Commentary on the Gospel of John

                                  Chapter Three

                                                                                                                                      Verses 24-27 continued

Man's trouble happens to be that the Devil has injected spiritual death, which is totally evil, into the inner beings of all humans. This spiritual death influences all humans to practice false combinations of good gifts from God which are sinful and destructive. God has created all things including all ideas, and they are all useful in creative combinations. Colossians 1:16. The visible is the world of the senses, and the invisible are thoughts and ideas. The Devil can create nothing. The Devil can only misuse God's good gifts by inventing false systems called sin such as excessive pride or excessive pleasure. Psalm 99:8; Romans 1:30. Pleasure, in itself, when practiced according to God's rules happens to be creative and good. Excessive, in itself, can also be a useful idea in some creative systems. But an invented false combination of these good ideas called "excessive pleasure," such as taking drugs, only proves eventually to be destructive. Pride, in itself, such as pride in one's family, promotes greater love, but the false combination called "excessive pride" happens to be the attitude that one can make oneself great and wise to the extent that one no longer needs God. Genesis 3:1-7. All sins proceed from excessive pride. Man's excessive pride nailed Jesus to the cross in its allied attempt with the Devil to murder God. Acts 4:23-28. The Bible (KJB) consistently refers to sin and evil as being "vanity," which means both emptiness and excessive pride.

Sin caused the Devil to inject evil into the inner beings of humans, and evil in turn, causes sin. Romans 5:12. Evil seeks to reduce God's good gifts to nothing, but since nothing also happens to be a good idea given by God, then evil seeks to go beyond the idea of nothing to annul God's good gifts; that is, reduce God's good gifts to an absolute nothingness. The Devil seeks to annul the good souls and spirits of humans by causing them to become totally evil. The worst human who ever lived can never become totally evil, and the best sinful human who ever lived can never make himself  totally good. The bottomless pit (non)exists as a place of absolute nothingness. The Devil seeks to trap the living souls and spirits of humans forever in one of the regions of death, and thereby completely destroy a part of God's creations. But God has promised in His Word that He has devised a plan, accomplished through the death, burial, and resurrection of His Son, to protect and preserve all of His good gifts that He ever created, including the good lives of all His living humans. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Romans 8:18-23; Genesis 3:20-21; Luke 20:38; I Corinthians 15:22; Psalm 36:6; Revelation 21:1-5. In the end of the world, God will use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve, cleanse, and recreate His entire creation stained by sin and evil, including all living humans consigned to the regions of death because they failed to obtain salvation by grace. II Peter 3:9-13; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Psalm 75:3; Revelation 21:1-5. God will cause all living humans confined to the regions of death to repent and believe in the Lamb of God of their own free will which will prove the Almighty Power of God's Love. Revelation 5:11-14; Isaiah 45: 21-25; Philippians 3:9-11; II Peter 3:9; How can God's Love and Will fail? Revelation 20:5; Revelation 22:11-12.