Luke had an audience with the king because of the papal bull.
In the Kingdom of Leiden, which spans the north and south, Luke, as the archbishop, controls the spiritual world of the kingdom, while Lauren, as the king, rules the secular land.
Over the years, Luke has become more and more involved in the secular world, while Lauren has become more and more immersed in theology. Luke established a city within the city that belongs to the church, and Lauren and his family were described in various stone tablets and poems. Countless poets have mythologized their experiences.
Their paths are close to each other.
"Father Luke."
In front of the throne, Lauren held the scepter and walked up to Luke.
Luke nodded slightly, the cold sweat on his neck had dried up.
Just listen to the Blessed One say: "Your Majesty, have you read the Pope's Holy Bull?"
There are often two copies of the oracle, one for the local archbishop and one for the local lord.
"Of course I've seen it."
Lauren paused, with a smile on her face and her gray hair trembling with excitement.
“As the Pope said, it is virtuous to kill people in order to bring the heretics to repentance.
Moreover, the problem before us at this moment cannot be underestimated. Above the northern soil, those uncivilized kingdom tribes believe in primitive and ancient gods.
Those kingdom tribes have repeatedly invaded our territory and defiled the churches of the true believers. Several cities and towns were attacked by them and could not bear to be disturbed.
A long time ago, I was thinking that I would send troops to exterminate them when necessary. Now I finally waited for the Pope’s decree.
Including those giant king pagans who believe in the king of my king, they lack the guidance of scriptures and will eventually become a disaster in the future. I must take the first step to kill them. "
Luke felt a chill in his heart, how enthusiastic the king's voice was.
"Luke, do you know what they call me? The one who brings the gospel! The one who listens to the oracle! Father, I am the one inspired by God to protect our faith and the homeland of the true believers from the pagans. Repent before the sword, and those who believe will live, and those who disbelieve will die, even if it means killing them.”
Lauren's voice became increasingly urgent.
Over the years, he has watched the kingdom under his rule gradually grow, with all the people under his feet surrendering to him. The people's deification of his past has pushed his status in the kingdom to the supreme level step by step.
Lauren felt that he was different from other mortals.
As heaven is higher than the earth, so he himself, the bringer of the gospel, is higher than the subjects of the kingdom.
Lauren stared at Luke, his baptizer, and said word by word: "Luke, after so many years, I have become an old man, and life is gradually leaving me.
But I know that death is not terrible. Death is our path to heavenly grace.
I am the one who brings the gospel. Before I die, I must leave behind my great achievements and give them to future generations to sing their praises.
And in the world after death, I will surely enjoy supreme honors for my achievements! "
Those fanatical words fell in Luke's ears, and the Blessed One looked directly at Lauren, whose expression was no different from that of the evil true believers in the city within the city.
"Your Majesty, what on earth are you going to do?!"
Luke asked in a trembling voice,
"A massacre is still a massacre...it is still a sin!"
“As the Pope said, it is our sacred and inescapable duty to exterminate pagans. Think about it, Luke, those pagans do not believe in the Lord, they are far away from the Lord and far away from the Church!
As you once said, those who are near the Lord are good, those who are far from the Lord are evil, those who are near the church are good, and those who are far from the church are evil!
Luke, how can it be a sin to kill evil?
The Lord is supreme, and we true believers represent the Lord!
Our Lord is better than the gods of the heathen! "
In the vast palace, the king wielded his scepter and answered him with the words of the blessed one.
Luke fell silent, and the palace fell into silence. He looked at Lauren in disbelief. The Blessed One never thought that Lauren would be like this today.
This man who once questioned God now sings the praises of God’s supremacy in his crown and attire.
The king enjoys the deification of his past by others. He longs to have the same respect for his king as the people of the past revered gods.
Therefore, in the eyes of the world, he emphasized over and over again that his authority to rule was granted by God, distinguishing himself from mortals and allowing himself to be close to God.
In the silent palace, Lauren noticed the priest's eyes.
He twisted his eyebrows and asked sharply: "What's wrong, Luke?"
"His Majesty..."
Luke's throat trembled, regret welling up in his heart uncontrollably.
I can definitely not blame him for what Lauren is like today...
God wants to see the world’s own will,
However, the desire of Loren and the people who praised him was to make God supreme and to fear God himself and others.
All this... is irreversible.
Luke suddenly lost all energy. He felt tired.
The public letter he wrote when he was young, his past commitment to church power...all deviated from what God wanted.
"Luke, don't panic. The Pope has guaranteed us that killing a heretic is not considered murder."
The king mistakenly thought that the priest was panicking about killing heretics, so he quoted the pope's words to comfort him:
"Not only is that not a sin, but it is one of the good deeds that allow true believers to ascend to the kingdom of heaven."
Luke suddenly took two steps back.
He unconsciously recited ancient words in his mouth, and raised his golden eyes to stare at Lauren's fate.
Luke saw blood, brutality and massacre...
He saw Wang Li standing among thousands of corpses, holding a head, intimidating the pagans who did not want to convert.
Luke saw that no matter what he was saying, Lauren's mind had been made up and he could no longer reverse it.
Maybe even before he met him, Laurent was ready to conquer the heretics.
Because it didn't happen overnight...
Blessed Luke felt despair and depletion. He nodded in despair, and then slowly exited Lauren's palace.
Walking on the avenue, Luke raised his head and looked at the sky.
"Lord...the will of the world is so..."
Luke felt truly sad.
That day in Thunder Castle, both Laurent and himself thought they understood God's meaning.
What God wants to see is what the world wants...
But Laurent and himself...acted according to human wishes, and to this point, they completely deviated from what God wanted to see.
And it’s hard to come back...
Both Laurent... and the church... have gone down the path of corruption in the secular world.
Luke looked at the city within the city not far away...
There was obviously not even a hundred steps away, but at this moment, he suddenly felt far away.
Go back to the city within the city... lose yourself in the dream of preaching...
Luke tries to convince himself to escape...
However, this cannot heal his deep regret...
Suddenly, the cold wind came from all directions.
Luke's throat felt hot and he coughed heavily.
He suddenly turned around and looked outside the royal capital.
It was a land almost covered with ice and snow...
Luke quieted down;
The true thoughts in my heart emerged.
Instead of returning to the city within a city...
Why not spend the rest of your life traveling like you did in your youth...and repent before you die?
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Luke's feet stepped out of the royal capital.
The cold wind suddenly came, and Luke's body felt the biting coldness under his barley robe.
The blessed man's throat was sore and itchy, and he stared at the road in the cold winter,
The road leading to the royal capital was wide and big. Luke raised his legs and without hesitation, he stepped onto the narrow road covered with ice and snow.
It was dusk at this time.
Night approached quietly, the dim light slowly passed away, and the simple gray barley robe walked in the snow. Luke gradually moved away from the royal capital. The circular cathedral was later built and was known as the saint of all capitals. world famous city.
Luke's figure was thin and lonely in the cold wind. He took one footprint after another, and was soon buried in the wind and snow. The sky had dimmed, and the snow under his feet was also dim.
Go back, the fire in the capital is warm, the mass in the church is good...
A timid voice sounded in Luke's heart.
Luke looked up at the approaching wind and snow. The Blessed One...the Holy Doctor of the Church...he seemed to see that all kinds of honorary titles would be dissipated on this cold and windy land.
He closed his eyes, stepped steadily, and then walked resolutely.
What is repentance?
Awakening because of regret.
Luke recalled how high-spirited he was when he sent his public letters, and how proud he was of his scholasticism.
At that time, I hoped for the unification of the heavenly world and the earthly world, and the establishment of a heavenly kingdom of faith on earth. I hope that under the guidance of the church, people in the world can abandon their evil thoughts of the flesh and pursue righteous love.
At this moment, Luke saw the cold fact.
He used to believe that the secular world is corrupt and the spirit is sacred. Therefore, secular lords are corrupt and church priests are sacred. Luke believed at that time that the penetration of the holy church into the corrupt secular world would inevitably bring about the destruction of the earth. The corruption has been swept away, and everyone is guided by the church, has good intentions, and rushes to the Lord's heavenly kingdom.
That was just an illusion!
In his eyes, the holy church penetrates deeply into the corrupt secular world. It does not sweep away the corruption, but quickly merges into it. When priests become lords, do they know more about justice than lords? If scriptures govern morality, can they teach people to better understand what goodness is?
Luke was not without his concerns in the past, but those concerns were overshadowed by the city within the city before him.
It was only now that he suddenly realized that by dragging the church into secularism, everything would be irrevocably secularized - the pope was just another king, and the scriptures were nothing but morals that could be distorted.
"Our Lord is better than the gods of the heathen, and blessed is the conversion..." Luke recalled the shocking words in the oracle.
In the vast scholastic philosophical works of the True Religion...
Such a statement cannot find any theological error.
However...
Is it right to be correct?
"Our Lord is better than the gods of the heathen, and blessed is the convert..."
For our Lord is better than the gods of the pagans...
Therefore, the true believers who believe in the Lord are unconditionally better than the pagans who worship his god...and they are blessed to use the butcher's knife to convert them.
Luke deciphered the true meaning of this oracle.
The Pope, above theology, gives true believers a commanding height of faith to take the lives of others!
The triple-crowned pope has allowed the scriptures of God to rot...
Sadly, I wrote that public letter because I wanted the church to control the secular world...
It’s all because of your own will!
He is the person crowned by the Pope!
The cold wind howled, endless regret filled his heart, and every strand of Luke's hair was filled with chills.
Luke suddenly turned around in the cold wind. It turned out that the huge royal capital was only a vague shadow in the wind and snow.
He couldn't help but think of the King of the Leytons.
Laurent was baptized by himself, who first called him the one who brought the gospel...
It's me who is endorsing him...
Laurent, who questioned the gods in the past, has reached the point where he is today, and he is definitely not to blame.
Luke recalled that since Lauren came to the throne, he had declared in front of everyone time and time again that his authority was granted by God.
Divine right of kings...
Lauren rules in the name of God...
He denies the meaning of other people in the world except himself...
Such Laurent is the product of the secularization of his own church!
What is worldly rule?
fear....
Lauren enjoys the world deifying his past. He is on the throne and no longer has his feet on the earth.
He enjoys the fear of the world...
in this way...
Even the Lord is feared by the world...
The Lord is made so high that no one can doubt it...
"That is definitely not the Lord's will..." Luke murmured, regretting.
But the wheels of history are rolling forward, and everything is irreversible.
The wind in the mountain pass roared like a dragon, venting its anger on everything it could touch. The snow took advantage of the wind, like an ice knife, scraping away people's skin.
Luke's head was swollen and he continued walking without stopping.
Is he sharpening himself?
Is he filling his regrets?
Even he himself doesn't know what he is thinking!
“For the sake of the Lord…for the sake of our gospel…it is not murder to kill an infidel.”
In the wind and snow, Luke was trembling even with his thoughts...
The church has become corrupted and fallen into vulgar worldliness...
The Pope endorsed the massacre and provided moral legitimacy for the sins of true believers.
Kill the infidels. As long as you kill the infidels, you will go to heaven...
Luke had a premonition that this thought,
One day it will become common knowledge among all true believers.
However...however...
Evil people are no more difficult to save than good people...
In the eyes of God, even evil people can be saved, let alone pagans!
Is a heretic more sinful than a true believer who commits evil? !
Good people can be saved, evil people can also be saved...
The righteous can be saved, and the wicked can be saved...
Believers can be saved, and so can unbelievers!
"The Lord is a lover!"
Heat surged through Luke's chest and he shouted at the top of his lungs.
The wind is getting stronger and stronger, rushing wildly, and the sky is dark and full of thick, gray-yellow turbid clouds. Ice and snow raged across the wilderness, as if holding a sharp sword, piercing Luke's heart again and again.
Somehow, Luke noticed,
My thoughts suddenly became quiet in the increasingly cold wind.
The Blessed One recalled that Lauren was puzzled by a question...
What is the value of man to the Lord?
At this moment, Luke had a completely opposite question in his mind...
What does the Lord mean to people?
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