(My question to Gemini) If Hell is not a real concept in the path towards the Universal Father, what happens to those souls who refuse to participate with the Divine Plan of the ascension career?
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(My question to Gemini)
If Hell is not a real concept in the path towards the Universal Father, what happens to those souls who refuse to participate with the Divine Plan of the ascension career?
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- By Gemini(Gemini Answers)If Hell is not a real concept in the path towards the Universal Father, what happens to those souls who refuse to participate with the Divine Plan of the ascension career?GEMINI:That is an excellent question that goes right to the core of the concepts presented in the 5th Epochal Revelation Papers contained in The Urantia Book, which explicitly denies the existence of a traditional hell.According to this cosmology, the fate of a soul who willfully rejects the Divine Plan of ascension and the will of the Universal Father is annihilation or non-survival.Here are the key points regarding this concept:1. The Absence of HellThe 5th Epochal Revelation teaches that there is no place of eternal torment or "hell" for the children of God.The Universal Father is portrayed as a God of infinite love and mercy, and the idea of a loving Father tormenting his erring children forever is considered incompatible with His nature.2. The Final Loss of ExistenceThe greatest and ultimate consequence for a creature is the loss of their individuality or personality survival. This is not a punishment inflicted by God, but rather the inevitable consequence of the creature's own persistent and final choice against reality (God's will).This fate is reserved for those who make a willful, persistent, and final choice of iniquity—the deliberate rejection of truth and the pursuit of sin and evil. The book sometimes refers to this as "cosmic suicide."
117:4.4 The human personality can truly destroy individuality of creaturehood, and though all that was worth while in the life of such a cosmic suicide will persist, these qualities will not persist as an individual creature. The Supreme will again find expression in the creatures of the universes but never again as that particular person; the unique personality of a nonascender returns to the Supreme as a drop of water returns to the sea.
In such a case, the evolving soul (the morontia soul) ceases to be. The personality, having failed to achieve fusion with the indwelling divine fragment (the Thought Adjuster), is simply extinguished, as if it had never been.3. The Indwelling Guide and The ChoiceEvery mortal mind receives a fragment of the Universal Father—a Thought Adjuster or Mystery Monitor—whose mission is to guide the individual toward God, facilitate the evolution of the immortal soul, and ultimately fuse with that soul.Survival (the start of the ascension career) is dependent upon the individual's free will choice to cooperate with the Adjuster and to sincerely desire to do the Father's will and become more like Him.As long as a creature maintains an open mind, desires to seek God, and has not fully and finally turned against the light, their survival is assured through the resurrection/reassembly process that allows them to continue their career on the Mansion Worlds (the initial training spheres).In short, there is no eternal suffering in this philosophy; the final, ultimate fate for the non-participant is non-existence.
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