Commentary on the Gospel of John

                                  Chapter Six

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God was not content with just a spiritual plan to save mankind. God decided to create a material world with the souls and spirits of humans within physical bodies. God had discovered that souls and spirits within bodies could experience the most intense pleasures possible but also the most intense pain and suffering. God also discovered that the Devil could misuse these pleasures to invent false systems of heightened pleasures but which would result in greater pain and suffering. Psalm 99:8; Romans 1:30. God desired that His human creations experience these great pleasures but with rules that would prevent pain and suffering that results from the practice of excessive pleasures. God gave humans a conscience at first and afterward laws that if obeyed would not result in increased pain and suffering. The Devil injects spiritual death into every living humans which is totally evil and which causes humans to crave excessive pleasures and power. The main evil that spiritual death causes is excessive pride which causes humans to believe that they no longer need God, and therefore, they can indulge themselves in excessive pleasures and a lust for power as much as they want. Proverbs 6:16-19. The Devil believes he can use these false systems that he invented to utterly destroy; that is, annul the living souls and spirits that God creates and puts into humans and trap their living souls and spirits in eternal death forever. By these means, the Devil hopes that he can prove that God's Love is not Almighty, and therefore, prove that God has a weakness that he can exploit to find a way to murder God and take His place. Because of the weakness of humans, the Devil would have succeeded in his plans if God had not come to earth in human form to suffer the eternal deaths of every human in their place. Hebrews 2:9-15. All humans have a fear of death, so Jesus must have suffered and died in the place of every human. God will allow the Devil to do his worst to humanity in order to prove that He can never lose anything He has ever created and that His Love can never fail. Ecclesiastes 3:14; I Corinthians 13:8; Job 1:11-12.

Jesus told these pretended disciples that they could not believe in Him because they would not open their spiritual natures to receive from His Father the spiritual truths that He preached. Being unable to receive Jesus' spiritual truths, all of these false disciples walked away from Jesus, except Judas Iscariot. The Devil caused Judas Iscariot to remain with Jesus in his attempt to completely ruin Jesus' true disciples and maybe even Jesus Himself. Jesus did not put Judas Iscariot out of His Church so that He could prove that He can always protect His true believers. All living humans will eventually become true believers, some by God's grace and all others just prior to the general resurrection in the end of the world. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14. God allows apostates in His Church to this day, but He also commands His churches to excommunicate any member who openly practices sin and refuses to repent. I Corinthians 5:9-13.