Witty Inventions part three

 Eve displayed the evil side of her nature when she gave the forbidden fruit to Adam because she selfishly desired to ruin him as well. When Adam sinned, he displayed the good side of his nature when he sacrificed his good life in order to be with Eve and protect her. But when Adam sinned, the Devil also attached evil to his inner being because he deliberately and knowingly disobeyed God. Adam's sin was much worse than was Eve's because she had been deceived both when she ate the forbidden fruit and when she gave the fruit to Adam, but Adam knew full well what he was doing. All humans have inherited their evil nature from Adam. Romans 5:12; I Timothy 2:14; I Corinthians 15:22. All humans sin because of weakness, but some humans who happen to be especially good never commit deliberate evils. The Bible (KJB) clearly teaches the difference between sins of weakness and deliberate sins in Numbers 15:24-36.

The inner being of every human contains a good and creative nature created in God's image and an evil and destructive nature injected into them by the Devil. The evil nature of humans, also called spiritual death, can influence the good nature and cause it to sin. But God can and will cleanse, save, and forgive the good nature of humans of all its sins upon repentance and faith in God their Savior. God will also purge the spiritual deaths of all people. God has a plan to cause all humans to repent and believe of their own free will which will be necessary to prove that God's Almighty Love cannot fail. I Corinthians 13:8. God cannot fail to save whatever He loves. Some humans will be cleansed and saved by their faith in the shed blood and water that Jesus shed on the cross. All humans whom God will have to confine to the regions of death because they did not repent while still in the flesh, He will cause to repent and believe of their own free will when He visits them in a great worship service in the end of the world. Only love freely chosen can be real love. At that time, God will use His fiery wrath against evil to thoroughly cleanse the repentant, good natures of all humans confined to the regions of death, separate their forgiven good natures from their evil and dead natures, recreate their good natures to live on His recreated earth and cast their dead natures into the lake of fire. All of the Old Testament sin offerings symbolized salvation by God's grace, and all of the burnt offerings symbolized salvation by the fiery wrath of God against evil. Genesis 3:21; Genesis 8:20-21; Revelation 1:5; Matthew 26:28; I John 1:9; Revelation 5:11-14; Luke 23:34; John 11:25; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 20:11-15; I Timothy 4:10; II Peter 3:9.

Because of their evil natures, humans invent false systems called sin. But they really only reinvent false systems originally invented by Satan. Satan proved to be very clever in his ability to entice humans to self-destruction through such false systems as "excessive pride," excessive excitement," "excessive pleasures," and "excessive greed for power and wealth." The Devil also added "addiction" to all of these false systems in order to cause many humans to be unable to repent while still alive in the flesh. God gave humans and the Devil their due when He called all false systems "witty inventions" in Proverbs 8:12. Psalm 99:8; Psalm 106:29; Psalm 106: 39; Ecclesiastes 7:29; Romans 1:30. God even admits that one can "enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season." Hebrews 11:25. But all sins result in suffering and self-destruction. Romans 6:23; John 5:14; Luke 15:12-16. The Devil hopes to use evil to annul the good and living natures of at least some humans, but God will cause the Devil to fail when God saves all living humans whom He loves. John 12:31-32; I John 3:8; Hebrews 2:9-15; I Timothy 4:10.

Because of humanity's flawed nature, humans can also make mistakes which are not sinful, such as harmless mistakes in arithmetic. But God uses such mistakes to remind humans that they all have a flawed nature. Some humans are so prideful that they cannot admit that they make any mistakes, even in arithmetic. God even allowed humans to write flaws, and even contradictions, into His written, Holy Word in order to demonstrate their flawed nature to them even when they write His Word. Hebrews 8:7-8; Ezekiel 20:25; Matthew 19:8. Nevertheless, God's Holy Word (KJB) can only be inerrant and infallible because it reveals the whole truth about human nature and God's grace, mercy, and Love. John 8:32. God's Love shines through every word in His written Word, even in those scriptures that reveal the evil and sinful nature of humans. II Timothy 3:16-17.

Witty Inventions part two

 Even the basic emotion called "hatred" can be useful in a good system if that system is used to combat evil. God hates evil, and therefore because Lucifer refused to repent, God dissolved his system with His fiery wrath, recovered all of His good ideas that He had put into his system, and exiled him to earth as a completely evil and empty system called Satan. Sin and evil actually do not exist in any positive sense. For this reason, the Bible (KJB) always calls sin and evil "vanity" which means both excessive pride and absolute emptiness. Isaiah 40:17 refers to evil as being "less than nothing," which can only mean absolute nothingness. Sin, which means inner goodness affected by evil, can be cleansed and forgiven by God upon repentance and faith. But evil itself can never be forgiven by God because it never repents. All of God's creations have become infected with sin and evil, but God has determined to cleanse and forgive all sins in His creations because He will cause it all to repent and believe, and He has also determined to use His fiery wrath to dissolve His entire creations, purge it of all evil and recreate it all to be righteous. That which God did to Lucifer, God will do to His entire creations. Proverbs 6:16-19; Ezekiel 28:14-19; Matthew 12:31-32; II Peter 3:9-13; Psalm 75:3; Revelation 20:9.

Exiled to earth, Satan became a negative consciousness. Negative consciousnesses, which the Bible calls "devils" somehow escaped from a nonexistent place called "the bottomless pit" under the cover of darkness to infect Lucifer and cause him to rebel against God. Negative consciousnesses seek only to destroy positive reality created by God. Positive consciousnesses can only think in creative ways. For this reason, positive consciousnesses cannot understand how a negative consciousness can non-exist and yet exert a destructive effect on God's creations. The Bible calls this condition "the mystery of iniquity." II Thessalonians 2:7.

God gave the Devil his due when God called him "subtil" in Genesis 3:1. This word means to be very clever and ingenious. Unlike the devils who only seek to destroy in mindless ways, such as with the maniac of Gadara, Satan somehow became intelligent enough to invent false systems that entice humans toward self-destruction. Satan invented false systems comprised of God's good ideas called "lies" by which he enticed Eve to disobey God and eat the forbidden fruit. The Devil made Eve believe that she would obtain a good system called "a better life," but when she disobeyed God, the Devil became able to attach evil to her good, inner system which would cause her to become unable to avoid sin. Sin is the attachment of evil to goodness. Because of Adam's fall, the Devil became able to attach evil to the inner beings of the entire human race. Satan hopes that that evil will be able to reduce human inner goodness to absolute nothingness which will annul a part of God's creations and thereby prove that God's Love cannot be Almighty. The Devil believes that if he can find a weakness in God's Love, then he can find a way to murder God and take His place. Genesis 3:1-7; John 8:42-47.

Witty Inventions part one

 The entire world, and the universe, happens to be made up of good and false systems all of which comprise basic and irreducible ideas. God created all of the good systems that rule the universe, such as the laws of physics and life, based upon the original and eternal Ideas in His Mind. All of the false systems in the universe result from a misuse of God's true Ideas invented by the forces of evil. God's Infinite and Eternal Set of Ideas can also be called the Word of God. John 1:1 (KJB). The Infinite Contents of God's Mind happens to be One with the Almighty Power of God. John 10:30 (KJB).

Only God can create good systems which are always true and beautiful and useful in good ways. Any being less than God, such as angels or humans, cannot create anything. But humans can invent good or false systems both of which always comprise good and basic and irreducible ideas borrowed from God's Infinite Set of Ideas. Every good or false systems, when thoroughly analyzed, will be found to be composed of basic and irreducible ideas. Every good system invented by humans, such as representative government or automobiles, always prove to be useful in creative ways. False systems, such as tyrannical government or the misuse of automobiles, always prove to be destructive or useless. The difference between God's good, created systems and human's invented systems happens to be that God's created systems comprise His original Ideas, whereas human's invented good and false systems only comprise ideas borrowed or stolen from God's Infinite Set of Original ideas. God's Original Ideas are always Absolutely Perfect, whereas borrowed or stolen ideas become less than perfect.

One of God's fallen angels, named Lucifer, became the first being who invented false systems by misusing God's good ideas. At the time of Lucifer's rebellion against God, God did not know that false systems could even exist. God can only have an infinite knowledge of all that is good and loving. Lucifer took one of God's basic ideas called "excessive" which can be useful in good systems. For example, since God's Love is Infinite, then that system can be called a good system of "excessive Love." Lucifer put the good idea called "excessive" together with another good idea called "pride" and invented a false system that caused him to rebel against God. When God delights in His creations, that happens to be a good use of the idea called "pride." But when Lucifer applied the false system called "excessive pride" to himself, he got the evil desire to murder God and take His place. Isaiah 14:12-17.

A Philosophical and Spiritual Conversation with Betty part ten

 Betty: So how did Jesus hold up on the cross?

The Theologian: Just before Jesus died on the cross, He cried out to His Father and asked Him why He had forsaken Him. Read Matthew 27:46. No doubt, the Devil thought when he heard that that Jesus had broken and would sin, and that would give the Devil the ability to murder God. But the Devil did not know that Jesus meant by His cry that He was dying the very spiritual death of all humans which is eternal separation from fellowship with God. No evil human or the Devil could kill Jesus. Jesus voluntarily died as an innocent human in every guilty human's place. Read John 10:17-18. When Jesus gave up His Spirit to the care of His Father, His innocent body died because of the effects of the sin and evil that He bore. Read Luke 23:46. In addition, spiritual death means eternal separation from fellowship with God. So the Spirit of Christ had to descend into Hell bearing all of the sins and evil of all humans who would not become saved by grace as if He would be there forever. Jesus had already saved all humans who would be saved by His grace by washing them clean of all sin and evil with His blood and water that He shed on the cross. Read Matthew 26:28 and Revelation 1:5. Jesus gave up His Spirit to the care of His Father which meant that God could exert His Almighty Power to raise His innocent Spirit from the regions of the dead leaving behind there the sins and evil of all humanity not saved by grace. Read Luke 23:46. The Holy Spirit reanimated the the innocent body of Jesus, and He rose from the dead victorious over all sin and evil. Read Revelation 1:17-18, Psalm 16:10, and Acts 2:25-31. The Devil wanted living humans whom God had created and loves to be eternally separated from God because of their sins and evil, and thereby defeat God's Love. But God made an eternal, loving sacrifice of Himself for every living human so that he could eternally separate their sins and spiritual deaths from their living souls and spirits whom He creates in His image. In other words, God succeeded in effecting an eternal spiritual death, but He did it in a way that allowed Him to separate and rescue every living soul and spirit from that spiritual death. The Holy body of Jesus could not decay because He also was completely innocent of all sin and evil. Upon His resurrection, God gave Jesus a spiritual body that could become His Spirit or His eternal human body as He wills. Read Luke 24:36-39. Christ chose to remain in human form so that He would forever be the eternal life of all humans in their spirit, soul, and body. Living humans saved by grace will enjoy an eternal home with Him in Heaven, and all humans that He will raise from the regions of the dead will enjoy a recreated life on His new earth. Read Hebrews 2:9-15, I John 3:8, I Peter 1:3-5, Revelation 20:5, Revelation 21:1-5, I Corinthians 15:20-28, John 5:28-29, I Timothy 4:10, I Timothy 6:13, and II Timothy 4:1.

Betty: So God succeeded in purging all sin and evil from His entire creation so that He could recreate it all to be wholly righteous.

The Theologian: God told us that He would do that from the beginning. God called Adam and Eve from their hiding place to fellowship with them again by which He meant that He would never allow the sins and evil of the entire human race to ever separate their living souls and spirits from His Love forever. God promised them, and all of humanity, that He would become their Savior who would defeat the Devil, and who would purge all sins and evil from all of His creations, especially all living humans. God cursed the Devil and evil only which meant that sin and evil were His enemies, not living humans. He promised Eve that she would be the mother of all living humans, and since God cannot be the God of the dead but of the living; "for all live unto Him," then He must save all living humans from spiritual death. Read Genesis 3:1-21 and Luke 20:38. Revelation 20:11-15 clearly relates that God will cast only dead humans into the lake of fire, not living humans whom He raises from the dead in Revelation 20:5. In Revelation 21:5, God clearly states, "Behold, I make all things new." Since God created all things, including all living humans, then He must preserve and recreate everything that He created in the first place. Read Romans 8:18-23, II Peter 3:9-13, Psalm 75:3, Colossians 1:15-23, and Psalm 36:6. When God preserves something, how long does He preserve it?

Betty: Oh Wow! Praise the Lord!

A Philosophical and Spiritual Conversation with Betty part nine

 Betty: So how did this Savior accomplish His salvation of the human race?

The Theologian: God revealed in the prophecies of the Old Testament and fulfilled in the New Testament that He would become a perfect man who would take the sins and the evil of the whole human race on Himself on a cross and thereby purge all sins which cause spiritual death and spiritual death itself from all humanity. When Jesus said that He came "to save the world," He meant exactly that which He said. God cannot fail to do that which He says He will do. Read John 12:47. This perfect man called Jesus would shed His blood and water on the cross to purge all sins and evil from all humans who would believe in His power to save them by His grace while they were still alive in the flesh. God saved Adam and Eve by His grace when He shed the blood of an animal to symbolize the coming Savior and clothed them with its coat to symbolize this type of salvation. Read Genesis 3:21, Matthew 26:28, and John 5:24.

Betty: So how did this Savior save the rest of humanity?

After bearing the sins and evil of all humanity on the cross, this Savior voluntarily gave up His life and physically died. He died as if He would be permanently dead and forever separated from God's Love. But He commended His Spirit to His Father when He died. Read Luke 23:46. Jesus' Spirit descended into the regions of death carrying with Him the sins and evil of the rest of humanity that Jesus bore on the cross. The regions of death are in the ground that God cursed. Because the Spirit of Christ can only be perfect and Holy, and therefore, does not deserve to be in the regions of death, then the Holy Spirit was able to leave behind there all of the sins and evil of the rest of humanity. The Holy Spirit proved that He left all of the sins and evil of the rest of humanity behind in the regions of death when the Spirit reanimated the perfect, dead body of the Savior in His grave and resurrected this immaculate Savior from the dead victorious over all sins and evil. All of the Old Testament burnt offerings symbolized the salvation of the rest of humanity who did not get saved by grace. Read Genesis 8:20-21, Psalm 16:9-10, Acts 2:26-27, and Revelation 1:17-18. When Jesus proclaimed His victory over all the regions of death, He could not have meant that He was only partially victorious. Christ had to be absolutely victorious over all sin and evil.

Betty: But if this Savior bore all of the sins and evil of all humanity on a cross in order to remove it all from humanity, how was He able to bear it? How was He able to rise immaculate from the dead?

The Theologian: The Holy Spirit created a human body in the womb of a virgin named Mary. This means this human could not sin. This baby did not inherit the spiritual death which causes sin from Adam. The Holy Spirit infused every cell of this perfect human with God's Spirit, and therefore, this perfect human became both God and man at the same time. Read John 3:34. This Jesus, who has forever been with His Father, has always had complete power over all sin and evil, but He had to prove it because doubt had entered His creations after Lucifer's rebellion. Read John 20:24-29. The Devil desires to hold the entire human race in permanent death because they are all infected with spiritual death and guilty of sins which he knows that a Holy God can never accept to be in His creations. Had the Devil succeeded in his desire, he would have proven that God's Love for the living humans that He created in His image could not be Almighty, and such an event would demonstrate a weakness in God that the Devil could learn to exploit in order to find a way to murder God and take His place. Read Matthew 1:18-25, Luke 1:26-38, John 3:34, and John 8:44. God engenders faith by the elimination of doubt. Because God creates every human in His image, He puts a latent faith into their souls and spirits. Read Romans 12:3.

Betty: So this Savior, who was and is God in human form, was named Jesus. How did He bear all of the sins and spiritual deaths of all humans on the cross?

The Theologian: Jesus was a completely innocent human. Innocence is a part of God's Almighty Power. Because Jesus possessed an Almighty Innocence, sin and evil could not overpower Him. The Devil happens to be so totally evil that he believes that innocence is weak and can always be ruined, like he ruined Eve. The Devil thought that Jesus would not be able to bear the enormous weight of all of the sins and spiritual deaths of all humans on the cross. The Devil believed that Jesus would be forced to succumb to evil and sin, and that event would give the Devil the right to hold His Spirit in Hell and His body in the grave forever, and thus he would succeed in his desire to murder God. The Devil's attitude accounts for the fact that evil people today always consider good and innocent people to be stupid and easily exploited. Read Matthew 4:1-11 and Luke 4:1-13.

A Philosophical and Spiritual Conversation with Betty part eight

 The Theologian: God warned Adam and Eve that if they sinned by eating the forbidden fruit, they would die that same day. When they sinned, they became weak which allowed Satan to inject spiritual death into their inner beings which is the unreality that attaches to all false combinations of real ideas which in their case was their sins. At that time, the whole world became infected with unreality. That same day, Adam and Eve sewed fig leaves together to hide their nakedness, and they hid from God when He came to visit them in the evening. They became ashamed of the unreality that now attached to their inner beings. They did not directly feel the unreality, but they did feel that their innocence and their acceptance by God were now equal to the real idea of nothing. Their actions displayed their spiritual deaths. They felt that they could no longer fellowship with God because they knew that their Holy God hates all evil. Separation from God because of the unreality of evil constitutes spiritual death. Read Genesis 2:17, Genesis 3:1-8, Romans 5:12, and II Corinthians 4:4.

Betty: So what did God do about their spiritual deaths?

The Theologian: When God came to visit them in the evening, He called them out from their hiding places and talked with them again. By doing this, God demonstrated that He did not desire to lose fellowship with their living souls and spirits that He had created in His image. God also demonstrated that He had already forgiven them. God only needed to find a way to thoroughly cleanse them of all sin and spiritual death so that He could fully fellowship with them again. As God talked with them, He revealed to them and Satan the future method He would use to cleanse them and save them, and the rest of humanity, from permanent spiritual death and the sins that cause it. God desired to save all of humanity from the power of the Devil. Read Genesis 3:1-13 and Mark 11:25-26. Would God ask humans to do anything He would not do Himself? Read Luke 23:34.

Betty: So what was the method that God would use to cleanse and save them and humanity from sin and permanent spiritual death?

The Theologian: God cursed Satan and the ground which held the bottomless pit from which evil had emerged to first infect Lucifer and then through Satan the whole human race. God did not curse Adam and Eve, and by extension all of their descendants, because He still loved their living souls and spirits that He had created in His image. God knew that the fallen human race could not save itself, but He could. God promised Adam and Eve, and by extension the whole human race, that He would send them a future Savior. God spoke to the Devil when He said this, and Adam and Eve heard Him. God told the Devil that this Savior, who would be the seed of the woman only which meant He could not inherit spiritual death from Adam, would be injured by the Devil but he would survive, and this Savior would crush the Devil's head, meaning He would permanently purge the Devil and all evil from all of His future recreations. The fact that God spoke directly to the Devil and allowed Adam and Eve to overhear Him demonstrated the fact that God's wrath would always be directed against Satan and evil itself and never against living humans whom He creates and loves. Although God gave temporary, earthly punishments to Adam and Eve and all of their descendants, He also promised Eve that she would be the mother of all living, and since God can never lose anything He has ever created, and He happens to be the God of the living and not the dead, then God actually promised Eve that He would save the entire human race from permanent spiritual death. Read Genesis 3:14-21, Ecclesiastes 3:14, and Luke 20:38.

A Philosophical and Spiritual Conversation with Betty part seven

Betty: But we can be fooled can't we? I mean some humans think it is all right to use destructive systems to attain their goals.

The Theologian: These kinds of people are usually atheists either in their consciousness or in practice. They have adopted the false system that means it can be good to practice evil. The evil in them has caused them to become confused about the difference between good and evil. They believe spiritual goodness is useless, and spiritual love does not exist. They believe that somehow they can invent their own form of goodness by the deliberate practice of evil.

Betty: But what causes their confusion?

The Theologian: The spiritual death within all humans, which is totally evil, has caused all humans to become somewhat confused about the difference between goodness and evil. The Devil does not want humans to ever attain a clear distinction between goodness and evil. All humans equate destructive and useless systems with the real idea of nothing. Some humans fail to realize that one of the uses of the idea of nothing is that it indicates the destructive or useless effects of the unreality contained within all false systems. Even humans who know that all false systems are destructive or useless only realize the unreality in false systems in a subconscious way. Humans who believe that destructive systems only equal the real idea of nothing also believe that those destructive effects become nothing in the past. This false system causes them to reason that destructive systems can be used to eliminate any system that they believe prevents them from achieving their goals that they consider to be good. But false systems indicate more than just the real idea of nothing. The real and useful idea of nothing indirectly indicates the nonexistence of unreality which adheres to all false combinations of real ideas and experiences. The ghost that you saw was not real in its false combination of real ideas and experiences, not in the real idea of nothing that only indirectly indicated its unreality. Yet, in some mysterious way, unreality can have destructive and useless effects in reality. Satan has confused some humans into believing that destructive systems only equal nothing which means that they have no effects in the future. Therefore, they reason that destructive systems can be used to achieve goals that they believe to be good. If humans should realize that the only effect that unreality has in false systems resides in its attempt to annihilate goodness, they would also realize that false systems can never be used to achieve systems that they think will be good. Only God knows exactly how to use destructive systems to eliminate other destructive systems which would ensure the continued existence of good systems. Read Isaiah 40:17.

Betty: So what did God do about sin and spiritual death?

A Philosophical and Spiritual Conversation with Betty part six

 Betty: But when I saw the ghost, it was a false combination, but it was not a sin was it?

The Theologian: No, it wasn't. Although Satan introduced false combinations into the world, some false systems happen to be merely mistakes or illusions, not sinful but all of them are useless. Mistakes in arithmetic are one example unless an engineer's mistake in his calculations later causes the collapse of a bridge that kills people. In such a case, the engineer may not have sinned unless he was deliberately careless, but the result would be a false combination which contained an unreality that caused a destructive effect. Such an event would be Satan's fault since he happens to be the inventor of all false combinations. All false combinations which always contain an unseen unreality acts like a black hole in reality that causes all of the destructive and useless effects in the world. Just like black holes in space use gravity to pull real stars into it, the unreality contained in false combinations attempts to destroy and annul reality.

Betty: What does the Bible say about false combinations and unreality?

The Theologian: The Bible (KJB) constantly refers to sin and evil as being vanity which means both emptiness and excessive pride. Total emptiness means the absolute nothingness contained in all false combinations. Excessive pride was the false system that introduced absolute nothingness, which is unreality, into God's creations. Lucifer used the good idea called excessive which can be useful in some real combinations and the good idea called pride which can also be useful in some creative combinations to invent a false system called excessive pride that caused his rebellion against God. For that reason, God dissolved Lucifer's good system, recovered all of God's good ideas that He had used to create his good system, reduced Lucifer to an absolute emptiness which is a negative consciousness called Satan, and exiled him to earth. Read Ezekiel 28:13-19. The Bible also accurately describes absolute nothingness and unreality in Isaiah 40:17 and in Job 10:21-22. Since the idea of nothing has to be a good and useful idea, then absolute nothingness, which is unreality, has to be less than nothing. Also, within the shadow of death, which can only be a bottomless pit, no positive consciousness can be created which can distinguish the difference between light and darkness.

Betty: So Satan introduced spiritual death, which is evil and causes humans to sin, into the inner beings of humans in his attempt to annihilate the image of God in them and prove that God's Love is weak. Yet, you said that mistakes may not be sinful?

The Theologian: Satan always uses false combinations in destructive ways. But since we humans have become aware of the difference between good and evil, we can make some mistakes which we can render harmless such as mistakes in arithmetic or the illusion of a ghost. But we can recognize false combinations as being equal to nothing which means that they are always either destructive or useless. But because of our knowledge of the good, we can employ a good system of being able to recognize that useless and destructive systems need to be discarded. Yet, because of our lust for excessive pleasure and our greed for wealth and power over others, humans will often employ destructive systems in our attempt to attain our goal of becoming little gods. We can use false systems because we have been injected with the unreality of spiritual death which causes us to sin.

A Philosophical and Spiritual Conversation with Betty part five

 Betty: So how did we humans ever learn about unreality?

The Theologian: God defeated Lucifer's rebellion, stripped him of all of the good and real elements that God had put into his good system and exiled him to earth as a totally empty, negative consciousness called Satan. Negative consciousnesses seek to annul reality and thereby destroy God's creations, but Satan's desire was somewhat different. Satan's desire was to invent false systems by misusing some of God's real ideas which would produce unreality in God's creations that Satan could hopefully use to annul a part of God's creations and thereby prove that God's Love for His creations could not be Almighty because His Love had a weakness somewhere in it. In other words, Satan believed that God could not be Holy: that is, absolutely perfect. Satan believed that God had to have a little bit of unreality in His holy system. Satan hoped that he could prove that God had some weakness that Satan could use to find a way to murder God and take His place as the ruler of the universe. If Satan could overthrow God, then Satan would have free reign to use all of God's good ideas to invent false systems that might produce excessive pride and pleasures but would in the end prove to be destructive which reduces toward absolute nothingness. Satan can never create anything. The Bible teaches that sin is always a false combination of good ideas that already exist. In other words, sin is always an invention. You can read about all this in Ezekiel 28:13-29; Isaiah 14:12-17; Psalm 99:8; Proverbs 8:12; Ecclesiastes 7:29; Romans 1:30; Job 1:6-12 and Job 2:9 KJB.

Betty: So I get the idea that Satan invented a lot of false systems which he introduced into the world in order to attempt to use the resultant unreality to annul that part of God's creations which turned out to be humans. You spoke before that unreality is like a black hole in a false system. Did you mean by saying that that unreality is similar to a black hole in space that misuses gravity to pull in and annul real systems like stars?

The Theologian: That's right except that Satan could find none of God's creations that could accept his false systems because all of God's animals had no intelligence and free will that could choose to accept his false systems.

Betty: But he found humans.

The Theologian: One day, to Satan's surprise, he found that God had created two humans, a male and a female that God had created in His own image that possessed intelligence and free will. Satan thought that God had made a big mistake because Satan knew that he could certainly get them to choose to accept his false systems and thereby introduce unreality into God's human systems that he believed would eventually annul at least one of them and thereby prove that God's Love is not Almighty.

Betty: So Satan thought that he could introduce unreality into one of God's good systems, reduce a part of it to a false system that would eventually annul it and thereby prove that God has a weakness which would give Satan a future opportunity to murder God.

The Theologian: That is right. God created the two humans, Adam and Eve, in His image; that is, He created them to be good but innocent. The only difference was that, in their innocence, Adam and Eve did not know that they were good. God created a tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and He warned Adam and Eve that if they chose to eat its fruit, they would die that same day. In other words, spiritual death, which is the same as unreality, would become a part of their systems. Satan lied to Eve and told her she would not die if she ate the forbidden fruit, but she would actually become a god. Satan invented a false system of real ideas when he tempted Eve. God calls all such false combinations sin. Eve believed the lie because her free will caused her to think that if she chose to eat the forbidden fruit, she could somehow obtain a better life. She thought she would become more like God. Every element of her sin was real and good. The fruit was good. Her eating it was good, and her free will was good. Even her desire for a better life was good. But as an invented false system, it was disobedient to God, and therefore, it was a sin. Eve gave the forbidden fruit to Adam and he also ate it and sinned. When they both sinned, they became weaker which gave the Devil the opportunity to inject spiritual death into their living systems that he hoped would utterly destroy their good natures that God had put into them and thereby prove that God's Love was weak. Read Genesis 2:17; Ephesians 2:2; Romans 5:12; II Corinthians 4:4 and Genesis 3:1-13. Sin caused spiritual death for all humans, and spiritual death, in turn, causes all humans to commit sins.

Betty: So Satan misused some of God's good and real ideas to invent false combinations that introduced an unreality called spiritual death into the inner beings of all humans.

The Theologian: That is right. Spiritual death attempts to reduce the good and real image of God in every human to unreality; that is, absolute nothingness. Spiritual death is totally evil, and like Lucifer, it never repents. Humans who turn their lives over to evil reduce their good, inner beings toward annihilation, but God will preserve even their puny goodness that He has put into them. Read Psalm 36:6 and Ecclesiastes 3:14.

A Philosophical and Spiritual Conversation with Betty part four

 The Philosopher turned Theologian: We had to have been created by an Eternal and Infinite Consciousness who has established an eternal reality.

Betty: We call Him God.

The Theologian: Yes. Unreality can never create reality. God must exist for reality to exist.

Betty: And yet we have to put up with unreality contained in false combinations. How did unreality get into our universe anyway?

The Theologian: God has an Infinite Knowledge of reality and an Infinite Ability to create good and useful systems that are beautiful which happens to be what goodness and usefulness are. God is wholly innocent. God never thinks about the creation of any kind of false combination because they are not real, and they are useless. God excluded all unreality from His universe. He thought that because it cannot exist, then it has to be impotent. God has an Infinite Knowledge of all that is good and beautiful, but He ignored unreality because that which does not exist can contain absolutely nothing that can be known.

Betty: So I have to ask you again how did unreality get into our universe?

The Theologian: The inerrant and infallible Word of God, which is the King James Bible in English, tells us how that happened. One day God became shocked to discover that His most beautiful angel named Lucifer had rebelled against Him with one third of God's angels that followed Lucifer. God also discovered that Lucifer had been influenced to rebel by certain negative consciousnesses that had somehow emerged from a bottomless pit of unreality that could not exist in reality. Yet, this bottomless pit had somehow produced destructive, negative consciousnesses which are the opposite of positive, creative consciousnesses. Unreality was not impotent. It could produce negative consciousnesses which were wholly intent on annulling positive reality. Exactly what negative consciousnesses could be remains a complete mystery to all positive consciousnesses, including God's. They cannot exist in reality, and yet, they can have a negative and destructive effect on reality. You can read about Lucifer's rebellion in Ezekiel 28:13-19 and about the mystery of iniquity in II Thessalonians 2:7.

Betty: So unreality can influence reality in a negative and destructive way?

The Theologian: Yes, but that fact puzzles positive consciousness since it can only experience and think about that which is real.

A Philosophical and Spiritual Conversation with Betty part three

 Betty: Then how can we know about nonexistence if everything we experience can only be real?

The Philosopher: Our consciousness somehow gives us the ability to use the idea of nothing to indirectly recognize nonexistence even though we never directly experience it. Nonexistence is like a black hole in reality that we can never directly see, but we know is there.

Betty: And that means we can only experience that which is real?

The Philosopher: Everything we experience can only be real just as we experience it. The fact that we can never directly experience unreality means that all we do experience must be real. It is quite impossible for human consciousness to directly experience anything that is not real. In the case of unreality, we can only use the real idea of nothing to indirectly indicate the nonexistence in a false combination even though all false combinations must always comprise real experiences and ideas.

Betty: What do you mean when you say that unreality cannot be directly experienced? How do we know that it exists if we never experience it?

The Philosopher: Unreality actually does not exist at all. That is why it is not real. It is the opposite of reality. Reality exists. Unreality does not exist. Human consciousness has been given the power, through the use of logic, to determine the real existence of certain objects that we can never directly experience. For example, physicists have deduced that certain sub-atomic particles exist even though they have never directly experienced them. They deduce that they exist because of tracks that they leave on photographic plates. In a similar way, we humans use the real idea of nothing to deduce that unreality does not exist, at least in any positive and creative way that we can understand, even though we never directly experience it.

Betty: But how did we obtain this power of our minds to make such a logical deduction?

The Philosopher: We humans were created to experience only reality. One of the true combinations of ideas that we experience in our minds happens to be the power of reason and logic. Logic is a real combination of ideas that allows us to make deductions about the real existence of things we never directly experience or which are hidden in experience. We can also use the power of logic to deduce that false combinations of real ideas and experiences equal nothing which also indirectly indicates the nonexistence of unreality. But we never seem to make this a conscious deduction. It is always a subconscious deduction.

Betty: Then true and real combinations of real ideas and experiences also exists?

The Philosopher: Absolutely. All systems in our world that produce a desired and beneficial result are true combinations of real ideas and experiences. We can name thousands of such systems such as a system of justice, a system of laws and government, clothes, houses, medicine, and even our own lives. The trouble with our true and real systems is that false and destructive systems often attach themselves to them.

Betty: So how does the real idea of nothing relate to such real systems?

The Philosopher: Whenever we humans use our minds to invent true systems of real ideas that produce a desired and beneficial result, we also use the real idea of nothing to exclude from such systems any ideas or experiences that will not work in those systems. For example, if an architect designs a skyscraper to be built solely from steel and concrete, he excludes all wood from his system by equating it with nothing. This exclusion does not mean that he considers wood to be nonexistent. He simply mentally equates wood with the idea of nothing in order to exclude it from the system he has invented.

Betty: So true and useful combinations of ideas and experiences exist which are beneficial systems, and false systems also exist which always comprise real ideas and experiences even though the combination itself always equals the idea of nothing by which we indirectly and logically deduce that unreality does not exist, at least in any meaningful and positive way.

The Philosopher: That is correct. When we say that something is not real, we subconsciously mean that the idea of nothing has annulled reality in that false system even though we can be conscious of the real idea of nothing, but we cannot be directly conscious of the unreality. We mean that the false combination itself cannot be real, never the the real ideas and experiences that always compose false systems.

Betty: But if our minds are geared to be conscious only of reality, how did we ever become conscious of the fact that the idea of nothing can indirectly indicate the nonexistence of reality in false combinations?

The Philosopher: Our minds were created to be able to tell the difference between something and nothing, both of which are real. Since consciousness happens to be the only known power which is capable of making this distinction, then no consciousness, which consciousness means life itself, could have evolved from a consciousless universe. Consciousness must come first. There can be no reality without consciousness.

Betty: Please explain.

The Philosopher: In a universe without consciousness, no means exist which can tell the difference between something and nothing. In such a case, reality cannot exist, and absolutely nothing happens without reality. Such a consciousless universe would be in a permanent state of chaos; that is, a state of absolute nothingness. Certain scientists have discovered that this state of chaos can actually exist, but they call it a superposition in quantum mechanics or a singularity in cosmology. Scientists have also discovered that our universe happens to be filled with what they call virtual particles which actually exist and non-exist at the same time. These virtual particles indicate the consciousless part of our universe. Consciousness exists to separate something from nothing in order to establish reality.

Betty: But if our lives and consciousness could never have evolved in a consciousless universe, then how did we obtain our lives and consciousness?

A Philosophical and Spiritual Conversation with Betty part two

 Betty: So all of my real experiences in combination became an unreal ghost?

The Philosopher: Right. But you called the combination a ghost which means you were trying to make it real.

Betty: But the combination although real was not real?

The Philosopher: The combination itself was not real. All of the elements of the false combination were real.

Betty: But if all of the elements of the false combination were real, then the ghost itself was really nothing.

The Philosopher: That is right. But the nothingness which was the ghost is also real.

Betty: How so?

The Philosopher: The idea of nothing in your mind happens to be very useful in your life, and therefore, it has to be real. You use the real idea and experiences of nothing to separate every individual object and idea in your mind from every other individual object and idea. Unreality is always useless.

Betty: How so?

The Philosopher: That chair you are sitting on is no other chair in the world but that chair. Take yourself for example. You are conscious of yourself as being no other individual in the world but yourself. The word no means nothing. You know by experience that every person in the world is something not nothing, and yet, in order to identify yourself as a separate individual person from all other persons, you have to use the idea of nothing to consider all of the other persons to be in the category of nothing so that you can identify yourself as a separate, individual person. In other words, you know by the use of the idea of nothing that you are not any other person but yourself.

Betty: But could you not use that idea of nothing to consider yourself the only real person?

The Philosopher: You could. That is the philosophy of solipsism. But you use the idea of nothing only as a means to identify yourself as being separate from all other persons. At the same time, you recognize by your real experiences that all other persons are real.

Betty: So your experiences are the same as your reality?

The Philosopher: Right.

Betty: Then if all false combinations of real experiences, such as ghosts or unicorns, only appear as combinations of real experiences then where is the unreality of false combinations if they all equal the real and useful idea of nothing?

The Philosopher: Unreality never appears to consciousness because consciousness can only experience that which is real.

Betty: But if all experiences are real, including the idea of nothing, then how did we ever get the idea that false combinations are not real?

The Philosopher: We try to make all false combinations real, but when we realize by logic that they cannot be real, then we equate them with the idea of nothing which is real. In other words, we can only experience reality. We never directly experience unreality.

Betty: But if we can experience only reality, how did we ever get the idea that a false combination must be unreal? I experienced a false combination of real experiences that I called a ghost. Yet, the ghost was not real. How is that possible?

The Philosopher: You were trying to make the ghost real even though you knew it could not be real. You used the real idea of nothing to indirectly identify its unreality.

Betty: But if everything that I saw in combination was real, including the idea of nothing, then how was I able to say that the ghost was not real?

The Philosopher: The false combination of real experiences was not real. You used the real idea of nothing to indirectly identify the false combination as being nonexistent.

Betty: So even though I experienced a false combination of real experiences, that false combination in reality cannot exist.

The Philosopher: No human consciousness ever directly experiences nonexistence. Humans must always use real experiences and ideas to construct false combinations which always equals the idea of nothing which, in turn, human consciousness uses to indirectly obtain the idea of nonexistence which humans never directly experience.