Elijah and Azuu

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#1150 Feeding: Psychoanalysis

Inkmonkey

on Dec. 12, 2006

If my theory that God does what is right as opposed to what is good is to hold any water, then in a way he has given mankind the greatest gift a deity can bestow; the power to do good. God will always be limited by what is required to keep the Universe from ripping itself in half, but mankind has the true power to be wholly and unabashedly good. The problem, though, is that this same freedom from "responsibility" means that mankind also has the power to be blindingly, stupidly bad. The difference is, though, that we have the choice. This wonderful, glorious option that God bestowed almost arbitrarily on mankind. Many theories say, in a roundabout sort of way, that it was because this choice was given to man and not to the angels, that Lucifer betrayed God and led to basically all the business I make a comic about.

Yet the one puzzlement in all of this is that god is Omnipotent, all powerful, all knowing. He knows the beginning and the end, because he is the beginning and the end. So surely he would have been aware of Lucifer's betrayal before even creating him, yet he creates him anyway.

Prey without a predator can not survive. With no "X Factor", one creature will grow beyond what it's world can handle and, once all its resources are depleted, destroy itself from the inside out.

Joy means nothing without sorrow.

Life has no value without Death

A world without evil doesn't work.