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It's not as explicit in the Bible as it is in the Pali Canon, but it's very clear in both, and correct, that as soon as one pins his or her life on an identity (any identity,) one can no longer know one's true self and will therefore occupy Hell in that instant. Worse, the identity is addictive as it's like sugar to the ego, is an expert hypnotist and inducer of dreamlike illusion, and the individual is unlikely to emerge from hell for billions and billions of years. If and when he does, it will be the consequence of a miracle.

There are many shallow and medium and even deep correct arguments about the evils progressive ideology visits upon mankind, and those visitations cause suffering for billions of individuals, over infinite moments, but the greatest evil and the one that characterizes all the other leafs of the trunk is the illusion that the soul is other than God.

It's not necessary that there be an intervening judgment between the mistake and the punishment, it's as simple as any universal law. If you step into a pool of lava, the stepping in is itself the burning. Laws of men have an intervening mediary. With God's law and laws of the universe ... the action is the consequence. It's not just equal to the consequence, it is the consequence ... identity vs equivalency.