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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]

2:3.1 God is righteous; therefore is he [[Justice|just]]. "The Lord is righteous in all his ways."[https://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."[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Ezekiel#Chapter_14] "The [[Decision|judgments]] of the Lord are true and righteous altogether."[https://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 [https://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."[https://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."[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.

2:3.2 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 [https://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."[https://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 [https://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 [https://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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_33#33:7._THE_COURTS_OF_NEBADON courts of the Creator Son] to the [https://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 [https://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]].

2:3.4 When this sentence is finally confirmed, the [[sin]]-identified being instantly becomes as though he had not been. There is no [[resurrection]] from such a [[Destiny|fate]]; it is everlasting and eternal. The living [[energy]] factors of [[identity]] are resolved by the [[transformations]] of [[time]] and the [[metamorphoses]] of [[space]] into the [[cosmic]] [[potentials]] whence they once emerged. As for the [[personality]] of the iniquitous one, it is deprived of a continuing [Body|life vehicle] by the [[creature]]'s failure to make those [[choices]] and final decisions which would have assured eternal life. When the continued [[embrace]] of [[sin]] by the associated mind culminates in complete self-identification with [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_148#148:4._EVIL.2C_SIN.2C_AND_INIQUITY iniquity], then upon the cessation of life, upon cosmic dissolution, such an [[Isolation|isolated]] personality is absorbed into the [[Paper 117 - God the Supreme|oversoul]] of [[creation]], becoming a part of the evolving experience of the [[Supreme Being]]. Never again does it appear as a personality; its identity becomes as though it had never been. In the case of an [[Thought Adjuster|Adjuster]]-indwelt personality, the experiential [[spirit]] [[values]] [[survive]] in the reality of the continuing Adjuster.

2:3.4 When this sentence is finally confirmed, the [[sin]]-identified being instantly becomes as though he had not been. There is no [[resurrection]] from such a [[Destiny|fate]]; it is everlasting and eternal. The living [[energy]] factors of [[identity]] are resolved by the [[transformations]] of [[time]] and the [[metamorphoses]] of [[space]] into the [[cosmic]] [[potentials]] whence they once emerged. As for the [[personality]] of the iniquitous one, it is deprived of a continuing [[Body|life vehicle]] by the [[creature]]'s failure to make those [[choices]] and final decisions which would have assured eternal life. When the continued [[embrace]] of [[sin]] by the associated mind culminates in complete self-identification with [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_148#148:4._EVIL.2C_SIN.2C_AND_INIQUITY iniquity], then upon the cessation of life, upon cosmic dissolution, such an [[Isolation|isolated]] personality is absorbed into the [[Paper 117 - God the Supreme|oversoul]] of [[creation]], becoming a part of the evolving experience of the [[Supreme Being]]. Never again does it appear as a personality; its identity becomes as though it had never been. In the case of an [[Thought Adjuster|Adjuster]]-indwelt personality, the experiential [[spirit]] [[values]] [[survive]] in the reality of the continuing Adjuster.

2:3.5 In any universe contest between actual [[Paper 106 - Universe Levels of Reality|levels of reality]], the [[personality]] of the higher level will [[ultimately]] triumph over the personality of the lower level. This inevitable outcome of universe [[Debate|controversy]] is inherent in the [[fact]] that [[divinity]] of [[quality]] equals the degree of [[reality]] or actuality of any [[Free will|will creature]]. Undiluted [[evil]], complete error, willful [[sin]], and unmitigated iniquity are inherently and [[automatically]] [[suicidal]]. Such [[attitudes]] of cosmic unreality can survive in the [[universe]] only because of transient [[mercy]]-[[tolerance]] pending the [[action]] of the [[justice]]-determining and [[fairness]]-finding [[mechanisms]] of the universe tribunals of righteous [[adjudication]].

2:3.5 In any universe contest between actual [[Paper 106 - Universe Levels of Reality|levels of reality]], the [[personality]] of the higher level will [[ultimately]] triumph over the personality of the lower level. This inevitable outcome of universe [[Debate|controversy]] is inherent in the [[fact]] that [[divinity]] of [[quality]] equals the degree of [[reality]] or actuality of any [[Free will|will creature]]. Undiluted [[evil]], complete error, willful [[sin]], and unmitigated iniquity are inherently and [[automatically]] [[suicidal]]. Such [[attitudes]] of cosmic unreality can survive in the [[universe]] only because of transient [[mercy]]-[[tolerance]] pending the [[action]] of the [[justice]]-determining and [[fairness]]-finding [[mechanisms]] of the universe tribunals of righteous [[adjudication]].

2:3.6 The rule of the [[Creator Son]]s in the [[local universes]] is one of [[creation]] and spiritualization. [[Paper 21 - The Paradise Creator Sons|These Sons]] [[devote]] themselves to the effective execution of the [[Paradise]] plan of [[progressive]] [[mortal]] [[ascension]], to the rehabilitation of rebels and wrong thinkers, but when all such loving efforts are finally and forever rejected, the final decree of dissolution is executed by forces acting under the jurisdiction of the [[Ancients of Days]].

2:3.6 The rule of the [[Creator Son]]s in the [[local universes]] is one of [[creation]] and spiritualization. [[Paper 21 - The Paradise Creator Sons|These Sons]] [[devote]] themselves to the effective execution of the [[Paradise]] plan of [[progressive]] [[mortal]] [[ascension]], to the rehabilitation of rebels and wrong thinkers, but when all such loving efforts are finally and forever rejected, the final decree of dissolution is executed by forces acting under the jurisdiction of the [[Ancients of Days]].

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[[Category:Paper 2 - The Nature of God]]

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