Chapter 5: Why We Don't Make the Healer Mad [EDITED]
Chapter 5: Why We Don't Make the Healer Mad
(\PoV: Third Person/)
The clearing was littered with small ice spikes and puddles of water, as well as feathers and not a few streaks of blood scattered about... But the more important details here are the beings still within said clearing. There were four pegasi, all in very light armor of a Roman-esque motif and-"Alright you damn stickhead bitch, you had your last bucking shot!" ...And most assuredly, stallions.
These four ruffians are Pegasi Raiders, pegasi that decided to tell their kind's more honor-bound culture to go buck itself and sold themselves as unscrupulous mercenaries. In short: bandits. All four pegasi had seen better days, as the various cuts in both armor and skin, (not to mention several missing feathers,) attested. The seeming leader of the group grinned predatorially. "Now either we get our fun and your stuff AND our little payday behind ya, or you die, Hawk has fun with your corpse, and we still get our payday. Whadya say, bitch?" His wings are still fully extended, showing the overlapping, scale-like pattern of wingblades.
The, ahem, 'Stickhead Bitch,' is a light gray unicorn mare with an almost-white ice blue mane. Her dark blue robes shifted as she adjusted her position to one more able cover the downed figure behind her, a cutie mark of a lavender, runed teardrop over a five-point lavender pentagram showing clearly as the robe did not cover her flanks. She also had a satchel carrying what looked to be well-read books, (though for all intents and purposes it could very well be battle damage.) She grit her teeth and growled, even as her bright blue aura flickered as she struggled to even maintain a simple Telekinesis over her pinewood mage's staff. Her eyes, the same sharp blue as her aura, searched wildly for some way to make it out of this mess while remaining... Untouched by the sligthly smaller bandits. "Tch, g-go to Tartarus! I've s-still got enough magic to s-send you bastards there myself if I-I need to!" Obviously a lie, but what could she really do at that point?
Behind her is figure wearing a heavily damaged black travelling cloak, revealing deep furrows of red on a snow-white coat, as well as white bat-like wings. This other figure is laying on her side, (for she is a mare,) the scratches bleeding heavily as she struggles to breathe. Her midnight blue mane shifts as she looks up at the unicorn with sorrow-filled, blood red eyes. Of course, as she looked up at the unicorn, she caught sight of something just at the edge of her blurring vision. Even as the flock of raiders spread out to surround them, she focused on the figure which looked to be nearly as tall-if not, taller than the trees that circled the clearing.
It looked like a dragon, but it was slightly hunched over, and had red lines traveling all around its body. It's horns were oddly curved and it's wings were far larger than what she thought a dragon of that size should have. It's scales were black as the night itself and refused to reflect the moonlight like an dragon's would. It's claws were longer and sharper-looking than the average dragon's, as well. It's rear limbs, however, were most glaringly different as it's legs were bent like a pony's, and it had a sickle-shaped talon on it's innermost toes. Then she caught it's eyes; blood red, with no other shade in them, and wrath seemed to pour out from them.
The downed pony saw his claws tighten into a fist as her vision failed... But to the end of days, she would remember her first time feeling a Deathclaw's growl as the earth beneath her rumbled, and she blacked out...
The others felt the air reverberate with a constant roll of thunder, that seemed to slowly become louder with each passing moment. The unicorn spotted John first as he came out of the treeline, sheer terror causing her to lose her grip on the staff. The Raiders saw this, their green-coated leader turning first to see what looked to be a very ticked off dragon.
Now, credit where credit is due for the Raider, he did not wet himself upon seeing an angry psudeo-deathclaw up close. "Oh TARTARUS no, I am NOT loosing this payday!" ...Of course, that may simply be because he has no brains and decided that it was a good idea to charge at our dear friend John... Which can only end badly for him.
As the Raider leaps toward John with the intent to slash at his chest, John sidesteps and grabs said wings. This has the unintended yet not-unwelcome side-effect of both rendering the wingblades uselessly damaged and dislocating said wings, causing the Raider to scream in agony. John huffs. "Pitiful."
He then tosses the Raider into one of his friends, knocking both clean out. The other two look at each-other and decide that it would be a good idea to cut their losses and run. They fly to ther friends, pick them up, and fly off in a hurry. This leaves the unicorn and John standing and looking at eachother. One with slight concern, the other...
(\PoV: Unknown Unicorn/)
Oh SHIT! First those damn mercs found us, now there's a demon?! How could this day get any worse?!"It would appear that your companion requires medical attention. Please stand aside, miss." ...Bwuh? Did... Did a demon of all creatures just-"Miss, your friend is hurt, badly. Please stand aside so that I can do what I am able." He says with a proffesional tone, albeit with tells that he himself is slightly nervous.
No. In fact, TARTARUS no! I'm not letting that demon anywhere near her! "G-Go away demon! I-I'll banish you!"
Suddenly one of the dragon's claws light up with a gentle gold light that seems to pulse like a heart-"HEALING MAGIC?! From a DEMON?! HOW! Just... Just how in the gods' names could a demon use holy-aligned healing magick?!"
The demon (?!?) just shakes his head with a low growl. "Do you belive me now?" I- "Good. Now get out of my way so I can save your friend's life!"
I dumbly step aside and let the... Well, he can't be a dragon, but then... Ahrg, this is just one huge headache on top of another one! The golden glow soon washes over Moony, and the kid's wounds seal up nicely. I just... I sit down and try to collect myself. Okay. So. A strange dragon that light doesn't hit right just used holy-aligned healing magic to save the kid, I've still got an overuse headache thanks to that fight with the bandits, and just-I don't bucking know anymore! The dragon, (demon-I DON'T BUCKING KNOW!) looks over Moony again before nodding and turning to lay against a nearby tree-Which barely lasts a second against his weight before falling over, causing him to shout in surprise and splay out his wings! HAH! That one should have been obvious, hay-brain!
The dragon sits up and rubs his head. "And yet again, I eat dirt. I really ought to stop doing that." He crosses his legs and looks at me. "I suppose I should have asked earlier, are you injured as well?"
"Ha! As if those meagre pegasi could ever possibly have hoped to pierced my wards!"
The dragon lets out a deep chuckle and shakes his head. "Ah, yes, because you clearly had the situation well in hand-well, hoof, but you know what I mean." Is he-He's mocking me! Why that son of a whorse! Once I get my magic back I'll-
"I see that thou hath handled the situation, John." Who-Huh. Coming into the clearing from the same direction as the-Oh forget it, as John, came from is a unicorn paladin in rusty plate and with a warhammer on her back. Beside her is an earth pony with a brown cloak on, though I'd guess that she's got some tricks up her mane to be out here in the Everfree.
John nods. "There were four armored pegasi harrasing these two," At that he gestures to the kid and I, "I assumed, given the language used and the implications thereof, that the pegasi were either bandits or mercenaries of the worst kind and not some form of military or law enforcement."
The paladin nods. "Pegasus Raiders, some of the worst scum to even their own." Walks over to me. "I am Solaria Dawnhammer of the Ember Seekers Order. My companions are Johnathan Dreadscale-"
"Though, I assure you," He interjects, "The name is purely for the sake of irony."
The paladin tenses, but calms quickly. "Yes, now, the other is-"
"Name's Nightshade, nice to meet you!" The buck?!I trun around to see the cloaked pony leaning against a tree next to the kid! How did she-OWOWOWOWOBAD HEADACHE! DOWN!
"...My name is Mystic Drop, and the kid here is Blood Moon," The paladin tenses at that and John's eyes narrow, not that I really care at this moment, "Now, can everypony please just shut up so this headache can go away? If you don't I'll make sure you never feel warm again!" I say that last bit perhaps a bit too agressively, though again, I don't really care right now as I've got a bucking huge headache!
"Muhhhh, lrme sleep..!" Shit, the kid's choosing right now to wake up? How could this get any-Oh SHIT! The kid gets up, and the tattered remaints of her cloak fall off, revealing bat wings clear as day, as well as her huge flanks. Don't open your eyes kid, there's a paladin right bucking-Then she blearily opens her eyes and reveals to everypony here her blood red, cat-like eyes. She first locks them onto me. "I was having a horrible..." She then notices John. "...Oh. That wasn't a nightmare, was it?"
I gulp, all too aware of the paladin's baleful gaze. The Ember Seekers have a rather large vendetta against anything or anyone who skulks in the shadows, including thestrals and bat-ponies. I can't fault them for it with what happened to the city of Lorethick, but it just so happens that Moon is a pureblood thestral. Buck. "No, kid, no it was not. And, ahh, there's an Ember Seeker here. Behind me."
She pales, (or at least I think she does, with her having a white coat and all.) "Ah. Um, that's not great. M-maybe we could just sit and have tea and not fight?"
To the surprise of most there, myself included, (though I'd never say it,) John nods. "Tea sounds good," He levels a very clear look at Solaria. "Right, Sol?"
The paladin grits her teeth. "I suppose that shalt be agreeable." Even though she says it in a voice that clearly suggests otherwise.
John the I-Don't-Bucking-Know nods his head, before getting a sort of twinkle in his eyes. "So a rogue, a paladin, a sorcerer and a dragon sit down for tea with a bat-pony..." Uhg, oh gods he's a joker...
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...Well. I'm embarrased. And clearly in need of an editor who cares about such things as rules of grammar and whatnot than I clearly am.
More Please....soon?
Oh I'm lovin this.
does any of this fic happen in th modren mlp? if so i have a oc for you.
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No, actually. I said it in the (admittedly,) long description that this was set in Medival equestria.
I have an OC if you would like?
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Sure, PM me the details.
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Mkai!
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*Blinks in surprise.* ...Not quite, though that is quite the fascinating idea... Hmm... Let me get back to you much later on that.
I have a question, are there Alicorns in this story universe? I have three OCs and a Changeling Hive that you could use (And an Alicorn ponsona if Alicorns are a thing in your story).
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Actually, they are, but I believe that we can discuss this further in the PM's. Don't want to give away spoilers to other readers just yet.
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Ok! Well send me the information about them in a PM.
Please continue this. I am thrilled with reading the next chapters to come. (Hopefully)
That was an exelently timed pun. Excited for more.
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Why thank you!
...What pun?
End of chapter five, I think i meant to say joke. Either way it's funny.
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Ah.
When you say deathclaw? You mean the 1 from the fallout universe right?
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That's the one. He wouldn't look quite the part here, (the Tree smoothed him up a bit and got rid of his more grotesque features.) At this point, he looks mostly like an Equestrian dragon with a blunted snout, deathclaw horns, and absolutely no secondary color... Which bugs him. A lot.
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But none of this matters anymore, because this time around he only got wings.
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You DO know that all the death claws are female right? Also: I FUCKING LOVE THIS STORY!!!!!!
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...While I am certainly glad you like the story, it really doesn't seem physically possible for the deathclaws to be a purely female species and still exist over two-hundred years after their initial (accidental) creation. It simply is not possible, even if deathclaws had the lifespans of dragons, exactly how many of them have been killed over the years compared to the initial batch created during the Bombing? I'm sorry to be rude, it just really makes no sense, even for Fallout logic.
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Eh, no offense takes my friend. I can see your logic
8572361 Thing is, many people will be interested in the 'deathclaw' part of it and will want to read it based on that fact. Immediately negating the reason people are interested in it in the first place isn't really a great move, 'cuz now he's a dragon, even if he's a bit deathclaw-esque. There are lots of human-to-dragon transformations, making this story a lot less unique than it was right before that point.
Yes, the ponies would be scared and suspicious of a death claw that shares a number of traits with the monsters invading their home. That's the whole point of bringing him in as something scary, and a big chunk of the reason why people would be interested in it. If he's a monster on the outside but he's actually quite sweet, and he's initially shunned because ponies are being racist bastards (also herbivorous prey animals), him overcoming that challenge would be a big draw. Instead, you deus ex machina it away.
Of course, he could forego the xenophobic ponies entirely and instead join up with some other monsters, where he'd be accepted, if feared for his physical prowess. It would explore new ideas that not many stories do. Now, whether they're also misunderstood or they're *really* monsters would be something else entirely. He might then have to make a decision: figure out a way to convince them that kindness and friendship make you strong, or sacrifice chunks of his sweet nature every time he's forced to do something nasty just to survive.
But that's not what you're going for, here. He wants to befriend the Celestial Sisters.
Give him wings? Sure. That'd make him even more formidable and scary to the ponies. (You can't run; you can't hide; you can't even fly away. He can get you anywhere.)
Whitewash the whole premise, making it much less interesting? No, thank you.
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Oh? Is that what you think is happening? Belive me, I know there would have been, and in fact still is terror that the ponies feel toward him. Nightshade acting friendly toward him? She's doing everything possible to not piss off the weird dragon. (Which, I'll admit, was not my finest moment in almost instantly transforming him. In fact, I may choose at some point to rewrite that very scene so that it doesnt do that and damnit, now you actually gave me a better idea of what to do! Uhg, now I want to rewrite this whole thing from two chapters back!)
Sol obviously doesn't approve of his presence, but is trying hard to keep up the appearance of-You know what?
I think I'll just get to rewriting this with a bit more common sense. Like you're suggesting. Uhg... This is gonna be real fun...
(Seriously though, thanks. I think I needed someone to let me know I was doing a stupid before things got too far. And no, I don't type long-winded replies, what are you talking about?)
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Cool. And to answer you question, thats what makes things fun for an observing party.
8585448 Err... Have you read it? Because this kind of crap happens a lot.
In Genesis 7:21-23, God drowns the entire population of the earth: men, women, children, babies. Only a single family survives. In Matthew 24:37-42, Jesus approves of this genocide and plans to repeat it when he returns.
In 2 Chronicles 13:15-18, God helps the men of Judah kill 500,000 of their fellow Israelites. That's half a million people.
In Exodus 12:29, God slaughters all Egyptian firstborn children and cattle because their king was stubborn.
In Numbers 16:41-49, the Israelites complain that God is killing too many of them. So, God sends a plague that kills 14,000 more of them for having the audacity for wanting to live.
In Joshua 6:20-21, God helps the Israelites destroy Jericho, killing "men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys." In Deuteronomy 2:32-35, God has the Israelites kill everyone in Heshbon, including children. In Deuteronomy 3:3-7, God has the Israelites do the same to the people of Bashan. In Numbers 31:7-18, the Israelites kill all the Midianites except for the virgins, whom they take as spoils of war. In 1 Samuel 15:1-9, God tells the Israelites to kill all the Amalekites - men, women, children, infants, and their cattle - for something the Amalekites' ancestors had done 400 years earlier.
In 1 Samuel 6:19, God kills 50,000 men for peeking into the ark of the covenant. (Newer cosmetic translations count only 70 deaths, but their text notes admit that the best and earliest manuscripts put the number at 50,070.) Apparently curiosity is worth mass murder.
In Exodus 32, Moses has climbed Mount Sinai to get the Ten Commandments. The Israelites are bored, so they invent a golden calf god. Moses comes back and God commands him: "Each man strap a sword to his side. Go back and forth through the camp from one end to the other, each killing his brother and friend and neighbor." About 3,000 people died.
In Joshua 10:10-11, God helps the Israelites slaughter the Amorites by sword, then finishes them off with rocks from the sky.
In Genesis 19:24, God kills everyone in Sodom and Gomorrah with fire from the sky. I imagine that most of them were fairly blameless, considering the ultimate reason he killed them all was because some of the innkeepers refused to give a bunch of wandering vagabonds room and board for free. Then God kills Lot's wife for looking back at her burning home.
In 2 Kings 2:23-24, some kids tease the prophet Elisha, and God sends bears to dismember them. (Newer cosmetic translations say the bears "maul" the children, but the original Hebrew, baqa, means "to tear apart.")
In Judges 21:1-23, a tribe of Israelites misses roll call, so the other Israelites kill them all except for the virgins, which they take for themselves. Still not happy, they hide in vineyards and pounce on dancing women from Shiloh to take them for themselves.
In Judges 16:27-30, God gives Samson strength to bring down a building to crush 3,000 members of a rival tribe.
In Judges 19:22-29, a mob demands to rape a godly master's guest. The master offers his daughter and a concubine to them instead. They take the concubine and gang-rape her all night. The master finds her on his doorstep in the morning, and God demands that he cut her into 12 pieces, and ships the pieces around the country.
In Judges 11:30-39, Jephthah burns his daughter alive as a sacrificial offering for God's favor in killing the Ammonites.
In Judges 14:11-19, Samson loses a bet for 30 sets of clothes. The spirit of God comes upon him and he kills 30 men to steal their clothes and pay off the debt.
In Deuteronomy 13:6-10, God commands that you must kill your wife, children, brother, and friend if they worship other gods.
In 2 Kings 1:9-10, Elijah gets God to burn 51 men with fire from heaven to prove he is God.
In Genesis 38:9-10, God kills a man for refusing to impregnate his brother's widow.
In Leviticus 26:27-29 and Jeremiah 19:9, God threatens to punish the Israelites by making them eat their own children.
According to Revelation 9:7-19, it just keeps coming. God will make horse-like locusts with human heads and scorpion tails, who torture people for 5 months. Then some angels will kill a third of the Earth's population. If he came today, that would be over 2 billion people.
God raped the mother of his son. He doesn't exactly ask for her permission before impregnating her, does he? And then he has said son murdered some years later for no reason at all (as he could've just said the word and had the whole "everyone* is forgiven" thing happen no matter what).
*For a given value of "everyone."
And that's just a small fraction. I'm sure I could dig up more if I tried.
So, have you actually read it, or did you somehow miss all of the above and more?
8585448 As far as the Garden of Eden being a setup, the Bible explicitly states numerous times that God is both omnipotent (all-powerful) and omniscient (all-knowing), and that nobody can possibly go against him if he tells them to do something. This means that he knew exactly how everything would turn out from the beginning, and he had the power to ensure that everything turned out exactly as he wanted it to. So he made humans explicitly without the knowledge of right and wrong, and he made us extremely curious by nature. He also created a being (Lucifer) who would tempt humanity knowing that he would succeed.
So he created a trap, baited it, created a being to spring the trap, and then created the victims with lack of foresight and lack of common sense specifically to watch them suffer and die. Given all the times that he torments people just because (such as all of what I mentioned earlier, and basically the entire book of Job), this kind of thing happens repeatedly. According to the events that occur in the Bible, God is basically that creepy kid who gets off on frying ants with a magnifying glass who eventually learns how to successfully hide the bodies for years and years without getting caught.
Because God has both the knowledge and power to do anything, and he created everything to be the way it is, that means that, logically, he is responsible for literally every evil thing that has ever happened, because he set it up to happen. If he didn't want people to suffer and die horribly, they wouldn't, because it just wouldn't happen.
Critical thinking is important, especially against something that tells you that you must follow it on faith; you can't just blindly follow along like a sheep, because that's what leads to Nazis and the Bush Administrations.
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Alright, I'm seeing a pattern here. Let's start with three of the ones people here know well. Noah, Sodom, and Gommorah.
The reason the Flood happenned was because at that point in history, there was anarchy. "Everyone did what was right in their own eyes," is what I belive is said. Nothing was sacred, and no laws applied save those you made for yourself. By this time, everyone but Noah's family has abandoned God, and turned to Gods like Molech that encouraged despicable behavior. And, if you'll also recall, he also promised never to destroy the world in such a manner again. As for Matthew, you're forgetting context here, he used the Flood as an example to help the 12 understand that he was warning them to be prepared for an end which he promised would strike at an unexpected hour.
As for Sodom and Gommorah, Genesis 18:16-33 shows God saying that so long as there were even five righteous people within the city of Sodom (Remember, Gommorah was close to Sodom geographicly,) then he would spare both cities. (Also keep in mind, verse 20 states that there was a great outcry to the God about the two cities. This was not an arbitrary mass murder, this was God giving people a chance to save themselves, even though he knew they wouldn't.) Then, in chapter 19, it shows how two angels went there (both were male,) and it says all the men of Sodom came to rape them. After ensuuring this doesn't happen, the angels warn Lot to take his family and run, also warning them not to look back or they would die.
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As for 2 Chronicles 13, the King of the time was defending against a rebellion, and all those choice men were soldiers,and the rebels attacked first when they had been given a chance to surrender.
As for Exodus, I'm actually astonished that you forgot the context for this one. If you'll remember, the Egyptians did the same damn thing to the Israelites before the plagues began, and that plague was the final plauge. Pharroh had been given multple chances beforehand to stop, but because he did not the first few plagues, and hardened his heart, God decided enough was enough and used Pharroh to send a message to all other nations of the day: The God of Israel is powerful.
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As for Numbers; Again, there was a rebellion against Moses and the plague was punishment for defying the person the Lord chose to lead. Different names and circumstances, sure, but same principle.
The majority of that next paragraph: God had promised them the lands, and them only. As for Midian, that part with the women was a fuck-up that neither the Lord nor Moses were very happy with the officers about if you continued reading.(Though remember, this was common practice back then for all kingdoms and empires.) The Amalekites had ambushed the Israelites when they were leaving Egypt, and God avenges the loss of his people.
1 Samuel 6: The Israeli High Priests were there and they had no doubt known the consequences from them for looking into such, I mean, the Highest Priests didn't dare open the Ark without a rope around their waists in case the sheer presence of God killed them.
The Golden Calf: This one is, again, lacking context. The children of Israel thought Moses died on the mountain and foolishly asked Aaron, Moses's more cowardly brother, to make them a god made of gold. As for why they did this, I don't know, Moses didn't know. In fact, out of frustration he breaks the first set of the Ten Commandments on the ground! They broke God's covenant with them, but God gave Moses the chance to defend them, which he did, and compromised.
Joshua again: War is war. They attacked an ally of Israel, God helped his people win. You're also forgetting the fact that there were ten kingdom's worth of OpFor against them.
Elisha: There was a fairly large group and they weren't just teasing, they were mocking him for what the Lord had told him to do. This being the old testament, where God constantly prooves his might, when Elisha curses them in His name, he responds and makes it real.
Judges 19 and 21: Ohh, it was so much more than that. Those men who demanded to know the godly man carnally? They were of the Tribe of Benjamin, the very tribe you said they wiped out because they missed Role Call. And do you want to know something else there?
They did that in order to rebuild the tribe of Benjamin in their greif. Again, context.
Sampson: Context, context, context. That rival tribe had been Israel's enemy for some time, and they had him beaten, blinded, and openly mocked in public after he had been betrayed by the one he loved (after multiple other attempted betrayals by the same woman, oddly enough.) He was given the strength so that he could do so and cripple that tribe, ensuring Israel's victory. And that bet before all that? What would you do if someone threatned your wife and your wife's family to being burned alive instead of just accepting their equal loss?
As for Jephthah: I'm sorry, but I actually have my Bible out and read that passage. All it says is that his daughter went up to the mountains for two months to bemoan the fact that she vowed never to marry or have children. Nowhere does it mention any sort of burning!
Deuteronomy: He also said clearly that any Israelite who worshipped another God was to be put to death. They promised never to worship other gods but him in the first place, this was just another affirmation.
The ordeal with the Widow: Oh boy, this one's a barrel 'o fun... This was because the line of Judah absolutely had to have an heir. The first son, Er, had become evil in the Lord's eyes, so he died. When his brother was told do do as was custom to keep the line alive, he refused because he wanted the heir to be his.
Leviticus 26: 27-29 and Jeremiah 19:9; The first is compounding on the fact that extreme famine and other such misfortunes shall fall upon Israel, (read as; CONTEXT), so much that they will resort to cannibalism to survive, (as I should mention has historically happened in such times for ALL nations.) Jeremiah is a final warning situation before such a thing happens. Several chapters later, we see the arrival of Babylon and yet another warning of the fall of Israel. Several more chapters later, (including the promised capture and release of the Israelites,) shows the passing of these things.
As for Revelations, I was actually wondering when that would come along. Remember, Revalations is saying what will happen at the end of the world for those who were left behind, it isn't supposed to be pretty or enjoyable. And you're right, that would be an enormous death toll, as you would expect from the end of the world.
And now onto the story Jesus. Sigh. Really? God raped Mary? He sent an angel telling her that she would carry the messiah of her race, (remember she was a devout follower, this would have been huge for her! She would be incredibly excited and happy!) That's not even mentioning how it is repeated multiple times that he would be born of a virgin. Also, God's the only one with the Console Commands to life, he said she would become pregnant without intercourse? That's what happened.
And the things you're saying about Jesus? He knew. He knew the entire time that he was going to die on the Cross, knew that he'd, in one blow, have to take the burden of ALL of humanity's sin, (past, present, AND future, mind you.) He also knew that he had to fulfill the prophecy that had been told and retold throughout the Old Testament. He wasn't just murdered by God, in fact, he was God's heart, mind, and soul in the body of a man with all of man's faults, he had a connection to God that every Christian wishes they could have! He even told the dsciples time and time again throughout the New Testament that he would have to die for human sin! To say God simply had what was essentially himself in mortal form murdured in cold blood simply isn't true when you take a close look.
And as for your counterpoint to mine about the Sin in the Garden, I have one good counter.
Free will. God didn't want robots who would worship him because they couldn't otherwise, he wanted a people who would worship him because they loved their creator! He knew they would turn away from him if he gave them free will, but he did so anyway because he loved us and wanted us to love him in a true way. And you're right. Critical thinking is important. I do think about these things, I have my whole life. I may still be fairly young, but I don't rush headlong into these things.
I ask questions because they have to be asked, and I've been fortunate enough to have people in my life who gave me honest answers or directed me to people with those answers.
I do hope there isn't much else, I really didn't want to turn my comments section into a Demon Hunter song's comment section with all this. But, if you want me to explain, I will to the best of my ability. Just remember that I won't have all the answers. (The book I have right next to me that I've been using to check my information will though.)
I DEMAND ANOTHER!
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AND THOU SHALT HAVE ANOTHER!
...EVENTUALLY!
...IN THE FULLNESS OF TIME!
Heh, Merasmus speak is fun. But yes, I plan on putting a chapter out this month. Hopefully soon, but meh, we'll see.
Please keep your fake, dying religion to yourself please. Thank you.
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I'm sorry my religion offends you. However, I will not remove it from the story. Instead I find myself curious as to exactly why you say it is fake and dying, and what evidence you have to support this. I would also prefer not to have a repeat of what happened with Lycanthromancer in this very chapter's comments, so I would ask that you send your answer in a PM so that we can have a civilized discussion in relative privacy and not fill this comments section with hate.
But the joke is so good how can he not make it