Much is said of God's judgments on man, and that everlasting punishment alone will satisfy divine justice. Limited mortal thought can not measure the quantity or quality of infinite and eternal Good. Infinite Good is not conscious of any finite measurement of mortal darkness in evil.
Material man is the Lawyer, the Law, the Judge, and the Prisoner. Mortal man is self-condemned, self-judged, and self-imprisoned. God knows nothing of this false condition. Therefore man, in his sense of guilt, justifies himself only through self-imposed punishment.
Having lost conscious oneness with the Divine Principle of Good, man could not rest in peace under the disquietude of a guilty conscience. He therefore trusts to the strength of his sense of God's justice to restore him. Weighing himself in the balance of self-justification, he finds himself wanting; for the justice of God is not there to equalize the weight.
