The World and the Word

                                 God's Plan

God has an infinite knowledge of all that is real. God possesses free will, but free will is not knowledge. Free will is a consciousness of possibilities which have only potential reality. Possibilities cannot become knowledge until God chooses the correct number and quality of ideas from His Infinite Set of Good Ideas and adds them together to form a good system that produces useful and healthy results. In this way, God formed the physical and moral laws of His universe.

God gave free will to humans even though it contained a weakness that could cause humans to choose to sin; that is, invent false systems. After the fall of mankind, humans obtained the knowledge of good and evil. Humans became capable of creating good systems, like God, or inventing false systems, like the Devil. This condition happened because when humans sinned, Satan gained the right to inject evil into their beings which continues to this day. Romans 5:12. Evil is the same as spiritual death. Genesis 2:17. Spiritual death results in separation from fellowship with God. Genesis 3:6-13. The Devil planned to make that separation permanent in order to ruin God's Love and prove that He is not Almighty. But God's plan to sacrifice Himself for man's sake defeated the Devil's plan, and His self-sacrifice will restore all of humanity to a future fellowship with Him. Revelation 21:5; Colossians 1:15-23.

Sin is never created. Sin happens to be always an invention comprised of a misuse of God's good ideas. Psalm 99:8; Romans 1:30. Sins are false systems which may produce excessive pleasures or excitement, but they always result in addiction, pain, and suffering. Evil is a type of sin that is always directly destructive. Sometimes, these two types of false systems are combined. False systems result from putting God's good ideas together in an incorrect way, similar to mistakes in arithmetic except that those mistakes can be harmless. When one mentally subtracts all of the good ideas from a false system, one finds that one is left with only the idea of nothing which is itself a good and useful idea. Since all of the ideas that compose a false system can only be good ones, including the idea of nothing, then the falsity of the system must be less than nothing; that is, an absolute nothingness. For this reason, the Bible (KJB) often refers to sin and evil as being vanity which means both excessive pride and absolute emptiness. Isaiah 40:17; Isaiah 41:29.

After God had recovered all of His good ideas that He had put into Lucifer's system, God exiled his nothingness to earth as a totally vain and empty being called Satan. Being less than nothing, Satan could only possess a negative consciousness capable of inventing only false systems comprised of God's stolen, good ideas. Ezekiel 28:13-19. How a negative consciousness could invent anything remains a mystery to positive consciousness, including God's. II Thessalonians 2:7. Lucifer was influenced to rebel against God by negative consciousnesses called devils that somehow emerged from a place under the earth called the bottomless pit. These devils found a way to cast a "shadow of death" over God's creations. Psalm 23:4. God is completely innocent. He had no idea that free will could be used in any other way than to create good systems until Lucifer's rebellion. He had no idea that the bottomless pit and negative consciousnesses could even exist until Lucifer's rebellion. Actually, being less than nothing, negative consciousnesses and the bottomless pit do not exist, at least in any positive way. God still knows absolutely everything that is positive and good, but He could not know about absolute nothingness because it does not exist to be known.

God can only use His free will to create good systems. Humans can use their free will to create good systems or to use false systems invented by the Devil. But God's self-sacrificial Love gained complete victory over all false systems by purging all falsity from all of His creations, including all living humans. Romans 8:18-23; Revelation 21:5. This fact means that when humans create good systems, God saves them for future good rewards, but when humans use the Devil's false systems, then God immediately begins to correct that condition by using various means to purge the falsity from those sinful and evil systems so that He can recreate them to become good systems. Revelation 22:11-12. In God's final judgment, He will cleanse and recover all of His good systems that He has put into His living humans for Him to recreate, and He will purge all evil, false systems within every dead human for Him to cast them into the eternal lake of fire. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; I Corinthians 3:11-15. The Power of God's Almighty Love to separate and purge all sin and evil from all of His creations, and His reconciliation with all of His recreated, living humans constitutes the predestination in His plan. Revelation 22:11-12; Colossians 1:15-23; Revelation 21:1-5; John 5:28-29; I Timothy 6:13.