The World and the Word

                  The Difference between Sin and Evil

Matthew 12:31-32 relates the attitude of the evil nature of humans toward God. It happens to be an attitude of hatred and a refusal to repent. The Holy Spirit has tasked Himself with the enlightenment of all living humans to convict them of their sins and bring them back to repentance and faith. John 1:9; John 16:7-11. The deliberate rejection of the call of the Holy Spirit to repentance, faith, and reconciliation with God happens to be the worst evil that any human can do. It equates to a cruel rejection of the Love and compassion of God. This rejection comes directly from the evil nature of humans, and God cannot forgive it. But in these same verses, Jesus promised that He will forgive "all manner of sin and blasphemy"against Himself, and He is the Holy Spirit. This seeming contradiction, which is really a paradox, can only mean that eventually all living humans will return to repentance and faith in Christ which will enable Him to cleanse and forgive them, some by His shed blood and water and all others by His fiery wrath against evil. Revelation 1:5; Revelation 5:11-14. But deliberate rejections of the call of the Holy Spirit to repentance and faith in the Love of God always adheres completely to the evil natures of humans, and God will cast all of the separated, evil natures of all humans into the eternal lake of fire. Revelation 20:15; Matthew 12:33-37; Matthew 7:17-19; Matthew 13:36-43; Matthew 13:47-50; Matthew 3:10-12.

Romans 3:9-20 describes the evil nature of humans and the influence it has on their righteous natures given to them by God as His image in them. These verses cannot mean that humans are totally evil because if that were true then all humans would be demonic and would commit only evil acts. These verses describe how the evil natures of humans cause their good natures to commit sins, and how it causes living humans to refrain from seeking God's Love and forgiveness. Adam and Eve sewed fig leaves for themselves and hid from God in the garden. But God found them and promised them His cleansing and forgiveness which He has accomplished for the entire human race. Genesis 3:15; Genesis 3:20-21; Luke 20:38. Just as God found Adam and Eve in the garden, so He will search and find every living human who ever lived and return them to repentance, faith, and reconciliation with Him. Matthew 18:11-14; Luke 19:10; Colossians 1:15-23. Romans 3:19 informs humans that a knowledge of the law makes the whole world guilty before God. Only a good person can feel guilt. God informs humans in Romans 3:20 that they cannot overcome their sins and evil by their attempts to obey the law. Romans 3:21-31 teaches that living humans can only overcome their sins and evil by repentance and faith in the power of Christ to gain that victory for them. God will eventually find all living humans wherever they may be and bring them to repentance, faith, and reconciliation with Him. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14. God's Almighty Love cannot fail. I Corinthians 13:8.

God has put into the hearts of all good parents that they will do everything in their power to save their children in danger. But human love is limited whereas God's Love is Almighty. This fact can only mean that God will exert His Almighty Power to save all living humans whom He creates and loves from the danger of eternal death. This fact also means that He cannot fail to provide salvation for all living humans. I Corinthians 13:8. The free will that God gave to humans cannot cause their eternal deaths as the Devil supposes. Job 1:11. God sacrificed Himself to save all living humans by taking all their sins and eternal deaths on Himself on a cross, washing away all the sins and eternal deaths of all humans saved by His grace and leaving all of the sins and eternal deaths of the rest of humanity behind in Hell when He rose immaculate from the dead. Revelation 1:5; Psalm 16:10; Acts 2:27; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 21:5; Psalm 107:10-14; I Timothy 6:13; I Timothy 4:10; I Corinthians 15:22; John 5:28-29; John 11:25. Many other scriptures can be cited for this doctrine.

The World and the Word

                                                The Difference between Sin and Evil

The power of God's Love is Absolute and Almighty. I Corinthians 13:8. This fact means the puny will of humans can never thwart the Almighty Will of God. Human can delay God's Will through sin and a lack of faith, but puny human will can never annul the Will of God. II Peter 3:9 relates that God wills that all humans repent and become saved, and that means that that is exactly that which will happen. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14. Jesus taught in John 11:25 that He is able to save all humans who believe even after they physically die. God did not give humans free will for them to use it to thwart His Will. God gave free will to humans, even though its weakness can cause them to sin, to prove to the Devil and all of His creations that He did not make a mistake in so doing. God proved to Satan that he will never be able to use free will to cause the evil that he injected into the beings of humans to utterly destroy them with eternal death. Job 2:9; Matthew 15:13. God knew exactly how to sacrifice Himself to take away all the sins and spiritual deaths of all living humans and rise immaculate from the dead to give back His life to all of them. God knows exactly how to cause every human who ever lived to choose of their own free will to return to the repentance and faith that He put into His image that He gives them and save them all with a higher and a lower form of salvation. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14.

The power of God's Love is absolutely Almighty and cannot fail. I Corinthians 13:8. This means whatever good system happens to be possible, God can create it. God does not have to limit Himself to only one plan of salvation; that is, salvation by grace. God can create as many plans of salvation as needed to save all that He loves. The Bible (KJB) not only teaches salvation by grace; it also teaches a lesser form of salvation of all of the good souls and spirits that God creates and loves. The small amount of good works that even the worst humans do proves that God has given them good souls and spirits. God has given all living humans some good works to do according to His will. Romans 9:14-24. All humans will not choose to do all of them, but all humans will choose to do some of them. Ecclesiastes 9:1. God will save all living humans confined to the regions of death because their good works will prove that they have not lost their souls and spirits to the Devil. Psalm 50:23; Psalm 3:8; Psalm 98:3; Romans 2:6-11; Revelation 22:11-12; Revelation 21:5. God will cause all living humans confined to the regions of death to choose to repent and believe in the Lamb of God as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. God will raise them all from the dead and recreate them with righteous lives to live on His recreated earth. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5. God will reward them for their good works, but those who led evil lives on the former earth will completely lose their former identities and personalities which were mostly defined by sin and evil. They will not remember who they were. John 12:25.

Isaiah 64:6 teaches that "all our righteousness are as filthy rags." This phrase means all humans must possess some righteousness that gets nasty from the influence of the evil within. God likens righteousness to clean, white robes. Revelation 19:8. God created His living image in all humans to be righteous, but all living humans have become nasty by their sins caused by the influence of spiritual death within them. The difference between sin and evil is that God holds the power to cleanse the white robes of all living humans once they repent and believe, and then after being cleansed and forgiven, He holds the power to use His fiery wrath against evil to extract the foreign spiritual deaths of all living humans confined to the regions of death for Him to cast into the lake of fire. I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 20:15. God can cleanse and forgive all sins because of the eventual repentance and faith of all living humans, but He can never cleanse and forgive evil itself because it never repents. Matthew 12:31-32. God will purge all evil from His creations and recreate it all to be righteous. II Peter 3:10-13. The very nature of evil causes it to be in a state of perpetual rebellion against God.

God can create only good systems from His infinite set of good elements. This condition means that God can never cleanse evil itself because He never created it in the sense that He never brought it into existence. Actually, it does not exist as an object to positive consciousness. Evil happens to be "less than nothing, and vanity." Isaiah 40:17. It is chaos and absolute nothingness of which positive and creative consciousness can get no idea whatsoever. The best that positive consciousness can do is to get an indirect indication of its presence by the use of the creative idea of nothing. Yet somehow, evil can form destructive negative consciousnesses, that the Bible calls devils, which can influence positive consciousness. II Thessalonians 2:7. Nothingness itself is a useful and creative idea to positive consciousness, but evil is a "less than nothing;" that is, an absolute nothingness that is always destructive. God admits that He created evil in the sense that He accidentally allowed it to enter His creations when He gave free will to Lucifer. Isaiah 45:7. God feels guilty about this, but because He was completely innocent in that at that time He did not know that evil even nonexisted, He absolutely did nothing wrong. God made no mistake in giving free will to Lucifer or to humans, and He has proven that fact to His creations. I Corinthians 13:8.

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            The Difference between Sin and Evil

Jesus illustrated examples of His higher and lower forms of salvation in a short parable that He related in Matthew 5:25-26. Jesus taught that a person in trouble must agree with his "adversary" in order to stay out of "prison." In this part of His parable, Jesus used symbolic language to indicate that sinners saved by His grace agree with Him, and because they do, He will never cast them into "prison;" that is, one of the regions of death to the extent that they lose their salvation by grace. Jesus will cast unrepentant believers saved by grace into the bottomless pit at the Rapture of the Church because they will have failed to agree with Him that they should live clean lives. But when they all suffer anguish and repent, Jesus will then recover their souls and spirits and translate them to Heaven to receive their spiritual bodies. Ephesians 5:25-27.

Jesus also happens to be a kind of "adversary" to those who refrain from putting their faith in Him while still alive in the flesh because He must judge them after their physical deaths and consign their souls and spirits to one of the regions of death. Hebrews 9:27. But in verse 26, Jesus taught that all who stay in the "prison," which refers to the regions of death, will come out after they have thoroughly suffered for all their sins and evil. Human suffering for their sins and evil always happens to be only temporary. Jesus suffered their eternal penalty for sin and evil on the cross and by His descent into Hell. Hebrews 2:9. Since God must make His Word good, then Jesus' "taste of death for every man" must be effective for the higher and lower forms of salvation for all humans. Numbers 23:19; I Timothy 6:13; I Corinthians 15:22; I Corinthians 15:26; Luke 20:38.

Jesus taught that He will cast unrepentant sinners into one of the regions of death, but He never taught that He will ever cast any living human whom He created in His image and loves into an eternal lake of fire. According to Revelation 20:11-15, Jesus will cast only dead humans into the eternal lake of fire. All of the Apostles agree with Jesus. Jesus will cast the Beast, the False Prophet, and the Devil alive into the lake of fire, but He will cast only dead humans into the lake of fire. Revelation 19:10; Revelation 20:10; Revelation 21:15. God calls the lake of fire "the second death" because it adds eternal death to temporary spiritual death. Revelation 21:8 describes total evil and spiritual death itself, not living humans whom God created to be good. Genesis 1:31. I Corinthians 15:26 relates that God will destroy death itself in the lake of fire. God must make His Word good. Numbers 23:19. Since God casts only dead humans into the lake of fire, then He must raise all living humans back to life. Revelation 20:5; I Timothy 6:13; Revelation 21:5. Dead humans in the lake of fire will possess a small amount of negative consciousness similar to devils and to "worms" squirming near a fire. Mark 9:44, 46, 48; Isaiah 66:24.

In the prayer that Jesus taught His disciples in Matthew 6:10, He had them pray that the Father's will be done on earth to the same extent that He will do it in Heaven. Jesus could only have meant that God must cleanse the earth with His fiery wrath and recreate it to be righteous along with all of His recreated humans whom He raises from the dead. II Peter 3:10-13; Revelation 21:1-5. God will purify His creations and all living humans. Romans 8:18-25. The main difference will be that humans in Heaven will possess the absolutely perfect righteousness of Christ Himself which will allow them to live in Heaven whereas God will recreate the living humans on earth with His good image like Adam and Eve had before they sinned. Revelation 22:11-12. 

The World and the Word

            The Difference between Sin and Evil

In John 12:32, Jesus prophesied that His sacrifice on the cross would draw all men to Him. Jesus referred directly to Numbers 21:5-9 where God sent fiery serpents among the Israelites to kill those who refused to have faith. The fiery part of the serpents symbolized God's wrath against evil. The unbelieving Israelites who were bitten and died symbolized the dead and evil spiritual deaths of all unrepentant unbelievers whom God will cast into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:15. When the people began to repent and believe, then God instructed Moses to make a fiery serpent so that those who looked to it would be saved. All of the unrepentant believers had already died before God told Moses to raise the brazen serpent. All of the repentant believers looked to the brazen serpent after the deaths of the unrepentant unbelievers, and they all were saved. All of this means that Jesus prophesied that He will save all living humans because He will cause all of them to look to His cross with faith. Sooner or later, all living humans will look to Christ to be saved. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14.

In Genesis 3:14-21, God did not curse Adam and Eve or any of their descendants because of their sin and evil. God cursed only the Devil and the ground. God punished Adam and Eve and all their descendants with temporary lives of pain and hard labor until their physical deaths, but He meant to provide a way to save all of them from eternal death. I Corinthians 15:26; I Corinthians 15:22; Genesis 3:15. God can never lose anything He has ever created and loves. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Romans 11:29.

God informed Adam that upon his physical death he would be put into the cursed ground where his physical body would dissolve. If Adam died as an unrepentant unbeliever, then God would have to consign his living spirit that God had created in His image to one of the cursed regions of death within the ground. Revelation 20:13. God sentences all unrepentant unbelievers to one of the three regions of death after they physically die. Hebrews 9:27. But since God had not cursed Adam and Eve or any of their descendants, then His promise to them that He would send them a Savior would have to apply to all humans. Genesis 3:15. God saved Adam and Eve by His grace, but He will also save all the living souls of all unbelievers consigned to one of the regions of death by the use of His fiery wrath against evil and a renewal of their faith as symbolized by Noah's burnt offering sacrifice as recorded in Genesis 8:20-21. Genesis 3:21; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5.

Living humans confined to one of the regions of death become subject to the Devil's desire to keep them there forever; that is, an eternal death. God can never lose anything He has ever created and loves, certainly not to the Devil. Ecclesiastes 3:14. But in a sense, these unrepentant living humans have become temporarily dead. But Christ made these spiritual deaths temporary because He took their eternal deaths on Himself on the cross. Hebrews 2:9. But in order to obtain a lesser form of salvation, these unbelievers must return to the repentance and faith that God put into them when He created them in His image. Romans 12:3. God will cause all of them to choose to repent and believe in the Lamb of God as prophesied in Isaiah 45:21-24; Psalm 107:10-14; Philippians 2:9-11; and Revelation 5:11-14. Jesus clearly taught that He holds the power to save those who believe in Him even after their physical deaths. John 11:25. Christ proved that He has this power when He took the keys of Death and Hell away from the Devil. Revelation 1:17-18. God does nothing halfway. Christ will absolutely crush the Devil and all of His evil works. Genesis 3:15; I John 3:8. God will raise all living humans confined to the regions of death to a recreated, righteous life on His recreated earth. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; John 5:28-29; II Timothy 4:1; I Timothy 6:13; I Corinthians 15:22; Revelation 22:11-12.

God instructed Adam to call his wife's name Eve "because she was the mother of all living." Genesis 3:20. Since God can never lose anything He has created and loves, then God can never allow any living human to ever become eternally dead. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Luke 20:38. Since God must make His Word good, then He can never lose to eternal death the gift of His good image that He has put into every living human. Numbers 23:19; Romans 11:29; Revelation 21:5.

In Genesis 3:21, God provided a special form of salvation for Adam and Eve and some of their descendants. God killed and shed the blood of an animal and covered Adam and Eve with "coats of skin." God did this to symbolize that their Savior whom He had promised them would shed His blood and water on a cross to cleanse all future living humans of all their sins and evil and protect them from eternal death the moment they repented and believed in Him while they were still alive in the flesh. Genesis 3:15. Jesus promised all those whom He would save by His grace that they would pass from death to life the moment they believed that He had taken away their sins and evil. John 5:24. God will give all living humans saved by His grace complete cleansing of their soul and spirits by the blood of Jesus, cleansing of their fleshly sins by the water shed by Jesus as they daily repent of them, forgiveness, the gift of the Holy Spirit to cleanse them and guide them and comfort them, the eternal life and righteousness of Christ Himself, joint inheritance with Christ, and a home with Him in Heaven forever. Matthew 26:26-28; I John 1:9; I Corinthians 6:11; II Corinthians 5:21; John 14:16-19; Romans 8:14-17; John 17:24. For all these reasons, the spirits and souls of all believers saved by grace go straight to Heaven when they physically die. II Corinthians 5:8. God will give spiritual bodies to all believers saved by grace during the Church Age in the Rapture of the Church. II Corinthians 5:1-5.

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              The Difference between Sin and Evil

Jesus did teach in John 3:15-16 that unbelievers would "perish." But that word does not mean that unbelieving living humans will be tortured in a lake of fire forever. Jesus meant by the word "perish" that He will dissolve the systems of unbelievers consigned to one of the three regions of death by the use of His fiery wrath in order to separate their living souls and spirits from their evil natures which is their spiritual death. Every human happens to be an extremely complicated living and intelligent system created by God with an evil spiritual nature that has been injected into them by the Devil. Matthew 15:13. The living nature of humans commits sins because it falls under the influence of its evil nature. Romans 5:12. Isaiah 64:6 informs humans that its righteousness, given by God, has been made filthy by sin. The main difference between sin and evil is that God will eventually cleanse and forgive all of the sins of living humans upon their repentance and faith, and He will separate the total unbelief of the evil natures of all humans from them for Him to cast into the lake of fire because it never repents. Matthew 12:31-32. God will save His whole creation, including all living humans. Romans 8:18-25; Colossians 1:15-25; Revelation 21:5. Humans consigned to one of the regions of death will "perish" in the sense that God will dissolve their systems by the use of His fiery wrath against evil, recover and recreate their repentant, living systems as righteous humans to live on His recreated earth, and cast their unrepentant, evil deaths into the lake of fire. I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:15. Recreated humans will not be the same persons they were on their former earth. John 12:25; Matthew 16:25.

In John 3:17, Jesus taught that He did not come to judge the world, but to save the world, meaning all mankind. God must make His Word good. Numbers 23:19. In the end of the world, when Christ does judge the world, He will cast only the separated, evil natures of humans into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:11-5. Christ will absolutely cleanse and forgive every living human whom He has created and loves according to Revelation 21:5.

In John 3:18-21, Jesus described exactly what His judgment of the living and dead unbelievers would be. He said nothing about the lake of fire, but He did say that total evil never comes to the light, meaning Himself. John 3:19-20. Jesus taught that the evil unbelievers remain in "darkness" which is the same as "the shadow of death" that has been cast into the world from the bottomless pit. Psalm 23:4. Since God put His truth into every image of Himself in every human, and since God gives every living human some good works to do, then according to John 3:21, every living human will eventually come to the Light. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14.

In John 8:24, Jesus told some living unbelievers that "ye shall die in your sins," but He did not say that they would spend an eternity in a lake of fire. That would have been the perfect time to warn them, and the rest of humanity, had it been true that living humans go to an eternal lake of fire. But God specifically taught that He casts only dead humans into the eternal lake of fire. Revelation 20:15.

In John 12:47, Jesus taught that He did not come to judge living unbelievers because He came "to save the world;" that is, all living unbelievers. In John 12:48, Jesus taught that He would reserve His judgment of dead unbelievers until the end of the world when He would judge them by His Word. Since Jesus came "to save the world," then all living humans will eventually repent and believe and be reconciled to God, some by His grace and all others by His mercy as they repent and believe in a great worship service provided for them by God in Revelation 5:11-14. Colossians 1:15-25. Revelation 20:5 records God's resurrection of all living believers from the regions of the dead. Revelation 20:11-15 records God's judgment of the dead unbelievers whom He will cast into the lake of fire. Their names cannot be found in God's Book of Life. Matthew 13:36-43; Matthew 13:47-50; John 5:28-29.

In John 12:31 and John 16:11, Jesus informed humans as to the kind of judgment He would make of the world while He was in it in the flesh. Jesus taught that He came to cast the Devil and all of his evil works out of His world. The god of this world had partial control of it. Luke 4:5-8; Job 1:7. The Devil meant to utterly destroy a part of God's creations. The Devil meant to torture living humans in Hell forever and thereby prove that God's Love can fail. Job 2:9. But through His suffering death, burial and descent into Hell, and glorious resurrection, Christ conquered the Devil and his partial control of the world, and He even took control of Hell and Death itself. John 16:33; Revelation 1:17-18; I Corinthians 15:26; I Timothy 6:13. I John 3:8 clearly teaches that Christ came to destroy evil and all the works of the Devil, not living humans whom He creates and loves.

The World and the Word

                   The Difference between Sin and Evil

Jesus always taught that He came to destroy evil and the Devil, not living humans. John the Baptist described the ministry of Jesus in Luke 3:16-17. Those whom John said that Jesus would baptize with the Holy Spirit would become saved by grace. Those whom John said that Jesus would baptize with fire would become saved by God's fiery wrath against evil because His fiery wrath would burn up their evil and save their souls and spirits alive. I Corinthians 3:11-15. John illustrated what he meant when he said Jesus would separate the wheat from the chaff. The word "wheat" symbolizes all the living souls and spirits of every human that God creates and loves. The word "chaff" symbolizes all of the useless evil that God will separate from all living humans for Him to burn forever in the lake of fire. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15.

When John the Baptist said, "Behold, the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world" in John 1:29, he meant exactly that which he said. Jesus came to remove the sin and evil from all living humans, some by His grace and all others by the use of His fiery wrath against evil. Jesus cleanses those whom He saves by His grace with His blood and water that flowed from His cross. Matthew 26:28; Ephesians 5:25-27. Hell happens to be God's fiery wrath against evil that Jesus used to cleanse all of the rest of humanity when He left all their sins and evil behind there when He rose immaculate from the dead. Deuteronomy 32:22; Psalm 16:10; Acts 2:27. God activates salvation by grace the moment a person repents and believes in Christ while still alive in the flesh. John 5:24. God activates salvation by the use of His fiery wrath against evil when Christ appears to all living humans confined within the regions of death and causes all of them to choose of their own free will to trust in Him as the Lamb of God to save them from the horrors of the regions of death. Revelation 20:13; Revelation 5:11-14; I Corinthians 3:11-15. All of the Old Testament sin offerings symbolize salvation by grace, and all of the Old Testament burnt offerings symbolize God salvation by the use of His fiery wrath against evil.

In Mark 9:49, Jesus used symbolism when He used the words "salt" and "fire." Just as the "chaff" will be burned in Matthew 3:12 and the "wood, hay, stubble" will be burned in I Corinthians 3:12, so God will "salt;" that is, preserve, every living human; that is, "every one" who ever lived confined to the regions of death by the use of His fiery wrath against evil. Jesus meant by His phrase "every sacrifice" His burden of the sins and evil of every human on His cross. Jesus meant that His sacrifice for every human would preserve the lives of every human. Psalm 36:6.

Jesus meant by His teaching in Mark 9:50 that if salt is not used, it cannot preserve. Humans who fail to receive the "salt" of God's higher form of salvation by His grace while still alive in the flesh will not be preserved from God's judgment in that He must consign them to one of the three regions of death after their physical deaths. Hebrews 9:27. But since Jesus had already promised that "every one" will be "salted;" that is, saved either by His grace or by His fiery wrath against evil, then God will save the good lives of every human confined to the regions of death upon their repentance and faith in the Lamb of God. Revelation 5:11-14. Jesus then urged His listeners to "have salt in yourselves" by which He meant that they should receive by faith His Holy Spirit and salvation by His grace so that their souls and spirits will go directly to Heaven following their physical deaths. II Corinthians 5:8.

Jesus consistently taught throughout the gospels that He came to purge sin and evil from the world, meaning all of mankind. John 12:47; John 12:31-32; John 16:33; Luke 19:10. Can Jesus fail to save all the lost? Jesus never said that He will cast living humans, whom He created in His image and loves, into an eternal lake of fire. He said only their "worms," meaning their tiny consciousnesses attached to their dead natures, would be cast into the lake of fire. Mark 9:44; Revelation 20:11-15. In Matthew 18:11 and Luke 19:10, Jesus said that He came "to seek and to save that which was lost." Since every human is lost and God must make His Word good as Numbers 23:19 relates, then Christ must save every human who is lost.

Nowhere in the Bible (KJB) does God grant the right of every living human to permanently reject His higher or lower forms of salvation. God created every living human to be good which means He put faith into them. Sooner or later, God will save every living human when He activates their faith. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 3:20; Luke 20:38; Romans 12:3; II Peter 3:9; John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14.

The World and the Word

                 The Difference between Sin and Evil

Worms possess very little consciousness. This fact has symbolic meaning in Mark 9:44, 46 and 48. The "worms" of humans in the lake of fire will possess only a negative consciousness similar to that of the devils from the bottomless pit. Negative consciousness happens to be the opposite of positive, creative consciousness. Negative consciousness takes pleasure in destructive acts, not creative ones. This fact can only mean that the sufferings of the "worms" in the lake of fire will be muted, not like the intense pain that a positive consciousness would feel. Revelation 20:10 reveals that God will cast the Devil, like the Beast and the False Prophet, alive into the lake of fire. God will provide the Devil with a positive consciousness so that he will feel the horrible and intense pain of being burned alive forever. In this way, God will create a good system that will so preoccupy the mind of the Devil that he will never be able to think of any way to introduce evil into God's creations ever again.

In Matthew 15:13, Jesus taught that "Every plant which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up." Jesus' statement can only mean that "plants" exist, symbolic of evil, in God's world which He did not create. This teaching means that evil entered into God's creations from the outside, and the Devil planted it into the inner beings of Adam and Eve and the rest of humanity. This teaching also means that God will purge only evil from His creations, including all humans. God will save all living humans from evil. Revelation 21:5.

In Mark 9:41, Jesus taught that even the smallest good work will receive a reward. Even the worst humans have done some small amount of good works. Jesus' teaching here agrees perfectly with His teachings in Matthew 16:27 and Revelation 22:12. The phrase "every man" of these verses, and of I Corinthians 3:13 and Romans 2:10, can only mean every human who ever lived. The phrase "every man" can only mean the same as the word "whosoever" in John 3:16. God's Word means exactly that which it states.

God will resurrect even the smallest living soul and spirit of even the worst human for Him to recreate to live on His recreated earth. The size of the image of God in every person becomes directly proportional to the number of good works that they choose to do while alive on the earth. God creates humans as He wills, some with a weak image of Himself and with few good works for them to do, and others with a strong image of Himself with a lot of good works for them to do, and all others in between. Romans 9:14-24. But God also gives all humans free will so that a few persons with a weak image of God in them may actually choose to become saved by grace, whereas a few persons with a strong image of God in them may nevertheless choose to live an evil life. Humans saved by grace receive the righteousness of Christ and thereby additional good works for them to do. The Apostle Paul may be an example of the former type, and the prophet Balaam of the latter type. John 5:28-29.