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11-1-01 Free at last! or TDC's longest rant ever! I hope you like the Halloween special. I've always liked the silly strips. We'll get back to the regular storyline in a bit. Okay, the news first: I HAVE ROAD RUNNER! *does happy dance for the 42nd time today* Did major updates to the links and extras pages, dividing them up into smaller pages. Also tried to get an image up to each link. I should finish those later this week. Also, new fanart and new wallpapers! Check them out! Okay, now on to the rant. I talked with Remmie earlier this week. He has become quite a fan of Reset, and had some great stuff to say about the strips and about the rants. I'll try not to say a strip isn't funny anymore, bro. :D He also helped me decide to continue in the vein I hinted at in my last rant, discussing my ideas about the afterlife and the angels. I have a lot to discuss, so stick with me. Let's start with the three different types of "angels". The cherubim and seraphim are listed in Revelation (perhaps elsewhere, I am uncertain) as beings that continually worship the one who sits on the throne, if I remember right. It's been a while since I read that section. Anyway, one race has two wings, the other has six wings, two that cover their faces, two that cover their feet, and two to fly with. So what are they? I have a couple of theories: The first is that they are beings that were created in the spiritual realm solely to worship God. The second is that one race was created in said manner, and one or both races was created in a physical form, continued throughout their history, and the form we see them in now is their spiritual form which they will inhabit for eternity. One race could even have been the dinosaurs. Quite a thought, neh? Anyway, the angels are spiritual beings created with free will, perhaps the first time such a thing existed in one of God's creatures. They are spiritual beings that have influence on the physical world, however, which indicates that they were created after this universe was. As you know, the next race is the humans. You've probably noticed the way I mention each race and have perhaps guessed my conclusions. I'll put several of my ponderings here. First, let's say the angels are the first race created with free will, since God probably got bored with creatures that worshipped him because they had to. I mean, come on, it gets old after a while. So he created a being that would want to worship him, but didn't have to if it didn't want to. However, in this same plan, he had to know that they would rise up and attempt to rule him. So Lucifer tries to take over, and a battle ensues. It could've been one on one (unlikely) or an all-out war. The end result, however, is that he is smacked down into the only habitable planet currently in existence, destroying all life. This is evidenced in Genesis 1:2 which reads "and the earth was without form and void". The word was should be the word became. So Lucifer is the "meteor" that wiped out the dinosaurs. That explains why there is an impact crater, but no meteor, neh? The next thing God does is set things back up more or less how they were. Then he creates another sentient species in the physical world, but having spiritual influence. (I'm gonna run out of space. I think I'm trying to cover too many topics at once. Oh well.) This species is created for two purposes: 1. to worship Him of its on free will and 2. to correct the mistake of Lucifer by destroying his minions and casting him into the lake of fire, which God cannot do (since he is bound by his own law and is all light and in him is no darkness at all). So we are God's vengeance tool, eh? What an idea. So what happens after we do his dirty work? We spend eternity in paradise, granted, for a job well done, and we praise him for eternity for giving us life eternal (that he probably should have just given us in the first place, but didn't). So, do we still have free will? Do the angels? As I've seen (history repeats itself, neh?) God consistently sets up scenarios with only one variable. Perhaps that variable will remain a constant for eternity, but more likely (and since God is supremely intelligent, I'm sure he knows this) that one variable will eventually occur. That's why I mentioned the time span between the seventh day (on which God rested) and the day Eve partook of the apple. There was only one way out of the Garden of Eden holding pattern they were in, just as once God created the angels, it was only a matter of time before one of them saw the only way out. Here's a heretical thought (followed by another): perhaps Lucifer tried to take over God's position not because he was full of pride, but because it was the only way out. So... if we maintain free will for eternity, how long before one of two things happens: either one of us rises up and breaks the cycle, or God gets bored again and creates a new physical race with which to amuse himself, to which we play a side role as the angels, cherubim and seraphim do now. Okay, one last thing. Angels and humans are the only two creatures to have free will at the same time. EVER. Interesting thought, isn't it? Right now the angels have the example of Lucifer and the fear of the punishment he will receive keeping them from following in his footsteps, and we can't come by enough spiritual power without God, angel, or Lucifer assistance. So we are unable to rise up against him effectively. So we're in part of God's plan now, but what happens later... And that once again raises my thought: can something with bad results be done through good intentions when you know what those results are going to be? I know that was a lot, but I'm sure you'll get some good out of it. ~TDC, who thanks God Almighty he is free
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