Chapter 105 [Crown of Thorns]
Lord, fill this servant with the gift of the Holy Spirit and raise him to the rank of priest.
Make him worthy of serving on your altar, so that he can proclaim the gospel of your heavenly kingdom...
Priest, or priest, is the honorific title of a priest who is qualified to preside over a church. They are anointed by the bishop and illuminated with the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
It can be said that as a priest or priest, he is a priest of Christ in the true sense and has a personality different from that of mortals.
As a priest, Gabriel sees himself and these believers as people from two different worlds.
Look, their clothes are shabby, their bodies are dirty, they don't know etiquette, and they are like pigs and dogs living in the world.
And he himself was born into a noble family, wore gorgeous sacrificial robes, was knowledgeable, and preached the gospel to the world.
Gabriel enjoyed the admiring gazes of the people around him. It was this feeling of superiority that made him preach tirelessly again and again.
Nowadays, why these idiots are acting inexplicably one after another.
A Charlie appeared from the front heel and spoke prophetic words with words he had heard somewhere.
A leg of clay suddenly appeared from his heel, and a large crowd called himself a prophet in the abode of God. Don’t you know that this is blasphemy to God and will lead you to hell?
But as a priest, Gabriel was not angry yet, he just found it ridiculous.
"Okay! Here comes a guy who has read books!"
"But who are those Jews! The evil people who betrayed Jesus, Christ, will bear eternal damnation. What qualifications do those pagan words have to be sung!"
"You must know that the Jewish Old Testament does not have any practical significance!"
“Even the Jews themselves don’t follow the things you mentioned in the Law of Moses!”
"You, a poor beggar from out of town, can't even put on clean clothes, yet you still have the nerve to call yourself a prophet!"
Unprecedented pleasure filled Gabriel's mind. Looking at the speechless poor people under the altar and in the aisle, he felt as if he could do anything.
Garris stared at the priest on the altar. He was silent for a moment. The theological system of this era was not perfect, and there were more good and bad guys than in later generations.
When it comes to arguing with him, Garris will naturally be able to win, but that won’t bring good results...
Garris was not here to compete for this moment of eloquence. Instead, he chanted softly: "If you want to cleanse others, you must first purify yourself; if you want to illuminate others, you must first become light; if you want to sanctify others, you must first be sanctified." ”
"What about you? Have you ever done it? Your gold and jade are ruined on the outside, and the gorgeous clothes on your body will be your prison clothes in the future! You, a hypocritical person in your heart and insensible to the truth, will inevitably fall into the eighth circle of hell after death. Six trenches! Walking forever in heavy gilded lead!”
Then Garris turned around and shouted to all the believers present: "That guy, the scriptures he talked about earlier were letters written by the saint apostle Paul!"
"Everyone here may have heard the name of the apostle Paul, but do you know the ending of that saint!"
"The saint who called on Christians to obey authority and submit to Rome, he died! He died under the tyranny of the Roman Caesar! The Jews said that he was spreading false religion, so the Romans captured the saint, tortured him, and sent him to Execution in Rome ”
"If he had not been a Roman citizen, he would have been crucified!"
"Fart! That doesn't make sense! Every penny of taxes Paul paid to Caesar turned into arrows shot at him! You worked so hard for the lord in vain, and in the end it was just a way to die!"
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"How can it be reasonable in this world that when someone wants your life, you still go out to save it! My brother Jesus, he can be resurrected in three days, what about you?!"
Along with Garris's words, an undercurrent surged in the dark church. Some of them had actually heard the story about Paul's martyrdom, but they had never thought about it like Garris...
Father Gabriel at the altar began to get angry when he saw that Garris did not argue with him but instead encouraged the believers.
After all, if it was a Bible debate, he would have the confidence to argue, but this guy didn't take the usual path. He started to curse people, saying that he was wearing gorgeous clothes but was full of shit inside, and cursed him to go to hell in what eight circles after his death. Punished in six ditches.
Forget about swearing and cursing, this guy turned around and went to incite believers, spread fallacies, and misinterpret the scriptures... This made it clear that he was not here to argue the scriptures, but to create trouble.
Father Gabriel reacted and immediately shouted to the believers below: "Come here! Drive this guy out! He is blaspheming the Lord and attracting the devils in hell in this holy church!"
"Here comes someone! Drive this person out quickly!"
However, no matter how Father Gabriel called, the believers on the bench just looked at him coldly, and no one got up.
They've had enough, enough of the priest's nonsense over and over again, enough of his nonsense.
There was something wrong in the atmosphere, Father Gabriel could feel it. Then he saw Garris, who was dressed in rags, turning his head to stare at him, and the hundreds of believers in the audience were also staring at him.
There was an inexplicable look in the eyes of these people.
Garris took two steps forward and said: "The kingdom of heaven belongs to the poor and the weak. My brother Jesus was poor all his life from the manger to the cross. He endured hunger, thirst and poverty. He told The Pharisees hoped that those high-ranking people would give away their wealth...so he died and was crucified."
With that said, Garris took two steps forward again.
"And now, a guy like you, dressed in gorgeous clothes, considers himself my brother's servant. But you don't know that the poor are my brother's brothers! We are connected by blood with Christ, and we ascend to the kingdom of heaven through his flesh and blood, you? ...What a thing!" So, Garris continued to take a few steps forward.
His figure grew taller and taller. To the people sitting next to him on the bench, Garris was like a stone pillar supporting the church.
Many people stood up. Those who had listened to Garris's teachings were the first to stand up. When they were in Skaar Village, they realized how special Garris was and understood that Garris would lead everyone on the road to salvation. .
Next came those who had done farm work with Garis, who was willing to work with them and take down beehives for them, and was one of their own.
These people are young and full of future like the rising sun.
And after having an example, more and more people follow suit.
The darkness was like the dark clouds before a storm, and the atmosphere fell into silence, but everyone knew that lightning and thunder were about to come and rainstorms would wash away the world!
Garris came a few steps in front of the altar. He did not move forward any further. He looked at the priest who was frozen in fear in front of him.
He stared hard at the priest.
"He who sacrifices a poor man's property is like a man who kills his son before his father."
"The food of the poor is the life of the poor; whoever takes away their food is the criminal who sheds blood."
"He who takes away the food earned by other people's blood and sweat is the executioner of murder."
"He who deprives a servant of his labor is a murderer of blood."
"You guys, you force people to the point where their families are destroyed and their families are destroyed. Have you ever shown any mercy?!"
Garris is no longer chanting, but shouting loudly!
With the sound that resounded throughout the church, almost everyone stood up. They were not paying respect to the priest or paying homage to God, but they wanted to inform the priest on the stage of their attitude.
Being stared at by these hundreds of people, the priest subconsciously took two steps back, then his feet became unsteady and he fell straight back.
Bang!
There was a flurry of excitement, and the priest who fell to the ground looked at Garris like a devil.
The gorgeous sacrificial robes he wore could not bring him courage.
At this moment, the entire church was filled with light, and the light that was originally occupied by Father Gabriel spread to everyone.
After being deprived of the admiration of everyone, no matter what clothes Father Gabriel wore, he was just an old man walking in the twilight years of his life.
He will be scared, frightened, and fall.
And in front of Father Gabriel, Garris, even though his clothes were shabby, could not hide the holiness within them.
After arriving at the altar, Garris did not pay attention to the priest first, but turned back to face the believers.
He said nothing, but silently watched everyone present when a crown of thorns appeared out of thin air on his head.
Those believers who had listened to his teachings and received his sermons in the village of Skar before started singing loudly.
"I believe in Almighty God, who created heaven and earth and controls all things."
"I believe in His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ. He came into the world to love the world. His soul ascended to heaven, but His body stayed behind to bear the suffering of the cross."
"I believe that the holy body has witnessed the torrent of history, the rise and fall of empires, and the destruction of kingdoms. Now, this holy body has returned to the world, reincarnated by the Holy Spirit as a victim, and brought new revelations."
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"I believe in the child of God, the resurrected brother, who was born from the dead, carries the power of the Holy Spirit, and walks around the world proclaiming the new gospel."
"He said that the Kingdom of Heaven is no longer an illusory shore, but will be established on this earth. Civilians will fight for justice, and mortals will devote their blood and lives to the Kingdom of Heaven."
"I believe that the sword will be drawn out for justice, and the earth will be ignited with the flames of freedom and equality."
"I believe that all darkness and tyranny will be destroyed, a new order will rise from the ruins, and the kingdom of heaven on earth will be established in the hands of mortals."
"I believe that the new gospel will be fulfilled, that Heavenly Father will resurrect every fallen warrior, and that the present kingdom of heaven will come to earth and will never be shaken."
"Amen."
As the sound of this creed echoed in the church, Garris turned his head and looked at the priest.
The priest lying on the ground looked at Garris in fear, staring at the [Crown of Thorns] that appeared out of thin air on his head.
The first update is 3,000 words. After all, some people always say that 2,000 words is too short... The second update is before 12 o'clock, so it should also be 3,000 words.
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