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.