Pray for godly wisdom and do not doubt. You will receive it in due time. – James 1:5-7
- It’s a natural, carnal and fleshly world (not a spiritual world):
- Where the natural, carnal and fleshly human body is made of the natural dust of the earth, where the earth and man:
- Produces natural, carnal and fleshly stuff:
- That fuels the carnal and fleshly lusts of the flesh, eyes and pride of life:
- That is fueled by selfish and prideful desires:
- In turn filling the earth with pride and selfishness, vs filling the earth with the spiritual things of selfless love:
- Giving us the knowledge of good (selfless love) and evil (selfishness and pride):
- Where evil ultimately abounds.
We are spirit, and at the resurrection our natural, carnal, made-of-this-world fleshly bodies will be transformed into spiritual bodies, and will desire the spiritual things of selfless love instead of the natural, carnal things of the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and pride.
God is spirit, and God is the embodiment of selfless love, and the spiritual realm operates in the knowledge of the good spiritual things. This natural, carnal, fleshly world operates in selfishness and pride, and teaches us the knowledge of evil.
If this natural world works to please our natural body, then our spiritual world will work to please our spirit.
Why did God create this natural world? Why did God create for us natural bodies that only desire the sinful lusts of selfishness and pride?:
To really give us a teaching lesson about the knowledge of evil, so that we would know how bad evil and sin is and why we just can’t have even the tiniest speck of it in our lives, and cannot be associated with it. And those who overcome the desire of wanting to do evil and ultimately get their sins forgiven by faith in Christ alone are deemed worthy of the eternal state of blessedness that all believers will enter into. Whereas those who love sin and evil more than the ways of God and ultimately choose not get their sins forgiven by faith in Christ alone will bear the eternal consequences of that evil and sin with eternal hellfire.
God has the knowledge of good and evil, and has given angels and humans that knowledge as well, and has given us the ability to do that evil. If God made us to where we had knowledge that there was evil but could not perform it, we would know “what” was evil (we would know that stealing is evil), but if we never actually did any evil and never experienced the results of evil, we would never know the “why” of it being evil, never able to comprehend how destructive it is. And in God’s manifold wisdom, He used this teaching lesson to find for Himself the good angels and humans that truly love Him and want to be with Him, and that desire the good instead of the evil – instead of making us all robot drones who are pre-programmed to “love” Him and His ways (which wouldn’t be genuine love at all). So He gave us freewill to see who would truly love Him and His ways.