Revelations I

“When the Lamb opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, “Come!”. I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.”

Those were the most depressing and horrifying words that a 12 year old child could read, and they were also the Beginning of The Riddle.

The Riddle was simple really, and actually began as a series of Questions:

  • Is God omniscient and omnipotent? Capable of knowing and doing anything?
  • Is God compassionate and able to forgive you of all sins?
  • Why would a god who created me, knows my thoughts, knows my actions, knows why I live the life I live, be unable to forgive me for failing to ask for forgiveness in some arbitrary manner designed by his myopic followers and then subsequently condemn me to an eternity in Hell and yet still claim to love me?

These Thoughts drove me away from the christian church and festered for a long time. Then the Riddle gained strength one night while thinking about paradoxes. We’ve all heard the old paradox, “If God is all powerful can he make a Rock so big that he can’t lift it?”, and we’ve all come to the conclusion that it’s simply a paradox but how many of us have really thought about what its True Message is?

Revelation Revolution

That night it suddenly dawned upon me that the Rock isn’t a real rock at all, it’s a Metaphor. God with his mighty Ego has created a condition where he cannot give you forgiveness unless you ask for it first. Do you see the parallels yet? The christian god is a Superman-like deity that cannot save you from eternal damnation if you have the Kryptonite necklace that consists not of genocide or child molestation as one might suppose but rather failure to say “Can you Forgive Me?”. That’s the Rock he Created that he cannot Lift; his Ego will only allow him to Lift the Rock once you have begged for Mercy.

I’ve read that being a christian means being Christ-like and that means one should be able to forgive unconditionally. And nobody says we have to be Perfect and Forgive everyone of every thing, only that we should be able to forgive. I don’t know about some of You but I have surely been forgiven of many a “sin” by my Friends and I’m quite certain that I never asked and that We never discussed it. They saw I made a mistake, Knew it was something small, or maybe even not that small, and then moved on without a word being said. No Eternal Damnation, no begging to be let into their Kingdom, just going on with Life without bothering to care about the little downers we get from time to time. I know I have done the same for my Friends and didn’t think twice about it.

Now, to be fair I don’t really think the Riddle has anything to do with God at all and has Far More to do with his Followers. You see, his Book was written by men, and a woman or two according to research, some with agendas and some simply to Enlighten the masses, but was then edited by a King1 who felt it necessary to control his environment, to instill the fear of Eternal Damnation if one were to break the laws of One Man, and to make his Word appear to be the Word of God. There are many things to be said about King James but I’ll save that for a later date.

  1. King James I actually only initiated the editing but he was also keen on making sure it reflected his opinions and wishes as well [↩]