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.