savior epic

Chapter 259 Repentance on the Narrow Road (4k [-] in [-])

Luke had an audience with the king because of the Pope's oracle.

In the Kingdom of Leydon, which straddles the north and the south, Luke, the archbishop, is in charge of the spiritual world of the kingdom, while Lauren, the king, rules the secular land.

Over the years, Luke has been getting deeper and deeper into the secular world, while Lauren has become more and more immersed in theology. Luke has established a city within a city that belongs exclusively to the church, while Lauren and his family are enshrined in various stone tablets and poems. Countless poets have deified his experience.

The paths of the two are close to each other.

"Father Luke."

Before the throne, Lauren walked up to Luke with his scepter in hand.

Luke nodded slightly, the cold sweat on his neck had completely dried.

Only the Blessed One said: "Your Majesty, have you read the Pope's oracle?"

There are often two copies of the oracle, one for the local archbishop and one for the local lord.

"Of course I've seen it."

Lauren paused, with a smile on his face, his gray hair trembling with excitement,
"As the Pope said, in order to convert the heretics, it is a virtue to kill.

Moreover, the problem before us at this moment cannot be underestimated. On the northern land, those uncivilized kingdom tribes believe in primitive and ancient gods.

The tribes of those kingdoms have repeatedly invaded our lands and defiled the churches of the true believers, and several towns have been attacked by them and disturbed.

A long time ago, I was thinking that when necessary, I would send troops to exterminate them, and now I finally waited for the Pope's oracle.

Including those pagan pagans who believe in the King of the King, they lack the guidance of the scriptures, and they will eventually become a disaster in the future. I must kill them first. "

There was a chill in Luke's heart, how fanatical the king's voice was.

"Luke, do you know what they call me? The one who brings the gospel! The one who listens to the oracle! Father, I am a man inspired by God. Repent under the sword, believers will live, and unbelievers will die. Even if they have to be slaughtered for it.”

Lauren's voice became more and more urgent.

For many years, he watched the kingdom under his rule gradually grow, and all the people under his feet surrendered to him. The people's deification of his past pushed his status in the kingdom to supremacy step by step.

Lauren felt that he was different from all mortals.

As the sky is higher than the earth, so himself, the bringer of the gospel, is higher than the subjects of the kingdom.

Lauren stared at Luke, his baptist, and said word by word: "Luke, after so many years, I am already an old man, and my life is gradually moving away from me.

But I know that death is not terrible, death is our way to the grace of heaven.

I am the one who brings the Gospel. Before I die, I must leave a great achievement and give it to future generations to sing,

And in the world after death, I will surely enjoy the supreme honor for my achievements! "

Those fanatical words fell into Luke's ears, and the Blessed One looked straight at Lauren, whose demeanor was no different from that of the evil true believers in the city within the city.

"Your Majesty, what exactly are you going to do?!"

Luke asked tremblingly,

"A massacre is still a massacre, it is still a crime!"

"As the Pope said, exterminating the heretics is our sacred and inescapable duty, think about it, Luke, those heretics don't believe in the Lord, they are far from the Lord, far from the Church!

As you once said, those who are close to the Lord are good, those who are far away are evil, those who are close to the church are good, and those who are far from the church are evil!

Luke, how could it be a crime to kill evil?
The Lord is supreme, and we true believers represent the Lord!
Our Lord is more than the gods of the heathen! "

In the vast palace, the king held a scepter and answered him with the words of the Blessed One.

Luke was silent, and the palace fell into silence. He looked at Lauren in disbelief. The Blessed One never imagined that Lauren would become like this today.

The man who once questioned God, now wears a crown and clothes, and sings the supremacy of God.

The king enjoys the deification of his past by others, and he longs for how the people of the past feared the gods, so they revered themselves as the king.

Therefore, in the eyes of the world, he emphasized over and over again that his authority to rule was bestowed by God, distinguishing himself from ordinary people and bringing himself closer to God.

In the silent palace, Lauren noticed the priest's eyes.

He frowned and asked sharply, "What's the matter, Luke?"

"His Majesty."

Luke's throat twitched, regret welling up uncontrollably.

I can't blame myself for what Lauren looks like today
God wants to see the world's own will,

However, the will of Loren and those who praise him is to make the god supreme and make himself and others fear the god.

All of this is irreversible.

Luke suddenly lost all energy, he was tired.

The public letter I wrote when I was young, and my past commitment to the power of the church all deviated from what God wanted.

"Luke, don't panic, the Pope has assured us that killing heretics is not murder."

Wang mistakenly thought that the priest was panicking about killing heretics, and quoted the pope's words to comfort him:

"Not only is that not a sin, but it is one of the good deeds for true believers to ascend to heaven."

Luke took two steps back abruptly.

He recited ancient sayings unconsciously in his mouth, and raised his bright golden eyes to stare at Lauren's fate.

Luke sees blood, brutality and carnage
He saw the king standing among thousands of corpses, holding a head, threatening the heretics who did not want to convert.

Luke saw that no matter what he was saying, Lauren's mind had been made up, and he was powerless to reverse it.

Maybe even before he met him himself, Lauren was ready to conquer the heretics.

Because it didn't happen overnight
Blessed Luke felt desperate and exhausted. He nodded in despair, and then slowly exited Lauren's palace.

Walking on the avenue, Luke looked up at the sky.

"Lord, such is the will of the world."

Luke was genuinely sad.

That day in Thunder Castle, Lauren and himself thought they understood the meaning of God,
What God desires to see is what the world desires.
But Lauren and himself acted according to the wishes of human beings. At this point, they completely deviated from what God wanted to see.

And hard to return
Both Lauren and the church have gone down the path of corruption in the secular world.

Luke looking at the city within a city not far away
Obviously not even a hundred steps away, but at this moment, he suddenly felt far away.

Come back to the city within the city. Lose yourself in the dream of preaching
Luke tries to convince himself to escape
However, this could not assuage his deep regret.
Suddenly, the cold wind hit from all directions.

Luke felt his throat burn and coughed heavily.

He suddenly turned his head and looked outside the capital.

It was a land almost covered with ice and snow.
Luke quiets down,

The true thoughts in my heart surfaced.

instead of going back to the city within the city
Why not spend the rest of your life traveling like you did when you were young. Repent before dying?
Luke stepped out of the capital with both feet.

The cold wind came suddenly, and Luke's body felt a biting cold under the barley's robe.

The Blessed One's throat is sore and itchy, he gazes at the winter road,

The road leading to the king's capital is wide and wide. Luke raised his legs, and without hesitation, he stepped on the narrow road covered with ice and snow.

It was dusk at this time.

The night is approaching quietly, the dim yellow light is slowly fading away, and the plain gray barley robe is walking in the snow, Luke is gradually moving away from the royal capital, the ring-shaped cathedral that will be built in the future, known as the saint of all capitals world famous city.

Luke's figure was thin and lonely in the cold wind. He stepped out one after another, and was soon buried by the wind and snow. The sky has dimmed, and the snow under his feet has also dimmed.

Go back, the fire in the royal capital is warm, and the mass in the church is good.
In Luke's heart, a cowardly voice sounded.

Luke looked up at the wind and snow that was rushing towards him. Blessed One, the Holy Master of the Church, he seemed to have seen that all kinds of titles of honor would be dissipated on this cold and windy land.

He closed his eyes, his steps were fixed, and then he walked resolutely.

What is repentance?
Awakened because of regret.

Luke recalled the days when he had sent open letters, how high he had been, how proud he was of his scholasticism.

At that time, I hoped for the unification of the heavenly world and the earthly world, and the establishment of an earthly faith heaven.I hope that under the guidance of the church, people in the world can abandon the evil thoughts of the flesh and rush to the love of righteousness.

But at this moment, Luke saw the cold truth.

He used to think that the secular world is corrupt and the spirit is sacred, so the secular lords are corrupt, and the church priesthood is sacred. Luke thought at that time that the holy church would inevitably bring the earth The rot was swept away, and everyone was guided by the church, with good thoughts in their hearts, and went to the Lord's kingdom of heaven.

That was just an illusion!
In his eyes, the holy church penetrated into the corrupt secular world, and did not wipe out the corruption, but quickly merged into it. The priest became a lord, so did he know justice better than the lord?The scriptures govern morality, can it teach people to understand what is good?

Luke wasn't without worries in the past, but those concerns were clouded by the city within a city before him.

It is only now that he suddenly realizes that if he drags the church into the secular world, everything will be irretrievably secularized—the pope is just another king, and the scriptures are nothing but distorted morality.

In the vast scholastic works of the true religion.
Such a statement cannot find any theological error.

However.
Nothing wrong is right?

Luke deciphered the true meaning of the oracle.

Sadly, I wrote that public letter back then because I wanted the church to control the secular world.
It's all because of your own will!
He is the person who will be crowned by the Pope!
The cold wind howled, endless regret filled his heart, and every strand of Luke's hair was chilled.

Luke suddenly turned his head in the cold wind, and it turned out that the huge king's capital was only a vague shadow in the wind and snow.

Inevitably he thought of the king of the Ledonites.

Lauren was baptized by himself, and it was he who first called him the bringer of the gospel.
I am endorsing him
Luo Lun, who questioned the gods in the past, has come to the point where he is today, and he is absolutely not to blame.

Luke recalled that since Loren took the throne, he declared in front of everyone time and time again that his authority was given by God.

Divine right of kings
Loren rules the world in the name of God
He denies the meaning of other people in the world except him
This kind of Lauren was originally a product of the secularization of his own church!
What is the secular way of domination?

fear
Lauren enjoys the deification of his past by the world. He is on the throne and no longer has his feet on the ground.

He enjoys being feared by the world.
in this way
Even the Lord is feared by the world.
The Lord is molded to be high and beyond doubt.
"That's definitely not the Lord's will." Luke murmured, regretting.

But the wheels of history are rolling forward, and everything is irreversible.

The wind in the mountain pass roared like a giant dragon, venting to everything it could touch, and the snow took advantage of the wind, like an ice knife, scraping off people's skin.

Luke's head was swollen, and he continued to walk without stopping.

He is sharpening himself?

He's filling regrets?

Even he himself didn't know what he was thinking!
"For the sake of the Lord and for our gospel. Killing a heathen is not considered killing."

In the snowstorm, Luke was trembling even with the thoughts in his heart.
The Church is corrupted, sinking into vulgar worldliness
The pope endorsed the massacre, providing moral legitimacy for the sins of true believers.

Kill the heretics, as long as you kill the heretics, you will go to heaven
Luke had a hunch that such thoughts,
One day it will become the common knowledge of all true believers.

However. However.
The wicked are no more difficult to save than the good
In the eyes of God, even the wicked can be saved, let alone the heathen!

Is a heretic, is he more sinful than a true believer who does evil? !

The good can be saved, and the evil can be saved
The righteous will be saved, and the wicked will be saved
Believers can be saved, and unbelievers can also be saved!
"The Lord is the Lord who loves people!"

Luke's chest was hot and he shouted at the top of his lungs.

The wind is getting stronger and stronger, rushing wildly, the sky is gloomy, and the sky is full of thick, gray-yellow turbid clouds.The ice and snow raged on the wilderness, as if holding a sharp sword, piercing Luke's heart time and time again.

Somehow, Luke sensed,

My own thoughts suddenly fell silent in the increasingly fierce cold wind.

The Blessed recalled that Lauren was puzzled by a question.
What is the value of man to the Lord?
At this moment, Luke had a completely opposite question in his mind.
What is the meaning of the Lord to man?
(End of this chapter)