LIFE'S PLAY

Life’s a play, the best ever created where people are intertwined in pulsating plot twists.

To have a sensational piece, one needs a cast, each player with a role. In life’s play, we have the antagonists do not choose to be the villain, yet they are condemned to damnation, deep in the depths of hell while the righteous are rewarded with a home in heaven and our author, the creator.

I understand that conflict makes a story meaningful. Even fiction needs a Thanos. But why must suffering and eternal punishment exist for them? I struggle with the idea of free will. Do I truly have a choice if i’m a pawn in a play where damnation is already prepared for me?

Khufu built Giza, da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa, Picasso gave Guernica, Shakespeare wrote The Merchant of Venice. Creations come from creators. So, the universe too must come from somewhere or someone. We have multiple theories trying to explain it. From Evolution, nebulae, the Big Bang. Things do not simply begin themselves.

My conclusion? He exists. Whether it’s Shiva. Elohim. Yahweh. Allah. Mungu. Ngai. Universal energy.

This system was created by God and If He created this system, He could create another. One that doesn’t require evil or the misuse of freedom. Parallel universes float around as an idea. Maybe I just landed in the one where evil reigns.

We’re placed in situations where we must choose right or wrong to survive. That isn’t freedom. It makes evil inevitable. The poor family down your block. Your homie asking for crumbs. Survival distorts morality.

If we trace evil back, it leads to Him. Every twist stems from the architecture He designed. He had options at every step.

He could have placed the tree elsewhere or better yet not create it at all.

He could have terminated the serpent.

Why are we being punished for their mistake? Judicial systems, are you watching?

He could have prevented the fall entirely. Yet He did nothing.

From Pharaoh to Abraham, people are caught in disasters they didn’t choose. Abraham was asked to sacrifice his son. Egyptian children died because they were caught in the system. Job too, for a wager.

Why is a good God so hell bent in ensuring lessons are learnt through suffering and trapping individuals to those lessons?

Why are there so many ways to worship Him if He is one? The Vatican. The walk around Mecca. Monks in the mountains. Jews in Jerusalem. Olympus in myth.

If religion V is the correct one, what happens to the rest? Their sacrifices? Songs? Beliefs? All for nothing?

My limited understanding of these matters leads me to believe the supreme being is selfish!

He presents Himself as omnipotent, all-knowing, sovereign yet allows rebellion and as a result people suffer. He Created Lucifer knowing the outcome. Why allow evil to unfold while holding the power to end it with a word.

If evil is opposition, why not end it?

We say good and evil must both exist, but maybe that is only how human minds understand reality. Contrast helps comprehension. Perhaps evil is not required at all. Perhaps salvation requires it so the story functions.

Because if everything unfolds within His design, then suffering belongs to the design. Every disaster, every plague, every child caught in the middle. From Pharaoh to Abraham, people become pieces in a demonstration.

So, what are we?

Participants or characters?

Was writing this part of the grand scheme? Am I just a character?

When the light fades and the credits roll, we won’t know why.

That’s why the play remains captivating.

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