The World and the Word

             The Difference between Sin and Evil

When Adam and Eve sinned, then the entire future human race became subject to the danger of their good, spiritual lives becoming annulled and replaced by their evil, spiritual deaths, and their good lives becoming lost from God's Love forever. Spiritual death was far too strong for them to overcome it on their own. They needed someone to rescue them. Romans 7:21-25.

Adam and Eve became ashamed of their nakedness and hid in the garden when God came to visit them in the evening. Their shame resulted from their awareness of their spiritual deaths that the Devil had injected into them. Revelation 3:17-18. When God had found Adam and Eve, He sentenced them and the whole human race with temporal punishments for their sins, but He did not curse their good lives that He created and loved. Genesis 3:16-19. God can never lose anything that He has ever created and loves, not to eternal spiritual death or to the Devil. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Romans 11:29. God cursed only the Devil and the ground that would hold the three regions of death. Revelation 20:13; Genesis 3:14 and 17. In the future, God would have to consign to one of the three regions of death all unrepentant sinners according to how they lived because of the sins and evil that still adhered to their good, inner beings. Hebrews 9:27. But God meant for this also to be but a temporary punishment because Christ would descend into Hell and use His fiery wrath against evil to burn it and separate all spiritual deaths from all living humans whom He would raise from the dead. I Corinthians 3:11-15; Genesis 8:20-21; Leviticus 5:10; II Peter 3:10-13. But all the good and living souls confined to the regions of death would have to return to their faith that God had given them that only the Lamb of God had the power to save them. Revelation 5:11-14 records their repentance and faith. Revelation 20:5 records their resurrection. John 5:28-29.

God made sure that Adam and Eve would hear Him curse the Devil. God informed the Devil that hatred would always exist between the Devil's "seed" and the woman's "seed." The Devil's seed can only be the spiritual death that he has implanted into all living humans. While some humans may desire physical death if they think that it will annul their consciousness, they certainly would loathe and eternal spiritual death in a lake of fire forever. The woman's seed can only be the entire living human race that God loves and will forever save. Genesis 3:20; Luke 20:38. But God also prophesied about a particular seed of the woman who would come to crush the head of the serpent. This prophecy clearly reveals that this Savior would come to completely destroy and annul the serpent and all sin and evil itself, not living humans. John 1:29; I John 3:8; John 12:47. The Devil would be allowed to torture this human Savior in his attempt to murder Him, but the Devil will only succeed in wounding Him. This Savior would gain a complete and absolute victory over the Devil and all his works when He would rise from the dead. I John 3:8; John 12:31-32; John 16:11; Hebrews 2:14-15; II Peter 3:9; John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 1:17-18.