Some persons assume power is everything. It is difficult to convince them they are wrong, because power is the positive reinforcement for the psychological conditioning of sin. All sin begins with the desire to dominate and prevail against other persons, which requires power.

For example, Paul claims that only flesh can sin, so there can be no sin after death (Rom 6:7). The claim is so absurd that no one repeats it, but it plays into the assumption that spirit powers purify.

Satan and evil persons have power rivaling God's, which they acquire through spirit cannibalism. Does power purify them? Demons pretend that it does. They refer to satan as the lord of knowledge and light. They know it's not true; they just want his favoritism. But there is an underlying assumption that power creates godliness. All corruption promotes that assumption.

The most significant fact about power is that nothing can be done with power which is not sinful. Does that mean God sins? If he uses power, he sins. He is supposed to know that. Idiots would call such a statement blasphemy. What good is God's power if it is sinful to use? Notice this: Christ never promoted power as the answer to anything; he promoted truth and morality.

There is a place where intervention is needed as police power. Otherwise, injustice would be tolerated, which promotes sin. But the need for police power does not change the nature of morality. It says that limited and measured sin is needed to prevent much greater sin. (Sin is that which destroys life.) Corrupters ignore the limited and measured requirement of police powers in their lust for total power.

The fact that Christ walked with the nobodies instead of the somebodies shows that he was opposed to the corruptions of power. He stated in "the sermon on the mount" that the kingdom of God belongs to the nobodies, not the somebodies (Mat 5:1-12).

What about Christ using his power to heal the sick, feed the hungry, raise the dead and look into the future? He needed power to accomplish his results, but it is a little bit of sin to use power that way. It is also a little bit of sin to walk across the floor. It takes power to do that, which results in trees being destroyed and people being exploited and degraded. This means that all of life is using a little bit of sin to prevent the greater sin of destroying life. The moral requirement is to promote life in the most effective way possible. Then the little bit of sin doesn't add up to a net effect of sin.

Morality is never stated this way. It is never described as the net effect of some sin and some virtue, because there would be a tendency to rationalize sin. Instead, only the net effect is looked at, so everything can be reduced to simply sin or simply virtue. But it is necessary to realize the complexity to understand why power corrupts. Whenever power is used, the small technicalities get ballooned into large proportions. At the same time, supposed accomplishments get diminished with the use of power, because it is truth and morality that create life, not power. In other words, the use of power shifts the balance toward the negative effects and away from the positive effects.

So what is wrong with Christ using his power to heal the sick, feed the hungry, raise the dead and look into the future? It shortcuts the procedures and responsibilities required for sustaining life under material conditions, where the purpose is to overcome sin. This is why miracles are so few. But Christ needed a few miracles to teach effectively. They grabbed attention, which he needed, and they clarified the social morality of solving problems. Since humans cannot perform miracles, they must use human responsibilities to achieve social morality.

Christ used power the way police force is supposed to be used—in a limited and measured way. Corrupters promote the use of power in unlimited ways as the supposed answer to everything; and they destroy life doing so.