( So I asked him, the imitator of the True God:)
( ‘The things you’ve wrought, have they been very good?)
The creation of the earth and everything upon it
‘Was good’, Jehovah God had said
Then He said to his master worker, Jesus
One of his angelic sons
Now let us make a new living creature
One in our image
He will become a human
And they called him Adam
Then Jehovah looked at all the living things
He and Jesus had created
And He declared it all was
Very Good
Then God said
Let us also create a mate for Adam
And they called her Eve
And all of creation was full of God’s light
Thriving, vibrant, diverse, harmonious life!
All of the angels watching
Broke out in thundering applause
Except for one
After a time, however
Creation’s ‘light’ began to dim
The thriving, the vibrancy, the diversity
Yes…all harmoniousness began to fade
All creation began an imperceptible slide
Into merciless putresence
Like an apple rotting from the inside out
Creation was becoming
NOT very good
God was well aware why this was so
For that one amongst the angelic audience
The one pretentious and most handsome
Of unbridled ego, presumptuousness
And vindictive jealousy of Jesus
The one who had not joined in the applause
That one, Satan, was always a resister
And God knew
That one had made it his sole purpose
To Un-do
All the perfection in the Creation
And remake it in his hoary image
That is to say….
Very IMPERFECT
(And so he, Satan)
(answered my question thusly:)
(‘Just between you and I’)
(‘No, not very good or even…just as good as God.’)
(‘All that I touch, in fact’)
(‘Becomes VERY debased’)
(‘But it has been good enough to fool most of you.’)
(‘Hasn’t it?’)
By Jahgirl
May 16, 2021