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expressively in: Job 1:22, 2:10) is impossible (Rom 3:10-13, 12: ‘doeth good’, 13:
‘throat ..open sepulchre’).

The Lord is good to all (Psalm 145:9, 17, Rom 8:28, Jam 4:9) and whether we
‘know’ it or not we are receiving, to some extent, what we ‘need’ as our spirits
interact with God in the context of salvation (Psalm 145:16-17). The soul of a man
interacts with God and is examined by God through the basic spirit (Prov 20:27,
Job 32:8). Not through the conscious awareness, which if involved is so indirectly
and partially, such that everything about the person’s ability to be or remain saved
is revealed and worked through (Psalm 145:16-17, Prov 20:27, 24:12, Jer 17:9-10,
Rom 8:28, Jam 4:7-10). Exposure to prayer and the intervention of the Holy Ghost
is restricted according to a man’s willingness to believe and respond appropriately
(Luke 4:25-27, 8:10, 10:21). The purpose of life is to be and remain saved and this
is the primary determinant of someone’s life (Mat 8:22, Luke 20:38). Only that
which is alive forever is alive to the eternal God (Mat 8:22, Luke 20:38).

This entire process is summarised in Lamentations 3:26, 32-40 and is part of the
Prime Principle. These verses establish that God is responsible for everything good
and bad (Lam 3:32) but His primary will is good only (Lam 3:33, 38) and He
endeavours only to lead men to salvation which is the ‘cause’ or purpose of life
(Lam 3:36). God is working on every Man, including the unpreached dead in
‘prison’ or Heaven (Luke 16:22-23, 1 Pet 3:19, 4:6), by means of ‘deserved’ or
‘undeserved’ suffering and blessing in an attempt to reach that Man’s soul for
salvation (Lam 3:33-35, 39-40, 1 Cor 12:6, 11). This is an interaction between the
Holy Ghost and the man, Christian or otherwise (1 Cor 12:7). The purpose of
suffering under the prime principle is revealed by the Sermon on the Mount (Mat
5:1-13) and Jesus’ teaching (Luke 6:20-23) in which the link between suffering
and the eternal inheritance that makes it worthwhile is revealed, the latter
necessitating the first by the nature of man (Rom 3:10). Only the eternal matters,
thus justifying the necessary suffering, as only the eternal position of eternal
damnation or eternal life is real (Mat 8:22). The question with suffering is not
what occurs on this earth but how eternal damnation is to be avoided.

As regards the second, post second resurrection, or eternal death, this is explained
as the active and eternal (as default unless/until repentent) choice of those involved
for whom Heaven would be torment anyway (Rev 14:9-10 - “tormented...in the
presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb” - these tormented
men are not ‘separated’ from God’s presence, rather they are tormented by it!) and
who must continue to experience this as that is their ongoing choice (Rev 14:10-
11). These are not in Heaven (Rev 14:11) but are in the presence of God and His