Speculation on Creation
God possesses free will because He can choose to create any good system that He wills. In all innocence, God gave free will as a loving gift to His angel Lucifer because God believed he would only use it to create good systems. But somehow, evil consciousnesses emerged from the deep, and under the cover of darkness entered into heaven to tempt Lucifer to rebel against God by appealing to his pride. Lucifer chose to become excessively proud which caused him to rebel against God. Lucifer refused to repent and became totally evil after God had stripped him of all the good ideas He had put into his system. God used His consuming fire to dissolve Lucifer's system. God then exiled him to earth as a totally evil and empty negative consciousness called Satan. Ezekiel 28:13-19. Even now, Satan's negative and destructive consciousness still retains the power to misuse God's good ideas to invent false and destructive systems called sin.
False systems always misuse good ideas. False systems cannot exist without good ideas. For example, 3+2=6 is a false system but not necessarily a sinful one. Nevertheless, every individual idea in that false system remains a good one on its own. Every sin is a destructive, false system that always comprises good ideas. One person may murder another, but every individual idea in that false system could be put to good use in a creative system. The desire to kill could be put to good use to execute and eliminate murderers from society. The metal in the gun and bullet could be used to create good systems called tools. The gunpowder could be used to blast out canals or to mine coal. The will of the killer to kill could be used to imagine and create good systems, and so forth.
Satan observed when God created the good systems called humans in the garden and gave them free will. Satan planned to tempt their free will to cause them to choose to disobey God which would weaken them to the point that Satan could then inject evil into the beings of the whole human race. Romans 5:12. This means every human has a good soul and spirit created by God and an evil and spiritually dead nature injected into its being by Satan which causes every human to sin. Satan's goal is to cause the good soul and spirit of at least one human to become so evil that it will refuse to repent. Its refusal to repent will transform its goodness to spiritual death and pure evil and lost from God's Love forever. Such a loss would weaken God's Almighty Love and give the Devil the opportunity to find a way to murder God and take control of His universe. John 8:44; Isaiah 14:12-17.
God's Word has promised that His Love can never fail, and He can never lose anything that He has ever created and loves. I Corinthians 13:8; Ecclesiastes 3:14. On their own, humans would lose their battle with Satan, become eternally spiritually dead, and lost from God forever. Satan did not count on God's Love being so Almighty that He would give the Devil the chance to murder Him by taking the sin and evil of the entire human race on Himself on a cruel cross so that He could forever purge the cause of spiritual death with His shed blood and water and His descent into Hell. After having cleansed all sin and evil, He would rise from the dead victorious over eternal, spiritual death. I John 5:6-8; Revelation 1:17-18; Hebrews 2:9; I Corinthians 15:22; I Corinthians 15:26; II Timothy 4:1; II Timothy 1:10.
God provides a higher and a lesser form of salvation for all humans. Humans saved by grace receive eternal life the moment they repent and believe. John 5:24. God will annul their spiritual deaths the moment they believe, cleanse them of all sins and evil with His shed blood, and give them the perfect righteousness of Christ Himself by which He can accept them into heaven to live with Him there forever. Romans 5:17; Revelation 1:5. God will save the rest of humanity confined to the regions of the dead when He appears to them in a great worship service as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. When they see Him, they will all return, of their own free will, to repentance and faith in the Lamb of God. John 11:25. In the end of the world, God will save them by dissolving their systems with the use of His consuming fire which is the lake of fire. Deuteronomy 32:22. God will separate their living souls and spirits for Him to recreate to live on His recreated earth from their spiritual deaths which He will cast into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 22:11-12.
Monday, May 25, 2020
The World and the Word
Speculation on Creation
Genesis 1:1 relates that God created the heaven and the earth. God created heaven for the abode of Himself and His saints, and the earth for the abode of humans. In His creations of heaven and earth, God began an historical process by which He could test His Love. Since God has created all things, then He must have created the heavens, which is His universe, long before He created the heaven and the earth. Revelation 4:11. God must have also created the sun and moon and the entire solar system when He created the heaven and the earth.
When God first observed the earth before He created it, He saw that "the earth was without form, and void," and "darkness" covered this "deep." Genesis 1:2. In Isaiah 45:7, God admits that He created darkness and even evil. Darkness already existed before God created the earth. But God could not have deliberately created evil. God created evil only in the sense that He unknowingly allowed it to emerge into His creations of the heaven and the earth. God felt guilty about evil becoming destructive of His good creations even though He is completely innocent of its destructive emergence into His creations. Since God is absolutely Holy and Perfect, then He must also be Innocent. God's innocent guilt about evil only proves that He is Holy and Perfect. His guilt shows His Love.
When God observed the darkness that covered the deep, in all innocence, He regarded the darkness as merely His creation of something that covered His idea of nothing; that is, space. God is Omniscient, but He knows only an Infinite Goodness. God had no idea that this darkness actually covered a nonexistent void from which evil would emerge as negative consciousnesses called devils. God must have unknowingly and accidentally caused this nonexistent void when He began to create the universe. God now realizes that below the positive idea of nothing a less than nothing nonexists. Isaiah 40:17. How such an entity as an evil, negative consciousness could both seem to exist and nonexist at the same time remains a complete mystery to the wholly positive Consciousness of God. II Thessalonians 2:7.
Genesis 1:1 relates that God created the heaven and the earth. God created heaven for the abode of Himself and His saints, and the earth for the abode of humans. In His creations of heaven and earth, God began an historical process by which He could test His Love. Since God has created all things, then He must have created the heavens, which is His universe, long before He created the heaven and the earth. Revelation 4:11. God must have also created the sun and moon and the entire solar system when He created the heaven and the earth.
When God first observed the earth before He created it, He saw that "the earth was without form, and void," and "darkness" covered this "deep." Genesis 1:2. In Isaiah 45:7, God admits that He created darkness and even evil. Darkness already existed before God created the earth. But God could not have deliberately created evil. God created evil only in the sense that He unknowingly allowed it to emerge into His creations of the heaven and the earth. God felt guilty about evil becoming destructive of His good creations even though He is completely innocent of its destructive emergence into His creations. Since God is absolutely Holy and Perfect, then He must also be Innocent. God's innocent guilt about evil only proves that He is Holy and Perfect. His guilt shows His Love.
When God observed the darkness that covered the deep, in all innocence, He regarded the darkness as merely His creation of something that covered His idea of nothing; that is, space. God is Omniscient, but He knows only an Infinite Goodness. God had no idea that this darkness actually covered a nonexistent void from which evil would emerge as negative consciousnesses called devils. God must have unknowingly and accidentally caused this nonexistent void when He began to create the universe. God now realizes that below the positive idea of nothing a less than nothing nonexists. Isaiah 40:17. How such an entity as an evil, negative consciousness could both seem to exist and nonexist at the same time remains a complete mystery to the wholly positive Consciousness of God. II Thessalonians 2:7.
Saturday, May 23, 2020
The World and the Word
Speculation on Creation
God can only create that which is good; that is, useful and beautiful. God creates each good system from Ideas that He selects from the Infinite Contents of His Infinite Consciousness. God can create or dissolve systems as He wills, but the Infinite Contents of His Mind constitutes Eternal Information which can also be called the Word of God. Despite the philosophy of the materialists, observation has always revealed that no good system can exist without consciousness employing information. The Word of God is both the same as God and also is with God. John 1:1.
The Infinite Set of Ideas in God's Mind are irreducible and basic. They are as basic as is the number one in mathematics. All numbers higher than one are merely systems that comprise the number one. To a similar extent, some of God's irreducible Ideas consist of shapes such as square or round. Others consist of basic colors such as blue, yellow, and red. Still others could be ideas such as solid or thin. Humans observe the world as composed of combinations, or systems, of these basic Ideas which God has put into macro form. God's Mind also holds basic abstract Ideas such as Justice and Liberty. Humans can use such basic ideas to invent good systems of law and government. All of God's Ideas are absolutely perfect and righteous. All of God's macro systems based on these eternal Ideas possess only a limited perfection because God can create or dissolve them as He wills.
While it is true that basic ideas can be reduced to mathematical frequencies on the quantum level, God creates on the macro level. God holds the power to transform mathematical frequencies into formed Ideas.
The system called mathematics, while based on the number one, would make no sense without another basic idea that limits it to specific numbers. That basic idea happens to be the idea called zero. Zero cannot be a number because it does not number anything, and yet this idea happens to be necessary for mathematics to make any sense. The number one can be no other number but one. The word no means nothing. The number two, and all higher numbers, can only be identified as particular numbers by the use of the idea of zero which is the same as the idea of nothing. This system does not mean that if one thinks of a particular number that all other numbers become nothing. This system simply means that in order to think of a particular number, one must consider all other numbers to be temporarily equal to nothing. In other words, the idea of nothing exists above and below every particular number.
If the basic idea of one can be considered to be equal to the idea of something, and the basic idea of zero to the idea of nothing, then all of reality must be based on the two basic ideas of something and nothing. When God creates a system which is something, He must use the idea of nothing to exclude all ideas which will not work in that system. When God creates the system called green, He must consider the basic color red to be equal to nothing and include only the basic colors blue and yellow. When God creates a landscape, He must include the ideas of solidity and shape and use the idea of nothing to exclude the ideas of thinness and formlessness. When God creates a gaseous system, He must use the idea of nothing to exclude the ideas of solidity and shape.
All of this put together means that God must use the basic absolutely perfect Ideas of something and nothing to create a reality of limited perfection. But all this also means that the idea of nothing has to be something as an Idea. All ideas, even abstract ones, have to be something because consciousness forms them as ideas in the mind. All ideas become more than nothing as information, and yet the idea of nothing limits information to particular ideas. This means Consciousness has to exist for reality to exist. Even though the idea of nothing equals emptiness, it nevertheless exists as the perfect Idea of formless extension in the Mind of God.
God can only create that which is good; that is, useful and beautiful. God creates each good system from Ideas that He selects from the Infinite Contents of His Infinite Consciousness. God can create or dissolve systems as He wills, but the Infinite Contents of His Mind constitutes Eternal Information which can also be called the Word of God. Despite the philosophy of the materialists, observation has always revealed that no good system can exist without consciousness employing information. The Word of God is both the same as God and also is with God. John 1:1.
The Infinite Set of Ideas in God's Mind are irreducible and basic. They are as basic as is the number one in mathematics. All numbers higher than one are merely systems that comprise the number one. To a similar extent, some of God's irreducible Ideas consist of shapes such as square or round. Others consist of basic colors such as blue, yellow, and red. Still others could be ideas such as solid or thin. Humans observe the world as composed of combinations, or systems, of these basic Ideas which God has put into macro form. God's Mind also holds basic abstract Ideas such as Justice and Liberty. Humans can use such basic ideas to invent good systems of law and government. All of God's Ideas are absolutely perfect and righteous. All of God's macro systems based on these eternal Ideas possess only a limited perfection because God can create or dissolve them as He wills.
While it is true that basic ideas can be reduced to mathematical frequencies on the quantum level, God creates on the macro level. God holds the power to transform mathematical frequencies into formed Ideas.
The system called mathematics, while based on the number one, would make no sense without another basic idea that limits it to specific numbers. That basic idea happens to be the idea called zero. Zero cannot be a number because it does not number anything, and yet this idea happens to be necessary for mathematics to make any sense. The number one can be no other number but one. The word no means nothing. The number two, and all higher numbers, can only be identified as particular numbers by the use of the idea of zero which is the same as the idea of nothing. This system does not mean that if one thinks of a particular number that all other numbers become nothing. This system simply means that in order to think of a particular number, one must consider all other numbers to be temporarily equal to nothing. In other words, the idea of nothing exists above and below every particular number.
If the basic idea of one can be considered to be equal to the idea of something, and the basic idea of zero to the idea of nothing, then all of reality must be based on the two basic ideas of something and nothing. When God creates a system which is something, He must use the idea of nothing to exclude all ideas which will not work in that system. When God creates the system called green, He must consider the basic color red to be equal to nothing and include only the basic colors blue and yellow. When God creates a landscape, He must include the ideas of solidity and shape and use the idea of nothing to exclude the ideas of thinness and formlessness. When God creates a gaseous system, He must use the idea of nothing to exclude the ideas of solidity and shape.
All of this put together means that God must use the basic absolutely perfect Ideas of something and nothing to create a reality of limited perfection. But all this also means that the idea of nothing has to be something as an Idea. All ideas, even abstract ones, have to be something because consciousness forms them as ideas in the mind. All ideas become more than nothing as information, and yet the idea of nothing limits information to particular ideas. This means Consciousness has to exist for reality to exist. Even though the idea of nothing equals emptiness, it nevertheless exists as the perfect Idea of formless extension in the Mind of God.
Saturday, May 16, 2020
The World and the Word
The Results of the Fall
God preserved His light of faith in Noah and his family, and God symbolically preserved His light of faith for the entire human race in the good life of Job. Job 13:14-16. The story of the Tower of Babel relates how the whole human race descended into the depths of despair. But when the Devil had done his worst to humanity, and God's light of faith had not been put out, then God claimed His right to counterattack. God's method of counterattack was to renew His revelation of a coming Savior. After Job had come to the depths of despair, God began to reveal to him, and the whole human race, that God had given Job a Savior. Job 19:25-27. At humanity's lowest point at the Tower of Babel, God scattered humanity over the earth and chose a particular people, the Israelites, to reveal through His written Word that humanity has a Savior.
After God had rescattered the people over the earth, He decided to choose a particular ethnic group of people through whom He would bring the revelation of the written Word of God to all of humanity. This Word would reveal that all of humanity will be saved by the sacrifice of a Savior sent by God. God chose a man named Abram and his descendants to be His chosen people. God did not choose Abram because he was more moral than other people. God chose Abram and his descendants because they were very intelligent, and because He knew that they would possess a stubborn desire to preserve His Word that He would give them. Deuteronomy 4:36-40. God also promised that He will preserve the nation and religion of Israel forever on the earth and that Israel will rule the world after God recreates it and all humans that He will raise from the dead. Isaiah 60:1-22; Daniel 12:2-3.
When God chose Abram, He promised him that He would give him and his descendants His special protection. God would reward any people who helped Israel, and He would severely punish any people who would hurt them. This prophecy has proven to be true throughout the history of the earth. Genesis 12:1-3. God also promised Abram that through him "...shall all families of the earth be blessed." This phrase can only mean every human who has ever lived. Since this phrase has to be true, then no living human can ever be cast into the lake of fire because that cannot be a blessing. Revelation 20:11-15 clearly teaches that God will cast only dead humans into the lake of fire, not living ones. Revelation 20:5 clearly teaches that God will raise every living human from the regions of the dead. This phrase that God gave Abram actually prophesies that God will save the good lives of every human He has ever created, some by His grace and all others by His resurrection of them in the end of the world. John 5:24; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5. Some of the artists in the early Church depicted Christ raising Adam and Eve from the dead. Since Eve is the mother of all living, then these pictures symbolize the fact that God will raise every living human from the dead. Genesis 3:20; Luke 20:38; Revelation 20:5.
Genesis 3:20 proves that God created all humans to have a good, living spirit, and from Adam and Eve onward, a good, living soul and spirit. Luke 20:38 proves that all living souls and spirits of all humans will always be alive to God. Ecclesiastes 3:14 proves that God can never lose anything He has ever created, and I Corinthians 13:8 proves that God's Love can never fail. Romans 12:3 proves that God has given faith to every living soul and spirit. Hebrews 2:9 and II Timothy 1:10 proves that Christ has abolished death itself in order to protect all of His living souls and spirits from eternal separation from Him. Revelation 20:15 and Revelation 21:8 proves that Christ will cast the first death, which is the total evil in mankind, into the second death. Revelation 20:5 proves that Christ will raise all the living souls and spirits of all humans from the regions of the dead. Revelation 5:11-14 proves that all living humans within the regions of the dead will repent and return to faith in Christ. John 5:24 proves that all humans who repent and believe while still alive in the flesh will receive eternal life the moment they believe.
God preserved His light of faith in Noah and his family, and God symbolically preserved His light of faith for the entire human race in the good life of Job. Job 13:14-16. The story of the Tower of Babel relates how the whole human race descended into the depths of despair. But when the Devil had done his worst to humanity, and God's light of faith had not been put out, then God claimed His right to counterattack. God's method of counterattack was to renew His revelation of a coming Savior. After Job had come to the depths of despair, God began to reveal to him, and the whole human race, that God had given Job a Savior. Job 19:25-27. At humanity's lowest point at the Tower of Babel, God scattered humanity over the earth and chose a particular people, the Israelites, to reveal through His written Word that humanity has a Savior.
After God had rescattered the people over the earth, He decided to choose a particular ethnic group of people through whom He would bring the revelation of the written Word of God to all of humanity. This Word would reveal that all of humanity will be saved by the sacrifice of a Savior sent by God. God chose a man named Abram and his descendants to be His chosen people. God did not choose Abram because he was more moral than other people. God chose Abram and his descendants because they were very intelligent, and because He knew that they would possess a stubborn desire to preserve His Word that He would give them. Deuteronomy 4:36-40. God also promised that He will preserve the nation and religion of Israel forever on the earth and that Israel will rule the world after God recreates it and all humans that He will raise from the dead. Isaiah 60:1-22; Daniel 12:2-3.
When God chose Abram, He promised him that He would give him and his descendants His special protection. God would reward any people who helped Israel, and He would severely punish any people who would hurt them. This prophecy has proven to be true throughout the history of the earth. Genesis 12:1-3. God also promised Abram that through him "...shall all families of the earth be blessed." This phrase can only mean every human who has ever lived. Since this phrase has to be true, then no living human can ever be cast into the lake of fire because that cannot be a blessing. Revelation 20:11-15 clearly teaches that God will cast only dead humans into the lake of fire, not living ones. Revelation 20:5 clearly teaches that God will raise every living human from the regions of the dead. This phrase that God gave Abram actually prophesies that God will save the good lives of every human He has ever created, some by His grace and all others by His resurrection of them in the end of the world. John 5:24; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5. Some of the artists in the early Church depicted Christ raising Adam and Eve from the dead. Since Eve is the mother of all living, then these pictures symbolize the fact that God will raise every living human from the dead. Genesis 3:20; Luke 20:38; Revelation 20:5.
Genesis 3:20 proves that God created all humans to have a good, living spirit, and from Adam and Eve onward, a good, living soul and spirit. Luke 20:38 proves that all living souls and spirits of all humans will always be alive to God. Ecclesiastes 3:14 proves that God can never lose anything He has ever created, and I Corinthians 13:8 proves that God's Love can never fail. Romans 12:3 proves that God has given faith to every living soul and spirit. Hebrews 2:9 and II Timothy 1:10 proves that Christ has abolished death itself in order to protect all of His living souls and spirits from eternal separation from Him. Revelation 20:15 and Revelation 21:8 proves that Christ will cast the first death, which is the total evil in mankind, into the second death. Revelation 20:5 proves that Christ will raise all the living souls and spirits of all humans from the regions of the dead. Revelation 5:11-14 proves that all living humans within the regions of the dead will repent and return to faith in Christ. John 5:24 proves that all humans who repent and believe while still alive in the flesh will receive eternal life the moment they believe.
Friday, May 15, 2020
The World and the Word
The Results of the Fall
The Devil did not succeed in crushing even the good life of Judas Iscariot out of existence. Although Judas Iscariot refused to repent to God, he nevertheless felt terrible remorse for having betrayed Jesus which proved that he still had some goodness left in his life. Matthew 27:3-5. The fact that Jesus called Judas Iscariot "friend" when he came to betray Him demonstrated that Jesus still recognized some goodness in Judas' soul and spirit that He had created and that He would someday raise from Hell for Him to recreate to live on His recreated earth. Revelation 20:5; Matthew 26:50.
The fact that the Father and the Son possess absolute harmony and agreement means that the Father could never refuse to give His Son anything for which He prayed. In Luke 23:34, Jesus prayed that His Father would forgive the entire human race whose sins and evil had caused Him to be nailed to the cross. Acts 4:26-28. Jesus' prayer meant that His Father would not only save by His grace all who would repent and believe while still alive in the flesh but that He would also appoint a time and place when all humans consigned to the regions of death would see the Lamb of God and return to repentance and faith in Him of their own free will so that He can forgive them and reconcile them all to Himself. Revelation 5:11-14 records this event. Colossians 1:15-20 clearly teaches that God will "reconcile all things unto Himself." God created "all things," which includes all humans. Colossians 1:16. God promises in Revelation 21:5, "...Behold, I make all things new." All humans happen to be a part of "all things." Revelation 21:1-5.
From the fall of mankind to the story of the Tower of Babel, Satan had already done his worst to mankind which continues to this day. Satan had brought humanity to the brink of extinction, but God preserved His light of faith in the good lives of humans through Noah and his family. God also preserved a consciousness of Himself in the spirits of the pre-Adamic race whom He had to consign to the bottomless pit because of their sins. As Job's story symbolizes, Satan has brought humanity to the utter depths of despair. But God will never allow Satan to annul even one of the good lives of any human that He has created and will create. Job 1:12; Job 3:1-25.
The Devil did not succeed in crushing even the good life of Judas Iscariot out of existence. Although Judas Iscariot refused to repent to God, he nevertheless felt terrible remorse for having betrayed Jesus which proved that he still had some goodness left in his life. Matthew 27:3-5. The fact that Jesus called Judas Iscariot "friend" when he came to betray Him demonstrated that Jesus still recognized some goodness in Judas' soul and spirit that He had created and that He would someday raise from Hell for Him to recreate to live on His recreated earth. Revelation 20:5; Matthew 26:50.
The fact that the Father and the Son possess absolute harmony and agreement means that the Father could never refuse to give His Son anything for which He prayed. In Luke 23:34, Jesus prayed that His Father would forgive the entire human race whose sins and evil had caused Him to be nailed to the cross. Acts 4:26-28. Jesus' prayer meant that His Father would not only save by His grace all who would repent and believe while still alive in the flesh but that He would also appoint a time and place when all humans consigned to the regions of death would see the Lamb of God and return to repentance and faith in Him of their own free will so that He can forgive them and reconcile them all to Himself. Revelation 5:11-14 records this event. Colossians 1:15-20 clearly teaches that God will "reconcile all things unto Himself." God created "all things," which includes all humans. Colossians 1:16. God promises in Revelation 21:5, "...Behold, I make all things new." All humans happen to be a part of "all things." Revelation 21:1-5.
From the fall of mankind to the story of the Tower of Babel, Satan had already done his worst to mankind which continues to this day. Satan had brought humanity to the brink of extinction, but God preserved His light of faith in the good lives of humans through Noah and his family. God also preserved a consciousness of Himself in the spirits of the pre-Adamic race whom He had to consign to the bottomless pit because of their sins. As Job's story symbolizes, Satan has brought humanity to the utter depths of despair. But God will never allow Satan to annul even one of the good lives of any human that He has created and will create. Job 1:12; Job 3:1-25.
Tuesday, May 12, 2020
The World and the Word
The Results of the Fall
Satan injected evil into the beings of humans because he believes that evil has the power eventually to completely ruin and annul the good lives of humans that God creates and loves. Evil causes the good lives of humans to sin, and the Devil believes that sin will, in time, so thoroughly corrupt the good life of at least one person to the extent that he or she becomes totally evil and lost from God's Love forever. When the Devil was Lucifer, he knew that a weakness in God's gift of free will to him allowed him to choose to become totally evil and in a state of rebellion against God. But God simply dissolved his system, recovered all the goodness He had put into him, and exiled his total evil to earth as an empty, negative consciousness called Satan. But Satan believes that he still retains the totally corrupted goodness that God gave him because he is still conscious even if it is only a negative consciousness. God used His consuming fire to dissolve Lucifer's system. Ezekiel 28:14-19. In the end of the world, God will use His consuming fire to dissolve the systems of all the temporary dead within the regions of the dead to separate their good lives that He created from their total evil that He will cast into the lake of fire. I Corinthians 3:11-15; Isaiah 30:33; Luke 3:16-17; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15.
Satan believes that because God created free will with a weakness in it, and that God possesses it Himself, then that means that God's Love cannot be Almighty. Satan believes that this supposed weakness in God will allow Satan eventually to find a way to murder God and take His place. John 8:44; Isaiah 14:12-17. All negative consciousnesses possess a completely perverted mind. Proverbs 8:36.
But God's gift of free will to Lucifer actually proves He is Almighty Love. God is completely innocent. God knew absolutely nothing about evil when He gave free will to Lucifer. God believed that Lucifer would only use his gift in good and creative ways because God knew only goodness and creativity. Parents can be innocent. Parents can give a good gift to their children and never think that they might misuse that gift to do something wrong.
When God discovered that evil nonexists and yet has some kind of negative power, He realized that He had to have unwittingly and accidentally caused its nonexistence when He created the universe. God realized that when He created a good, positive universe, He somehow left a huge hole of nonexistence in it that was covered by a darkness that He created long before He created light. Genesis 1:2-3. Negative consciousnesses, which God calls devils, somehow emerged from that darkness to infect Lucifer and cause him to rebel against God. God's Holiness and innocence would never allow Him to imagine that a negative consciousness could nonexist and yet possess some kind of negative power which is always destructive. II Thessalonians 2:7. The fact that God felt terribly guilty about accidentally causing evil only further proves that God's Love is Almighty. Isaiah 45:7.
When Satan injected evil into the beings of humans, he boasted to God that he now had the good lives of humans in his power, and he would eventually crush those lives completely out of existence and thereby prove that God's Love can fail. Job 1:9-12. But the Devil did not count on God's Love being so Almighty that He would put Himself between the Devil and humanity in order to force the Devil to direct all of the forces of sin and evil that threatened the extinction of the good lives of humans upon Himself nailed to a cruel cross dying man's eternal death in his place. Hebrews 2:9; Matthew 26:26-29; I Peter 3:18; John 15:13.
Satan injected evil into the beings of humans because he believes that evil has the power eventually to completely ruin and annul the good lives of humans that God creates and loves. Evil causes the good lives of humans to sin, and the Devil believes that sin will, in time, so thoroughly corrupt the good life of at least one person to the extent that he or she becomes totally evil and lost from God's Love forever. When the Devil was Lucifer, he knew that a weakness in God's gift of free will to him allowed him to choose to become totally evil and in a state of rebellion against God. But God simply dissolved his system, recovered all the goodness He had put into him, and exiled his total evil to earth as an empty, negative consciousness called Satan. But Satan believes that he still retains the totally corrupted goodness that God gave him because he is still conscious even if it is only a negative consciousness. God used His consuming fire to dissolve Lucifer's system. Ezekiel 28:14-19. In the end of the world, God will use His consuming fire to dissolve the systems of all the temporary dead within the regions of the dead to separate their good lives that He created from their total evil that He will cast into the lake of fire. I Corinthians 3:11-15; Isaiah 30:33; Luke 3:16-17; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15.
Satan believes that because God created free will with a weakness in it, and that God possesses it Himself, then that means that God's Love cannot be Almighty. Satan believes that this supposed weakness in God will allow Satan eventually to find a way to murder God and take His place. John 8:44; Isaiah 14:12-17. All negative consciousnesses possess a completely perverted mind. Proverbs 8:36.
But God's gift of free will to Lucifer actually proves He is Almighty Love. God is completely innocent. God knew absolutely nothing about evil when He gave free will to Lucifer. God believed that Lucifer would only use his gift in good and creative ways because God knew only goodness and creativity. Parents can be innocent. Parents can give a good gift to their children and never think that they might misuse that gift to do something wrong.
When God discovered that evil nonexists and yet has some kind of negative power, He realized that He had to have unwittingly and accidentally caused its nonexistence when He created the universe. God realized that when He created a good, positive universe, He somehow left a huge hole of nonexistence in it that was covered by a darkness that He created long before He created light. Genesis 1:2-3. Negative consciousnesses, which God calls devils, somehow emerged from that darkness to infect Lucifer and cause him to rebel against God. God's Holiness and innocence would never allow Him to imagine that a negative consciousness could nonexist and yet possess some kind of negative power which is always destructive. II Thessalonians 2:7. The fact that God felt terribly guilty about accidentally causing evil only further proves that God's Love is Almighty. Isaiah 45:7.
When Satan injected evil into the beings of humans, he boasted to God that he now had the good lives of humans in his power, and he would eventually crush those lives completely out of existence and thereby prove that God's Love can fail. Job 1:9-12. But the Devil did not count on God's Love being so Almighty that He would put Himself between the Devil and humanity in order to force the Devil to direct all of the forces of sin and evil that threatened the extinction of the good lives of humans upon Himself nailed to a cruel cross dying man's eternal death in his place. Hebrews 2:9; Matthew 26:26-29; I Peter 3:18; John 15:13.
Monday, May 11, 2020
The World and the Word
The Results of the Fall
The book of Job reflects Satan's attitude toward the entire human race. God allowed Satan to do his worst to Job, but he had to spare his life. Satan ignored God's command and tried to permanently extinguish Job's life by causing him "to curse God and die." Job 2:9. Job represents the entire human race. Satan seeks to annul forever the good lives of all of humanity. His attempt to annul humanity exists as the spiritual death, which is totally evil, that Satan has injected into the inner beings of every human. But God loves the good lives of all humans whom He created, and He will never allow the faith that He has put into every human spirit to ever fail. I Corinthians 13:8; Romans 12:3. In the future Judgment Seat of Christ in the end of the world, God will resurrect all of His good lives confined to the regions of the dead because He will cause them all to return of their own free will to the faith that He put into them when He created them. Romans 12:3; Revelation 5:11-14; John 5:28-29; Revelation 20:5. God will separate all of their spiritual deaths from them and cast them into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:11-15.
God does not regard the physical deaths of His saints as being death at all. Psalm 116:15; Mark 5:39; John 11:11; John 11:26; I Thessalonians 4:13. Physical death simply means a transition of life from a lower dimension to a higher one. Physical death and spiritual death exist as two different events entirely. God holds the right to dissolve any system that He has created. Physical death simply dissolves the material body to its constituent elements that God can use to create new life systems. Spiritual death means the eternal separation of the human soul and spirit from God's Love. God will allow the temporary spiritual deaths of all humans not saved by grace, but because of the temporary spiritual death of His Son, God will purge permanent spiritual death from the lives of all humans. Hebrews 2:9.
Many humans who have turned their lives over to do evil have cursed God, but their good lives, no matter how feeble, can never die forever. Even the worst humans have done some good that came from God which demonstrates that the dim light of faith within their good lives, although greatly subdued, cannot be put out by the Devil. Isaiah 26:12; Romans 12:3; Ecclesiastes 7:29; Ecclesiastes 12:14; Revelation 22:12. Even Hitler was good to his mistress and his dog. Stalin's daughter testified that although her father murdered millions, including his wife and son, he was always good to her. Can God ever lose anything He has ever created and loves? According to Ecclesiastes 3:14 and I Corinthians 13:8, He cannot.
Just as God completely dissolved Lucifer's system, stripped him of all the good ideas that God had put into him, and exiled him to earth as a totally empty and evil negative consciousness; so God will strip all of the total evil from all humans within the regions of the dead, resurrect their good lives that He created and loves, and cast their spiritual deaths into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15.
Jesus prophesied in John 12:25 that those who try to save their lives will lose them. Matthew 10:39; Matthew 16:25; Mark 8:35; Luke 9:24; Luke 17:33. All lost sinners consider their lives to belong to themselves, not to God. They try to save their own lives which they consider to be both the good and evil parts of themselves. Christ will judge them after they physically die, and He will cast their good and evil natures into one of the regions of the dead. Hebrews 9:27; Revelation 20:13. In the end of the world when Christ judges these lost sinners, He will use His consuming fire to dissolve their systems to separate their good lives from their evil natures. All of the Old Testament burnt offerings symbolized this event. I Corinthians 3:11-15. When Christ resurrects and recreates these living souls and spirits with new bodies to live as righteous humans on His recreated earth, they will not retain the same identities and personalities that they had on the former earth. In other words, they will lose their former lives. Those who chose to lead good lives on the former earth may retain some of their former identities and personalities, but those who chose to practice evil will retain none of their former lives. All humans who obtain salvation by grace while living on the former earth will retain their former identities and most of their personalities when they die and go to heaven. John 12:25; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5; II Corinthians 5:8.
The book of Job reflects Satan's attitude toward the entire human race. God allowed Satan to do his worst to Job, but he had to spare his life. Satan ignored God's command and tried to permanently extinguish Job's life by causing him "to curse God and die." Job 2:9. Job represents the entire human race. Satan seeks to annul forever the good lives of all of humanity. His attempt to annul humanity exists as the spiritual death, which is totally evil, that Satan has injected into the inner beings of every human. But God loves the good lives of all humans whom He created, and He will never allow the faith that He has put into every human spirit to ever fail. I Corinthians 13:8; Romans 12:3. In the future Judgment Seat of Christ in the end of the world, God will resurrect all of His good lives confined to the regions of the dead because He will cause them all to return of their own free will to the faith that He put into them when He created them. Romans 12:3; Revelation 5:11-14; John 5:28-29; Revelation 20:5. God will separate all of their spiritual deaths from them and cast them into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:11-15.
God does not regard the physical deaths of His saints as being death at all. Psalm 116:15; Mark 5:39; John 11:11; John 11:26; I Thessalonians 4:13. Physical death simply means a transition of life from a lower dimension to a higher one. Physical death and spiritual death exist as two different events entirely. God holds the right to dissolve any system that He has created. Physical death simply dissolves the material body to its constituent elements that God can use to create new life systems. Spiritual death means the eternal separation of the human soul and spirit from God's Love. God will allow the temporary spiritual deaths of all humans not saved by grace, but because of the temporary spiritual death of His Son, God will purge permanent spiritual death from the lives of all humans. Hebrews 2:9.
Many humans who have turned their lives over to do evil have cursed God, but their good lives, no matter how feeble, can never die forever. Even the worst humans have done some good that came from God which demonstrates that the dim light of faith within their good lives, although greatly subdued, cannot be put out by the Devil. Isaiah 26:12; Romans 12:3; Ecclesiastes 7:29; Ecclesiastes 12:14; Revelation 22:12. Even Hitler was good to his mistress and his dog. Stalin's daughter testified that although her father murdered millions, including his wife and son, he was always good to her. Can God ever lose anything He has ever created and loves? According to Ecclesiastes 3:14 and I Corinthians 13:8, He cannot.
Just as God completely dissolved Lucifer's system, stripped him of all the good ideas that God had put into him, and exiled him to earth as a totally empty and evil negative consciousness; so God will strip all of the total evil from all humans within the regions of the dead, resurrect their good lives that He created and loves, and cast their spiritual deaths into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15.
Jesus prophesied in John 12:25 that those who try to save their lives will lose them. Matthew 10:39; Matthew 16:25; Mark 8:35; Luke 9:24; Luke 17:33. All lost sinners consider their lives to belong to themselves, not to God. They try to save their own lives which they consider to be both the good and evil parts of themselves. Christ will judge them after they physically die, and He will cast their good and evil natures into one of the regions of the dead. Hebrews 9:27; Revelation 20:13. In the end of the world when Christ judges these lost sinners, He will use His consuming fire to dissolve their systems to separate their good lives from their evil natures. All of the Old Testament burnt offerings symbolized this event. I Corinthians 3:11-15. When Christ resurrects and recreates these living souls and spirits with new bodies to live as righteous humans on His recreated earth, they will not retain the same identities and personalities that they had on the former earth. In other words, they will lose their former lives. Those who chose to lead good lives on the former earth may retain some of their former identities and personalities, but those who chose to practice evil will retain none of their former lives. All humans who obtain salvation by grace while living on the former earth will retain their former identities and most of their personalities when they die and go to heaven. John 12:25; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5; II Corinthians 5:8.
Saturday, May 9, 2020
The World and the Word
The Results of the Fall
The fact that the Nimrods of the earth have controlled much of its
history suggests that perhaps the Devil inspired the Fallen Angels to return to
earth and mate with the Adamic women. The superior humans that resulted from
such encounters possessed such a lust for power and wealth that they misled the
quiet and trusting humans into horrible wars and other cruel inhumanities.
However, some of these superior humans actually desired to provide
good leadership for their fellow humans. Mostly, those who believed in God to
some degree. God gave humans life and liberty and the desire to pursue their
own individual happiness. Some superior leaders have recognized this fact which
inspired them to create governments that protect these human rights. When the
creative liberties of all the people become unleashed, they can create
societies of tremendous prosperity which benefit all the people who live under
such liberal governments. Such governments have been rare in human history
however.
God counterattacked the Devil's efforts to annul human life by gaining
control over it when He scattered them over the earth and confounded their
language. God's judgment annulled the Devil's efforts to completely ruin the
human race by separating it from God's Love forever and thereby causing God to
lose something that He created and loves. But according to Ecclesiastes 3:14
and I Corinthians 13:8, God can never lose control of anything He has ever
created and loves. By scattering humans over the earth, God was able to deal
with every nation and ethnic group individually. As a result, God decided to
choose one particular people through whom He would keep the light of His Love
for humanity forever lit. Through these Israelites, God would cause them to
write His Word of Love to humanity and bring the Savior of humanity into the
world. Luke 24:44-45.
Friday, May 8, 2020
The World and the Word
The Results of the Fall
The story of the Tower of Babel in chapter 11 actually precedes the story of chapter 10. Genesis 10:8-10 relates how one of these "mighty" men became the ruler of the entire human race and caused them all to dwell in one land called Shinar and required them all to speak one language. This tyrant called Nimrod misled these people to desire to build "a city and a tower" that would "reach heaven" and thereby make a "name" for themselves. They desired not just a tower but also a city that would reach heaven. They were smart enough to know that they could not build a tower to heaven. They actually desired something quite different.
They actually desired to establish a heaven on earth so that they could become independent of God's rule. Many philosophers and rulers since then have had that same desire. Satan was behind this rebellion against God because he knew that their desire for independence from God would lead to the Devil's absolute control of humanity and possibly give him the power to finally annul their living souls and spirits that God had created.
In Genesis 11:6, God made a very interesting and intriguing comment about the rebellious efforts of these people. God said, "... and now nothing will be restrained from them which they have imagined to do." God certainly could not have meant that they could succeed in becoming independent of Him. Their efforts in that regard would only lead to disaster because the Devil would gain complete control over them. Humans can never become independent of God's Love because He will never allow their living souls and spirits that He created to become subject to the Devil's annulment. I Corinthians 13:8.
God must have meant by His statement about these people that He knew that they possessed the necessary intellect and talents that would allow them to gain such tremendous scientific and technological knowledge that, in the future, they would be able to do miraculous things. Certain modern scientists and engineers have gained such miraculous knowledge and abilities that it far exceeds anything displayed in the Star Wars movies. But the governments of the world keep that knowledge a secret from the common people. But no matter how powerful human knowledge may become, it can never cause humans to become independent of God's Love and protection. God will never allow that. Most humans do not realize that their very lives depend on God's Love and protection. Some humans even desire the annihilation of human life. How jejune and dead is that. The Devil seeks to crush all the lives of humanity completely out of existence. Humans who desire this tragedy have no idea what love and goodness really mean. I Corinthians 13:8.
The story of the Tower of Babel in chapter 11 actually precedes the story of chapter 10. Genesis 10:8-10 relates how one of these "mighty" men became the ruler of the entire human race and caused them all to dwell in one land called Shinar and required them all to speak one language. This tyrant called Nimrod misled these people to desire to build "a city and a tower" that would "reach heaven" and thereby make a "name" for themselves. They desired not just a tower but also a city that would reach heaven. They were smart enough to know that they could not build a tower to heaven. They actually desired something quite different.
They actually desired to establish a heaven on earth so that they could become independent of God's rule. Many philosophers and rulers since then have had that same desire. Satan was behind this rebellion against God because he knew that their desire for independence from God would lead to the Devil's absolute control of humanity and possibly give him the power to finally annul their living souls and spirits that God had created.
In Genesis 11:6, God made a very interesting and intriguing comment about the rebellious efforts of these people. God said, "... and now nothing will be restrained from them which they have imagined to do." God certainly could not have meant that they could succeed in becoming independent of Him. Their efforts in that regard would only lead to disaster because the Devil would gain complete control over them. Humans can never become independent of God's Love because He will never allow their living souls and spirits that He created to become subject to the Devil's annulment. I Corinthians 13:8.
God must have meant by His statement about these people that He knew that they possessed the necessary intellect and talents that would allow them to gain such tremendous scientific and technological knowledge that, in the future, they would be able to do miraculous things. Certain modern scientists and engineers have gained such miraculous knowledge and abilities that it far exceeds anything displayed in the Star Wars movies. But the governments of the world keep that knowledge a secret from the common people. But no matter how powerful human knowledge may become, it can never cause humans to become independent of God's Love and protection. God will never allow that. Most humans do not realize that their very lives depend on God's Love and protection. Some humans even desire the annihilation of human life. How jejune and dead is that. The Devil seeks to crush all the lives of humanity completely out of existence. Humans who desire this tragedy have no idea what love and goodness really mean. I Corinthians 13:8.
Wednesday, May 6, 2020
The World and the Word
The Results of the Fall
Noah had to offer a blood sacrifice before he could offer the burnt sacrifice. The second offering cannot work without the first. Jesus had to shed His blood and water on the cross to wash away all of the sins and evil of all believers saved by His grace before He could descend into hell to provide a lesser form of salvation for the rest of humanity by the use of His consuming fire. This constitutes the meaning of Hebrews 9:22. The burnt offering cannot be effective without the blood offering. Hebrews 13:10-13 clarifies this meaning.
The story of Genesis 9:20-27 demonstrates the fact that the evil within the Adamic race will inevitably cause some of them to commit even the most horrible sins. But the fact that Shem and Japheth went backwards with a garment to cover their father's nakedness prophesies that God will save the entire human race. At that time, Noah represented the entire Adamic race. Canaan abused his father in a very evil way and did not repent. The fact that God punished Canaan more than He did Shem and Japheth prophesies that God will assign greater punishment to those who deliberately practice evil. All judgment belongs to Christ. But one can surmise that Christ will consign all those who deliberately practice evil and refuse to repent to a burning hell following their physical deaths. Hebrews 9:27. But even the worst humans in hell still retain a living soul and spirit that has done some good. Their living souls and spirits and all the small amounts of good that they did were created by God and belongs to Him forever. God can never lose anything He has ever created. God will recover all that He has created, cleanse it of all sin and evil, and He will recreate it. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Revelation 21:5; Luke 20:38; Romans 11:36; Psalm 145:14-17; Psalm 138:8; Psalm 111:7-9; Romans 8:18-23; Colossians 1:15-20.
God commanded Noah's sons to "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth." Genesis 9:1. Genesis chapter 10 records how the Adamic race spread out over the earth. Some built cities and civilizations, but others reverted to primitive ways of life. Most humans simply desire to live in peace and contentment with their fellow humans. But as Genesis 10:8-9 indicates, some humans who possess superior intelligence and talents, desire to gain power and control over their fellow humans. Many of these types of people gain control over governments, become tyrants, and mislead the quiet humans into evil wars and other horrors. Sadly, this has been the history of much of humanity. The fact that evil humans like Nimrod exist may mean that the fallen angels returned to earth to again mate with women after the flood.
Noah had to offer a blood sacrifice before he could offer the burnt sacrifice. The second offering cannot work without the first. Jesus had to shed His blood and water on the cross to wash away all of the sins and evil of all believers saved by His grace before He could descend into hell to provide a lesser form of salvation for the rest of humanity by the use of His consuming fire. This constitutes the meaning of Hebrews 9:22. The burnt offering cannot be effective without the blood offering. Hebrews 13:10-13 clarifies this meaning.
The story of Genesis 9:20-27 demonstrates the fact that the evil within the Adamic race will inevitably cause some of them to commit even the most horrible sins. But the fact that Shem and Japheth went backwards with a garment to cover their father's nakedness prophesies that God will save the entire human race. At that time, Noah represented the entire Adamic race. Canaan abused his father in a very evil way and did not repent. The fact that God punished Canaan more than He did Shem and Japheth prophesies that God will assign greater punishment to those who deliberately practice evil. All judgment belongs to Christ. But one can surmise that Christ will consign all those who deliberately practice evil and refuse to repent to a burning hell following their physical deaths. Hebrews 9:27. But even the worst humans in hell still retain a living soul and spirit that has done some good. Their living souls and spirits and all the small amounts of good that they did were created by God and belongs to Him forever. God can never lose anything He has ever created. God will recover all that He has created, cleanse it of all sin and evil, and He will recreate it. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Revelation 21:5; Luke 20:38; Romans 11:36; Psalm 145:14-17; Psalm 138:8; Psalm 111:7-9; Romans 8:18-23; Colossians 1:15-20.
God commanded Noah's sons to "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth." Genesis 9:1. Genesis chapter 10 records how the Adamic race spread out over the earth. Some built cities and civilizations, but others reverted to primitive ways of life. Most humans simply desire to live in peace and contentment with their fellow humans. But as Genesis 10:8-9 indicates, some humans who possess superior intelligence and talents, desire to gain power and control over their fellow humans. Many of these types of people gain control over governments, become tyrants, and mislead the quiet humans into evil wars and other horrors. Sadly, this has been the history of much of humanity. The fact that evil humans like Nimrod exist may mean that the fallen angels returned to earth to again mate with women after the flood.
Monday, May 4, 2020
The World and the Word
The Results of the Fall
God also made a covenant with Noah that all future generations should establish good governments to restrain all humans who would surrender to practice evil. These governments should have the power to execute the worst evildoers. Good people would be required to run these governments. However, for the most part, humans have miserably failed to keep this covenant. The history of the world demonstrates that most governments have been run by the evildoers who oppress and execute any good people who get in their way. The people have seldom had good governments who restrain the evildoers and provide liberty for its people. Genesis 9:6.
God destroyed the evil human race in sorrow, not in His wrath. God understood that they had become overwhelmed by evil because they had lost much of their free will that they could use to choose to combat evil. This meant their evil was not their fault. Genesis 6:6-7. God realized this fact, and He still loved these people. For this reason, God became deeply grieved because He had to destroy good lives that He had created through no fault of their own. God decided He had to separate their evil, fleshly natures from their spirits which still retained a consciousness of Him, although greatly subdued, by using a great worldwide flood. But God also knew that their fleshly natures would dissolve into nothingness with the decay of their flesh. In order to effect the cleansing and separation of their spirits from their fleshly natures, the great flood also contained the water that flowed from Jesus on the cross.
God had to consign the spirits of these evil humans to the bottomless pit because sin still stained their good spirits. But after His passion, Christ came to them and preached the gospel to them that He held the power to cleanse their good spirits of all sins by washing them in the spiritual water that flowed from His side on the cross. They all repented and believed, and Christ restored their full consciousness of Him and their fellowship with Him. No doubt, Christ also raised them from the dead and created new, righteous bodies for them. I Peter 3:18-21.
God uses four methods to cleanse all sin and evil from all His living humans that He created and loves. He uses His shed blood, His shed water, His Spirit, and His consuming fire which constitutes His wrath against evil. I John 1:7; Ephesians 5:25-27; I John 5:8; Isaiah 6:6-7; I Corinthians 3:11-14. God used the great flood and the water that flowed from Jesus on the cross to thoroughly purge all sins and evil from the living spirits of the pre-Adamic race because He had no wrath against them. The Holy Spirit holds the power to change the blood and water that flowed from Jesus on the cross to spiritual blood and water. I Corinthians 6:11.
God put a rainbow in the cloud as a promise to the Adamic race that He will never again destroy humanity with a flood because He will never again allow humanity to become totally overwhelmed by evil. After the Devil has done his worst to humanity, then God holds the right to exercise His Almighty Power to move to protect His living humans from eternal spiritual death which the Devil seeks to impose on them. Job 2:4-6. While the Adamic race will inevitably sin because of weakness, it can also willfully and deliberately choose to do good or to do evil. God holds the Adamic race responsible for all the good and evil that it does. But God also only punishes His living humans temporarily for their sins and evil because He understands that their sins are inevitable and their evil is foreign to them. God has provided for the eternal salvation of all living humans, some by His grace and all others in a great worship service as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. John 5:24.
Christ purges all sin and evil from all believers while still alive in the flesh with His shed blood and water and gives them His righteousness and eternal life the moment they believe. John 5:24; Romans 6:16; Romans 6:23. Christ also purges all sins and evil from all repentant sinners confined within the regions of the dead by the use of His consuming fire. I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 22:11-12; Genesis 9:8-17. Revelation 20:11-15 clearly teaches that God will cast only the dead into the lake of fire, not living humans. These dead are totally evil, and they may possess some negative consciousness but not a living, positive consciousness which God created for them. Jesus referred to this negative consciousness as being like worms. Mark 9:44, 46, 48. Revelation 22:11-12 also teaches that God will effect an absolute separation of all that is good from all that is evil. God will also provide a positive reward for the good works of all humans. They will have to be alive to receive these rewards.
God also made a covenant with Noah that all future generations should establish good governments to restrain all humans who would surrender to practice evil. These governments should have the power to execute the worst evildoers. Good people would be required to run these governments. However, for the most part, humans have miserably failed to keep this covenant. The history of the world demonstrates that most governments have been run by the evildoers who oppress and execute any good people who get in their way. The people have seldom had good governments who restrain the evildoers and provide liberty for its people. Genesis 9:6.
God destroyed the evil human race in sorrow, not in His wrath. God understood that they had become overwhelmed by evil because they had lost much of their free will that they could use to choose to combat evil. This meant their evil was not their fault. Genesis 6:6-7. God realized this fact, and He still loved these people. For this reason, God became deeply grieved because He had to destroy good lives that He had created through no fault of their own. God decided He had to separate their evil, fleshly natures from their spirits which still retained a consciousness of Him, although greatly subdued, by using a great worldwide flood. But God also knew that their fleshly natures would dissolve into nothingness with the decay of their flesh. In order to effect the cleansing and separation of their spirits from their fleshly natures, the great flood also contained the water that flowed from Jesus on the cross.
God had to consign the spirits of these evil humans to the bottomless pit because sin still stained their good spirits. But after His passion, Christ came to them and preached the gospel to them that He held the power to cleanse their good spirits of all sins by washing them in the spiritual water that flowed from His side on the cross. They all repented and believed, and Christ restored their full consciousness of Him and their fellowship with Him. No doubt, Christ also raised them from the dead and created new, righteous bodies for them. I Peter 3:18-21.
God uses four methods to cleanse all sin and evil from all His living humans that He created and loves. He uses His shed blood, His shed water, His Spirit, and His consuming fire which constitutes His wrath against evil. I John 1:7; Ephesians 5:25-27; I John 5:8; Isaiah 6:6-7; I Corinthians 3:11-14. God used the great flood and the water that flowed from Jesus on the cross to thoroughly purge all sins and evil from the living spirits of the pre-Adamic race because He had no wrath against them. The Holy Spirit holds the power to change the blood and water that flowed from Jesus on the cross to spiritual blood and water. I Corinthians 6:11.
God put a rainbow in the cloud as a promise to the Adamic race that He will never again destroy humanity with a flood because He will never again allow humanity to become totally overwhelmed by evil. After the Devil has done his worst to humanity, then God holds the right to exercise His Almighty Power to move to protect His living humans from eternal spiritual death which the Devil seeks to impose on them. Job 2:4-6. While the Adamic race will inevitably sin because of weakness, it can also willfully and deliberately choose to do good or to do evil. God holds the Adamic race responsible for all the good and evil that it does. But God also only punishes His living humans temporarily for their sins and evil because He understands that their sins are inevitable and their evil is foreign to them. God has provided for the eternal salvation of all living humans, some by His grace and all others in a great worship service as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. John 5:24.
Christ purges all sin and evil from all believers while still alive in the flesh with His shed blood and water and gives them His righteousness and eternal life the moment they believe. John 5:24; Romans 6:16; Romans 6:23. Christ also purges all sins and evil from all repentant sinners confined within the regions of the dead by the use of His consuming fire. I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 22:11-12; Genesis 9:8-17. Revelation 20:11-15 clearly teaches that God will cast only the dead into the lake of fire, not living humans. These dead are totally evil, and they may possess some negative consciousness but not a living, positive consciousness which God created for them. Jesus referred to this negative consciousness as being like worms. Mark 9:44, 46, 48. Revelation 22:11-12 also teaches that God will effect an absolute separation of all that is good from all that is evil. God will also provide a positive reward for the good works of all humans. They will have to be alive to receive these rewards.
Saturday, May 2, 2020
The World and the Word
The Results of the Fall
All through the Bible (KJB), God speaks of the physical deaths of His saints in a positive way. Psalm 116:15. When the Old Testament saints died, they were "gathered to his people." Genesis 25:8. The Old Testament speaks of the physical deaths of the wicked in a negative way. They become "consumed with terrors," which means God must continue their temporary suffering for their unrepentant sins by casting their sinful souls and spirits into one of the regions of the dead. Psalm 73:19; Revelation 20:13; Hebrews 9:27.
Jesus often spoke about the physical deaths of His believers as if it did not exist at all. John 8:51; John 11:26. Jesus spoke about the little girl He raised from the dead as being asleep, not dead. Luke 8:52. Jesus spoke of Lazarus as being asleep, not dead. John 11:11. Jesus only admitted that Lazarus was physically dead because His disciples displayed confusion about what Jesus meant by saying he was asleep. John 11:14. The Apostle Paul spoke about the Church in their graves as being asleep, not dead. The recreated, spiritual bodies of the Church believers are asleep in heaven, but God will awaken them at the graves of His saints in the Rapture of the Church. I Thessalonians 4:13-14; II Corinthians 5:1-4. Even though recreated, the resurrected, spiritual bodies of His Church believers will retain the same identities that their physical bodies had on earth. John 12:25. All of this means that God does not regard the physical deaths of His saints as being any form of permanent separation from Him, but rather, as the means by which He can restore their fellowship with Him in body, soul, and spirit forever in heaven. In other words, God considers the physical deaths of His believers as not being death at all, but merely a transition from a lower form of existence to a higher eternal life.
All through the Bible (KJB), God speaks of the physical deaths of His saints in a positive way. Psalm 116:15. When the Old Testament saints died, they were "gathered to his people." Genesis 25:8. The Old Testament speaks of the physical deaths of the wicked in a negative way. They become "consumed with terrors," which means God must continue their temporary suffering for their unrepentant sins by casting their sinful souls and spirits into one of the regions of the dead. Psalm 73:19; Revelation 20:13; Hebrews 9:27.
Jesus often spoke about the physical deaths of His believers as if it did not exist at all. John 8:51; John 11:26. Jesus spoke about the little girl He raised from the dead as being asleep, not dead. Luke 8:52. Jesus spoke of Lazarus as being asleep, not dead. John 11:11. Jesus only admitted that Lazarus was physically dead because His disciples displayed confusion about what Jesus meant by saying he was asleep. John 11:14. The Apostle Paul spoke about the Church in their graves as being asleep, not dead. The recreated, spiritual bodies of the Church believers are asleep in heaven, but God will awaken them at the graves of His saints in the Rapture of the Church. I Thessalonians 4:13-14; II Corinthians 5:1-4. Even though recreated, the resurrected, spiritual bodies of His Church believers will retain the same identities that their physical bodies had on earth. John 12:25. All of this means that God does not regard the physical deaths of His saints as being any form of permanent separation from Him, but rather, as the means by which He can restore their fellowship with Him in body, soul, and spirit forever in heaven. In other words, God considers the physical deaths of His believers as not being death at all, but merely a transition from a lower form of existence to a higher eternal life.
Friday, May 1, 2020
The World and the Word
The Results of the Fall
All humans tend to possess an innate philosophy of life. Many humans adhere to a materialistic philosophy in that they believe only in physical reality and reject any form of spiritual reality. Jesus shed His blood and water on the cross to provide an eternal, spiritual life for all humans who will believe in Him while still alive in the flesh. All of the Old Testament blood sacrifices of animals symbolized this salvation by grace that Christ accomplished through His death, burial, and resurrection. For this reason in Genesis 9:4, God prohibited the eating of the blood of slain animals because that would amount to a misuse of the symbolism of the blood sacrifice. Eating is for the purpose of keeping the physical body alive. The blood sacrifice symbolized keeping the soul and spirit alive, not the physical body.
The physical bodies of humans cannot last forever. All physical bodies must die and return to the elements which formed them. This fact happens to be God's general rule for all humans without exception. Genesis 3:9. Enoch and Elijah were bodily translated to heaven, and they may have lived there for a very long time, but eventually they had to physically die. In the Rapture of the Church, all of the saints still alive in the flesh must leave their mortal bodies behind and receive new, spiritual bodies that Christ will bring with Him from heaven. I Corinthians 15:51-53; II Corinthians 5:1-4. The physical bodies and fleshly nature of all humans are filled with sin and corruption, and God always completely eliminates all unrepentant sins and evil before He recreates any human. I Corinthians 15:50. At the Rapture of the Church, all of the alive saints will put off their mortal bodies and put on their spiritual bodies similar to a person taking off old clothes and putting on new ones. I Corinthians 15:53. Christ did change His own physical body to a spiritual body when He resurrected, but His body was sinless.
Before Adam and Eve sinned, they were neither mortal nor immortal. They existed in a neutral position. Whether they became mortal or immortal depended on whether they ate first of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil or of the tree of life. They sinned and spiritually died that same day. Genesis 2:17. The fact that they became ashamed and made clothes of fig leaves to try to hide from God symbolized their spiritual deaths. They had become alienated from daily fellowship with God. But God came to them with His plan to restore that fellowship through a future Savior who would eliminate their sins and spiritual deaths. Genesis 3:15.
God punished Adam and Eve, and all future humans, with a temporary suffering for sins in lives of hard labor and pain. But God Himself would save them from eternal suffering which the Devil desired to impose upon them. God would also punish all future humans who rejected salvation by His grace by consigning their living souls and spirits to one of the regions of death following their physical deaths. Hebrews 9:27. But after their temporary suffering, Christ will cleanse all these living souls and spirits of their sins and evil with His consuming fire and resurrect them to new, recreated lives on His recreated earth. I Corinthians 3:11-14; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5.
God did not punish humans with physical death. God simply informed humans that after lives of suffering for their sins, they would physically die and return to the elements from which they had been formed. Genesis 3:19. The dead bodies of humans are completely nonconscious. Therefore, physical death cannot be a punishment for sins.
All humans tend to possess an innate philosophy of life. Many humans adhere to a materialistic philosophy in that they believe only in physical reality and reject any form of spiritual reality. Jesus shed His blood and water on the cross to provide an eternal, spiritual life for all humans who will believe in Him while still alive in the flesh. All of the Old Testament blood sacrifices of animals symbolized this salvation by grace that Christ accomplished through His death, burial, and resurrection. For this reason in Genesis 9:4, God prohibited the eating of the blood of slain animals because that would amount to a misuse of the symbolism of the blood sacrifice. Eating is for the purpose of keeping the physical body alive. The blood sacrifice symbolized keeping the soul and spirit alive, not the physical body.
The physical bodies of humans cannot last forever. All physical bodies must die and return to the elements which formed them. This fact happens to be God's general rule for all humans without exception. Genesis 3:9. Enoch and Elijah were bodily translated to heaven, and they may have lived there for a very long time, but eventually they had to physically die. In the Rapture of the Church, all of the saints still alive in the flesh must leave their mortal bodies behind and receive new, spiritual bodies that Christ will bring with Him from heaven. I Corinthians 15:51-53; II Corinthians 5:1-4. The physical bodies and fleshly nature of all humans are filled with sin and corruption, and God always completely eliminates all unrepentant sins and evil before He recreates any human. I Corinthians 15:50. At the Rapture of the Church, all of the alive saints will put off their mortal bodies and put on their spiritual bodies similar to a person taking off old clothes and putting on new ones. I Corinthians 15:53. Christ did change His own physical body to a spiritual body when He resurrected, but His body was sinless.
Before Adam and Eve sinned, they were neither mortal nor immortal. They existed in a neutral position. Whether they became mortal or immortal depended on whether they ate first of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil or of the tree of life. They sinned and spiritually died that same day. Genesis 2:17. The fact that they became ashamed and made clothes of fig leaves to try to hide from God symbolized their spiritual deaths. They had become alienated from daily fellowship with God. But God came to them with His plan to restore that fellowship through a future Savior who would eliminate their sins and spiritual deaths. Genesis 3:15.
God punished Adam and Eve, and all future humans, with a temporary suffering for sins in lives of hard labor and pain. But God Himself would save them from eternal suffering which the Devil desired to impose upon them. God would also punish all future humans who rejected salvation by His grace by consigning their living souls and spirits to one of the regions of death following their physical deaths. Hebrews 9:27. But after their temporary suffering, Christ will cleanse all these living souls and spirits of their sins and evil with His consuming fire and resurrect them to new, recreated lives on His recreated earth. I Corinthians 3:11-14; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5.
God did not punish humans with physical death. God simply informed humans that after lives of suffering for their sins, they would physically die and return to the elements from which they had been formed. Genesis 3:19. The dead bodies of humans are completely nonconscious. Therefore, physical death cannot be a punishment for sins.
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