God's Sorrow

In the beginning there was only God.

He was complete. He was Eternal. His essence was everything and everything was known by Him. God was perfect.

He grew disinterested with Himself, though, so He created the Heavens.

The Heavens were beautiful. The Heavens were vast. The Heavens would be Eternal. The Heavens were perfect Creations.

But Something was missing. The Heavens were complete and unchanging. God grew disinterested. He desired Change. He desired evolution.

So God created Motion. With the introduction of Motion came the byproducts of Time and Change. Motion was fluid and dynamic. Motion was perpetual. Motion was active and it was the bringer of Change. Now God's Creations could evolve without His further involvement. Motion was perfect.

God came to think of His Creations as the Universe.

The Universe was so vast, so perfect, so diverse and so dynamic that God spent many eons watching His work and pleased with His Creations. God perceived these eons in an instant.

Since God had created the Universe and all its parts and He had set them into Motion, He knew exactly how they would function and what would happen at any time in the future. Like a fine watchmaker who has just completed his greatest masterpiece he quickly became disinterested in its mechanics.

The Universe progressed and changed, but Something was missing. The Universe was boring because it didn't have a will, it could only do what it had been programmed to do. A desire for Something that could cause unexpected change caused the splinter of God known as Satan or Lucifer to come into being. Lucifer was the part of God's perfection that disliked routine and predictability.

Lucifer didn't always bring the kind of Change God desired, however. Sometimes Lucifer seemed to spite God. God grew angry but couldn't bring Himself to excise Lucifer since Lucifer was a part of God. God was caught in the "Perfection Paradox": "If God is perfect, then Lucifer must be a perfect part of God; or, If Lucifer is an imperfect part of God, then God must be imperfect."

God could not bring Himself to question His perfection, for He was, after all, perfect.

God sought impartial judges for His predicament so He moved the Heavens in such a way that Life was formed. Life adapted and changed. Life was not directly of God, so perhaps it could serve as His judge. God called this life the Animals. Unfortunately, the Animals were so caught up in the day-to-day struggle to survive in an ever-changing Universe that they were never even able to know God, much less judge Him.

Therefore God created the Angels. The Angels weren't bound by material concerns. The Angels were perfect, but the Angels were incapable of judging God for they were of Him. God put the Angels in the Heavens, with the Animals, and He paused.

God saw this pause as a short reverie, but for the Universe many eons passed. God observed His creations for a few moments and grew disinterested again. Since He had created the Universe He knew everything that had happened, everything that was happening, and everything that would happen. He knew completely Himself and all of His Creations, even Lucifer.

The Angels frolicked with the Animals in the Heavens but God was disinterested because he already knew everything.

God was so bored that He wished away His omniscience.

The Angels grew more powerful and more knowledgeable. They mastered the Animals, of all God's Creations, first. Later the Angels conquered matter, and with their mastery of matter they created vast empires and great machines and with this power and technology they finally conquered space.

The Angels knew all of God's Creations, but they didn't know God anymore so they destroyed Heaven.

The Time: Now.

The Place: Earth.

A tear is rolling down God's cheek.

Scott Lineback