WYSIWYG

Have you ever heard of WYSIWYG? If you ever worked in the computer programming field you might be familiar with it. I believe that the WYSIWYG principle is exactly what is demonstrated in the events of Hell and the thinking of all the people involved in it. What You See Is What You Get.


What is very interesting is that this principle has been working itself out since the beginning of sin. As Lucifer began imagining an arbitrary God who would refuse to forgive anyone who disobeyed Him, Lucifer himself refused to turn back while there was still possibility of his own forgiveness. An inspired writer once wrote, “Memory recalls the home of his innocence and purity, the peace and content that were his until he indulged in murmuring against God, and envy of Christ. His accusations, his rebellion, his deceptions to gain the sympathy and support of the angels, his stubborn persistence in making no effort for self-recovery when God would have granted him forgiveness --all come vividly before him.” [GC 669] What he insisted on seeing was an unforgiving God and his belief became his reality in fact – he placed himself in a permanent position of unforgiveness.

Then he applied the same principle to the angels he was deceiving and caused the same results in their minds giving the appearance that his opinions of God were in fact correct. What was actually correct was that he was creating his own god and then becoming a victim of it.