Jesus looked at the Devil. He looked at the syringe. He looked at All The Kingdoms Of The World. He looked back at the Devil. His brow furrowed in thought. He looked at the syringe again.
Then his eyes shone as the Holy Spirit flowed through him. His indecision vanished. “Your lies have no power over me, demon,” he told his tormentor.
“Please calm down,” said Satan, only now he spoke with the voice of a middle-aged woman. “We’re just trying to help you, Mr. Anderson. Please just hold still and let me give you your medication.”
“Get thee behind me, Satan!” shouted the Christ, and he pushed the Devil off the mountain. Satan screamed as he plummeted, screamed with a woman’s voice, until he vanished from sight in the depths below.
Oh wow, that was an excellent read! Thanks for the link. :) It seems like Jesus in that story reaches the opposite conclusion of Moses in mine. Out of curiosity, who do you think made the most reasonable decision and why?
Jesus acted correctly. He might or might not be insane, but he has to figure it out some other way, like check his memories for inconsistencies, go see a psychiatrist, or go check if that person he resurrected last week is really alive and people confirm the story, so he didn’t just imagine it. What the devil tells and shows him isn’t reliable evidence for anything, because the devil could just be lying.
Moses failed to come up with some obvious anti-hallucination checks (see comment below), but at least he didn’t go on a killing spree based on flimsy evidence, so that’s pretty reasonable, too.
Yvain’s “The Last Temptation of Christ”:
Oh wow, that was an excellent read! Thanks for the link. :) It seems like Jesus in that story reaches the opposite conclusion of Moses in mine. Out of curiosity, who do you think made the most reasonable decision and why?
Jesus acted correctly. He might or might not be insane, but he has to figure it out some other way, like check his memories for inconsistencies, go see a psychiatrist, or go check if that person he resurrected last week is really alive and people confirm the story, so he didn’t just imagine it. What the devil tells and shows him isn’t reliable evidence for anything, because the devil could just be lying.
Moses failed to come up with some obvious anti-hallucination checks (see comment below), but at least he didn’t go on a killing spree based on flimsy evidence, so that’s pretty reasonable, too.