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!