rehabilitation

• Creator Sons pledged to retrieve personal creation

21:3.14If ever the au­thor­ity or ad­min­is­tra­tion of a Cre­ator Son is chal­lenged, at­tacked, or jeop­ar­dized, he is eter­nally pledged to up­hold, pro­tect, de­fend, and if nec­es­sary re­trieve his per­sonal cre­ation. Such Sons can be trou­bled or ha­rassed only by the crea­tures of their own mak­ing or by higher be­ings of their own choos­ing. It might be in­ferred that “higher be­ings,” those of ori­gin on lev­els above a lo­cal uni­verse, would be un­likely to trou­ble a Cre­ator Son, and this is true. But they could if they chose to. Virtue is vo­li­tional with per­son­al­ity; righ­teous­ness is not au­to­matic in free­will crea­tures.

• what mercy cannot rehabilitate, justice will annihilate

21:5.7The el­e­va­tion of a sev­en­fold be­stowal Son to the un­ques­tioned sov­er­eignty of his uni­verse means the be­gin­ning of the end of age­long un­cer­tainty and rel­a­tive con­fu­sion. Sub­se­quent to this event, that which can­not be some­time spir­i­tu­al­ized will even­tu­ally be dis­or­ga­nized; that which can­not be some­time co-or­di­nated with cos­mic re­al­ity will even­tu­ally be de­stroyed. When the pro­vi­sions of end­less mercy and name­less pa­tience have been ex­hausted in an ef­fort to win the loy­alty and de­vo­tion of the will crea­tures of the realms, jus­tice and righ­teous­ness will pre­vail. That which mercy can­not re­ha­bil­i­tate jus­tice will even­tu­ally an­ni­hi­late.

• salvation is eternal r.

188:5.2The cross for­ever shows that the at­ti­tude of Je­sus to­ward sin­ners was nei­ther con­dem­na­tion nor con­do­na­tion, but rather eter­nal and lov­ing sal­va­tion. Je­sus is truly a sav­ior in the sense that his life and death do win men over to good­ness and righ­teous sur­vival. Je­sus loves men so much that his love awak­ens the re­sponse of love in the hu­man heart. Love is truly con­ta­gious and eter­nally cre­ative. Je­sus’ death on the cross ex­em­pli­fies a love which is suf­fi­ciently strong and di­vine to for­give sin and swal­low up all evil-do­ing. Je­sus dis­closed to this world a higher qual­ity of righ­teous­ness than jus­tice—mere tech­ni­cal right and wrong. Di­vine love does not merely for­give wrongs; it ab­sorbs and ac­tu­ally de­stroys them. The for­give­ness of love ut­terly tran­scends the for­give­ness of mercy. Mercy sets the guilt of evil-do­ing to one side; but love de­stroys for­ever the sin and all weak­ness re­sult­ing there­from. Je­sus brought a new method of liv­ing to Uran­tia. He taught us not to re­sist evil but to find through him a good­ness which ef­fec­tu­ally de­stroys evil. The for­give­ness of Je­sus is not con­do­na­tion; it is sal­va­tion from con­dem­na­tion. Sal­va­tion does not slight wrongs; it makes them right. True love does not com­pro­mise nor con­done hate; it de­stroys it. The love of Je­sus is never sat­is­fied with mere for­give­ness. The Mas­ter’s love im­plies re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion, eter­nal sur­vival. It is al­to­gether proper to speak of sal­va­tion as re­demp­tion if you mean this eter­nal re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion.