My name is Jonathan ( Read more... )

There is a story of a man named Job. Most of you have heard, but for those who haven't, it is a story of faith and adversity. Or rather, faith through adversity.

These floods are simply that. Adversity. And we must still have faith. Faith in God. For though we are given these trials and given these tests...we must prevail.

[Private to Will]I'm ( Read more... )

What is there but sin? But pain? What is there to life but anguish? We are tested by our God. Always. Even here He tests the strongest of us. Sends us to our own personal hells. But we have to prevail, do we not? We must not fail.

Ever.

For if we do, we are sent His wrath. Or we are sent to Hell.

[Private to Will]I cannot take this place, ( Read more... )

[John sounds tired. Pained. He's been quiet for a while now, but he's breaking his silence to try and lift his own spirits. It sort of works...]Once, I believed God could only create. That He could just bring life. But our existence isn't just life. It's hardships, you see. So much hardship packed into a shitty, dented can with a pretty label. Why ( Read more... )

[John doesn't sound like himself. He's not accusing. He's actually asking for answers he doesn't think he'll get.] "Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil ( Read more... )

[John, who rarely does video, is on the screen, laughing at you wardens. LAUGHING. Why? Because he has powers. He's on deck, a point a long way away from the engine room, and has electricity brimming in his hands.] Just look what God has given me. My God. The one you scorn. The one you have mocked. He has granted me these gifts and now...the ( Read more... )

Pride. Some might consider it the worst of all the sins. Certainly Dante did, when he wrote his Divine Comedy.

But that’s the trick about sins. The worst ones are tolerated more than the lesser ones. Lust is treated more severely than Pride. After all, no one’s ever been hurt by someone’s pride, have they? But that’s the problem. While you might ( Read more... )

Were you faithful to God, angels of such rebellious natures? Did heaven spit you out, while hell refused you? We were snatched up, denied our lives and made blind to the worlds we came from. And here we sit, letting our baser urges take us over. Oh yes, I know that it could be worse. I've seen worse ( Read more... )

Trapped in some comedic version of Hell. Unfortunately, I find nothing funny at all about this. There is nothing amusing about it. It's sickening to see, frankly, what humanity sinks to when presented with such conditions. Lies and deception. God would be ashamed of His creatures.

It seems this is my lot. My punishment. And I will bear that cross ( Read more... )