Commentary on Selected Psalms

                                Psalm 99:8 (KJB)

Sin and evil are merely inventions. The Devil and all the forces of evil never created anything. All they can do is to take the realities that God has created and misuse them to invent false systems that can be very destructive. When the Devil injected spiritual death into a fallen human race, humans became able to invent their own evil and destructive systems. Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:15; Psalm 106:29; Psalm 106:39; Proverbs 8:12-13; Ecclesiastes 7:29; Romans 1:30 (KJB). Some evil and sinful systems can be very pleasurable for a short time, but they all prove to be destructive in the end. Hebrews 11:25 (KJB).

God has created literally everything in reality. Every sense object and thought object and feeling can be put into words by human intelligence. But human intelligence is limited. Humans cannot put into words feelings and ideas that are too great for them to comprehend. Romans 11:33 (KJB). But every sense object and every thought object and feeling that humans can have can be put into words that can be put into creative systems. That means that every sense object and every thought object and every feeling humans can have can only be real. Every sentence in any language that humans can invent can be good and creative if it imparts information, comforts, enlightens, or just makes someone feel better. Hatred can be good if one hates evil. Jealousy can be good if one uses it to guard one's family from harm.

But humans also possess the ability to misuse God's real sense objects, thought objects, and feelings to invent false systems that may be highly pleasurable but eventually prove to be destructive. Humans can also invent systems that are directly destructive such as weapons for murder or to wage war. These are the systems of sin and evil. These evil systems stem from the spiritual death that the Devil injects into all humans. But neither the Devil nor any human can create any new sense object, thought object, or feeling. Humans and the Devil can only misuse the real sense objects, thought objects, and feelings to invent sinful and evil systems.

Some words denote basic and irreducible sense objects and thought objects such as a ball and the idea of round. Some words denote good and creative systems such as hospitals and good health. Some words denote sinful and evil systems such as thievery or murder. Some words denote systems that can be harmless such as mistakes in arithmetic or accidentally dropping something, but even these systems stem from the ability of humans to invent false systems. Some words denote the effects of false systems such as ether in space or remorse. But every word and every system, true or false, can only be real because humans can learn something useful from every one of them. Invariably, no matter what systems, true or false, that humans may invent, they all comprise combinations of real sense objects, thought objects, or feelings that God has given to human consciousness.