Our God, YAHWEH or JEHOVAH, has made it abundantly clear that He is
the One and only true God and His way is the only way of perfect life. The
Godhead (The Father, His Son and their Holy Spirit) is infinite in power,
wisdom, righteousness, truth and Agapé love.
"I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I
girded thee, though thou hast not known me." Isaiah 45:5.
For any being to be God that being must be absolutely eternal (beginningless
and endless), self-existent and completely independent of anyone or anything
for life.
Now remember, YAHWEH God tells us there are no other Gods, He knows
of none.
"Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time,
and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God
beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any." Isaiah 44:8.
Satan claims that creatures can have their own way, in opposition to God's
way, and NOT die. In fact he claims that such persons will be as gods.
"And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For
God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be
opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil." Genesis
3:4,5.
Whoever claims to be a god must (ultimately) be able to maintain himself
and his government without outside aid, must be able to have his own way,
must be able to maintain his freedom to assert his godhood and to prove his
godhood.
Satan contends that each creature can have his own way, the way of self, and
it will work.
When the creature's self becomes a god, the attitude is to reject the true God.
Job 22:15-18 (Notice verse 17).
Sin is putting one's own way before God's way, it is putting self before God.
Sin is the transgression of God's law, of God's way, 1John 3:4; Isaiah 53:6; 2
Cor. 5:15.
God has a very simple foolproof way of dealing with those who claim to be
gods, those who want their own way. Yes, He has a very simple way of
testing any so-called better way than His way. All He has to do is to leave
the person alone to his/her own way, and if they continue to exist on their
own, then that person would have to be a real god with a right way, but if
the person and the person's way collapse to destruction it would prove after
all, that the person was only a creature who needed God and God's way for
survival.
Since finite creatures are absolutely dependent on the Infinite Creator for
existence, then the Infinite Creator would have to do everything necessary
to maintain the life and well-being of finite creatures. If the Infinite Creator
leaves His creatures alone they will perish; they must perish.
To think that God must use some other method than withdrawal to get rid of
sin is to insult His power, wisdom and love; it is because He is infinite and
creatures are finite that His creatures need Him and cannot survive without
Him.
So when people say that God must do something, other than withdraw, to get
rid of Satan, sinners and sin, they are insulting God and showing their
ignorance of the issues in the Great Conflict between right and wrong.
If God has to do anything at all to destroy the sinner other than leave the
sinner alone then His power is less than infinite, He is less than God. The
proof that He is God, and no one else, is that just by His doing nothing
everything else would perish!
"And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the
earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands: They shall
perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a
garment; And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be
changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail."
Hebrews 1:10-12
"Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens
are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but thou shalt endure:
yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou
change them, and they shall be changed: But thou art the same, and
thy years shall have no end." Psalm 102:25-27.
The proof of the Infinite God is that He has to do everything to keep finite
creatures alive. If God should do nothing, i.e. withdraw his maintaining,
upholding power, creatures will perish, Col. 1:17. Since all things hold
together in Him when He lets go things fall apart. (Psalm 121)
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