of so much in the Bible. To be reconciled to God is to see God and love Him, even as He sees and loves us. Since God does not recognize sin and evil it is not true to say that God permits these things to be. Such is the right view of God, and it stops all that useless questioning as to “why God lets so much sin and suffering be in the world.” It is because God is not recognizing these things that their time is short and their apparent power temporal.

Predestination.

Can God ever be sorrowful or helpless in the presence of evil? No. Yet one of these would be true if the good God were to behold evil and not annihilate it.

“To the pure all things are pure.”
--- Titus I :15.

Who is so pure as God? God sees you as you really are --- pure, holy, true, sinless --- and this seeing is your salvation. God sees all things working together for His glory and honor, and His predestination and fore-ordination is that He has ordained that the Divine in each shall prove itself of His nature and being, and that the false and the untrue shall be proven pure nothingness, without place or power in the realm of appearances, even as in the realm of the Real. God knows all things that were, and are, and are to he, and He knows, and has always known, that the Real in us would triumph and be glorified, and that the false would finally take its place in “outer darkness,” in nothingness.

The “elect” and the “chosen,” spoken of in Scripture, is that One in each of us that came from God, and returns to God, and is in God now. It is the only One