The Drabblecast

In the beginning, there was nothing, save God, because God is the Beginning. He said “Let there be light,” and flames burst forth and illuminated the space of His canvas. He created all the heavenly bodies, including the earth. And on earth He created life. He had a vision of a creature that would be sentient, and have free will. In that vision, this creature ruled over all other creatures. From His own vision, God created Man. All this took Him six Days, and it was good.

On the seventh Day God rested. Satisfied with His creation, God settled in the center and curled up into a ball. He radiated heat, light and warmth through the whole of His creation. As He slept, planets congealed, and life fermented.

God rested fitfully. He tossed and turned, rolled, boiled, and flared. He had strange dreams. In His dream He was one of the man-creatures. All of the man-creatures feared God, and were in constant fear of God waking and destroying them. In His man-creature form, God tried to explain, tried to tell them, “Fear not. God is Love”. A few listened, but most did not.

The man-creatures had lost all of the innocence they had before He had rested. They choose to be hateful and kill each other for territory and rare metallic elements. God tried to teach them to love each other and to not fight over material things. The man-creatures tortured and killed Him.
On the eighth Day, God awoke. He awoke from this nightmare with a start, accidentally searing the nearest two heavenly bodies black to the core. He saw that it was not a nightmare, it was real. The man-creatures were killing each other still, the earth was rotten husk. All other life had been exterminated. The man-creatures were not satisfied with destroying their own planet; they had constructed vessels to travel to other heavenly bodies to plunder.

God was filled with rage at what he saw. The flames of anger boiled red hot in his core. By now, the man creatures noticed what was happening. They were frightened, saying things like, “Dear, God” and “please forgive me” but it was too late. They had already been judged. God exploded in rage and reached out with gigantic flaming arms and destroyed His creation. In the end, there was nothing, save God, because God is the End.

Nice. Can I use that?

Use it for what?

Sorry, my question was a little half-asked!

I could use that story in church one day. There are a whole lot of themes running through it that would get folk thinking about a whole lot of stuff. It'd be a great conversation starter, for sure!

that's cool. i'm glad you like it.

The idea that on the 7th day God rested (and fell into a horrible nightmare) has occurred to me as .

I philosophically part with you on the denouement that upon waking God was pissed (but I do think that idea makes for one great bumper sticker.)

That idea would seem to imply to me that "God in his man-creature form" was a failure in getting his message out.

Always such interesting philosophical ground you run into when discussing this issue. Free Will vs Determinism being one of the big ones.

Here is a question that always has nagged at me, and might be fun for some contemplation.

1) Sin requires knowledge of Good and Evil.
2) Adam and Eve had no knowledge of Good and Evil prior to eating the Apple.
3) Therefore, how can the eating of the apple been an original sin, since they did not know that eating the apple, or disobeying God, or any act at all was evil, as they had no concept of evil at all?
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(My own personal answer to this again comes from God's man-creature incarnation... and seems to me to be a plea to himself. "Forgive them, they know not what they do..." in this case "they" being Adam and Eve.)

Are things really getting worse? I don't know. Man still wars with man. Some people still kick defenseless animals, but in the end I'm encouraged by the fact that we live in a world where I can ask these questions, and proffer my own opinions without any real worry that someone will drag me into a dungeon for inquisition or burn me at the stake as a heretic...

That's progress.

If you liked this story, I have a web site now. It has my drabbles and exerpts from short stories i'm writing.

www.clperria.weebly.com

Rereading 'My Teeth Are Hungry' I reminded what a cool drabble that is.

CLP wrote:If you liked this story, I have a web site now. It has my drabbles and exerpts from short stories i'm writing.

www.clperria.weebly.com

You should put that in your Signature line. It will retroactively appear on all your posts.

(Oh, and grats on the publishing credit in Drabbler. My drabble, "The Zombies of Ander-01D" also made honorable mention in issue #15, so I too have earned my first dollar as an author. Don't forget to cash the check and frame the dollar, right next to your stack of rejection slips you've doubtless already accumulated... (as we all have...)

Thanks for the tip. i'm new to the message board thing. I look forward to checking out your drabble when the drabbler finally arrives. Hopfully it will come in the mail soon.

what there is a drabble magazine? Yeah probably by the same company that publishes the "Snipe Hunters Quarterly".

revsleestaxx wrote:what there is a drabble magazine? Yeah probably by the same company that publishes the "Snipe Hunters Quarterly".

Sam's Dot Publishing. All of us DC drabblers need to get in on the next contest and dominate the other competition.

Cuz, we is all da shizzle, ya knows? (Look at what you've spawned here, Norm. Aint ya just proud of all your little drabble disciples?)

ROU Killing Time wrote:Sam's Dot Publishing. All of us DC drabblers need to get in on the next contest and dominate the other competition.

Cuz, we is all da shizzle, ya knows? (Look at what you've spawned here, Norm. Aint ya just proud of all your little drabble disciples?)

Ahhh yes some very good stuff here will need to do submittance in sincere earnest