Standard Wolfean Riddle

António Pedro Marques · 16 Aug 2010, 15:11 · from 2010-August.txt.gz

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From: entonio at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?B?QW50w7NuaW8gUGVkcm8gTWFycXVlcw==?=)
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:11:30 +0100
Subject: (urth) Standard Wolfean Riddle
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James Wynn wrote (16-08-2010 16:06):
> :
>>
>>>
>>>> Why did God not come to Urth? It's one thing to make it a little
>>>> different from Earth. Quite another to leave the local humanity
>>>> without a redeemer.
>>>
>>> ~ Romans 9:20-24
>>>
>>> Fortunately, though, Wolfe is the true Increate of Urth, and no one
>>> actually went to Hell in the making of this Ushas.
>>
>> Not answering back, only asking.
>
> My point, snarkily formed, was that humanity had a redeemer, just not in
> Sev's iteration of Briah.

That's tenable, but I don't see God leaving so many of his creatures to 
waste. (It's the catholic God I'm thinking of, because we are explicitly 
told our universe enters the picture. If we weren't told that, then I'd 
gladly accept God to be very different.)

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