The World and the Word

                                      The Difference between Sin and Evil

God will eventually save all living humans from their sins and evil because He will cause them all to repent and believe in the sacrifice and resurrection of the Lamb of God who "taketh away the sin of the world." John 1:29. God gives His higher form of salvation, which is by His grace, to all who repent and believe while still alive in the flesh. John 5:24. But God also gives His lower form of salvation to all living humans confined to the regions of death when they repent and believe. Revelation 5:11-14. Christ takes away all of the sins and evil of all His good and living humans whom He has created and will create because He loves them. I Corinthians 13:8. Christ never casts away living humans whom He has created in His image because He can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Romans 11:29; Luke 20:38. If, as Luke 20:38 clearly teaches, all humans are alive to God, then they must be alive to Him forever. Psalm 36:6. When God preserves something, how long does He preserve it?

Jesus came to "bind the strong man" who is Satan so that He can "spoil his house" which is the world. All of this means that Jesus has completely ruined everything the Devil has attempted to do to Jesus' living humans. Mark 3:27. Does God ever partly do anything? The Devil thought that he could use the free will that God gives to every living human to cause them to choose evil to the extent that he could cause some of them, or at least one of them, to become so overpowered by evil that he could cause their good, living souls and spirits that God created and loves to become totally evil and lost from God forever. Job 1:11; Job 2:5; Job 2:9. The book of Job reveals Satan's plans for the whole human race. If Satan could use free will to completely ruin even a small part of God's creations that He loves, then Satan would be able to prove that God's Love is not Almighty which would amount to a weakness in God's Love that Satan could exploit to eventually find a way to murder God and take His place. Isaiah 14:12-17.

Because he is totally evil, Satan still believes that Lucifer succeeded in completely turning some of the goodness that God put into his system to total evil. Job 1:6-7 reveals that the Devil believes that because he still has consciousness and can do whatever he pleases in the earth, that this means that he has succeeded in completely ruining the good, living consciousness that God gave to Lucifer. But Ezekiel 28:13-19 reveals that God used His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve Lucifer's good system, recover all of the good elements that God had put into his system, and exile Satan to earth as a totally evil and negative consciousness like that of the devils that influenced Lucifer to rebel against God. In the end of the world, God will use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve the systems of all humans confined to the regions of death, recover and recreate all of His goodness that He put into them, and He will cast all of their dead and evil natures which are foreign to their inner beings into the lake of fire forever. I Corinthians 3:11-15; Romans 11:29; Romans 11:36; John 5:28-29; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12.