God intentionally created a world of good and evil, so He go with us on our life’s journey. He did this to experience sorrow, loneliness and many other emotions through us. God feels what we feel. To know sorrow is to understand love, and this understanding would be essential to a righteous God.
Satan is still in Heaven.
Satan and the demons were intentionally not given any righteousness. Since the fall of Adam and Eve, it is these evil spirits who bring us into existence. They influence us, shaping who we become, they cause us to become sinners to result in our eventual death. Evil spirits do this to grieve God, and they do it without committing a sin themselves. Satan is not so stupid as to openly battle God, so Satan is still in Heaven.
God responds to evil and suffering.
On the Day of Judgment God will destroy evil. God responds to suffering with measured punishment and reward before the Day of Judgment. This is called temporal judgment. Christians recognize temporal judgment, but they tend to downplay it. A righteous God will respond to suffering by balancing all books. Everything we do is subject to both the Day of Judgment and temporal judgment. These two different applications of justice explain some of the confusion in the Bible concerning heaven, hell, judgment and being saved. Sometimes the Bible is talking about temporal judgment.
The Trinity.
God the Father transcends time and space. God the Holy Spirit is a consciousness of God moving within time in Heaven. The Son of God is a consciousness of God moving within time at a level of reality that transcends Heaven. God the Son was born into the world as a human. He died, rose from the dead and returned to the transcending level of Heaven which is called the Right Hand of God.
Why the secrecy?
Jesus said on the cross, “My God, why have you abandoned me?” God looked away from the crucifixion, and Satan openly cursed God not knowing that Jesus transcends Heaven. Satan and the demons are all thereby condemned as Jesus is a witness against them. This had to be kept secret, but at some point, it will be revealed in Heaven and Satan will be cast out of Heaven.
This is how Jesus destroyed evil, but this is only part of our redemption. The exposure of Satan’s guilt does not take away our guilt. The wine of the Last Supper is the crucifixion where Christ destroyed evil, but there is also the bread of the Last Supper.
The bread is the body of Christ which is given up for us.
On the Day of Judgment, Jesus will lay down His body and this will allow the children of God to do the same. The flesh is not evil, it is weak. It is a straw in the wind easily influenced by spiritual forces, and the flesh is absolutely attached to the spirit. The oneness of spirit and flesh is why the Messiah is necessary to justify their separation. Our spirit is perfect and without sin. Perfection is necessary on the Day of Judgment.
There is a great abundance of separation in the Bible often associated with redemption. Separation is so recurrent in the Bible that it should be obvious, but the Gnostics were a distraction.
When the Bible speaks of those who perform righteousness, this might be referring to a particular group of people, or it might be talking about the spirit within us. This understanding also clears up some confusion in the Bible.
This interpretation of the Bible reconciles alleged contradictions, solves mysteries, and is more consistent with the Bible than what is taught by the Catholic church, the Orthodox or the Protestants.
