The World and the Word

                                                The Difference between Sin and Evil

The power of God's Love is Absolute and Almighty. I Corinthians 13:8. This fact means the puny will of humans can never thwart the Almighty Will of God. Human can delay God's Will through sin and a lack of faith, but puny human will can never annul the Will of God. II Peter 3:9 relates that God wills that all humans repent and become saved, and that means that that is exactly that which will happen. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14. Jesus taught in John 11:25 that He is able to save all humans who believe even after they physically die. God did not give humans free will for them to use it to thwart His Will. God gave free will to humans, even though its weakness can cause them to sin, to prove to the Devil and all of His creations that He did not make a mistake in so doing. God proved to Satan that he will never be able to use free will to cause the evil that he injected into the beings of humans to utterly destroy them with eternal death. Job 2:9; Matthew 15:13. God knew exactly how to sacrifice Himself to take away all the sins and spiritual deaths of all living humans and rise immaculate from the dead to give back His life to all of them. God knows exactly how to cause every human who ever lived to choose of their own free will to return to the repentance and faith that He put into His image that He gives them and save them all with a higher and a lower form of salvation. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14.

The power of God's Love is absolutely Almighty and cannot fail. I Corinthians 13:8. This means whatever good system happens to be possible, God can create it. God does not have to limit Himself to only one plan of salvation; that is, salvation by grace. God can create as many plans of salvation as needed to save all that He loves. The Bible (KJB) not only teaches salvation by grace; it also teaches a lesser form of salvation of all of the good souls and spirits that God creates and loves. The small amount of good works that even the worst humans do proves that God has given them good souls and spirits. God has given all living humans some good works to do according to His will. Romans 9:14-24. All humans will not choose to do all of them, but all humans will choose to do some of them. Ecclesiastes 9:1. God will save all living humans confined to the regions of death because their good works will prove that they have not lost their souls and spirits to the Devil. Psalm 50:23; Psalm 3:8; Psalm 98:3; Romans 2:6-11; Revelation 22:11-12; Revelation 21:5. God will cause all living humans confined to the regions of death to choose to repent and believe in the Lamb of God as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. God will raise them all from the dead and recreate them with righteous lives to live on His recreated earth. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5. God will reward them for their good works, but those who led evil lives on the former earth will completely lose their former identities and personalities which were mostly defined by sin and evil. They will not remember who they were. John 12:25.

Isaiah 64:6 teaches that "all our righteousness are as filthy rags." This phrase means all humans must possess some righteousness that gets nasty from the influence of the evil within. God likens righteousness to clean, white robes. Revelation 19:8. God created His living image in all humans to be righteous, but all living humans have become nasty by their sins caused by the influence of spiritual death within them. The difference between sin and evil is that God holds the power to cleanse the white robes of all living humans once they repent and believe, and then after being cleansed and forgiven, He holds the power to use His fiery wrath against evil to extract the foreign spiritual deaths of all living humans confined to the regions of death for Him to cast into the lake of fire. I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 20:15. God can cleanse and forgive all sins because of the eventual repentance and faith of all living humans, but He can never cleanse and forgive evil itself because it never repents. Matthew 12:31-32. God will purge all evil from His creations and recreate it all to be righteous. II Peter 3:10-13. The very nature of evil causes it to be in a state of perpetual rebellion against God.

God can create only good systems from His infinite set of good elements. This condition means that God can never cleanse evil itself because He never created it in the sense that He never brought it into existence. Actually, it does not exist as an object to positive consciousness. Evil happens to be "less than nothing, and vanity." Isaiah 40:17. It is chaos and absolute nothingness of which positive and creative consciousness can get no idea whatsoever. The best that positive consciousness can do is to get an indirect indication of its presence by the use of the creative idea of nothing. Yet somehow, evil can form destructive negative consciousnesses, that the Bible calls devils, which can influence positive consciousness. II Thessalonians 2:7. Nothingness itself is a useful and creative idea to positive consciousness, but evil is a "less than nothing;" that is, an absolute nothingness that is always destructive. God admits that He created evil in the sense that He accidentally allowed it to enter His creations when He gave free will to Lucifer. Isaiah 45:7. God feels guilty about this, but because He was completely innocent in that at that time He did not know that evil even nonexisted, He absolutely did nothing wrong. God made no mistake in giving free will to Lucifer or to humans, and He has proven that fact to His creations. I Corinthians 13:8.