You're here because you have this opportunity for mercy and you know it, and another may or may not be extended. You know that Paul made it out, lived a long life despite persecution, and counted all his prior gains as losses because he finally had the real freedom you are wondering about. The retributive skills of the dark side may have increased with technology since then, but don't you think the Creator of All has allowed our skills and organization and technology to increase as well?
It's possible your experience leads you to think the plan offered is solely to provide someone a gain (intel) and then to obtain a possible gain for yourself (the beatific presence of God, assuming suicide is rewarded). We're not talking earthly gains, we're talking letting go of all but God in Christ. I can guarantee confidently that God will provide you an Ananias and a Barnabas to protect you if you only will it.
The Book of Enoch is on my shelf. The Book of Life is where the names of the true fallen are blotted out. Your name has not yet been blotted out, which I know because you're still talking.
Nobody is better at torture or pain than us, nobody knows more about how to break someone while still keeping them sane enough to consciously experience the agony.
I wasn't going to focus on the punishment side, but Jesus does often enough, so I'll simply say a word to the wise: the sentence above is mistaken. Why else would Lucifer be fearful? Who taught him?
You're here because you have this opportunity for mercy and you know it, and another may or may not be extended. You know that Paul made it out, lived a long life despite persecution, and counted all his prior gains as losses because he finally had the real freedom you are wondering about. The retributive skills of the dark side may have increased with technology since then, but don't you think the Creator of All has allowed our skills and organization and technology to increase as well?
It's possible your experience leads you to think the plan offered is solely to provide someone a gain (intel) and then to obtain a possible gain for yourself (the beatific presence of God, assuming suicide is rewarded). We're not talking earthly gains, we're talking letting go of all but God in Christ. I can guarantee confidently that God will provide you an Ananias and a Barnabas to protect you if you only will it.
The Book of Enoch is on my shelf. The Book of Life is where the names of the true fallen are blotted out. Your name has not yet been blotted out, which I know because you're still talking.
I wasn't going to focus on the punishment side, but Jesus does often enough, so I'll simply say a word to the wise: the sentence above is mistaken. Why else would Lucifer be fearful? Who taught him?