As we begin to see how brilliantly The Programmer programmed, we see that each program has the possibility for viruses to corrupt that program. There is a dimmer mirror-image of every program where everything is backwards.
For instance, the portion of His Program that brought freely-entered into marriages into existence has with it the ability to have relationships without marriage. Similarly, when we examine any ideal that He has programmed, we also see the possibility of the corruption of that program.
When we consider a portion of His ideal, for instance, that free-will creatures have the right to accumulate reasonable amounts of private property, we also see that there are many who come up with justifications for taking the property of others. We shouldn’t care as much about the loss of our property as we should care about the souls of those who are willing to steal from their neighbors in the name of some “higher good”.
The postulation of a “higher good” that justifies disobeying The Programmer’s Operating Instruction to “love God and neighbor” is the universal hallmark of those whose souls have moved closer to condemnation. The “higher good” invariably involves a whole lot of lies which are willingly embraced to justify disobeying His Operating Instructions.
So, each false idol necessitates two willful violations of Operating Instructions. First, there is the spiritual desire for something contrary to Operating Instructions. That is either ignored, or it is followed by the creation and blending of lies into a False Idol (the “higher good”) to justify it. After those two steps are taken, there is the disobedience, the actual sin, itself.
Each sin results in the separation of the disobedient free-will creature from He Who Programmed that person with the ability to obey the Operating Instructions.
Each such “higher good” is a false idol, and each false idol is, when reduced to its mental components, a pack of lies. Many Catholic Fundamentalists learn and repeat this helpful reminder:
We must always pray
For the strength to obey.
