The World and the Word

                     The Wheat and the Chaff

God further illustrated the dual nature of every human in Moses' speech to the Israelites as recorded in Deuteronomy 30:11-20. Moses told the Israelites that God had come to them and had given them His law to make clear to their consciousnesses the exact righteousness that God required of them. But Moses also told them that they could only recognize God's righteousness by the "Word of God" that was already in their hearts. In other words, God gave them His written law in order to elicit a greater desire to obey Him that would come from their good and living souls and spirits that God had given them when He created them.

Moses set before them the life and goodness and the death and evil that already existed in the hearts of every one of them. They remained free to choose which side of their dual natures that they would adhere to.

Moses commanded them to obey God's law from the good desire of their living hearts that God had created in His image. Moses promised them that if they would obey God and practice the religion that He gave them, then God would bless them and give them the land that He had promised them. God will resurrect all Israelites who faithfully practiced Moses' religion and recreate them to inhabit the promised land and rule the earth forever. Genesis 1:27; Genesis 17:6-8; I Chronicles 28:8; Isaiah 66:15-24.

Moses also warned God's people that if they chose to adhere to the evil side of their natures, then God would not allow them to inherit the promised land when He resurrected them. Moses told them that if they chose evil, then they would "perish." Moses meant by this word that one day in a general resurrection God will dissolve their systems in order to separate and recover their living souls and spirits from their spiritual deaths. Moses further informed them that God would "prolong their days" on the earth but not in the promised land. In other words, God will resurrect their living souls and spirits and recreate them, but He will demote them to life among the resurrected Gentiles.

God created every human in His image, and that can only mean that every human has some of the life of God in him. Genesis 1:27. If any human existed who did not have this life of God in him, then he would be totally demonic and could do no good whatsoever. But since even the worst humans have done some good, then this fact demonstrates that even the most evil humans still possess a greatly diminished living soul and spirit given to them by God. Luke 20:38; Luke 17:21.