On Truth and Falsity

                   The Fall and God's Salvation

God created Adam and Eve to be innocent, to enjoy their lives and their love for each other in a beautiful garden. Genesis 2:7-25 (KJB). God created Adam and Eve to be innocent like He was before He learned about evil with the rebellion of Lucifer. Lucifer's rebellion could not change God. God is Holy and Pure forever. But Lucifer's rebellion had changed God's creations. Some of God's angels had actually followed Lucifer, and so a pall of doubt about the eternal power of God's Love hung over His entire creation. All of God's creations had been tainted by evil, even Heaven. So God resolved to formulate a plan to purge all sin and evil and the Devil from His entire creation so that He could recreate it all to be wholly righteous. II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 21:1-5. (KJB).

God formulated a plan in His Mind which would work to purge all evil and the Devil from all of His creations. Acts 15:18 (KJB). God created Adam and Eve to be intelligent and good, but He gave them a free will which He knew would be much weaker than His own. God knew that their weak free will would cause them to choose to fall into sin and evil, but He also knew that He would become one of them and sacrifice Himself to suffer the eternal effects of all their sin and evil and rise from the dead victorious over it all. Genesis 3:15; II Corinthians 5:21; Luke 19:10; II Peter 3:9; John 6:33; John 12:31-32; I Timothy 4:10 (KJB). In order to attain a thorough victory over all sin and evil and the Devil, God determined that He would save His entire creation, including all humans, from the eternal death and separation from God that evil would cause, to prove that His Almighty Love can never fail. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Revelation 21:5; I Corinthians 13:8; Romans 8:18-23 (KJB).

God knew that the Devil's goal would be to annul humans life, reduce it to total evil, and subject it to eternal death and separation from God's Love forever. Genesis 2:17 (KJB). Satan knew that if he could annul human life, he could prove that God's Love is not Almighty which would give him an opportunity to eventually find a way to overthrow God and take His place. But God's plan was to completely defeat the Devil's plan, purge the Devil and all evil from His entire creation so that He could recover it all to be recreated to be wholly righteous. II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 21:1-5; Romans 8:18-23 (KJB). In order to accomplish His plan, God needed an intelligent human race who would possess free will that would cause them to fall so that He could give the Devil his chance to annul the life and goodness that God would put into them. So God created Adam and Eve in His image with faith and love for Him but also with a weak free will. Genesis 2:15-17 (KJB). Prior to Adam and Eve, God had created a human race in His image but without free will. Genesis 1:26-31 (KJB). This prior human race would attain free will by inheritance through intermarriage with the descendants of Adam and Eve. Genesis 4:8-17 (KJB). God watched His plan unfold in His Mind, and He intervened into human history from time to time to correct or to destroy those humans who became to involved with evil. God did this to shorten His work on the earth. Romans 9:28 (KJB). God allowed his humans to do good or to sin and even be evil so that He could learn the effects of evil and its full extent within His creations. But He also knew that the effects of evil and the extent of evil was finite, and He is eternal, and that fact meant that He had the power to outlast evil so that He could eventually purge it all from His entire creation. God also knew that He could use His Almighty Love and Intellect to devise a plan that would prove that His Love is real by causing all living humans to eventually choose of their own free will to return to that faith in Him and love for Him that He put into them when He created them. God knew that He could not simply program His humans to love Him because that would leave the reality of His Love unproven. Only freely chosen love can be real love. God also knew that He could not just summarily abolish evil from His creations because doubt about His Love would remain which, in turn, would cause evil to return from time to time probably forever. God also had to take time to learn all He could about evil so that He could devise an effective plan to abolish it.

God completed His plan in His Mind, but He knew that He would have to create a physical human race with a physical history to carry out His plan. Part of God's creations were already physical and had already been infected by evil. So God had to create humans with a spirit, soul, and body that were all capable of sin and evil so that He could purge all sin and evil from all of His spiritual and physical creations. I Thessalonians 5:23; Romans 8:18-23 (KJB).

As God's plan unfolded in His Mind, He noticed that some humans were capable of returning to faith in His Son and love for Him while still alive in the flesh. God determined that He would save these living humans by His grace, give them the perfect righteousness of His own Son so that He could accept them into Heaven to live with Him there forever. II Corinthians 5:21; John 5:24; John 17:24 (KJB). God decided that He would use the blood that His Son would shed on the cross to purge all sin and evil from the souls and spirits of these believers. Matthew 26:28 (KJB). God would also use the water that His Son would shed on the cross to purge all of the physical sins of His Church before and during the Rapture of His Church. Ephesians 5:25-27 (KJB). The doctrine of predestination simply means that those who choose to accept Christ by faith and become saved by God's grace had already done so in God's created plan in His Mind. But all of God's living humans who do not become saved by grace, God will visit them in their confinement within the regions of death, and Christ will cause them all to choose to repent and believe in Him as the Lamb of God so that He can resurrect them and recreate them to live on His recreated earth. Revelation 5:11-14; Genesis 3:20; Luke 20:38; John 11:25-26; John 5:28-29; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB). Christ will cast only their dead and evil natures into the eternal lake of fire. Revelation 20:11-15 (KJB).