Hi GT,....while one may entertain the thought of evil people living forever, we must take into account the potential and possibility of souls 'repenting' of their evil ways. - unless you're assuming that these evil people are somehow eternally bound to be 'evil' in nature and conduct. All souls still have the 'light', 'image', 'likeness', 'essence' of 'God' within them, since their very 'being' is sustained by 'God', since nothing can 'be' or 'live' outside of God the Infinite, who is also omnipresent. So, you have these 'factors' to consider or resolve, before assuming that a world CAN exist that is wholly evil, where 'evil' people exist and cannot ever repent or change. Assuming that people can be 'evil' forever, also rejects the concept of spiritual evolution and eternal progression of souls. It basically defeats the purpose of life.
I don't see physical death as humbling evil people, except that unless they have a belief in the afterlife, it might mean life/consciousness just ends with the material body disintegrating. From a spiritualist perspective,...since there is really no death (all spirit-souls continue on in consciousness after the physical body dies)...souls continue on in their journey in the astral and spirit-realms....so that their 'karma'(actions) and their consequences ever follow after them, and must be atoned for.
Such is the law of responsibility. This is a
universal law (we can also call it the 'law of compensation'; 'law of retribution', etc.) It holds as long as any soul is alive/conscious and can act in any way, since all action has corresponding re-actions (consequences/effects).
See the above. The law of action and consequences (cause/effect, sowing/reaping)
underlies all movements, whether you don't see any immediate effects from actions, since some effects do not manifest until other factors of 'time' and 'circumstance' allow for their appearing, but all actions must bear their fruit at some point in time. Remember, 'karma' means 'action'. The principle is found in the Bible, other religious/philosophical writings from antiquity, because this is a law of nature that is self-evident, rational and logical to human experience. A better understanding of 'karma' is essential here, with proper research, instead of a dismissal of it by presumption or ignorance.
This is not true, but assumed,...
since the scriptures teach that all actions have consequences for good or bad, and souls reap the harvest of what they sow,.....'measure for measure'...in this life and in the next, whenever the fruit of such actions are ready to be born. Remember,...souls continue to reap what they sow, in this life, and in all lives, in all realms
where there is activity of any kind. As long as the conditioning of 'mind' (choice, free will) exists and where actions can be performed,....there is 'karma'.
Sure, so it seems, as we all take on some of the negative karmic influences or effects that disperse in the world (that seem to be not our 'responsibility'), among our various relationships, and in this 'network' cannot help sometimes to suffer as a result of such 'inter-actions' with other and situations we find ourselves in. However how can we not know that some of the things we experience where not a result of actions in our past life-experiences, that we are 'meeting' us to be dealt with? There may not be effects of some actions until many years or life-times later.
As far as people not getting what they deserve in life, that can seem to work both towards good and evil results, but I believe there is
ultimately justice rendered in the universe although we may not see it come to pass in a certain or prolonged period of time, until all things are 'compensated' for in the time that is ripe for such actions to be reconciled. Karma holds for us a more rational view of the soul's eternal progress thru 'experience' and 'learning' via 'evolution', than just a pat n dry concept of going to either 'heaven' or 'hell' when you die, ONLY getting the reward for your deeds AFTER you die,...this is non-sensical since karma is a law
ever at work, as long as you are living and doing anything. Only if you were to wholly DIE, become 'nothing', disintegrate as a conscious entity, dissolve your soul-essence into oblivion, no long 'be',.....would there exist no more karma for you, since there being no activity there is no more effect or consequence for anything, there is just NOTHING. - follow?
Anyways,...this may be a concept needing further research if interested. A narrow view of what is 'biblical' does not always see the bigger picture from both a cosmic and individual perspective, but no matter,....as long as you can ACT....
there are laws that govern the outcomes, effects and consequences of such actions. If you deny such, you deny reason and logic.
See: Karma: the law of order and opportunity
pj
- as far as 'paganism' goes,...well how wonderful of you to recognize that pagans (and those adepts versed in the 'ancient wisdom' teachings) had insight and knowledge of universal principles, the laws of nature and Spirit, before any organized religions either recognized the same or adopted them from these sources as wisdom proposed. 
