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How Could God Allow…
Practically everyone has been through or witnessed events that made
them ask, “How could God have allowed that to happen?” Some people
abandon belief in God altogether because of horrors they witness,
believing that if there was a God, he would not sit back and watch as
things went so terribly wrong on Earth.
You’ve also undoubtedly listened as people failed in their attempts to
comfort others by answering the question. “Trust in God” is good
advice but it’s not an answer. The question can only be answered by
someone that knows at least part of God’s master plan for mankind and
that information is only revealed to whom he chooses.
In the same way that it doesn’t take a songwriter to recognize a lousy
song or a great singer to recognize a sour note, truth resonates.
Hopefully after reading this document, you’ll know that you’ve finally
gotten an accurate and definitive answer, helping strengthen your
understanding that God does exist, he is perfect, his plan is perfect
and it is for your happiness.
1. How do I know that God exists?
To understand what God is doing and not doing, you must first
understand more about God, and be rid of doubt as to whether God
exists. Having faith is great. Some people can feel or sense God. They
pray and the prayers are answered in supernatural ways further
strengthening their faith but here, we’re going to approach the
existence of God through logic and science.
The first consideration is energy. Not one specific aspect of energy
but the whole of energy as one unit. What could initiate energy? If
there was ever a time when there was no energy, what could make it
start? No matter how far back in time you are able to render in your
mind’s eye, the only force that could initiate energy is energy. If it
ever did not exist, there would have been no force to bring it into
existence so its existence now is the proof that it has always been.
If you cannot understand and agree with that statement, reading
further is a waste of your time.
2 – The Four Eternal Elements.
Energy is an eternal element. Life, consciousness and self realization
are three other elements of energy that could not have come began if
there was a in which they were not. For example, if space was ever
dead, containing no living thing whatsoever, it could only have
remained dead because there would be nothing to initiate life. If
there was no self awareness, there would be no force or reason that
would suddenly cause something to live, wake up and realize itself.
Energy, life, consciousness and self awareness are the four eternal
elements. The four phenomenon that must have either always been or
they could never be. The combination of those four elements and their
eternal existence is your proof that God exists. There has always been
conscious, self aware, living energy. Even before there was time,
matter or even a universe, one being could say, “I am.”
If the four eternal elements did not exist, nothing would exist.
Everything in existence around you is proof of God and since there is
no period prior to the existence of the four elements, God being
without a beginning is the relative beginning. You can know that God
is because you are, and you are because God is.
3 – The Defining of Matter
When there was only God, his plan was formed. That plan was to share
the four elements. The word commonly associated with his action is
“creation” but what took place is more accurately defined as
“conversion.” A massive conversion of pure energy, life, consciousness
and self awareness was converted into life forms then into matter.
The recognition of the self facilitates the uniqueness and the advent
of the individual. That individuality is the “spirit.” The purest
spirit is the first spirit; God’s spirit. When there was only God, he
did something that demonstrates who he is; he gave a gift that he does
not revoke. That gift was to share his possession of life; to convert
the four elements into other conscious, self aware, living, unique
spirits. That desire defines goodness and holiness. God possesses thee
first and Holy Spirit.
For there to be anything other than God, required the defining of that
which would be. Atoms, molecules and the many forms of light and dark
matter all had to be decided upon, defined then converted from God
into what they would become. That ability to define is the basis of
language, an ability that was with God from the beginning, part of God
and was God, known most accurately as “The Word.” Having come forth
from and having always been part of the very substance of God, the
word is the “Only begotten” of God; an only son. The Word plays the
most powerful role in God’s plan because every single thing that was
or will be converted from God’s elements into anything else must be
defined.
Visualize the expanding universe in a reverse chronology. You know
that it expanding, reverse it and shrink it back to a single mass just
prior to the “Big Bang” explosion. Prior to that moment, there was no
universe. After that moment, a mass was expanding. That mass contained
all of God’s elements plus the newly defined element of Matter. The
natural scientific question is, “Where did the matter come from and
how did it come?” The obvious answer to both questions is that matter
was converted from energy after having been defined by the Word. The
phrase; “Let there be light” and the “Big Bang” theory describe the
same event; a massive conversion of non tangible energy forms, into
material energy forms or more exactly; the creation and merger of
defined matter with energy, life, consciousness and self awareness.
God put the attributes of his existence into a huge mass and sent it
flying in all directions to fill a space with enormity we cannot even
imagine.
Recapping; Change is an effect. It does not take place unless there is
a causing force. At the initiation of this universe, a change took
place. The conversion of energy into matter required defining atomic
and molecular configurations into tangible materials and forms of
energy or forces. To "define" is the basis of language; the
utilization of "The Word". The Word or definition is the interface
between the four original elements and all things. The ability to
define or “Word”, was always part of God, was always with God and was
God. That is why the Bible states in John 1:1
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the
Word was God.”
That biblical explanation is scientifically accurate. God will never
act in conflict with his own Word and the Word will never act in
conflict with God therefore God has made all things subject to his
Word and the Word perfectly executes and does only the will of the
Father.
The four elements, the Word and the choice of the original unique
consciousness to do good, are the basis for the Biblical phraseology;
the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
Every possible combination of matter and every possible future event
came from within the original energy and consciousness of God
therefore God knows of every possible combination. That’s why God
knows of all events prior to their actual occurrences and has known
the end from the very beginning.
The origin of love was God's choice to include the four eternal
elements in the creation of the universe. Through that gift he gave
life as well as consciousness and self awareness to each of us.
Equally as great was the gift of freedom of choice. We are free to
think and feel whatever we will think and feel. We can choose for
ourselves.
4 - The Origin of Evil
In the beginning when there was only God, there was a single partition
of space however the conversion of energy into anything other than God
would create a second partition; a space that was not God. Before God
made the first conversion, he knew that doing so would initiate the
law of opposites. The defining of goodness would create the
possibility of the absence of goodness. The defining of love would
create the possibility of the absence of love.
The giving of life itself created the possibility of evil because in
the exercise of freedom of choice, it was virtually impossible that
all living beings would embrace God and love. Eventually one or more
would choose to embrace the absence of God and love. In God’s master
plan, he made a decision that allowing evil to come into existence and
run its course was worth allowing everything else to live. We live in
that time period in which evil is running its course and though it has
many horrible elements, it also has a point of termination. We will
get to it shortly but to understand the end of evil, you must
understand its beginning and middle.
5 - Spirits
Life forms that resulted from the conversion of energy into the
universe are spirits coupled with matter but just as in the case of
God himself, matter is not a prerequisite of life. There are living
beings converted from God's life energy that exist outside of the
realm of matter. Like us, they each are unique and have been given the
gift of freedom of choice. By virtue of freedom of choice, those
beings, called Angels could choose to embrace the space that is God or
the space that is not God, goodness or the absence of goodness, love
or the absence of love. God knew that eventually an Angel would choose
to embrace the negative space but in order for there to be any free
life, that possibility would need to run through to resolution.
6 - Power
There is only one power. Its elements are the ability to give life,
extend freedom of choice, partition existence and to convert the
states of energy and matter. That is the only true, pure and absolute
power.
The first being that chose to reject the attributes of God and to
embrace the space outside of God was the Angel named Lucifer. He
desired power but there was only one power. The only pretense of or
sense of power could be in utilizing the law of opposites to oppose
God. To define his illusion of power, Lucifer determined to take away
life and to control others. By this, he became the opposite of God.
Evil took form, became defined and is called, the Devil. The desire
for evil power infected many of the Angels. When this happened, God
exercised his freedom of choice and refused to coexist with evil
therefore Lucifer and his followers were forcibly expelled from
Heaven. Once removed from Heaven, the devil and his demons were
trapped in the non material universe. Even though evil was defined in
them, God did not take back their gifts of life because the gift is
unconditional. As his continued life was allowed, Lucifer established
himself as the author and leader of evil in opposition to the author
of goodness and love. Yet he had no control, nothing to take life from
and nothing to exercise evil upon as of yet.
7 - Enter Mankind
God converted his energy and coupled it with the substance of Earth,
forming mankind. Adam and Eve, the first two people of Earth, (no pun
intended) were placed on here to enjoy eternally happy lives with the
understanding that evil would need to be resolved.
The coupling of conscious energy and matter, our form of life, also
created the potential for the separation of conscious energy from that
matter; the opposite of life for a being of flesh; physical death.
Mankind would not have truly had freedom of choice unless along with
life, goodness and all that God intended for us, there were also the
options of death and to follow after the evil ways of the devil so
when God placed mankind on Earth, he placed a source of evil and death
within reach. He gave them the freedom to choose whether or not to
partake of death and evil but warned and even commanded them not to do
so. Unfortunately, the choices given to Adam and Eve were of far
greater consequence than either of them could grasp at the time. That
commandment was a request for mankind to remain within the will of
God. Outside the will of God was the will of Lucifer. Lucifer had no
power over humanity unless they choose to reject the will of God and
allow Lucifer to begin guiding humanity.
Lucifer told the very first lie, tempting Adam and Eve to consume the
embodiment of death and evil. They chose to disobey God's commandment
and obey Lucifer’s, taking both death and evil into their bodies and
making Lucifer a king over mankind. By consuming evil in the form of
fruit, Adam and Eve made death, illness, pain, evil thoughts and all
things opposite of life, part of human DNA. Like Satan, their energy,
thoughts and desires were no longer pure and could not remain in God's
partition. They were ejected from the place originally created for us,
a desperately sad and tragic turn of events were it not for the fact
that God knew beforehand that it would take place and was prepared.
There was still one missing act that would open the floodgates of
Lucifer's pretense of power. He could not orchestrate control over the
coming world populous unless people would murder. With that, he could
fully express his hatred towards mankind through mankind, people in
opposition to his rule could be eliminated and we could experience
horrors as such that we would lose belief in God’s existence, making
it easier for him to work. One of the worst aspects of Lucifer’s
success against Adam and Eve was that his harvest of human souls could
begin. Being unable to enter God’s partition, when a human died, they
would go into the same place where Lucifer was trapped. God is not
there, love is not there and the soul that ends up there would be in
the greatest of torments as Lucifer could actually touch them.
Through the years, Lucifer has used hatred, greed, lust and all sin to
position himself between people both as individuals and as groups.
Starting with the first son of Adam, each time one person mistreats
another, Lucifer grows in his pretense of power and his will is
solidified upon and within the Earth.
Some people choose to walk in obedience to God, sharing love as they
interact with others. They do influence Earth but because goodness
comes by gift and persuasion while evil takes by force and murder;
humanity cannot win the battle to save this world.
The conditions on Earth are brought about by the choices and actions
of mankind so for a time, we live within those combined choices. God
will not take away our freedom of choice by stepping in and canceling
it all. He is not dead, nor does he sleep. And though the world cannot
be saved, individuals can be, as they choose to be. Individuals can
also pray if it is their choice for God to act within their lives.
8 - A Second Chance for Mankind
Lucifer and his fallen Angels made the choice to abandon God with
perfect knowledge of their actions but mankind was deceived into
severing the bond with God. It is therefore just that we receive a
probationary time period for each person to choose their eternal
allegiance. That time is our lifetimes.
To partake in both good and evil was the original fall of mankind so
no matter how much good a person does, we must also learn what
behaviors God will not allow in the partition of Heaven and strive to
discontinue doing them. We must also strive to abide by God’s opinion
and God’s laws, choosing to make him our God and rejecting Satan and
that which Satan has to offer.
9 – What About Physical Death?
First it's critical to understand what death is and what it is not.
The gift of life that we are; conscious, self aware energy, is
eternal. God will not take it back. If he would, he certainly would
have discontinued Lucifer at the first problem. Each of us will
continue for eternity. Death is not returning to non-existence.
Physical death is having our eternal energy separated from our
material interfaces, our bodies. Spiritual death is to be separated
from God by going into a partition that belongs to Satan after that
separation.
We as individuals were converted from the four elements then placed
into flesh to be born. Our brains are wired to retain our experiences
on Earth in memory. Upon the deaths of our flesh our memories are no
longer subject to the limitations of our brains. Outside of our flesh,
we will remember who we were before birth and during life here, as
well as how we lived, those we hurt and which power we served
throughout our lifetime. For some people, those memories will mean
ultimate happiness but for others, ultimate horror. We must all go to
one of three partitions; a place with God for those that embraced his
will, a place of Lucifer for those that embraced his will or a place
in between for those that embraced neither. By the weight of our
thoughts, memories and feelings, we will either rise or fall into the
space where we belong. Love is pure and but evil has weight. Love can
set our spirits us free to ascend but evil will pull us down into the
places where Lucifer lives and rules. That is why we must struggle to
overcome even the sins in our thoughts and imaginations. Heaven and
Paradise are the major and minor places of ascension. Hell and
Purgatory are the major and minor places of descension with untold
divisions within each.
10 – The Good Side of Death.
During our lifetimes, we do things that we know are wrong; acts that
prohibit us from entering God's partition. Those acts are called sins.
Our bodies lock us to the things we’ve done or facilitate historical
references of our acts, meaning it can be said that I did this or you
did that. Physical death detaches us from the physical references our
bad deeds. Without physical death, we would be eternally trapped
outside of God’s partition because we cannot undo the bad things that
we’ve done. Removing those bad things has two parts; the first is
physical death and second is having died in innocence or having taken
advantage of God's offer to have our sins forgiven. When sins are
forgiven, they are removed from our spiritual histories. Dying in a
sinless or forgiven state facilitates the return to God’s partition.
The downside of death is for those that lived and died in sin only to
awaken in the spirit realm still filthy from their lives on Earth,
unable to enter into any of the realms of God. For such people, after
physical death comes a second death as they are cut off from God in
the spirit realm and sent to live in Lucifer’s domain. That horror is
what all preaching, baptisms, missionary work and other forms of
evangelism are trying to prevent.
11 - What Does “Only One Way” Mean?
Freedom of choice not only includes the opportunity to walk away from
God. It also includes the opportunity to return to God. We would not
have freedom of choice unless God created a pathway back to Heaven.
Just as all things were formed through his Word, the pathway back to
God is also through the interface between the eternal realm and the
realm of matter; his Word.
400 years prior to the event, it was foretold and documented that
God’s Word would come to Earth as a man and display exemption from the
physical laws of matter including the finality of physical death. It
was also foretold that when the Word came, he would teach us the rules
of how to love one another. Only one person has proven his claim to be
the only begotten Word that was with God from the beginning and came
out from God. That person was Jesus of Nazareth, whose birth was not
only foretold throughout all of history but by whose life the very
years of the world's calendars are set.
Because the Word of God took on human flesh, a new Adam was born, the
first child of a new race of mankind, not cut off from the power, love
and realm of God. All life passed from God into existence through the
Word and must also pass through the Word to get back to God. That is
why Jesus is the called the only way. He asks us to give our lives to
him so that we can come into the place he has prepared for us.
Because Jesus lived a human life without ever serving Lucifer, he
became the first human that could return to and sit beside the Father
after his life on Earth. It also gave him another uniquely awesome
position; he took ownership of important phenomenon that Lucifer stole
or caused. For example, Lucifer caused death but since Jesus was not
subject to Lucifer, he was not subject to death therefore death became
subject to him. During the three days of absence from his body, he
went down to the abyss to rescue the souls of those that loved God and
returned them to the original paradise. Then because he was not
subject to death, Jesus reanimated his body at his choosing and
continues living eternally as the interface between matter and spirit.
The Word of God, now a man like us, returned to Heaven to make a place
for us and that is awesome. After taking his material life back, Jesus
ascended to Heaven in the sight of witnesses.
While he was here, Jesus said that to return to the Father, we must
admit the wrong things we’ve done, believe that he is the Word of God
able to save us, and follow the will of the Father. He also said to
take his name upon ourselves as belonging to him because no one comes
to the Father accept through the way he has prepared. It is easy to
understand why there could be no other way to God except through the
interface between God and matter, once you know the layout of things.
Everything bad that we do, even in secret, hurts someone's life and
sometimes their eternity. The pain and evil we have sent out will
return to us and surround us if we reject the way back to God and his
provision for our forgiveness of our wrongdoing. When we serve Lucifer
even in secret, look at the risk we are actually taking.
12 – What is False Religion?
False religion is the claim that in order to reach the Father, mankind
must give allegiance to a person, a group or a creed other than or in
addition to his only begotten Word. That false claim perverts many
denominations, groups and philosophies into fuel for the flames of
hatred and separation. Lucifer gathers many souls through false
religion as people walk outside of love and commit horrible acts,
fully convinced they’re working in allegiance with God. When asked
what the greatest commandment was, he answered; that you love your
neighbor as yourself. If we love our neighbors as ourselves, we will
not neglect the needy, commit crimes against one another or harm one
another. No matter how nicely people smile and sing on Sunday’s, if
they refuse to share surplus with the less fortunate, cheat others in
business or break the laws against other people, they have not
connected with Jesus at all.
Love is the greatest commandment; the true and eternal standard for
measuring the worth of souls. The soul that loves and keeps itself
pure from evil will ascend and know eternal happiness.
13 – What is Baptism About?
Baptism is one of the very best ordinances in human existence. It
involves being laid back under water to represent a spiritual burial
with Jesus as he was laid back in his tomb.
Being placed completely under water represents a cleansing of all sins
from our spirits, being lifted from the water represents rising up
from the grave as a new, cleansed being. God has agreed to honor the
act of baptism as a new spiritual beginning but before baptism it is
important to get the sins out of the soul so as not to return to them
afterwards. When that happens it becomes seven times more difficult to
get them out again. It’s also important to remember that as long as
Lucifer is in our realm, we will continue to experience temptation and
sometimes fail but it is just as important to regroup, recharge and
retry to live sinless lives though we watch the morality of Earth
rapidly.
14 - How Will Earth and Eternity Be Resolved?
There is a growing crowd on Earth that seeks to remove God,
Christians, Scriptures and the very mention of God from society
altogether. They too will have their desire. Through an event called
the “Rapture”, Jesus will return to the skies above the Earth and
change the bodies of those that belong to him back into their eternal
nature in the twinkling of an eye. When that happens, all who are not
weighed down with sin will rise to meet him in the air and be removed
from this planet, allowing all that remain to grasp the full
understanding of that which they seek; a world without God. The
purpose is to give them a glimpse into life in Hell. A period of time
called “the Great Tribulation” will come upon all left behind; a time
period when men rule the world under the will of Lucifer, without the
resistance that servants of God have given them throughout history. It
doesn’t take too much imagination to consider what this world would be
like if the forces of love and common decency were altogether removed.
Through terror, some of the people remaining on Earth will learn the
error of seeking a life without God and love while others will take
pleasure in handing out terror. Each person will make a decision as to
whether they want to live with or without God. Those that choose God
will be murdered by those that do not. Many people will be saved from
Hell through the experience.
When decisions are made by the ruling parties that would completely
destroy all flesh on Earth, both freedom of choice ad evil will have
reached resolution then God will step in and reality as we know it
will stop. Everyone will go to the partitions in which they belong,
chosen by the deeds of their lifetimes.
Because Jesus and all who follow him choose to live without Satan,
freedom of choice demands that Satan’s kingdom be completely separated
from mankind and eternal peace will begin for everyone outside of it.
Earth will be recreated in perfection and returned to mankind. Lucifer
and all who follow him will be locked away for one thousand years as
everyone and everything else is brought to perfection. After the
thousand years have passed, death and hell will be opened and everyone
will have a last chance to either remain with or come to God or go
into Lucifer’s Kingdom and remain forever. Once those final choices
are made, Lucifer’s partition will remain the single place of evil and
sadness called “Outer Darkness,” forever. Everyone else will live in
the presence and will of God, as was always in process from the
beginning.
In the realm of God, rewards will be given in accordance to the love,
sacrifice, forgiveness and longsuffering we gave while we were here on
Earth.
15 - Life is forever. This is only Phase One.
Satan’s greatest tools are:
1. Promoting that he doesn’t exist.
2. Masking hatred as an acceptable behavior.
3. Convincing people that gain or pleasure through the pain and
suffering of another is acceptable.
4. Convincing people that murder is an acceptable tool to reach a
goal.
5. Convincing people that freedom is doing whatever you want to do.
Freedom is living your life in a manner that will not trap you in
Satan's realm when your life is over. Success is building rewards in
Heaven that you can enjoy for all eternity. That includes studying to
learn how God wants his children to live. Those instructions can be
found in the New Testament of the Bible. Read it, you’ll be pleasantly
surprised.
16 - The Outside Books
Some people gain a thirst for ancient spiritual knowledge after
ingesting the Bible. If that is you, you’ll learn that the Bible was
once a much larger book than it is now. Study the “Council of Nice”
and you’ll learn how it came to be what it is now and why. Some of the
books that were not included in it are awesome but don’t believe
anything written by the Gnostics. They wrote false books to confuse
people and turn them from God by gently twisting facts in the Bible to
distort our perception of God. Also, before venturing into the Outside
Books, read the Bible first and use it as your reference as to truth.
Anything else you that read flatly contradicts the Bible should be
tossed it out.
The writings of the Early Church Fathers were written by church
leaders after Jesus’ ascension. Polycarp’s life and writings are
amazing as are Clement’s and Justin Martyr’s.
For historical writings by a neutral party that cover biblical and
post biblical events, read the complete works of Flavius Josephus,
honored by the Romans for his work. For greater details concerning New
Testament events, read the Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius
Pamphilus.
You have enemies:
1. Your own flesh will draw you towards things that your mind and
spirit know are wrong.
2. Lucifer will use those around you to cause you to make bad
decisions which he hopes will lead to your faithlessness, unhappiness
and untimely death.
3. Lucifer will always whisper a lie in your thoughts that you are no
good.
Remember that before God converted you and placed you in that newborn
body, he knew you. He knew every mistake you would make and every sin
you would commit but he made you anyway because you are awesome.
Why does God allow it? Because this season of death, pain, crime,
illness and evil is temporary yet it must be, so that there can be
life and evil can be banished from among the living, once and for
all.
You have just read the real Eternal Plan of Salvation.
God bless you,
Mark Henry