pit, they never lost that little light of faith that God had put into their living spirits. God proved this fact when Jesus came to preach the gospel to them after His resurrection to renew their faith and rescue them from that region of death. I Peter 3:18-22.
Monday, April 13, 2020
The World and the Word
The Results of the Fall
Then, the Devil counterattacked. The original challenge of Satan to God, as revealed in the book of Job, was his accusation that God had made a mistake in giving free will to Adam and Eve so that, over time, the Devil believed that he could cause at least one human to choose to completely rebel against God, as Lucifer had done, to the extent that that soul and spirit would become totally evil and spiritually dead and lost from God forever. But God has promised in His Word that He can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Romans 11:36; Romans 11:29. By this method, the Devil thought he could prove that God's Love is not Almighty which, in time, would so weaken God that the Devil could gain the power to murder God and assume control of His creations. Isaiah 14:12-17; Job 1:6-12. But God has promised that His Love can never fail. I Corinthians 13:8. The entire book of Job reveals the Devil's intention to misuse the free will that God gave to humans to cause humans to completely rebel against God and refuse to repent which would cause the eternal spiritual deaths of their souls and spirits which God had created and loved, thus proving that God's Love is not Almighty.
The sons of God in Job 38:7 who shouted for joy when God created the heaven and earth can only be the angels whom God created. This fact can only mean that the sons of God in Genesis 6:2 could only be certain fallen angels who came to earth and mated with the daughters of men which produced "giants" and "men of renown." Genesis 6:4. This fact proves that the angels have a sexual nature. These fallen angels could not have been any of those who rebelled against God and followed Lucifer because, according to to Jude 1:6 and Revelation 9:14, God chained all of these rebellious angels in the bottomless pit except for four that He chained in the river Euphrates. These fallen angels could not also have been any of those who remained faithful to God because all of them still live in heaven and serve God. These fallen angels could only have been those who remained neutral in God's war with Lucifer whom God exiled from heaven to wander through His universe.
These fallen angels could have come to earth on their own, but Satan could also have encouraged them to mate with human women in order to cause the evil in man's nature to gain even more power over humans. In either case, the evil in humans would have become more pronounced. By this method, the Devil counterattacked against God's special protection that He had provided to humans which caused them to continue to worship God and repent whenever they sinned. Genesis 4:26. This action by the Devil corresponded to Satan telling God that if He removed all of His special protections and blessings that He had given Job, then Job would "curse God and die," which means that the Devil believed that Job's living soul and spirit would become totally evil and spiritually dead. The Devil hoped that this increase in the power of evil in human nature would eventually cause the living soul and spirit in at least one human to become totally, spiritually dead.
God accepted this challenge of Satan because He had to prove that His Almighty Love would never allow Satan to so misuse the free will of any human to the extent that his living soul would become totally evil and lost from God's Love forever, even if the Devil did his absolute worst to humans. Job and his story actually happened, but it also symbolized this counterattack by Satan which would greatly enhance the power of evil in human nature which the Devil hoped would cause the living souls and spirits of humans to become annulled; that is, spiritually dead and lost from God forever. The spiritual death that Satan injected into humans is foreign to humans, but God will never allow that spiritual death to overpower His spiritual life that He gave to humans. Hebrews 2:9. In the end of the world, God will use His consuming fire to separate the spiritual deaths of all humans still in their graves from their spiritual lives, and He will cast their totally evil and eternal deaths into the lake of fire. I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 20:11-15.
Then, the Devil counterattacked. The original challenge of Satan to God, as revealed in the book of Job, was his accusation that God had made a mistake in giving free will to Adam and Eve so that, over time, the Devil believed that he could cause at least one human to choose to completely rebel against God, as Lucifer had done, to the extent that that soul and spirit would become totally evil and spiritually dead and lost from God forever. But God has promised in His Word that He can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Romans 11:36; Romans 11:29. By this method, the Devil thought he could prove that God's Love is not Almighty which, in time, would so weaken God that the Devil could gain the power to murder God and assume control of His creations. Isaiah 14:12-17; Job 1:6-12. But God has promised that His Love can never fail. I Corinthians 13:8. The entire book of Job reveals the Devil's intention to misuse the free will that God gave to humans to cause humans to completely rebel against God and refuse to repent which would cause the eternal spiritual deaths of their souls and spirits which God had created and loved, thus proving that God's Love is not Almighty.
The sons of God in Job 38:7 who shouted for joy when God created the heaven and earth can only be the angels whom God created. This fact can only mean that the sons of God in Genesis 6:2 could only be certain fallen angels who came to earth and mated with the daughters of men which produced "giants" and "men of renown." Genesis 6:4. This fact proves that the angels have a sexual nature. These fallen angels could not have been any of those who rebelled against God and followed Lucifer because, according to to Jude 1:6 and Revelation 9:14, God chained all of these rebellious angels in the bottomless pit except for four that He chained in the river Euphrates. These fallen angels could not also have been any of those who remained faithful to God because all of them still live in heaven and serve God. These fallen angels could only have been those who remained neutral in God's war with Lucifer whom God exiled from heaven to wander through His universe.
These fallen angels could have come to earth on their own, but Satan could also have encouraged them to mate with human women in order to cause the evil in man's nature to gain even more power over humans. In either case, the evil in humans would have become more pronounced. By this method, the Devil counterattacked against God's special protection that He had provided to humans which caused them to continue to worship God and repent whenever they sinned. Genesis 4:26. This action by the Devil corresponded to Satan telling God that if He removed all of His special protections and blessings that He had given Job, then Job would "curse God and die," which means that the Devil believed that Job's living soul and spirit would become totally evil and spiritually dead. The Devil hoped that this increase in the power of evil in human nature would eventually cause the living soul and spirit in at least one human to become totally, spiritually dead.
God accepted this challenge of Satan because He had to prove that His Almighty Love would never allow Satan to so misuse the free will of any human to the extent that his living soul would become totally evil and lost from God's Love forever, even if the Devil did his absolute worst to humans. Job and his story actually happened, but it also symbolized this counterattack by Satan which would greatly enhance the power of evil in human nature which the Devil hoped would cause the living souls and spirits of humans to become annulled; that is, spiritually dead and lost from God forever. The spiritual death that Satan injected into humans is foreign to humans, but God will never allow that spiritual death to overpower His spiritual life that He gave to humans. Hebrews 2:9. In the end of the world, God will use His consuming fire to separate the spiritual deaths of all humans still in their graves from their spiritual lives, and He will cast their totally evil and eternal deaths into the lake of fire. I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 20:11-15.
Saturday, April 11, 2020
The World and the Word
The Results of the Fall
God exiled Cain from his family out into the world where the pre-Adamic race lived. God also made farming much more difficult for Cain. God made Cain realize that the pre-Adamic people would recognize the curse in Cain, and they would kill him. Genesis 4:11-14.
Cain protested to God that he would be killed, so God put a special mark on Cain that God knew the pre-Adamic race would recognize as a sign of God's special protection. God did not relate what this mark was, but apparently, it signified to the pre-Adamic people that God would severely punish anyone who killed Cain. Genesis 4:15.
In Genesis 1:27, God created the pre-Adamic race in His image which meant He gave each of them a spirit which constituted a consciousness of God, but God did not give them souls. God gave Adam and Eve souls and spirits when He created them. Genesis 2:7. Having a soul means that one possesses free will, intelligence, personality, and emotions. The pre-Adamic race were better than the animals because they had a consciousness of God, but they only possessed a rudimentary form of intelligence and no free will. God proclaimed them to be "very good" when He scattered them over the earth which He could not have said about them if they had been the descendants of Adam and Eve. Genesis 1:31.
Cain moved away from his family to the east of Eden and married one of the pre-Adamic women. Adam and Eve and Cain possessed super intelligence. They had great talents and abilities to create new systems of every kind. The descendants of Cain inherited some of these talents and used them to build civilizations with all of the skills needed to maintain them. Genesis 4:16-22. The descendants of Cain also became the rulers over the pre-Adamic people. Genesis 4:23-24. But the pre-Adamic race also inherited some of the increased corruption that Cain had allowed to control his soul and spirit.
God continued the Adamic race through Seth and their other sons and daughters. During this period of human history, God continued to interact with the entire human race. God urged the Adamic race to continue to offer the blood sacrifices, and He persisted in touching the spirits of the pre-Adamic race to cause them to remain cognizant of Him as their Creator. During this time, the Spirit of God prevailed over the evil in man's being which caused all humans to worship God. Nevertheless, the evil within the beings of the Adamic race, and which Cain passed on to the pre-Adamic race, still remained. Genesis 4:25-26.
The faithful lineage of Seth extended over hundreds of years to Noah and his family. Genesis 5:6-32. Except for the lineage of Seth, the Adamic and pre-Adamic races intermarried, but they all persisted in their worship of God because he still interacted with them to protect them from the ravages of evil. They all sinned from time to time, but God forgave them because the Adamic race offered the blood sacrifices, and the pre-Adamic race continued to worship God in their spirits.
God exiled Cain from his family out into the world where the pre-Adamic race lived. God also made farming much more difficult for Cain. God made Cain realize that the pre-Adamic people would recognize the curse in Cain, and they would kill him. Genesis 4:11-14.
Cain protested to God that he would be killed, so God put a special mark on Cain that God knew the pre-Adamic race would recognize as a sign of God's special protection. God did not relate what this mark was, but apparently, it signified to the pre-Adamic people that God would severely punish anyone who killed Cain. Genesis 4:15.
In Genesis 1:27, God created the pre-Adamic race in His image which meant He gave each of them a spirit which constituted a consciousness of God, but God did not give them souls. God gave Adam and Eve souls and spirits when He created them. Genesis 2:7. Having a soul means that one possesses free will, intelligence, personality, and emotions. The pre-Adamic race were better than the animals because they had a consciousness of God, but they only possessed a rudimentary form of intelligence and no free will. God proclaimed them to be "very good" when He scattered them over the earth which He could not have said about them if they had been the descendants of Adam and Eve. Genesis 1:31.
Cain moved away from his family to the east of Eden and married one of the pre-Adamic women. Adam and Eve and Cain possessed super intelligence. They had great talents and abilities to create new systems of every kind. The descendants of Cain inherited some of these talents and used them to build civilizations with all of the skills needed to maintain them. Genesis 4:16-22. The descendants of Cain also became the rulers over the pre-Adamic people. Genesis 4:23-24. But the pre-Adamic race also inherited some of the increased corruption that Cain had allowed to control his soul and spirit.
God continued the Adamic race through Seth and their other sons and daughters. During this period of human history, God continued to interact with the entire human race. God urged the Adamic race to continue to offer the blood sacrifices, and He persisted in touching the spirits of the pre-Adamic race to cause them to remain cognizant of Him as their Creator. During this time, the Spirit of God prevailed over the evil in man's being which caused all humans to worship God. Nevertheless, the evil within the beings of the Adamic race, and which Cain passed on to the pre-Adamic race, still remained. Genesis 4:25-26.
The faithful lineage of Seth extended over hundreds of years to Noah and his family. Genesis 5:6-32. Except for the lineage of Seth, the Adamic and pre-Adamic races intermarried, but they all persisted in their worship of God because he still interacted with them to protect them from the ravages of evil. They all sinned from time to time, but God forgave them because the Adamic race offered the blood sacrifices, and the pre-Adamic race continued to worship God in their spirits.
The World and the Word
The Results of the Fall
At the time that God expelled Adam and Eve from the garden, two different races of humans dwelt on the earth, the pre-Adamic race and the future descendants of Adam and Eve. This fact has to be true because according to Genesis 5:4, Adam and Eve did not produce a large number of descendants until after the births of Cain, Abel, and Seth. This fact can only mean that Cain's wife of Genesis 4:17 had to have been a woman of the pre-Adamic race.
Most of the descendants of Adam and Eve for hundreds of years believed in the promise of a coming Savior that God had given to Adam and Eve, and they displayed their faith by their continuance of the blood sacrifices that God had commanded them to do. Genesis 4:4. The descendants of Seth were especially faithful to God as shown by his lineage as traced in Genesis 5:6-32. These believers were all saved by grace down to Noah and his family. Genesis 6:8.
Cain happened to be the exception to this rule. Cain adhered to the dark and evil side of his nature and refused to offer the blood sacrifices. Cain was a farmer, and he felt determined to force God to accept the good fruit of his ground as his offering to God. In his excessive pride and self-righteousness, Cain became obsessed with the idea that through his good work, he could make himself good enough to be accepted by God. God had patience with Cain and reminded him in Genesis 4:6-7 that that which he attempted to do was impossible. God urged Cain to humble himself, obey God, and return to the blood sacrifices which symbolized the sacrifice of the coming Savior. God informed Cain that if he refused to obey God, then sin would gain the mastery over him, and he would be free to commit any sin that the evil side of his nature influenced him to do. In other words, Cain would become a slave to sin but possess free will within its bounds. Salvation by grace can never be earned by any good works of humans. Humans can simply never make themselves good enough. Salvation is solely a gift from God to those who display repentance and faith in Christ their Savior. Ephesians 2:8-9.
Cain became extremely angry with and envious of his brother Abel because God accepted his blood offering and rejected Cain's good works offering. The sense of Genesis 4:8 indicates that Cain flew into a rage and killed his brother after talking with him. Perhaps, Abel spoke about the peace and joy he felt because God had accepted him, and his witness engendered Cain's rage. The sense of this verse does not indicate premeditated murder but rather manslaughter. Perhaps, Cain did not intend to kill Abel, only injure him, but perhaps he hit Abel too hard with a tool in his hand.
When God again spoke to Cain, he lied to God because he tried to deny to himself that he had killed his brother. God had cursed the Devil and the ground when Adam and Eve sinned, but He had not cursed the living souls and spirits of Adam and Eve even though evil had become a part of their beings. Genesis 3:14-19. Evidently, God had protected the living souls and spirits of Adam and Eve and Abel from the full effects of their evil natures because they obeyed God in offering the blood sacrifices. But because Cain had rejected God and killed his brother, God removed His special protection from Cain. and He allowed the curse to enter into Cain from the plants that he grew and ate. Genesis 4:11.
At the time that God expelled Adam and Eve from the garden, two different races of humans dwelt on the earth, the pre-Adamic race and the future descendants of Adam and Eve. This fact has to be true because according to Genesis 5:4, Adam and Eve did not produce a large number of descendants until after the births of Cain, Abel, and Seth. This fact can only mean that Cain's wife of Genesis 4:17 had to have been a woman of the pre-Adamic race.
Most of the descendants of Adam and Eve for hundreds of years believed in the promise of a coming Savior that God had given to Adam and Eve, and they displayed their faith by their continuance of the blood sacrifices that God had commanded them to do. Genesis 4:4. The descendants of Seth were especially faithful to God as shown by his lineage as traced in Genesis 5:6-32. These believers were all saved by grace down to Noah and his family. Genesis 6:8.
Cain happened to be the exception to this rule. Cain adhered to the dark and evil side of his nature and refused to offer the blood sacrifices. Cain was a farmer, and he felt determined to force God to accept the good fruit of his ground as his offering to God. In his excessive pride and self-righteousness, Cain became obsessed with the idea that through his good work, he could make himself good enough to be accepted by God. God had patience with Cain and reminded him in Genesis 4:6-7 that that which he attempted to do was impossible. God urged Cain to humble himself, obey God, and return to the blood sacrifices which symbolized the sacrifice of the coming Savior. God informed Cain that if he refused to obey God, then sin would gain the mastery over him, and he would be free to commit any sin that the evil side of his nature influenced him to do. In other words, Cain would become a slave to sin but possess free will within its bounds. Salvation by grace can never be earned by any good works of humans. Humans can simply never make themselves good enough. Salvation is solely a gift from God to those who display repentance and faith in Christ their Savior. Ephesians 2:8-9.
Cain became extremely angry with and envious of his brother Abel because God accepted his blood offering and rejected Cain's good works offering. The sense of Genesis 4:8 indicates that Cain flew into a rage and killed his brother after talking with him. Perhaps, Abel spoke about the peace and joy he felt because God had accepted him, and his witness engendered Cain's rage. The sense of this verse does not indicate premeditated murder but rather manslaughter. Perhaps, Cain did not intend to kill Abel, only injure him, but perhaps he hit Abel too hard with a tool in his hand.
When God again spoke to Cain, he lied to God because he tried to deny to himself that he had killed his brother. God had cursed the Devil and the ground when Adam and Eve sinned, but He had not cursed the living souls and spirits of Adam and Eve even though evil had become a part of their beings. Genesis 3:14-19. Evidently, God had protected the living souls and spirits of Adam and Eve and Abel from the full effects of their evil natures because they obeyed God in offering the blood sacrifices. But because Cain had rejected God and killed his brother, God removed His special protection from Cain. and He allowed the curse to enter into Cain from the plants that he grew and ate. Genesis 4:11.
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