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.
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