Why yes, certainly. God threw godself into differentiation and then engendered independent (free-willed) beings for motives that may be partly beyond understanding, but that certainly include at least one that we recognize as purely social, namely, love.

You as a created, free willed being actually have a little piece of the godhead dispersed to you, though it is informationally too small to make you conventionally god-like. Still, it is YOUR PRIVILEGE here to be a co-creator of this cosmos, exercising your free will and its subset, creativity, to direct your patch of the ongoing formation of this universe.

If God had made purely dependent creatures, puppet like either under his own guidance (free of error) or under the pure guidance of causal physics (incapable of true error or true good because no mistake or beneficence could really be deliberately made), then he would simply have no company arising from this creation. Nothing social, no love. It would have all been machinery. Life has transcended machinery, notwithstanding Mr. Descartes' objections, which you until recently subscribed to.

So you are intrinsically of great value as a beloved co-creator.

It is hard work being a mortal co-creator, so eventually, having established yourself as a differentiated being through all your creativities, you are graduated to the next level, where you are in less peril. Life after death. Independence has given you true character. But there's no point building up character forever under such rugged conditions.

Now, if you use your power, though, to destroy, to cause pain to other greatly valued beings, to eradicate love wherever you go, then you have come into something of a paradox.

What exactly does this paradox entail for you? It can't be good... you may indeed be becoming quite a character, but one that no one else can live with, and an offense to the very one who granted you independence.

My suggestion is that lake of fire motifs and so on are simply metaphors for the most obvious reality: you have spent your life being the negation of every reason and value you are put here for. Somehow, if you take it far enough, you succeed in subtracting yourself right out of eternity.

It may simply be your human right as a created being to completely extinguish yourself, to go up in a puff of smoke, by absolutely contradicting the purpose of your creation.