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  God is love: and in Him is life. Therefore, love and life are from everlasting to everlasting. For love, from which all that is good is derived, to truly be experienced, the element of choice has to exist. Thus, God created all intelligent beings with the power of choice. For choice to be exercised, there has to be at least two things from which to choose. Seeing that God is love, He had to contrast Himself with something else, in order for intelligent beings to have a choice.   So, God created the opposite of His character – the opposite, so that no one needs be confused between the attributes that are God’s and those that are not.   From love proceeds good and from love’s opposite, proceeds evil – thus the tree of knowledge of good and evil.    This tree, man was forbidden to eat from. Now man has the option for choice.   However, God made it clear to all, that disobedience to His principle (which would be a choice for evil) would result in death – de...

  Righteousness is right doing. Whatever standard of right doing that man may set up, if it is contrary to, or does not align with, God’s standard of righteousness, or even if it does align with God’s standard, but is set out to be achieved or accomplished in man’s own strength; that righteousness is considered man’s and is described as filthy rags. However, when man obeys God’s standard of righteousness, which is His law, and which can only be obeyed by man, as he permits the Spirit of God to dwell within him: this righteousness, should not be, nor can it be, described as filthy rags.   For to do so, is to diminish the righteousness of God’s law, and discredit the power of the Holy Spirit, which would be tantamount to blasphemy against the Spirit; for His power and work is being credited to man.   In addition, this is the righteousness that God requires so He can impute the righteousness of Jesus on man. When a man accepts Jesus as Lord and Saviour, and is baptised w...