Chapter 181: If You Don't Believe in God, You Will Fall into the Bottomless Pit (4k)
On the way back to the dormitory, Rogers observed the scarlet nuts held up by the magic, he didn't want to give too much attention to Professor Idrull's research, but he didn't want to get too much into it either.
Shortly after stuffing the nuts into the magic book and stepping into the cabin, he received a letter from his parents.
The letter first inquired about his current situation, and finally informed him of a situation that made him feel a little complicated, after the efforts of the Breeders, the Breed family is about to usher in the second in line of succession.
"Shouldn't you be happy that you're missing a big worry?" Alina asked, sitting next to Rogers, looking at the envelope on the desk.
"It's a thing to be happy about." Rogus smiled.
Regarding the arrival of a second child at home, he does have the feeling of a big stone falling to the ground in his heart, but at the same time, there is an indescribable subtlety.
Putting aside the complicated thoughts, he sorted out the knowledge points required for the next lecture, and then focused his attention on the aspects that could improve his strength as soon as possible.
The day passed in a hurry, and unlike before, in addition to studying, he could often feel the fluctuation of his real name being called during the day.
When he looked at him, he found that the oasis that had been given to Ivan had gathered many outsiders at this time, and they couldn't stop praying and thanking for the arrival of this oasis under Ivan's leadership, and among them, there was an old man Jingam who he had met and followed Arkan.
Rogers didn't respond immediately when he noticed this, but waited until night came, washed up and went to bed, and then he pulled Rufia to his side, saying that he wanted to ask for help.
"Are you going to toss and turn in my dreams again? It's very tiring like that......" Rufia pursed her mouth when she heard this, and she looked distressed.
She still remembered that the last time Rogers had been filling in a large number of buildings in his dream, he felt exhausted just to keep the dream running.
"No, it's just fooling people this time." Rogers rubbed the other party's little head, reassured him a few words, and urged the other party to lie down.
Rufia nodded reluctantly, and as she had done the first, Rogth and Alina fell asleep with her.
Rogers entered the dream, first laying a vast sandy field, and then, with the help of Alina, restoring the oasis he had created one by one, erasing the traces of the people's lives.
He then sat cross-legged in the clouds with Alina and Rufia, overlooking the oasis of water vapor, still feeling strange that he could fabricate the world at will.
When he was almost ready, he turned his eyes to Ivan, who was still praying, through his real name, and then pulled the inhabitants of the oasis who had settled in the oasis and who had prayed to him into a dream.
At the same time, in addition to Ivan, he noticed that Edith was also praying before going to bed, and tried to pull him in together.
Under the bright night sky, when the breeze blew across Ivan's face, he slowly opened his eyes as if inspired, and looked up at the few white clouds floating in the sky.
"Lord Ivan, this ...... This isn't the world, is it?! ”
An old man in a colorful robe, with thick, messy hair, and a cloak of precious stones and metal crafts, rolled his throat a few times, and moved to Ivan's side by the pool, and asked in a trembling tone.
"This is a miracle, don't panic, just be religious." Ivan swept over Urentin's panicked face, whispered reassurance, and repeated the words to the people gathered around him.
Among these people were merchants who had stopped in the desert, and there were also desert dwellers who had come from afar to make inquiries, and there were hundreds of them.
At first, they just wanted to enjoy the Oasis and make life better, but when they discovered Ivan in the center of the Oasis, things changed.
Because of the existence of the pantheon, the belief of the gods spread all over the continent, and when everyone heard Ivan say that this oasis that appeared out of thin air was a miracle, not many people openly questioned it, and even under Ivan's leadership, they prayed half on the spot and prayed gratefully.
After all, many people want to root in this sandy paradise, and it is always right to pay a respect.
"Miracles...... Is it a miracle......" Urentin scratched his old face with his fingers, and there was no awe in his eyes like the others, only panic.
Unlike these "ignorant fools", he was more knowledgeable, he knew what it meant for the existence of gods, and even more so in his vast occult knowledge, he had never heard of the kind of gods of the threefold great.
"Damn, since I met that Rogeth Breed, divination seems to have gone terribly wrong!"
Urentin tried his best to hold back his trembling body, and he couldn't help but resent.
At first, he followed the Santan tribe of Arkan, but he felt that the other party was easier to fool and wanted to take the opportunity to be greedy for some money, but then he saw that the other party's attitude was not bad, and he also had the idea of sincere support.
But I never expected that the young patriarch would provoke Rogus head-on, the fate of that "sage" was magnificent and ambiguous, and it was not something that mortals could fight against at all.
Fleeing from Alkan in a hurry, he once again divined what was good, and soon after setting out on his way, he met a young man with an unknown fate.
Thinking of Rogers' existence, Urentin thought that maybe this young man could also achieve great things, so he took the initiative to assist.
It's just that as time progresses, he discovers that something is wrong, especially when more and more mentally abnormal madmen pour out around the boy, and he realizes.
Then he hurriedly ran away after a burst of excuses, and according to the divination guidance of his natural skills, he finally came to this oasis.
"What kind of god is this, there are no sacrifices, no secret rituals, and a few prayers can rain down miracles, which is also very strange."
Ulentin wiped a handful of sweat from his head, feeling the incomparably real illusion, and his heart began to beat uncontrollably.
He deliberately didn't follow Ivan to recite the divine name during his prayers, and he just followed the crowd and pretended to be a few times, and he really couldn't figure out why he was in such a situation.
"If you don't believe in God, you will fall into the bottomless pit." Ivan felt the oracle coming from the underworld, and came to Urentin's side and said to the old man.
"Huh?" Hearing this, Urentin's old eyes widened, and his body couldn't help but tremble violently, and then asked in a dry voice: "But most people in the world don't know the triple greats, will they all fall into the bottomless pit?" ”
"Those who do not know the retribution of this matter are not responsible for this crime." Ivan replied calmly.
Ulentin opened his mouth to speak, but he wanted to stop talking, and he wanted to ask back loudly: Then why are you telling me?!
Just thinking of the current miracle, he stiffly made his expression gradually reverent, learning that when he first met Ivan, the other party drew a simple spiral movement on his chest with three fingers, and said: "Praise the Triple Great!" ”
Ivan looked at Urentin with satisfaction, acknowledging the other party's response.
"This is a godsend! It's a garden that God has given us! We should also offer piety! Burn God's wisdom with all your heart! ”
Then he opened his arms and said the best way he could think of to show reverence and piety.
The people who were in the midst of the miracle followed, and began to dig up the soil, kneaded it into clay tablets, and listened to the wisdom that Ivan had gained during his first prayer, and burned it with branches or stones.
The illiterate people helped to constantly pinch one clay tablet after another, and followed Ivan's recitation in their mouths, doing their part.
Not far away, Edith was strolling through the trees, feeling the dream very real, and when he heard the crowd chanting loudly, a deep surprise appeared on his face, and then he hurried over with ecstasy.
"St. Herthe's cadet?! How can there be such a character here?! ”
When Urentin was digging in the dirt, he couldn't help but stop breathing when he saw Edith coming.
"Who are you?" Ivan looked at Edith, who was dressed in a purple uniform, and asked curiously.
"I am the first believer of the Triple Great One in this world, the first to pray to Him!" Edith crossed his hands over his chest, his face reverent and proud.
Ivan frowned slightly when he heard this, he felt that the gods didn't care about the first or the second at all, but he still showed enough kindness to his fellow believers.
Upon hearing of Ivan's pride and his pious behavior, Edith expressed his approval, and immediately stood beside Ivan and began to listen to the other party's enlightenment.
But as he listened, he suddenly noticed that something was not quite right, and could not help but interrupt Ivan's sermon softly, and opened his mouth to correct:
God has given us the ability to know natural things and the spiritual truth behind them through words, and God's Word is the perfect prototype, the perfect wisdom.
"We need to know the world through God, not through the world, as long as we keep thinking and asking, we can keep getting closer to God's wisdom, and you may have some misunderstanding about this."
Edith's argument couldn't help but think of the jade record given by Rogers, and the "Rogus language" he created, plus the realization he received was born from this, and he subconsciously resisted Ivan's explanation.
"God does not need archetypes, nor does he need coexistence, the real entity is the manifestation of existence, which is the best way to know God." Ivan earnestly refuted Edith's fallacy.
He had seen the miracle of the elemental radical spiritual surge, and was extremely disgusted by Edith's idea of putting the cart before the horse.
Then the more the two of them discussed, the more excited they became, and the more they refutated, the more gloomy they became, until they almost couldn't suppress their emotions.
Edith felt that the other party was just a country man after all, and even if he was lucky enough to get divine inspiration, he could not really realize the fundamental wisdom of the great.
He felt that he was here, and it must have been a test of whether Rogers could hold on to his convictions.
And Ivan also thinks that this is a god-descending trial, but he sees Edith as a devil who shakes his faith, trying to keep him away from the powerful evil thoughts of God.
It's a pity that Edith has more knowledge and spiritual experience, while Ivan has a brutal direct empowerment from Rogers, and neither of them can convince each other better for a while.
"This, how can there be a taste of a dispute between name and reality."
Sitting in the clouds, Rogers scratched his head and trembled as he watched the increasingly heated debate between the two.
"The threefold knowledge that you used to ascend to the sacrifice seems to have a lot of completely contradictory theories...... So what the hell do you think? Alina asked, looking at Rogers curiously.
"That's what I thought." Rogers pondered for a moment, then shrugged his shoulders inexplicably in reply.
Just as Whitehead once said that the history of philosophy in the West for more than 2,000 years is a footnote to Plato, but the Aristotelians will definitely find it difficult to agree with it.
Just like which is the primacy of thinking or language, no matter which theory is used, many problems can be explained, but the other party can poke out all kinds of loopholes.
In the end, nothing can be the subject of debate, nothing is not contrary to the contrary, and it is not until a newer, more violent dispute arises that the previous dispute may be stopped.
For Ivan and Edith, as long as they prayed sincerely, they always realized newer, broader, and more supportive arguments for their theories.
This is only because when Rogers was sacrificing, he patronized and kept copying, and he didn't go through any screening at all.
"Okay, don't let Rufi get tired, we can quit." Rogus waved his hand to dispel the dream, and before leaving, he specifically told Ivan a lot of precautions for the oasis residents, and what to do with the old Jingamu in the future.
As for the people except Edith, Ivan, and Old Man Kingam, he activated the [Enlightenment Bonus] to strengthen Rufia's ability to manipulate dreams, using the characteristics of dreaming to make people wake up with blurred memories of this dream.
The next morning, the campus was filled with a faint fog and a gentle breeze, bringing a hint of coolness.
The sun had just risen, shining softly through the thin clouds, tinting the sky with a faint orange-yellow.
Edith woke up and got up immediately, and couldn't help but think back to the scene in his dream last night.
"Heresy! Heterodox! That hateful megalomaniacal heresy! How dare you distort the wisdom of the great! ”
His eyes were full of indignation, as if burning with irrepressible anger, his thick eyebrows almost twisted together, and then his hands clenched into fists, his nails pierced into the palms of his flesh, and he stabbed into the air with a fierce fist.
Venting his anger at the desecration of his faith, he quickly washed up, intending to go to the inscription next to the door of the Great Tree Library in Hilmy's Academy, and earnestly prayed on his knees for this day to wash away the unbearable filth.
It's just that when he just walked out of the dormitory, he suddenly saw a brown-haired girl wearing a sacrificial robe, and in a moment's thought, he took the initiative to go up and talk: "Hello, look at your expression, are you confused now?" ”
"Confused? Is it already so obvious? Fenna was about to go to the agent of the ruling, but when she heard Edith's words, she couldn't help but be stunned, and then asked herself with a wry smile.
"If you may, you might be able to talk to me." Edith straightened his shirt and said sincerely.
Fenna looked at Edith's student uniform, and after a little entanglement, she deliberately put aside the theologically related parts and raised the questions hidden in her heart.
The more Edith listened, the more he frowned, and then he almost couldn't help cursing, and trying to hold back his mood, he looked at Fenna with pity and said:
"How can you be fooled by such reasoning?! I'm here to show you the real way! ”
(End of chapter)