An eternal existence does not necessarily mean no accountability. The same way a student who fails a course is not simply admitted to the next level, regardless: that student needs to go back, fix their learning. Atone. Not as a "mandate" from creator, but because that is the way the universe works.
Can't imagine much worse than that, if you're into excruciating punishment. Think. the first four second of the universe life, when life can exist, was fun but then, for most of its 100 year long life, nothing to 'look at' but black holes, and you can't really even see them,for the rest of the 100.
Not one hundred more seconds, like the first four seconds of its life when actual living things could exist in the universe, but 100 YEARS!
The last matter in the universe is swallowed by a black hole after the first four seconds.
"Eternal" life is a unique monkey-oriented, delusional fantasy.
It is not any more far-fetched than a being who walks over water, or heals diseases, or resuscitates. Or black holes that trap light. Or quantum entanglement. When one begins to see things as just the natural laws at work, regardless of creators, one relaxes lots of obstacles to the mind.
I hope you will like this as much as I do. I suspect you will. youtu.be/h6fcK_fRYaI?...
It's because we're baby brained ground monkeys that we like to pretend daddy will have a chat with us about how confusing being an evolved amoeba can be, especially to folks who never learned much about biology. Why our Universe becomes colder? Something to do with Hawking radiation and black holes?
I take it you didn't like The Egg?
Well, just another afterlife fantasy designed to appeal to fearful monkeys hope for something other than the oblivion their familiar with from previous experience, not something they are born with, in fact, if taught scientific theories of its own life, they wouldn't mind oblivion as an alternative.
Biological life, from a scientific perspective, if the universe life was 100 years like a human, could only exist within the first four seconds, for example, that's a long time watching black holes orbit each other.
I am thinking that we must be inside one, it would explain a lot, nothing can escape, so, when our universe is getting colder, perhaps the black hole we are inside, is creating space from the Hawking radiation that's dissolving the black hole we exist within, as nothing can escape from it save that.
When the universe we exist within reaches entropy zero, a flat 'infinite' (some sort of time loop because of the black hole we are inside, effectively making it infinite) plane, so no differentiation, makes time irrelevant, and thus space, black hole we exist within in its universe, has disappeared?
Perhaps another big bang ensues inside that black hole. Which could be an interpretation for the multiverse with which Marvel polluted us.
It's really just another version of infinite turtles, all the way down, but the best I can come up with at present.
I recall a short story about a quantum computer, as it explained, was able to achieve its accelerated "quantum" algorithm properties by existing in multiple parallel universes (such that the algorithm also ran in parallel). But the issue was people nearby were also transported to those alternates.