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.
Tuesday, November 30, 2021
Witty Inventions part three
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