Commentary on Selected Proverbs

                                 Proverbs 20:27 (KJB)

This verse reveals that God uses the spirit of humans that He creates to search the inner beings of every human to discover the qualities of every person's personality and soul. God creates the spirit and soul of every human to be good, but God also knows that every human will eventually sin which means every human will develop a personality and soul that modern science calls "emergent," An emergent quality means that elements of a system can produce a quite unexpected result. For example, when two gases, hydrogen and oxygen, are combined, they produce an unexpected result which is a liquid called water. In a similar way, the good spirits of humans combined with their evil natures can produce in each individual unique and unexpected personality traits.

Apparently, God uses the spirit of each individual human to discover the emergent qualities of of their personalities. The good spirit of each individual cannot be corrupted by evil unless a person becomes an atheist because the spirit of each person happens to be that person's direct connection to the Infinite Spirit of God. Nevertheless, God can use even the spirit of the atheist to search his inner being. The good souls of humans will always be corrupted by sin and evil. The interaction between the good spirits and souls of each individual with their sinful and evil natures produces the unexpected personality of each individual. God uses the spirits of each person to search their inner beings so that He can discover exactly what their emergent personality happens to be.

God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Psalm 111:7-8 (KJB). This means that God can never lose the good spirit and soul of every human He creates. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:27; Genesis 3:20; Luke 20:38 (KJB). Some humans can become quite evil, but their evil can corrupt but never utterly destroy their good souls and spirits. In the end of the world in God's final judgment, He could never cast the living soul and spirit of any human confined to the regions of death into an eternal lake of fire because He would have to destroy a part of His own creation. God could never do that. In God's final judgment, He casts only dead and evil humans whom He has separated from His living humans into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:11-15 (KJB).

In addition, the evil natures of humans can never overwhelm their good and living natures to the extent that they become totally evil because if that happened, they would become demonic and incapable of doing any good at all. God can never lose any part of His creation. Even the maniac of Gadara proved that he still retained his good and living soul and spirit when he ran to Jesus to be cleansed and healed and restored to a good and normal nature. Luke 8:26-39 (KJB).

That which Christ did for the maniac of Gadara, He will do for every living soul and spirit of every human He ever creates. God will thoroughly purge all sin and evil, and the eternal death that causes it, from the inner beings of every human because of His Love for them, which also means He can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB). God came to earth in human form and suffered all of the sins, evil, and eternal deaths of every human on a cross in their place so that He could thoroughly purge every sin, evil, and spiritual death from every living human that He creates and loves. John 12:31-32; Hebrews 2:9-18; II Timothy 1:10; I Timothy 4:10; I John 3:8 (KJB). Jesus completed His purge when He rose from the dead victorious over all sin, evil, and the Devil. Revelation 1:17-18 (KJB).

But in order to be eternally saved, every living human must return to the faith that God put into them when He created them; that is, that Christ has the power through His necessary sacrifice and resurrection to save them. Habakkuk 2:4 (KJB). God will make certain that every living human returns to that faith of their own free will. A free choice to love God proves that God's Love is real. God will cause some living humans to return to that faith while they are still alive in the flesh so that He can cleanse the sins and evil from their souls and spirits with the blood and water that Jesus shed on the cross, and He can forgive them and annul their spiritual deaths. Revelation 1:5; I John 1:9; John 5:24 (KJB). But they still will be able to sin because God will cause them to retain their fleshly natures which He will purge in the Rapture of the Church. Romans 7:18; Ephesians 5:25-27 (KJB).

Christ will appear to all living humans on the earth and confined to the regions of death in the end of the world in order to cause them all to return to faith in Him of their own free will. Christ will then use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve their beings to separate their repentant, good and living souls and spirits from their dead and evil natures so that He can recreate their living souls and spirits with new bodies to live on His new earth forever, and He will cast their dead and evil natures into the eternal lake of fire. Thus with a higher and a lesser form of salvation, God will cleanse and save forever every soul and spirit, with recreated bodies, of every living human He has ever created. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14; II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12 (KJB).

When God destroys any human or causes them to perish, that only means that He purges their emergent personalities and souls of all sins, evil, and spiritual deaths so that He can recreate them to be wholly righteous and good. The living souls and spirits of humans saved by grace do not perish because God purges their souls and spirits with the blood and water that flowed from Jesus' body on the cross while they are still alive in the flesh. Because they were predestined to be saved by grace, their sins and evil affected their personalities, but it never became a part of their inner beings. They profit from a condition called prevenient grace. But living humans confined to the regions of death must have their emergent personalities purged with the fiery wrath of God in order to be saved. Their emergent personalities must perish. John 3:16; John 12:25 (KJB).