“To accommodate itself to falseness? Then it could bring more people to the truth?”
No! Then it would no longer be truth. The most important thing for truth to remain truth is for itself to remain in its truth. And it is literally impossible for truth to deviate from itself, as deviation is only possible to falseness. It’s like in mathematics, if the mathematical reasoning deviates from truth then it is no longer true. And it’s not enslavement to truth, it is being wholly in truth. We could say this is the nature of God: devoid of the possibility of deviation from truth, not because of narrowness of spirit, but because of being absolute spirit. Without a drop of neuroticism, or the possibility of such a drop.
Deviation is possible to creatures of free will where falseness is a possibility, and importantly they are granted such freedom of inner movement, along with the inner consequences. I can’t speak too much about the consciousness of angelic or spirit worlds (putting it mildly) - however one feels about such worlds - but in theologies beyond just the Judaeo-Christian, not just humans but also angels had such freedom, or freedom to deviate from truth. So they weren’t just slaves of God, who was absolute truth, but were granted self-autonomy, though, in contrast to the human world, with it seems absolute negative consequences in the angelic domain for the choice of deviation. There’s little point in trying to judge this judgement in their deviation as fair or not from a human standpoint as it’s presumably not a like for like reality, and in the world it seems to equate to a definitive choice of rebellion of self against God, for the dethroning of God to be replaced by glorification of the deviant self. And that’s why demons are so demonic! They are wholly committed to the deviant self!
In various ancient texts, this angelic rebellion then leaks into the human world, with it being bound up in the world of temptations and deviations, but with the massive greater freedom of spirit and movement open to people by repentance and openness to receiving truth, which always remains open to flood in. However much we deviate, God never does, and so you could say, however deep a hole we dig for ourselves, the sun keeps blazing away regardless.
I didn’t intend writing something long like that - I thought I’d just throw out some smart one or two liners - but anyway that’s what came out.
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