Human beings cannot save every robot that was created because there comes a time when the machines expire because of deterioration (due to wear and tear) or decomposition from sunlight or other chemical reactions such as oxidation.
Machinery can have a degree of longevity that extends beyond the expected period of usage because it has been treated with high regard and well looked after, with parts always being replaced. Nevertheless, we would expect an expiry date to eventually come around, even if the machinery were a printing press that had been in operation for 4000 years.
The difference between robots, machinery and human beings is freewill.
Freewill is what distinguishes humans from other creatures that do not have the capacity for rationality. A robot can be programmed to process information, but it does not have freewill to make moral distinctions regarding relationships. Fantasy may attribute such ability to a robot, but that is where the ability lies: in the world of unrestrained fancy; not in the realities of the present, where pain matters and people are emotionally hurting, because they feel insulted, ignored and unloved.
If God made humans to be robots, as some people fantasize, there would be no need for justice.
Justice is that distinguishing element, within the phenomenon that we call knowledge, that cries out for equitable treatment to be upheld for all individuals affected by the inappropriate and disproportionate distribution of wealth, and unfair emotional interaction between humans that results in psychological and physical harm, in order that relationships within society may be secure and free, from fear of adverse unwarranted discrimination that is detrimental to any participating individual.
Essentially, being born into futility is unjust for a moral being; as is being born to know suffering before experiencing the futility of death or non-existence.
For a moral being to be denied the right to exercise volition is also unjust; for a relationship cannot be forced upon people and be classified as free. A captive may have a relationship with a captor, but this is not one that is truly free, unless an option for escape is provided and the captive chooses to stay with the captor, rather than taking up the offer of leaving.
People have freewill. If they choose not to take up the offer to accept that the price has been paid to free them from the captivity of sin, suffering and death, with its consequences, then God cannot save them from any final decision to reject His offer.
For people who do not hate evil, but who find some sadistic pleasure in being abusive towards other persons, the opportunity to be free from abusing the individuals they falsely claim they love—if they did, they would not abuse—is something they refuse to take up, because this requires:
1) acknowledgement of their abusive evil actions;
2) repenting from doing them;
3) exercising faith in the offer of the freedom from being abusive and unloving as a better way of life.
Many individuals think that they do not need to take up any such offer and they are capable of overcoming their own evil ways without the assistance of the Lord God. These individuals will have to deal with death on their own terms. For if they reject the offer of freedom made available by the ransom price for their souls having been paid by the precious blood of the only sinless person, these proud, self-willed individuals have no option but to fend for themselves.
In the event of a requirement to give an account of themselves after biological death, proud, self-willed individuals would be stricken with fear, since this would mean that the futility of being born to die was something that they had chosen, except eternal death does not mean eternal non-existence.
Surprisingly, many of these individuals feel that they are being rational when they reject any hope of true meaning for existence by turning their back on that hope, in what is really an irrational act of rejection of the truth.
Irrational people are unable to be saved by God because they refuse to reason with Him, even though the invitation is extended to all who read this:
- “Come now, and let us reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land; but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.” (Isaiah 1:18–20)
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