Chapter 163 I am not God
The meeting broke up unhappily, but the councilors still recognized Gehrys as city defense officer.
The main reason is that they can't reason with Garris.
In the council chamber, Garris argued with the others and scolded those who wanted to surrender bloody.
Almost as soon as the congressman revealed his intention, Garris started spewing out all kinds of quotations from classics, which made the old congressmen present not know how to reply.
It is a real loss of being uneducated.
The secondary reason is: Stephanie's guards couldn't defeat Garris with their bare hands.
After Garris heard Stephanie slap her "little bitch" twice, Stephanie got angry like a shrew, and the surrounding guards swarmed up and tried to take Garris down.
However, such a group of guards who were armed to the teeth and wearing armor could not defeat Garris with his bare hands!
There were more than 20 members present, listening to the sound of Garris punching the head, and watching Garris kicking and beating the guards to the ground one by one.
When the guards could no longer get up, even Stephanie just opened her mouth wide, wanting to curse but not daring to.
She was afraid that instead of slapping her twice, Garris would punch him directly.
"So, do any of you still object to me serving as the city defense officer?"
Everyone shook their heads, indicating that no one objected.
Regarding the force displayed by Garris, no one present dared to deny his qualifications.
If someone who is so capable of fighting does not become a city defense officer, then who is qualified to be a city defense officer?
This is called reading, in order to talk to the insects calmly; exercising, in order to let the insects talk to you calmly.
……
Garris stood on the city wall of Karak City, overlooking the valley not far away. On that slightly gentle flat land, Adil's army camped for several days.
Nowadays, the city of Karak is deeply under siege. That is because there is a lot of food stored in Karak during the harvest season in May, so the residents of the city can still endure it.
However, as time goes by, if there is no hope of relief, the citizens of the city, whether rich or poor, will become impatient and wavering...
Garris could hear footsteps coming from behind him, and he knew it was Amedee without turning around.
Now Amedei is a little at a loss when looking at Garris.
If we say that in the parliament hall before, Amedee could still talk eloquently with the dignity of the bishop in the past.
But when he was alone in private, Amedei couldn't help but think of the crown of thorns on Garris's head, and couldn't help but think of the scene where Garris disappeared out of thin air, and his heart was throbbing.
He wasn't sure what Gareth's identity was, a prophet? Or an angel?
Whenever Amedei tried to ask such questions and get a clear answer from Gairis, Gairis would smile half-heartedly, then disappear into thin air, interrupting their conversation.
The more this kind of thing cannot be obtained, the more it makes people obsessed and the more it makes people daydream.
Amedee somewhat understood Father Antoine.
Facing a person who can perform miracles in this world, authority in the world and dignity in the church are meaningless.
[He causes the powerful to be dethroned and the lowly to be exalted; He fills the hungry with good things and causes the rich to go away empty-handed. 】
——"Luke" 1:52-53
For a truly powerful person, it is easy for the powerful to lose everything and for the poor and lowly to enjoy happiness.
Even Amedei felt ashamed in front of such a man of noble character.
"My Lord..."
"Don't call me Sir, just call me Sir." Garris refused the other person's honorific title. He has now begun to try to change some things in this era.
"Sir, I have a question." As he said that, an old man from Amedei came to Garis cautiously, and looked with him at Adil's military camp in the distance.
"Ask"
"In the past, why didn't you just show your miracles and subdue those people?"
In Amedeh's view, as long as Gehrys is willing to perform a little miracle, all the MPs can be shocked, turn into doubt, and then turn into fanaticism.
"Then what? Can the sins on their bodies be washed away? Because of their fanatical belief in me, can the stink on their bodies be washed away?"
"A sinner does not become righteous because of his faith."
“Because a righteous person can be called righteous only because he regrets his sins and attempts to make amends.”
“Sinners, however, try to elevate God to the level of a harmless idol to justify their own sins.”
"Amedei, haven't you always wanted to ask me what I am?"
When he said this, Garris paused for a moment without understanding the words.
He looked at the desolate plateau land outside the wall. The rolling hills and deep valleys spread out in front of him like a picture scroll.
The sun shines down from high in the sky, illuminating this land, coating every inch of rock, every ravine, and every wisp of dust with a pale golden light. The wind carries the smell of dry earth, as well as the slightly sweet fragrance of distant vegetation, all announcing to Garris the reality of this world.
"Amedei..."
"I am not God."
This is a plain announcement, a thunderbolt from the blue, which will explode on this vast plateau and shake the earth in all directions!
In an instant, Amedeh realized the core of the problem. What is it that the world worships?
If others become respectful and fanatical because of the miracles of Garris, how is this essentially different from the idolatry that Christianity most resists?
In Christian theology, idolatry does not only refer to the worship of concrete objects.
It also symbolizes the fascination of the human mind with anything that is not divine.
This includes wealth, power, status, anything that might distract people from their trust and loyalty to God.
When Garris declared that he was not a god, it just highlighted that Garris had received the grace of the "Holy God".
Because he was a humble man and did not compete with God for favor by performing miracles.
"Amedai, remember, we Christians only obey God. That God is my Father and your Father. We will never submit to any idol or Caesar in this world. Even I am no better than You are superior.”
"For Christians, Caesar is only a secular Caesar, not a divine, heavenly monarch."
“In the Kingdom of Heaven, there will be no place for idol worshipers, let alone evil people who elevate God to the position of a harmless idol to drive others to believe!”
"Do you understand?"
The wind blew through Garris's pale golden hair, bringing the fragrance of life from the earth. Even Amedee could feel that the world was rejoicing with Garris's words.
"I understand."
"Sir, if I had not repented before Christ, would you have performed a miracle in front of me?"
The old Amedei acted like a student in front of Garris, asking for advice everywhere.
For this question, Garris did not answer directly. He turned to another topic.
"Sinners will become righteous because of their repentance and atonement. These are not irreversible things."
"But not all sinners can repent sincerely and make atonement."
"If the coming kingdom of heaven does not want to be replaced by the kingdom of sinners on earth, then it must arbitrarily absorb sinners from the old era without screening."
"I came to this land to save the city of Karak, but more importantly, I wanted to wash away the sins of Karak City."
"It's easy for me to defend this city, but it's really more difficult than asking a camel to go through the eye of a needle."
Amedei nodded, he understood what Gellis was pursuing.
For Gehrys, simply getting a city wasn't enough.
He will make a large pile of wood and use the hot coals to heat the pot, melt the filth in it, and remove the rust from it.
Just when Garris and Amedei were chatting.
From the military camp in Adil in the distance, there seemed to be several horn blasts.
Some soldiers began to gather. They prepared ladders and began to move towards Karak City.
The number of those soldiers was not large, and there were only a few ladders. It was more like a trial than a full-scale attack.
At the same time, the alarm bell on the city wall also sounded, and the volunteers who were resting in various towers all rushed up to the city wall.
Lorien also hurried to Garris's side. This young man was carrying two bows, one of which was stronger.
Gareth took the sturdy longbow from Lorien.
When the small group of Saracens came to a distance of about 700 feet, Garris opened his bow and nocked an arrow. Then, there was a sound of strings and the arrows roared out.
At a distance that Amedei could barely see, a black dot fell down, and then the soldiers from the chrysalis stopped together, not daring to move forward.
Is this a coincidence?
Amedei opened his mouth?
At that distance, can you still hit accurately? !
Is it really not luck?
"You see, Amedei, it is not more difficult for me to defend this city than to sow a seed."
"But if you want to get rid of all the sinners in the city and stop people from worshiping tyrants and idols, I feel like you are fighting against the wheel of history."
Then Garris said something that Amedeh didn't understand: "It's like a mantis trying to use its arms as a cart."
The third update, there should be another update, I'll give it a try.
(End of chapter)