From the Urantia Book...
2:3.2 (36.7) How futile to make puerile appeals to such a God to modify his changeless decrees
so that we can avoid the just consequences of the operation of his wise 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 deliberate rebellion against the government
of God is loss of existence as an individual 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 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 (37.1) Cessation of existence is usually decreed at the dispensational or epochal adjudication
of the realm or realms. On a world such as Urantia it comes at the end of a planetary
dispensation. Cessation of existence can be decreed at such times by co-ordinate action
of all tribunals of jurisdiction, extending from the planetary council up through
the courts of the Creator Son to the judgment tribunals of the Ancients of Days. The
mandate of dissolution originates in the higher courts of the superuniverse following
an unbroken confirmation of the indictment originating on the sphere of the wrongdoer’s
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 headquarters
of the superuniverse.
2:3.4 (37.2) 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 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
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 iniquity, then upon the cessation
of life, upon cosmic dissolution, such an isolated personality is absorbed into the
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 Adjuster-indwelt personality, the experiential spirit
values survive in the reality of the continuing Adjuster.
Thrall to the Wire of Self-Excited Circuit.
