Commentary on the Gospel of John

                                    Chapter One

                                                                                                                                                                 Verses 3-5 continued

God gave a created system of life to humans which is an object to God's Consciousness. This meant that the free will that He gave to Adam and Eve could only be independent of God's control. They had every right to decide for themselves what they would do. The Devil thought that God had made a huge mistake by allowing them to have this freedom. The Devil knew that he, being much more clever than humans, could exploit their free will, cause them to disobey God by eating of the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil and sin against God. Genesis 3:1-6.

The Devil also knew that if he could cause Adam and Eve to sin, then their sin would cause somewhat of a disconnection of them from God's protective power since God cannot accept sin. Their resultant weakness would then give the Devil the right to inject spiritual death into their inner beings which they would pass on to all their posterity. This inherited evil would weaken all humanity to the extent that all humans would be unable to avoid sin. God had already warned Adam and Eve that this effect would result from their sin. Genesis 2:17.

Satan revealed his plans for the whole human race in Job the first written book of the Bible (KJB). The Devil believed that if he could somehow separate humans from God's protective power, then he could utterly destroy even the good life that God puts into humans, and thereby, prove that God's Love can be weak and that God can be defeated and eventually murdered. Job 1:11; Job 2:5; Job 2:9. God allowed Satan to do whatever he wanted to Job, just as God allows the Devil to do whatever he wants to humanity, but just as God would not allow the Devil to take Job's life, so God will not allow the Devil to ever annul the good life of any human that God has ever created. God had to allow the Devil to do his worst to humanity to prove that His faith and love that He puts into all living humans can never be destroyed under any circumstances, and thereby, also prove that God's Love can never fail. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Numbers 23:19; I Corinthians 13:8.

Job was as righteous as any ordinary human can be because he strictly adhered to the faith that God had put into his good soul and spirit. Job 1:1. But Job was also a sinner as are all humans. He said so himself. Job 7:20. But Job found redemption by God's grace when he came to faith in the coming Redeemer. Job 19:25-27. Job and his friends represent the entire human race because God commanded Job's friends to bring a burnt offering for Job to make for them so that they too could be forgiven and provided with a lesser form of salvation. Job 42:7-9.