Season 1 Podcast 25, “Easter Message.”
Surely there is nothing greater in our lives than the ability to repent of our sins, and the promise that we shall be forgiven for them. What suffering Christ went through cannot be imagined by mortal man. He suffered the pains, the sins, the sorrows, and the sicknesses of all mankind. Christ satisfied the full demands of the law of justice. The primary suffering took place in Gethsemane where sweat and blood came from every pore. Christ’s sacrifice was entirely voluntary.
. Had he committed sin, he could not have satisfied the law of justice. He voluntarily suffered for us, but why was suffering necessary for sin? Why cannot God arbitrarily forgive everyone for everything? The answer is that justice cannot be compromised, or chaos would take over. We tend to equate the law of justice with punishment. We should equate justice with perfection, with creation, and with the preservation of order and equate sin with punishment. Justice, a single law, is the law of absolute perfection and governs all laws. The law of justice is the standard. It is the only reason that God is God. You cannot have a perfect God who is guided by relative laws. Those who want God to change his mind or change his laws want God to cease to exist. One cannot have relative perfection.
With God there are no corruptions, no flaws, no errors, no misadventures, no sins, no changing, no divagations, no compromise, and no uncertainty. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He makes no mistakes, tells no lies, brooks no imperfections, and makes no compromise. For that reason, only those who are perfect can dwell with God in eternity.
That is the great paradox of Christianity. Without Christ, no mortal can become perfect. Though perfect at birth, we live in a fallen world, subject to both good and evil. That is why we have agency. Agency is the ability to choose between good and evil, and perfection is beyond our power. We do not have the power to undo the evil we commit.
Following the fall of Adam, all the posterity of Adam came to a fallen world with no way back. That brought on a spiritual death. Spiritual death does not mean that the spirit dies. The spirit is immortal and can never die. Spiritual death means that the spirit is cut off from the presence of God. Where God isn’t, Satan is. To be cut off from the presence of God forever means to remain under the power of Satan forever.
Before coming to earth, we all lived in paradise with God, the Father of our spirits. He knows us on a first name basis. We chose to come to earth, to leave his presence, to gain a physical body, and to become subject to good and evil, but that meant leaving paradise. That is the next great paradox of Christianity.
The term “born in sin” is a misnomer. No one is born in sin, but we all are born in a sinful world. We were born perfect, but we choose to sin. Christ was born perfect, and he chose not to sin. The blood of Christ cleanses all those unconditionally, such as little children, who are not accountable for their sins. Those of us who are accountable can only be saved through repentance and forgiveness. We repent. Repentance is a choice. Christ forgives.
To understand why, we must understand the war in heaven led by Michael. Lucifer, a son of the morning, was actually an angel in high authority in the presence of God. Satan became perdition because he rebelled against God with full knowledge of what he was doing. Lucifer and those angels who fought with him were all in the same situation. They chose to follow Satan rather than Christ. They became antichrists. Remember, just like us, they were also children of God. Just as God is the father of our spirits, he is also the father of the spirits of t
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