Taken
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Lucifer was created perfect and sinless. Adam and Eve were perfect and sinless. Both were in the presence God. Yet they chose against God and fell.
Once we as Christians get to Heaven, how is our state any different? Can we sin against God even after we are there?
Stranger
God is Sinless and Perfect.
....God knows all things and is never in error.
Lucifer was created holy.
.....Angels know many things and can error.
Angels can Choose to Maintain their holiness;
Or Choose to go Against God; thus they fall.
The maintaining of holiness; is by their choice.
(Nothing reveals a holy angel who chooses to fall from grace has opportunity to be forgiven; OR be forever with God)
Adam and Eve were created very good.
.....Man knows some things and can error.
Man "born in sin"; Against God.
Can Choose to Become Forgiven, made holy, With God.
Mans holiness; is maintained by God; and the man remains holy forever; By Gods Power.
Presence OF God....
Holy angels YES - In Gods Presence; God sees them; They see God.
Fallen angels NO - God Sees them; they no longer see God.
Men (Adam) YES - In Gods Presence: God Saw them; They DID NOT See God.
Saved Men YES - In Gods Presence: God Sees them; They CAN NOT SEE God. Yet God IS with them, in them; and They with God, in God.
They - angel or mankind...WHO ARE glorified;
Can SEE God.
Glorified - Is not something an angel or man
Directly receives from God...
Meaning While it is a Gift from God- God does not GIVE HIS Glory to anyone.
Angels - Mankind ~ INDIRECTLY receive Glory from God....specificially.....VIA "Reflection".
Gods Glory is HIS LIGHT.
When an angel/man IS 'holy' because God's Glory (Light) is SHINING on/in the angel/man.
When an angel falls; Gods Glory/Light; no longer Reflects/Shines upon the angel.
When a man Receives Gods Glory, it is forever, Precisely because it is Maintained;
By Gods Supreme Power...not the mans.
When a man IS forgiven and converted -
It is BY the man making a Freewill Choice;
Expressly For God TO change/convert the man AND TO keep/maintain that man holy, forever.
Presently; men Who ARE SAVED; ARE holy, maintained BY Gods Power; Forever WITH God....AND WAIT to SEE the manifestation OF their holy bodies.
Works ~ Service
Men who further; learn, follow, and serve the Lord according to His PRECEPTS;
Shall receive blessings, gifts, rewards, ON earth and IN in the Lords Kingdom.
They shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.
Men who DO NOT further; learn, follow, and serve the Lord according to His PRECEPTS;
Shall NOT receive blessing, gifts, rewards, ON earth and IN the Lords Kingdom...
That such (particular) blessings, gifts, rewards ARE for those WHO DID work and serve TO: Glorify Gods Name, ON Earth.
They shall be called the least in the Kingdom of Heaven.
Point being - If the Lord HAS Saved a man;
It is Forever and the man IS made holy; and waits to SEE his glorified body.
Service and Works; are something a man may or may not do;
He shall be with the Lord IN His Kingdom;
But shall not RECEIVE; greater gifts, blessings, rewards.....Because he did not DO the works and service to be recognized as a "great" worker and servant to Glorifiy God.
The purpose of the Service and Works IS precisely that other (unsaved) men MAY SEE, and BE sparked/interested to Learn About God, and hopefully ALSO CHOOSE to become Saved.
The Reward for Service and Works unto the Lord, IS GREAT, Because;
Every Saved man Becomes Gods Inheritance.
Thus a man WHO works and serves the Lord, that other men become Saved....has just Helped INCREASE Gods inheritance...
Thus....the Lord, gifts, blesses, rewards...the mans efforts of works and service.
God Cannot Sin.
Holy angels were created without sin, but Can sin and fall.
Men are born in sin. Are sin, and born in a fallen state.
Men do not become sinless. They become Forgiven. Their sin becomes COVERED (with Gods Light)- which overpowers/over comes the darkness of sin - that God no more Sees a mans sin - and remembers it no more. Thus a man WITH Gods (Power, Light) within him (the man), is free from Sin, and sins no more.
God Bless,
Taken
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