Commentary on the Gospel of John

                                  Chapter Two

                                                                                                                                       Verses 24-25 continued

Verse 25 pertains to God's reason for creating humans, and His infinite knowledge of every human. God knows every living human much better than they even know themselves. Romans 11:33.

God created living humans in His image, and He allowed them to fall into sin and become infected with evil, spiritual death in order to test His Almighty Love which had fallen into doubt among His creations because of the rebellion of Lucifer. Genesis 4:1-7; John 20:24-25. God had to directly deal with the Devil, sin and evil. God could ban the Devil and evil from His creations, but He could not ban the doubt. Had God banned the doubt in a deterministic way, that would leave the value of His Love unproven. God had to devise a plan whereby He could persuade an intelligent creation to freely choose to believe in the Almighty Power of His Love of their own free will which would prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that His Love is real. Determinism leaves everything empty and in doubt. Freely chosen love makes everything real and valuable. The lives of children raised in communist orphanages in a mechanical way were completely ruined. Children raised by good parents who freely love them usually turn out to be good and happy people.

The Devil's goal was to annul a part of God's creations; that is, to reduce it to absolute nothingness which is death itself. Job 1:7-12. (The book of Job, being the first written book in the Bible (KJB), relates the nature of the war between God and the Devil and the purposes and goals of both God and the Devil). Had the Devil succeeded in his desire to annul a part of God's creations, he would have proven that God's Love for His creations is weak; that is, that God's Love is not Almighty. Had the Devil proven that God is weak, then Jesus would never have risen from the dead, and the Devil would have succeeded in his desire to murder God and take His place. Isaiah 14:12-17. God had to allow the Devil to do his absolute worst to humanity in order to prove that the forces of evil can never destroy God's Love for humanity or humanity's freely chosen love for Him. The Devil's temptation of Jesus in the desert demonstrates that the Devil thinks that God is weak. Job 1:7-12; Matthew 4:1-11. But Christ suffered the eternal deaths to which the Devil desired to subject all living humans on Himself on a cruel cross, along with all the sin and evil that causes eternal death, and rose from the dead victorious over eternal death and Hell. Revelation 1:17-18; John 12:31-32; Hebrews 2:9-15; I John 3:8. God's enemies are the Devil and all evil, not living humans whom He creates and loves.

God won the battle with Lucifer in Heaven, stripped his system of all the good ideas that God had put into him when He created him, and He exiled his empty, negative consciousness to earth as Satan, but God had not yet won the war. Ezekiel 28:17-19. Satan took on a negative consciousness which is the same kind of consciousness that the devils in the bottomless pit possess. Luke 8:30-31. But God won His war with the Devil when Jesus bore all of the sins and evil of the entire human race on Himself on a cruel cross, purged it all and spiritual death from His creations, and He rose from the dead victorious over all sin, evil, and spiritual death. Revelation 1:17-18.

When Jesus gained His victory over all sin, evil, spiritual death, and Hell itself, that means He can do whatever He wants to do with them. Because He has an Infinite Intellect and an Almighty Love for all of His creations, God has devised a plan that will cause all living humans confined to the regions of death to repent and believe in Him of their own free will so that He can resurrect them and recreate them to live forever on His recreated earth. Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5. God can never lose anything He has ever created and loves. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Romans 11:36; Romans 8:18-23; Colossians 1:15-23; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:10-12; John 5:28-29; Psalm 86:9. How can God enjoy pleasure from His living humans if most of them are being tortured forever in an eternal lake of fire? Revelation 4:11. God casts only the purged, spiritual dead into the lake of fire. Psalm 75:3; II Peter 3:9-13; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 20:11-15.