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==2:3. JUSTICE AND RIGHTEOUSNESS==

==2:3. JUSTICE AND RIGHTEOUSNESS==

2:3.1 God is righteous; therefore is he [[Justice|just]]. "The Lord is righteous in all his ways." "`I have not done without cause all that I have done,' says the Lord." "The [[Decision|judgments]] of the Lord are true and righteous altogether." The justice of the [[Universal Father]] cannot be influenced by the acts and [[performances]] of his [[creatures]], "for there is no [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_148#148:4._EVIL.2C_SIN.2C_AND_INIQUITY iniquity] with the Lord our God, no [[respect]] of persons, no taking of gifts."

2:3.1 God is righteous; therefore is he [[Justice|just]]. "The Lord is righteous in all his ways."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Psalms#Psalm_145] "`I have not done without cause all that I have done,' says the Lord."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Ezekiel#Chapter_14] "The [[Decision|judgments]] of the Lord are true and righteous altogether."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Psalms#Psalm_19] The justice of the [[Universal Father]] cannot be influenced by the acts and [[performances]] of his [[creatures]], "for there is no [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_148#148:4._EVIL.2C_SIN.2C_AND_INIQUITY iniquity] with the Lord our God, no [[respect]] of persons, no taking of gifts."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Wisdom_of_Jesus,_Son_of_Sirach#Sirach_35]

2:3.2 How futile to make puerile [[Prayer|appeals]] to such a [[God]] to modify his changeless decrees so that we can avoid the just consequences of the operation of his wise [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Natural_Law-2008-06-02#Law natural laws] and righteous [[spiritual]] [[mandates]]! "Be not deceived; God is not mocked, for whatsoever a man sows that shall he also reap." True, even in the [[justice]] of reaping the [[harvest]] of wrongdoing, this divine justice is always tempered with [[mercy]]. Infinite [[wisdom]] is the eternal arbiter which determines the [[proportions]] of justice and mercy which shall be meted out in any given circumstance. The greatest punishment (in [[reality]] an inevitable consequence) for wrongdoing and [[Intention|deliberate]] [[rebellion]] against the [[Paper 33 - Administration of the Local Universe|government of God]] is loss of [[existence]] as an individual [[citizen|subject]] of that government. The final result of wholehearted [[sin]] is annihilation. In the last [[analysis]], such sin-identified [[individuals]] have destroyed themselves by becoming wholly unreal through their [[embrace]] of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_148#148:4._EVIL.2C_SIN.2C_AND_INIQUITY iniquity]. The factual disappearance of such a [[creature]] is, however, always delayed until the ordained order of justice current in that universe has been fully complied with.

2:3.2 How futile to make puerile [[Prayer|appeals]] to such a [[God]] to modify his changeless decrees so that we can avoid the just consequences of the operation of his wise [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Natural_Law-2008-06-02#Law natural laws] and righteous [[spiritual]] [[mandates]]! "Be not deceived; God is not mocked, for whatsoever a man sows that shall he also reap."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Letter_of_Paul_to_the_Galatians#The_Letter_of_Paul_to_the_Galatians.2C_VI] True, even in the [[justice]] of reaping the [[harvest]] of wrongdoing, this divine justice is always tempered with [[mercy]]. Infinite [[wisdom]] is the eternal arbiter which determines the [[proportions]] of justice and mercy which shall be meted out in any given circumstance. The greatest punishment (in [[reality]] an inevitable consequence) for wrongdoing and [[Intention|deliberate]] [[rebellion]] against the [[Paper 33 - Administration of the Local Universe|government of God]] is loss of [[existence]] as an individual [[citizen|subject]] of that government. The final result of wholehearted [[sin]] is annihilation. In the last [[analysis]], such sin-identified [[individuals]] have destroyed themselves by becoming wholly unreal through their [[embrace]] of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_148#148:4._EVIL.2C_SIN.2C_AND_INIQUITY iniquity]. The factual disappearance of such a [[creature]] is, however, always delayed until the ordained order of justice current in that universe has been fully complied with.

2:3.3 Cessation of existence is usually decreed at the dispensational or [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Divine_Justice-2001-04-01 epochal adjudication] of the realm or realms. On a world such as Urantia it comes at the end of a [[Paper 52 - Planetary Mortal Epochs|planetary dispensation]]. Cessation of existence can be decreed at such times by co-ordinate action of all tribunals of jurisdiction, extending from the [[Council of 24|planetary council]] up through the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_33#33:7._THE_COURTS_OF_NEBADON courts of the Creator Son] to the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_15#15:12._THE_SUPREME_TRIBUNALS judgment tribunals] of the [[Ancients of Days]]. The mandate of dissolution originates in the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_15#15:12._THE_SUPREME_TRIBUNALS higher courts] of the [[superuniverse]] following an unbroken confirmation of the indictment originating on the [[sphere]] of the wrongdoer's [[Home|residence]]; and then, when sentence of extinction has been confirmed on high, the execution is by the direct act of those judges residential on, and operating from, the [[Uversa|headquarters]] of the [[superuniverse]].

2:3.3 Cessation of existence is usually decreed at the dispensational or [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Divine_Justice-2001-04-01 epochal adjudication] of the realm or realms. On a world such as Urantia it comes at the end of a [[Paper 52 - Planetary Mortal Epochs|planetary dispensation]]. Cessation of existence can be decreed at such times by co-ordinate action of all tribunals of jurisdiction, extending from the [[Council of 24|planetary council]] up through the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_33#33:7._THE_COURTS_OF_NEBADON courts of the Creator Son] to the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_15#15:12._THE_SUPREME_TRIBUNALS judgment tribunals] of the [[Ancients of Days]]. The mandate of dissolution originates in the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_15#15:12._THE_SUPREME_TRIBUNALS higher courts] of the [[superuniverse]] following an unbroken confirmation of the indictment originating on the [[sphere]] of the wrongdoer's [[Home|residence]]; and then, when sentence of extinction has been confirmed on high, the execution is by the direct act of those judges residential on, and operating from, the [[Uversa|headquarters]] of the [[superuniverse]].