Shortsighted and time-bound mortal minds should be slow to criticize the time delays of the farseeing and all-wise administrators of universe affairs. [1]
On Paradise, disappointment is never regarded as defeat; postponement is never looked upon as disgrace; the apparent failures of time are never confused with the significant delays of eternity. [2] The mansonia life early teaches the young morontia pupils that postponement is in no sense avoidance. [3]
Between reasons for delay are: [4]
- Mercy requires that every wrongdoer have sufficient time in which to formulate a deliberate and fully chosen attitude.
- Supreme justice is dominated by a Father’s love.
- No affectionate father is ever precipitate in visiting punishment.
- Wisdom and love admonish the upright children to bear with an erring brother.
- It is required an unqualified sovereignty to exercise summary jurisdiction.
- The Ancients of Days seldom execute wrongdoers without a full hearing.
- It is better to stay away from the rebels and allow the rebellion to take its natural course of self-destruction.
- It is better to allow the rebels free course to the end that all sympathy for these evildoers should be the sooner uprooted in the heart.
- It is needed to foster full opportunity for every living creature to mature a deliberate choice in any matter.
- Full disclosure and unlimited opportunity for sin-expression is the quickest technique of achieving the perfect and final cure of the plague of evil and sin.
- At least three times the number of beings are led astray if arbitrary or summary methods of suppression are attempted.
- Time, even in a universe of time, is relative. Sometimes time is shorter than we think.