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.
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