In this post I would like to examine with the Holy Scriptures whether the Bible teaches that the Good God is all, and whether death, sin, sickness and disease are just illusions. I will test this doctrine with the holy scriptures, and see whether it stands or falls.
I will use 'love, truth, and life' to make my argument, and then conclude. In the Bible, the Bible teaches that God is love (1Jn. 4:8), but does the Bible teach that 'love is God?' No. The Bible teaches that God is love—God is the source of true Love, but the Bible never says that 'love' is God, otherwise, you would make my love for God and for my brothers in the Lord, 'actually God'—the reason I love God and my brothers the way I do is because I have a relationship with the One who is the only source of true love, who is God; without God I could not love God nor my brothers in Christ like I do. This love comes from God through the Lord Jesus Christ. The three persons of the Triune God have loved each other perfectly from all eternity.
Next, The Bible teaches that God is truth. The Bible teaches that God is truth (John 14:6, Psalm 117:2 and Duet. 32:4), but again does that mean that 'Truth is God?'—No. The Bible never teaches that 'Truth is God', but God is truth. If you say that 'Truth is God', you would make the Bible, 'God'—the Bible is the 'Word of God' (2Tim. 3:16 and Eph. 6), and God and His Word are inseparable, but the Bible is not 'God.' God is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, Three Persons, The One true God, the Bible is the God-breathed Word of God that comes from God (2Tim. 3:16), and He used human pen men to write the Words down. God is the source of His Word (the Holy Scriptures). I receive truth from God through His Word by the power of the Holy Spirit, in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Lastly, There is no argument that God is Life—the Bible teaches that God is Life, He gives everlasting life in Christ (Rom. 6:23, John 17:3 and 1Jn. 5:20), but does that mean that 'Life is God?' No. The Bible never teaches that 'Life is God', but God is Life. If you were to say that 'Life is God' you make all the life in creation, 'actually God', and even the believer's eternal life, 'actually God'. The Bible again teaches that God is the source of Life, the Creator of heaven and earth, and the source of eternal Life through the Lord Jesus Christ, by His death, burial and resurrection. Eternal Life comes from the Lord Jesus Christ.
So we can see that God is Love, Truth and Life, but Love, Truth and Life is not God, which clearly shows that the Good God is not All.
Now let me illustrate this further. There is a difference between the Creator (God) and the creation—The Creator and the creation are not the same. In the Book of Genesis, the Bible says 'God created the heavens and the earth' Gen. 1:1. They are not one and the same. God created creation (came into existence) by God, the God who has been in existence always. Creation came from God, not God came from creation. Even though man is a unique creation of God, he was only made in His image (Gen. 1:26), but not as God.
Now, what happened to man? Man was separated from God (man's relationship with God was broken) because man sinned against God. The Bible teaches this to be a reality. Some will teach you that sin is just an illusion because the Good God is All, but the Bible tells us the reality what man's sin in the Garden of Eden did, and put the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross to pay for the sins of them who put their faith in Him.
Adam's sin was not an illusion, but very real. Adam's sin infected the whole of creation. What entered into the world because of Adam's sin? Death, for the Bible says, For the wages of sin is death. The Bible says in Romans 3:23, For all sinned, and fall short of the glory of God. Man is a sinner, but God is not a sinner, but holy and pure—He is the Rock, his work is perfect. For all his ways are just: a God of faithfulness, and without evil, just and upright is He. Deut. 32:4.
We see the reality of sin, which caused man's separation from God—sin is very real, and not an illusion, and because sin (which is evil and wicked) is a reality, we have the reality of death. The Lord God is Good, and because He is Good, He is not all. The Lord God is Good, but man is sinful and not good, and needs the perfect Saviour for salvation (that is the reality the Bible plainly says.)
In Isaiah 53:5, we can see how real sin is—the Bible says, But he was wounded for our transgressions; He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with his wounds we ourselves are healed. In v.7, He was oppressed, and He was afflicted, but He did not open His mouth. He was led as a lamb to the slaughter; and as a ewe before her shearers is dumb, so He opened not His mouth. In v.8, He was taken from prison and from justice; and who shall consider His generation? for He was cut off out of the land of the living; from the transgressions of My people, the stroke was to Him. This is a detailed account of the sufferings the Lord Jesus went through when He went to the cross and died for the sins of the world (John 3:16).
Another scripture about the Lord's perfect sacrifice—In 1Corinthians 15:3-5, For I delivered to you first place what I also received, that Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He was raised the third day, according to the Scriptures, and that He appeared to Peter, and then to the Twelve.
In Romans 5:12, the Bible says, Because of this, even as sin entered the world through one man, death through sin, so also death passed to all men, inasmuch as all sinned. All are born sinners—we inherit the sinful nature which has been passed down from Adam. This is a reality. The Bible teaches the reality of sin and the consequences of our sin, For the wages of sin is death.
Let us conclude.
- First of all, the reality of sin is very real, which exposes the lie that God is all. The Bible teaches that God is Good, but does not teach that God is all. The Bible teaches that the God of the Bible is God and nothing else is God.
- Secondly, what does this heretical teaching about God do? They make God impersonal. They take away the Love of God shown on the cross at Calvary; The Father sent His own dear Son to suffer, shed His blood, and die upon the cross to pay for the sin debt in full for them who put their faith in Him for salvation.
When examined with scripture, this doctrine that God is all, and sin, death, sickness, and disease are an illusion simply falls, and is exposed for what it really is, heresy! Death, sickness, and disease are a reality, caused by the reality of man's sin against God, and whosoever does not repent and put their faith in the Lord Jesus for salvation, will spend eternity in a real place called the Lake of Fire (Rev. 20:15 and Rev. 21:8).
*LITV Bible used for scripture verses
