Vanity III

 When Adam and Eve disobeyed God and sinned, the Devil injected spiritual death into their inner beings. The entire human race inherited this spiritual death from Adam because he deliberately disobeyed God. Eve disobeyed God because in her innosence she was deceived by the Devil. Eve's disobedience was a sin of weakness. Adam's disobedience was a sin that was evil. I Timothy 2:14 (KJB). Because of the influence of spiritual death inside every human, every human has acquired a desire to create a life independent of the good life that God has given them. This condition causes all humans to commit sins of weakness, and this condition also causes some humans to commit sins that are evil. Evil is an open defiance of and rebellion against God mostly practiced by atheists, materialists, and some criminals. Lucifer rebelled against God. Isaiah 14:12-17 (KJB).

Yet, every sinful and evil system that humans can invent always comprises useful and real thought objects and/or sense objects given to human reality by God. "Pleasure" is a useful feeling when used in a creative system. "Pride" is a useful feeling and idea when used in a creative system. "Excessive" is a useful idea when used in a creative system. But "excessive pleasure" and "excessive pride" happen to be false and useless systems called sin and evil even though they comprise useful and real feelings and ideas that have been misused. These invented systems prove to be false because they lead to "destruction" which is a useful idea in some creative systems. They also eventually cause "ruin" and "pain" which are useful ideas and feelings that can be used to identify these false systems. These false systems are useless because they tend to reduce the good lives of humans toward nothingness. But if humans use their good lives and good intelligence properly, they will be able to use the real and useful idea of nothing to identify these false systems and eliminate them from their human reality.

Sin and evil result from a misuse of God's real ideas, feelings, and sense objects that He has given for humans to form good and creative systems for the benefit of themselves and others. Sin and evil systems are always formed from the misuse of these real and useful ideas, feelings, and sense objects given to humans by God. Humans form sinful and evil systems to serve the self, not God.

Lucifer used the false system of "excessive pride" when he rebelled against God. "Excessive pride" leads to all the other false systems of sin and evil. Lucifer desired to murder God and take over His universe. Isaiah 14:12-17 (KJB). But the falsity of the system of "excessive pride" cannot be the same as the idea of nothing because the idea of nothing is a useful and creative idea used to identify the falsity in false systems so that falsity can be usefully discarded from human reality. Only the useless falsity in false systems can be usefully discarded from reality, not the real and useful ideas that always form such false systems. This condition means that falsity can never be directly observed by humans because it is a nothingness and an emptiness that cannot be the same as the useful idea of nothing. This means humans can never directly perceive unreality because it lies within a region of total emptiness that humans cannot perceive. Humans can only perceive the reality given to them by God even though they can misuse those real ideas, feelings, and sense objects to form the false systems of sin and evil. Genesis 2:19-20 (KJB).