Eternal death can not exist outside of space-time. Death, (figuratively speaking), can only be “eternally” in a body that is susceptible to evils. Eternal death can only take place in the flesh. Spiritual death simply means one is not living in goodness.You have the choice in how much “death” you want to experience in your eternity by length of time and degree of evils. Your soul is eternal and no death to the soul can exist.
2Co 4:16 states; For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man parish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
Your inward man is your soul-spirit, your outward man is your mind-flesh body.We are renewed for salvation only by choosing goodness through the Lord and by avoiding repetitive evils. We renew ourselves in evils.
Who Created Evil?
Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
This verse seems to indicate that God created evil. If you look at the original Hebrew text, that is not what is being said.
Create in the Hebrew;
H1254 בָּרָא A primitive root; (absolutely) to create; (qualified) to cut down (a wood), select, feed (as formative processes): – choose, create (creator), cut down, dispatch, do, make (fat).
How can God make peace and at the same time create evil? According to the Hebrew definition, “create” means to cut down. When you cut something down for example a dead tree, you are removing it. Therefore, “I form the light, and remove the darkness”.
If all of creation, which is good, comes from within God, if evil was in God, He would be at war within Himself just as we are in the flesh. God mentions His creation being “good” seven times in Genesis Chapter One. Where is the evil?
Looking at Genesis 1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
No mention of God creating darkness. In verse 4, “and God divided the light from the darkness” means He had separated the light from the darkness.
Could this darkness be “Satan and his angels” that fell from heaven down to earth?
Christ
Col 1:16-18 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
Nothing here mentions death, hell, or destruction.
The Purpose Of Evil
Gen 50:20 But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.
This scripture states evil is meant unto good. Makes sense when you know that God is never changing and His love for all souls has no bearing on how a person is living.
A soul only needs to make the decision on how it wants to live. The ultimate goal through your eternity is to practice that love which is life to every moment of your existence. Life itself can only come from God and through God. All you need is the want to, and then apply your life experiences to a life of goodness and love. A thought process that begins from the soul-spirit and not your mind-ego.
Psalms 119:71 It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
His purpose is for us to live with Him in His Kingdom.
Being separate from the world means your not participating in feeding evils, buying into negativity. Feeding evils, negativity, and judgement is the lack of faith and trust in God. Simply a lack of understanding.
Luke 17:21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.
If the kingdom truly is within you, your understanding of afflictions, evils and wrath are understood, trusted, and backed up with faith.
1Th 5:9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
If wrath is an important part of salvation, what would be the point of believing in some kind of eternal damnation or an eternal hell? Your hell is within you.
Acts 3:26 Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.
The purpose of afflictions, evils, and wrath are meant unto good. Looking at your own life, is it not difficult to see how the negative part of God’s plan had a positive purpose and end?
Who you are now is where you came from; and where you go into your next life is based upon how you are living in this present.
Negativity-Evil
Mat 5:43-45 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
Freewill exists because evil-sin is part of God’s plan. A soul chooses his own path that eventually will lead to the eternal gift. (Rom. 6:23)
We do not know where a soul in this existence in their “walk” with God so judgement is futile. How can any negative thought or action lead to anything positive? If it is not in love there is no truth to it.
Eph 4:25 Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
Eph 5:30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
To see the light in this way of life, start by simply neutralizing any negative thoughts in all situations (awareness). Have no opinion, no judgment. Change your world by removing negativities from your life such as some TV programs, news, etc. The ego tends to be the first to offer negativity. Realizing that it is not your true self, bury the negative from the mind, think from your soul.
The love develops when the understanding is “pushed out” from your soul to your mind. No separation as we are “members of one another” in Creation as mentioned in Ephesians.
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