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At first, Christianity took after his mother, which meant he
reflected the two divine attributes, Justice and Mercy -- also known as
Holiness and Love. In fact, he reflected them so well that the
mother became jealous, and he began to find it difficult to live in
the same house with her. This was also due to the fact that Israel's
husband had called, dressed as a beggar; and she,
failing to recognise Him, had turned him away. However the son had recognised him,
and they stayed in communication. He promised the child that one day,
they would all be reunited.
As time went on, the son could no longer stand to live in the same house as his mother, and left home. About that time, the house was seized and the mother also had to leave. They became a broken family.
As time went on, the son could no longer stand to live in the same house as his mother, and left home. About that time, the house was seized and the mother also had to leave. They became a broken family.
Cut
off from his mother's influence, Christianity began to emphasise the
divine attribute of Love and Mercy, neglecting that of Justice
and Holiness -- receiving only the new and rejecting the old. He also began to emulate the neighbourhood boys in
other ways, and was soon unrecognisable as the son of his mother.
This was truly sad, as the child had been destined to reign as a
prince alongside his mother, a queen, and his father, King Messiah.
This would bring perfect balance to the universe, however it couldn't
happen, because the child who was to be prince was away from
home, and his character was becoming increasingly unbalanced. Even
as it was, the mantel of “Prince of the Universe” was still on
the child, and as such, his imbalance also affected the universe.
What
happened next was not the original plan of Him who was to reign as
King, but it was as though nature were correcting the
imbalance. He allowed it to happen, knowing that it would bring about
his purpose in the end, and in the mean time, there would be a
semblance of balance in the universe. So, because of the imbalance in the
cosmos, a twin was born. Just as the older twin was the son of
Abraham through faith, the younger was also a son, through Ishmael.
That twin's name was Islam.
Everything
that the elder twin rejected, the younger twin embraced. The elder
child had clung to mercy at the expense of justice, so the younger
twin clung to justice, but rejected mercy. The elder twin had become
careless in describing the Holy Trinity, giving the impression that
he believed in three gods instead of One God manifested as three
persons. The younger twin responded with, “That's polytheism! There
is only one God,” and rejected the Trinity. The elder child had
begun to describe the doctrine of the Incarnation and Virgin Birth in
a pagan sort of way, as though God had intimate relations with Mary
to give birth to Messiah, thus His title, the “Son of God”. The
younger brother was repulsed by this idea, and retorted, “No! God
cannot have children!”
Never-the-less,
the younger twin did believe in the Messiah, even acknowledging that
He was the Word of God, not realising that that's what the term, “Son
of God” really meant in the first place. But he didn't believe in
the crucifixion and the resurrection, because those were the ultimate
expressions of Mercy. In essence, he had rejected Mercy because his
elder brother had so distorted it by divorcing it from Justice.
However, his own understanding of Justice was likewise distorted.
It
was truly a broken family, and all nature wept. The mother, having
fled from her home and living wherever she could, was tormented and
persecuted by both of her children – when they weren't too busy
fighting each other.
Then,
one day the first child had an awakening. He began to realise what a
horrible son he had been, and began, by degrees, returning to his
mother. The mother's heart also began to open to her son. The son
asked her, “Please, remind me of the truths I've
neglected this past 2000 years, like Justice the Fear of the Lord.”
As
the mother began to open up to her child, her eyes also opened
to King Messiah, whom she had once turned away from her door when he
came dressed as a beggar. He had been communicating with the elder
twin from a distance all along, but the child had not
been very good at remembering all that he told him, and didn't know how to mix the new with the old. But now that the
King was revealing Himself more directly, the elder son also began to
think more clearly and understand the will of the King, and the
divine attributes of Justice and Mercy.
Another
thing began to happen: the more the older child embraced the more
balanced view, his twin began to fade away as his soul began
to merge with that of his older brother. Soon, they were no longer
two separate twins, but one child. Only a shell of the younger twin's
body remained, sort of like a zombie that continued to put
up a fight until it disintegrated. There were also other zombies,
clones of the mother and elder child that had spawned when the
reunion came. For a short time, all the zombies joined forces in an
attempt to devour the Queen and the Prince, trying to bring about a
zombie apocalypse. That was short-lived, and soon total harmony was
restored in the universe as King Messiah reigned with the Queen and
the Prince for the rest of eternity.
Image: By William Fraser [Public domain or Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Image: By William Fraser [Public domain or Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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