Chapter 162 Faith has nowhere to convert to will and will surely decay
Under the dim night, Pope Ferre III looked up at the moon gradually emerging in the sky, suddenly sighed, and then prayed silently in his heart.
"O great Creator God... I pray that you will give your most devout servants guidance..."
As the spiritual leader of more than 400 million believers in the world and the highest in the religious field, this 79-year-old man is filled with confusion at this moment.
He is already the 282nd Pope.
This is a number that is enough to shock all religions on Earth.
But in this world, such miracles not only happened, but even the three mainstream religions in the world are so ancient, but the other two are looser, so there were no leaders who could represent the entire religion a long time ago.
The Creation God Church is full of the name "the Supreme Lord who serves the Supreme Creator, the God of Creation, and the Supreme Church that cannot be described as the Supreme Church."
This organization originally originated in the northeast of the Arles continent and has a history of literature that can be traced back to more than 1,800 B.C., and at that time it already had its own territory and apology army.
The development and inheritance of the past three thousand years not only allowed Creationism to successfully take root in the Arles Continent, establish the holy land of faith and a permanent neutral place - Saint Verne, but also achieved an absolute dominant position in faith.
It even spread all over the world with the continuous migration of the white-skinned indigenous people on the Arles continent.
It was rated by the World United Organization as the most successful religion in the history of human civilization, the religious organization with the highest comprehensive influence, the second largest number of believers in the world, second only to the loose structure, numerous factions, and no unity in the world.
Structurally speaking, Creationism is a very typical monotheistic religion, and believes in the supreme Creator and Creator - Agust.
According to the "Sacred Book of Creation", the Creator God and the Creator Agust, opened up this world in the void, and created mountains, rivers, birds and beasts.
Finally, God created the original human beings based on his own image and gave them the most precious treasures.
--wisdom.
With this special grace given by God, human beings, as God's favorite, learned to use tools, build houses, farm and grazle, and even build city-states, and soon became the king of all things above all creatures.
But while wisdom has made mankind, it has also brought new troubles.
Because of wisdom, after the end of life, human beings will have a special will carrier will known as "spirit".
As humans flourish, more and more "spirits" that have nowhere to convert begin to appear, and they wail all night in the darkness, even attacking the living with hatred.
In order to place these "spirits" that caused turmoil, the great Creator created "parks" and "evil abyss", and handed over the two spiritual dwellings to the "Messengers of Light" and "Messengers of Darkness" born therein for management.
From then on, all the "spirits" born after human death will be judged.
Those who judge the good will go to the paradise among the clouds, enjoy endless joy, and have the opportunity to reincarnate as a human being.
Those who have the evil judgment will fall into the dark abyss under the sea and be tortured until the day when the "spirit" completely disappears.
This set of theories has dominated the cognition and beliefs of countless people for thousands of years, making them afraid of evil and good.
However, with the explosive development of technology two hundred years ago, ancient beliefs gradually began to face unprecedented challenges.
Technology tells humans that wind, rain, thunder, lightning, birth, old age, sickness and death are all natural phenomena, and they abide by objective laws and can even be controlled by humans to a certain extent.
The steel-made plane soared in the sky and found that there was no so-called "park" in the clouds. The remote-controlled submarine bravely entered the abyss under the sea, and never saw the so-called "evil abyss".
The ancient beliefs are being stripped away by technology, leveraging the foundation of their existence, and even being labeled as foolish...
But Pope Ferre III had no choice but to do all this.
He even predicted extremely pessimisticly that even though the Creation faith has completely become an indivisible part of civilization after countless years of efforts by the church, it will continue to develop according to this trend, and sooner or later, faith will eventually wither.
And the Holy Court and even the entire Creation Church will also disappear...
So when human mutations first appeared, many church leaders were actually secretly happy.
They believe that this terrible phenomenon that cannot be explained by science may be an opportunity for the resurgence of their own churches.
But the cruel reality gave these people a loud slap.
Because the people soon discovered that those priests of the Creation Church, who were servants of God, could not only not deal with these monsters at all, but would become monsters more likely to become monsters!
According to the data released before, the chances of the monks of the Creation Cultivation Cult are obviously greater than those of ordinary people.
If calculated based on the data released by a certain empire, it is 898 times that of ordinary people!
This made countless believers feel unacceptable.
It’s fine if you can’t deal with it. After all, most modern people don’t really expect priests to “subdue demons and demons”, but what’s wrong with your chances of mutation?
In addition, the governments of some countries have taken secret action, which has caused some vicious news about the priests not observing the precepts in recent times to be exposed, and the surging public opinion has immediately begun to kick the Creation Cultivation.
What's hard is that the Holy See has not yet been able to repay the word.
Because... all this is true!
Especially the issue of mutation rate, the belief in the gods and elemental natural sects of the world, which are also the three major religions in the world, are more than a little lower than them in this regard, and it is increasingly prominent in the problems of Creationism itself.
"Oh... I wish I could find that priest with extraordinary power."
Fellie III couldn't help but think in his heart.
He hoped that the other party was the Holy Spirit sent by the great Creator to guide humanity through the mutation of the disaster, and the messenger of light coming to the world, could lead the Holy See to greatness again!
That's right, from this idea, we can see that the pope is a truly devout believer.
This is actually very rare among the Popes of Creation in all generations.
There is no way, faith is illusory, far away, and money, temptation, desire, and power are just as close as the top leaders of the Holy See who have countless wealth and hundreds of millions of believers.
Therefore, strictly speaking, Pope Ferre III, who is so pious that he is fanatical, is the alien and minority among the top leaders of the Holy See today.
However, because relatively pious people eventually account for the majority, and no matter what their faith is, everyone is willing to unite with this fair, kind and wise pope, the internal struggle of this Holy See is not serious.
The atmosphere is harmonious and friendly, just like the church was a tough and slutty entrepreneurial period.
Otherwise, the Holy See would not have the heart to deal with sudden and strange things. They would be too busy to fight for power and profit every day!
Don't think it's exaggerating.
If it weren't for the fierce and almost deformed internal struggles in modern Creationism, the newborn, which is only a two hundred years old, would have never had the opportunity to grow wildly back then.
From the state of seedlings, they must be strangled to death by the Holy See, which is at the peak of history, and they are still extinct globally.
The current good condition of the Holy See is undoubtedly the contribution of Ferre III.
Starting from an ordinary priest in a local church, he was born in a noble family, but he was willing to wander among the lowest-level people and bring hope to those who are deeply trapped in the most desperate darkness.
After ten years of hard work, he became famous once, and then he entered and went out of the Holy Court, and finally became the youngest archbishop in three hundred years. At the age of 55, he was elected as the new Pope of Creation.
After more than 20 years in power, a full generation of people have been working hard to promote reform, clean up corruption, and suppress power factions, but...
"In a great battle, faith is a catastrophe, God... please guide me, how can I save all this?"