To continue this Older/Younger Brother analogy, there is one fundamental belief separating these brothers. The Younger Brother believes that big trouble is coming, looming like a black thunderhead on the horizon -- this is not the belief separating these brothers, as the Older Brother, too, believes in the approaching storm; however, the Younger Brother fully believes a window will open in heaven and snatch away him and all his friends, thus escaping the "judgment of God" that is coming. The Older Brother smiles wisely, because it was he that devised this devilish myth, singing his Younger Brother to sleep with frightening fairytales, and magic saving tricks. The Older Brother knows there will be no escape, and counts on the reality that his Younger Brother will be used as cannon fodder, or moving targets for the enemy to expend its frightful wrath.
The Younger Brother believes his beliefs are "From the Bible Alone!" even though he has never read the Bible, as he would always rather hear someone speak the truth, tell him what the
Bible says. He believes the devilish myth is
from God, written out in a complicated puzzle inside the Bible, that regular people cannot understand. But the Younger Brother believes that his Older Brother is anointed, and thus can be trusted in the detwisting and untangling of confusing Scripture.
The Older Brother believes that it is he that must save the world, that no help can be gotten from heaven. He shouts to his friends that they must and can "call angels down" to battle the enemy, to slay the enemies of God. But it is with sharp steel the Older Brother feels the world shall be cleansed. The Older Brother is investing in guillotines, beautiful, wonder-working mechanations of death.
Many friends of the two brothers run to and fro between them, their heads spinning, half believing the Younger Brother that they are to be fat and rich and waste life as much as possible, half believing the Older Brother that they are to obey and maintain their rigid man-made laws, and man-altered Biblical laws, in order to perfect their holiness for the battle to come.
“To say of what is, that it is not, or of what is not, that it is, is false;
while to say of what is, that it is, and of what is not, that it is not, is true.”
- Aristotle
