"God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined."
Saint Augustine
If you do this, there will be nonbelievers.
I know.
The texts will decline into tomes of paradox-- hardly a worthy base for one's lifestyle.
I know.
There will be arguments. And good ones, at that. And we can't even come down in blazing glory to keep 'em in line; 'cause they'll be absolutely right.
I know
Revelations will be wrong. The 7 years will follow the suit of the 7 days. It'll be in ethereal time, which isn't really time at all. They'll be condemned to His rule. And these are the ones that will be 'saved', mind you. Not to mention that--
What part of omniscience don't you understand?
Point taken.
Ever wafted into the celestial glade. It had been reserved for the solemn art of Creationism, and she was curious what the dark 'Enlightened Ones' did in this unusually cold plane. Blinking through the security prism, her iris-plaque glowed with a deep violet, allowing her to drift through unscathed. Her eyes were one of the many things that set her apart from the other Angels; aside from retaining their youthful tangibility, they were set in an unheard of color; purple. In fact, the shading was so absurd that when Ever went to find out where the tint was listed in the Archives, she discovered that it wasn't a color at all. So they named it after her mother, and throughout her first ethereal years she bore the whispered title 'deep eyes', much to her discomfort. However, it had the added bonus of giving her an all-access pass to the Heavens and the Earth (not that there was much to see down there but earth). The sect-wide pseudo-security was all identified by retina. However, sense there was no profile for violet, Ever was the hole in the system; and thus could go wherever she pleased. Well, she thought, let's have us a look-see at what is truly whisper worthy in the world. And with that she willed her movement forward, only to find her way barred by a most peculiar sound. It was the sound the wind made in tight spaces, the sound of a geyser venting off on the uninhabited Earth; the very noise heard when cloud droplets sizzled in a starlight-burst.
Hssss... tst.
And then the voice joined in with the hissing; and Ever realized, much to late, her most horrible mistake.
