Commentary on Selected Proverbs

                                 Proverbs 12:28 (KJB)

God possesses two forms of righteousness. God creates mankind in His image which means God puts a created form of righteousness into every human that He creates. But in God's Being, He is Holy and righteous. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:27; Isaiah 6:3; I John 2:1 (KJB).

God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Psalm 111:7-8 (KJB). This means God can never lose His created righteousness that He puts into every human. Because Adam fell into sin, all humans commit sins, but their sins can never annul the righteous image of God that He puts into them. If it did, then all humans would become totally evil and demonic and unable to do any good at all. But all humans do some good works that God has given them to do which proves that they still retain that righteous image of God that He created them to be. Isaiah 26:12; Romans 3:23 (KJB).

Whenever any human becomes old enough to sin and commits a sin, the Devil injects spiritual death into their inner beings as a penalty for their sin. Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:15 (KJB). This means every human who sins acquires a dual nature, a righteous nature and an evil nature. God allows this event to happen because God desires to prove that His Almighty Love and His Almighty Power and Intellect can and will crush and purge all sin, evil, spiritual death, and the Devil from His entire creation so that He can recreate it all to possess an everlasting righteousness. II Peter 3:9-13 (KJB). God intends to save every living human He has ever created in His image from eternal death. Revelation 21:5 (KJB).

All of this stems from Lucifer's rebellion against God. God used His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve Lucifer's being to recover all the goodness He put into him, and He exiled his demonic nature to earth as a negative consciousness called Satan. Isaiah 14:12-17; Ezekiel 28:12-19 (KJB). But the Devil did not give up on his desire to murder God. John 8:44 (KJB). Lucifer's rebellion caused doubt to enter into God's creation about the Almighty Power of God's Love to retain within His possession all that He creates. Matthew 28:16-17 (KJB). The aim of the Devil is to cause at least one living human to become totally evil and demonic and thereby prove that God's Love for His creation can fail because God would lose that living human to spiritual death forever. Job 1:11; Job 2:5; Job 2:9 (KJB). Satan knew that he would get his chance to murder God when God would allow His Son to be nailed to a cross. Luke 22:53 (KJB). But Jesus suffered the eternal deaths of all of His living humans on the cross, and because of that, He turned eternal death into a temporary death by His resurrection from the dead. Hebrews 2:9-18; II Timothy 1:10; Revelation 1:17-18 (KJB). Jesus judged only the Devil and all of his evil works on the cross, not any of His living humans that He loves. John 12:31-32; John 12:47; I John 3:8 (KJB).

Christ has saved all of His living humans from eternal death. I Timothy 4:10 (KJB). But in order to be saved, all living humans must return to faith in Christ as their Savior that He puts into them when He creates them. Habakkuk 2:4 (KJB). God has a plan to make that happen. But living humans saved by grace happen to be a special case of salvation just as I Timothy 4:10 relates. Jesus shed His blood and water on the cross to cleanse all sin, evil, and spiritual death from all living humans who would repent and believe in Him as their Savior while still alive in the flesh. Revelation 1:5; I John 1:9; John 5:24 (KJB). God adopts living humans saved by His grace into His own family because He gives them the everlasting Life and righteousness of Christ Himself by which He can accept them into Heaven to live with Him there forever. God also causes humans saved by grace to represent Christ to the world after Jesus ascended to heaven. John 17:1-26 (KJB).

But Christ will also save with a lesser form of salvation all of His living humans confined to the regions of death when He appears to them in the end of the world, and He will cause them all to repent and return to faith in Him as the Lamb of God their Savior. Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). Christ will use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve their beings to separate their repentant, living souls and spirits from their dead and evil natures so that He can recreate their living natures with new bodies to live forever on His recreated earth, and He will cast their spiritual dead natures into the eternal lake of fire. II Peter 3:9-13; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Psalm 75:3; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20: 11-15; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12 (KJB). God will give these living humans His recreated life and righteousness as they live on His new earth. But God will give the very righteousness and Life of Christ only to all living humans who become saved by His grace. II Corinthians 5:21; Colossians 3:4 (KJB).

The logic of Proverbs 12:28 is simple. Since God creates everything to be good, then He creates humans to be righteous. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:27 (KJB). Since God can never lose anything He ever creates, then He cannot lose the righteous humans that He creates in His image. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Psalm 111:7-8 (KJB). Therefore, there can be no permanent death for any righteous, living human. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; Luke 20:38; II Timothy 1:10 (KJB).