No end in sight - Half of Chapter 2

I did get this far on Chapter 2 before getting bogged. So till there is time this will have to do.


As I told you, I am non-player in a storyline that began more than 2,000 years ago. Now you may wonder how why people with the same hope in a Kingdom of the same God would come to part ways. What was it specifically that this man/God did that could divide so many for so long? Well, let me see if I can explain.

Long before the man/God entered the story, the people of the original storyline were expecting a Savior from God to redeem them and usher in the Kingdom. The prophets of old told of this event. In beautiful poetic imagery, the expectation, prophesy really, of the Savior developed. As the expectation developed so did strong opinions on what would happen when the Savior would come. Many expected sounds of trumpet and an entrance fit for a King after all, the Savior was to reign in the promised Kingdom.

But God came as a man. Not really an ordinary man but a man born of a virgin. Remarkable, unbelievable really unless you believe that it was God. God would not need a man to be born. God had already created man. But to be born human, God would need to be born from a woman.

Setting aside the birth, the man/God did remarkable things. He challenged people to love, to understand the commandments through the lens of love. He challenged people to do the right thing and find fulfillment in honesty and integrity. He challenged people to have relationship with and worship God not to simply follow religious rules. He caused miracles to happen. He healed many. He broke down barriers and accepted all people.

Wow, that sounds like a Kingdom already, not a kingdom that we know about but a kingdom worth waiting for and believing in. Many believed and many followed. But some were threatened. The man/God had turned the tables on power and authority. He broke down barriers that some believe sacred; the Savior would not save all only the chosen. And a nail was driven in the fabric of the story. Slowly, ever so slowly, the fabric of the story began to tear in two.

Some people began to seek ways to kill the man. They did not believe that he was God. These people could only see their immediate situation and the loss of their power and control of the masses. Some were afraid. Some may have been trying to push that man into taking authority like the king they believed he was. In the end, the motivations were complex and maybe even not recorded however, history has proven over and over since that time, and before, that people will kill for power.
In a mighty climax, the opposition made their move and killed the man/God. Not just a quick killing but the man/God suffered, was beaten, mocked and nailed to a cross; the most humiliating death that can be imagined. The end? Oh no, not quite.

Many believed it to be the end; the leader dead, the followers scattered. The people responsible maybe breathed a sigh of relief. The followers were stunned and amazed; lost and grieving. What had happened? Was there no hope that the Kingdom would come? But it was not the end.

The leader rose again. Alive. The man/God walked again with the people. He was seen by many. So convincingly, that the group again banded together to proclaim the coming of the promised and now soon expected Kingdom. These people knew now with the utmost certainty that they had seen the Savior of God. Only God could die and come back to life and they believed he would come again to claim his people.

But wait, God die? How can God do that? I don’t know. God is God. But follow along with me this does make sense. In the beginning of the story, for people to be in right relationship with God, they needed to love God above all and love all around them like God does. This is not an easy task, in fact is impossible to do all the time, so God put into place a system of sacrifices, cleansing and worship that would allow for the atonement of sins. This however, meant continual sacrifices as any single person would get it wrong eventually again after a sacrifice. The belief then was that the Savior would save once and for all.