DEFINING THE SPIRIT OF THE WORLD

The cosmos is filled with creatures with free will. Each being is a vector in the space. The direction of the vector may be defined in terms of the reference point which is unchangeable- which is God's Spirit. The direction of the vectors can then be defined + or - depending on whether the vector has a positive component in the direction of God point or a negative component. the spirit which has a positive component towards God is called righteous and those that have negative component is called unrighteous or evil. Such a person is often called a devil.

Christianity rejects the idea of a negative God i.e. Satan as the antithesis of God. The Zoroastrian (Parsee) religion and most of the religions of the Middle East at the time of Israel believed in a polarized, equal and fighting good and bad gods. God is a good God - if the term can be applied to God. He did not create evil. Evil is not a physical reality. It is a moral reality arising out of the actions of a free moral agent. Man and other creatures of God created with a free will generates evil because they move away from God and follow other interests contrary to the purposes of God. This is the source of evil. Such an agent whether man or spirit, terrestrial or alien may be called the devil. There are many devils and many Antichrists in this world. The moral agent moving towards God and acting as a free agent is righteous. They are saints. But they need not necessarily be in consonance with God nor targeted directly on Him. These spirit beings form a cloud of righteous beings, unrighteous beings and secular beings. This cloud is similar in distribution as electrostatic distribution of charges. In the presence of God the righteous will move towards God and the unrighteous away from God. Hence at any instant there will be distribution of these with concentration of the righteous around and near God and concentration of unrighteous away from God. A polarization has taken place.  We can replace this hazy field of distributed + and - by two centers of masses; + which is God and - which we may designate as - and call Satan.

1John 5:19 We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one.

Thus Satan is an apparent personality- not real. Satan really is a title. It is the title of a being who becomes the center of mass or center of attraction of the evil beings. It is a power source of all evil. A better definition can be made in the terminology of dynamics as the sink. Where God is the source and the generator of righteousness, Satan is the sink of righteousness. He is the source of evil but not the only generator of it. In practice the evilest may be termed as such. This apparent negative charge cloud provided by the negative charges by polarization is called the spirit of the world.   The field is made complicated by the process of conglomeration or bonding.  Birds of the same feather gather together and plot together.  In spite of the extreme egoism and selfishness and the internal conflicts which is self destructive, evil combine together to form a force.  World is filled with organized terrorism and crime.  In the same way the forces of Good gather together and form bonds.  In spite of their differences they also conglomerate.  This makes the two centers of fields intense and produce a distributed field which could be described in terms of lines of potentials.

Thus evil and Satan are described in terms of the “world”  The sinful world is Satan's domain: Job 1:7; 1 Pe 5:8  Satan is the ruler of this world: Jn 12:31; 14:31; 16:11  Prince of the power of the air: Eph 2:2  The god of this world: 2 Cor 4:4  He promises the world to those who will obey him: Mt 4:8-9  His domain is a sinful world under evil power: 1 Jn 5:19