"Is God an optimist or a pessimist?", Ansi began.
"In questions such as these, there are no correct answers. But it is to be argued that there is a least incorrect one"
"To answer the question"
"We must go all the way back to Adam and Eve"
"First two mortals to live, first two to disobey God"
"But by His own intention, God began by giving them the Garden of Eden. He gave them paradise, it was not till they disobeyed him did He change His mind and condemn them of that action"
"Since the time of Adam and Eve, you could say the Garden of Eden became a reward for obedience, and good deeds"
"It is thus accurate, to surmise that any mortal born into His world, is guilty until proven innocent. Hence they must be saved"
"This means the only mortals He ever considered innocent before condemning them of guilt were Adam and Eve, hence why their lives began in the Garden of Eden and not some punitive derivative that is merely a fraction of His imagination, like everyone else after them"
"Such as my client"
"His life did not begin in an environment of His blessing, but that of His mercifulness, therefore, and again, in His eye, any mortal born into the world is guilty until proven innocent"
"A pessimist is anyone with a negative view of something"
"At first thought, one could easily conclude that God is a pessimist"
"Since God now has a negative view of the very world He created and the mortals that inhabit it"
"However"
"The fact that He keeps onto the Garden of Eden, or Heaven as a reward to all those that abide Him, that makes Him an optimist rather than a pessimist", concluded Ansi.
"A pessimist and an optimist can only exist in an environment of positives and negatives"
"A pessimist will turn anything that could be positive into a negative. Or rather fail to see the positives that exists around them, and are in no way capable of using those factors as an advantage"
"For an optimist to exist. A negative function must be predominant in their environment. A function that is counterproductive to their essence of being, identity, and their goals and ambitions"
"Yet, they still grant that environment the benefit of doubt, hope, for whatever fruits it may bring. The benefit of doubt to whatever still that can still be pure", said Ansi.
"Thus, for as long as the gates of Heaven remain open to any who seeks it. That is God's benefit of doubt. That makes Him an optimist", concluded Ansi, again.
"The question becomes much harder, when we ask ourselves, if God is a realist?", Ansi muttered to itself.
"But", it speaks up again, "we have established a trait of His"
"One trait is not enough"
"So, we move on to the purpose of prayer, and debunking this notion of having to judge a mortal through the quality of His omni powers"
"Dear members"
"I'm about to make a deduction, the kind that if you do not follow properly. You'd think I've made of leap"
"Any gap of judgement you think I've made is a merely a reflection of your gap in understanding"
"Thank you. I continue"
"Through his experience with Adam and Eve"
"God takes away the Garden of Eden and punishes the entirety of mankind"
"Now before we move any further, a question arises"
"Was it that God generalised the behaviours of all of mankind through the actions of Adam and Eve? Did He believe that regardless of who it was in that field the result would be the same?"
"If Moses was Adam, would he too have taken up the deed of Adam's sins?"
"For if it is false that a mortal could outrun the fate of Adam's sin had they been the first man to live. That would make God a God of generalisation who condemns all because He's petty"
"But if it is true that every man of Eden will wear the skin of Adam's disobedience. Than God is a God of premonition that punished everyone after Adam using His own divination"
"Omniscient, as we call it"
"To do away with doubts, and to decipher a proper shadow of God argument, we are obliged to answer such questions"
"The ten commandments, and His own words and actions, are a good reference point", believed Ansi.
"If on one hand you have Him admitting something like, 'I am a jealous God', and on the other you have you have a commandment, as, 'Thou Shalt Not Have no other gods before me', I deem it perfectly rational to conclude, God makes decisions out of His own psyche", argued Ansi.
"For we can attribute the existence of that commandment by His own admission that He is a jealous God. Once again, proving me right, that He does judge according to His own psyche like the witnesses of in this court"
"I'm not sure if psyche is the best term to use here, but it is the best term I have right now. So. Please look past it"
"By His own words, and by the interpretation of a mortal, God does have Ego, be it divine ego because He is God, but by the interpretation of my understanding it is ego nonetheless"
"For had he not been egotistical the act of blasphemy will not hold in this court, nor would it be mentioned several times in the holy scriptures"
"We have once more established another trait of His, which is only a stepping stone to the pedestal of my earlier question", Ansi said.
"Why punish the rest of mankind based on the actions of Adam and Eve?"
"One reason may be because He is omniscience, He knew that all of mankind, Moses or Noah or the disciples of His son would have done the same, had any of them being the first mortal to breathe"
"This outlook is highly possible for we have already established that when looking at the very world He crafted, God is more of an optimist than He is a pessimist"
"As such it would have been within character for Him to know Adam and Eve would disobey, yet still give them the benefit of the doubt - hope - that they would not disobey"
"Even if it meant going against what He already knew. He chose to forgo His omni abilities to give them a chance. That is in character of an optimist"
"But Adam and Eve brought truth to his omni powers"
"And He was proved wrong, giving Him reason to listen to his voice of knowledge and condemn all mortals born or unborn"
"They suffer the fate of Adam and Eve for they all wear the skin of Adam and Eve. Thus He becomes just in condemning them all and is no longer a God of generalisations"
"However, if this line of thinking is true"
"It would imply God is an experimental being, one that puts His own powers to the test"
"And that would be where the problem begins"
"As it also suggest He was doubtful of Himself, for God to be doubtful of Himself"
"He cannot be egotistical but since He is egotistical He cannot be doubtful"
"The two, in my book at least. Are mutually exclusive"
"Another implication of Him not being experimental, arises from His encounters with Lucifer"
"Again by being an omni king. He should have known that lucifer would betray Him by attempting to overthrow Him"
"If this was the same scenario as with the one I just suggested regarding Adam and Eve, in which God was trying to give Lucifer the benefit of the doubt, yet again refusing to listen to His own conscious voice of future fates"
"It further suggests that God is a poor learner of His own experiments"
"But even more importantly", Ansi highlighted, "It would also put fault to the statements His made several times that His voice and word of advice being that of the highest quality and wisdom which all mortals should adhere to at all times"
"By Him not listening to His own omni voice, His voice of reason of immaculate wisdom. He gives the implication that He Himself acted against His own wisdom"
"Who else can He listen to? When there's no one above Him? Within that aspect, God is a lonely God"
"Thus on the basis of character contradictions"
"We can fairly exclude this possibility as it would entirely discredit everything He has said to be capable of, which again, that too would go against His ego and pride"
"So what is the accurate way of looking at this?"
"Some, perhaps many, would brush this off as being too analytical in places I shouldn't be analytical of. Any such foe that deems it true has never had a pure thought in their upbringing, so bear with me. I'm almost there"
"I will take the pragmatic approach to concluding this question"
"let us look at everything that did happen"
"One, we know the garden of Eden had a bunch of trees and a bunch of fruits, God said eat from wherever you'd like but one tree"
"And that was it. That was the rule, when the snake convinced them to eat from the tree, what did it use as its lines of persuasion?"
"'For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing Good and Evil', said the serpent to mortals of closed eyes"
"We know for a fact that they did eat from the tree, hence why we are where we are, but did they become like God?"
"No, they did not"
"Adam and Eve were still mortals, the serpent lied to deceive them, but so too did God, He lied to test them"
"If your agreeableness is still crippled by doubt, take it this way – to what use was that tree to God? – Did He ever eat from it?"
"Even if He did we are not told so, and there is no room for assumptions in this court"
"It is never written of Him eating any tangible fruits, nowhere in the scriptures either, so it would be bold to conclude He had any use for that tree either than testing Adam and Eve's loyalty"
"Now, if no one has ever dared to ask the question, I will now"
"What in the world was a serpent of deception doing in the Garden of Eden in the first place?"
"For as long as we make these deductions by accounting for His omni abilities, my duty is facilitated"
"Since, indeed the snake was the instigator of what went down, but without its' input things could have gone differently, yet it was there and able to speak their language, enabling deception"
"If by all means necessary God wanted them to adhere and follow the rule, He could have stepped in and prevented it from happening, but doing that means He deprives Himself the chance of testing Adam and Eve's loyalty without the influence of His will"
"That is what we call precedence"
"Precedence occurs when one purpose or task is more valued than the other"
"God is a being of hierarchy. God is a being with priorities", Ansi deduced.
"Perfectly able to prevent anyone from breaking the rules of the garden, He did nothing thus, the test of loyalty sits above all in His list of priorities"
"And purpose is methodically defined by what a being prioritises the most throughout the tenure of their existence, in which case God's purpose for mankind is to see where their loyalty lies"
"It is, His greatest and utmost interest"
"Objection, your honour!", Panteku suddenly interrupted.
"Please deny the objection", Ansi shot back, "I'm sensitive to interruptions, it would make me lose my train of thoughts – please"
"I do not care", replied Panteku in even louder tone, "I for one, still object"
"Unlike you, I do not wait for the case to pile up before interrupting, I interrupt immediately"
"Plus losing your train of thought works to my advantage, so why not?"
"Objection!", Panteku repeated even louder, accompanying it with a smirk.
"Panteku. Do you actually have something to say?", questioned handler, "if not, then keep your silence"
"Oh, but I do have something to say, your Honour"
"Ansi here is cherry picking what to conclude, what to highlight and what not to. See, what Ansi seems to oversee is that in as much as what happened with Adam and Eve was a test, it was the simultaneous creation of free-will"
"Free-will began the moment God refused to prevent the serpent from deceiving them", Panteku points out.
"When God created the two, placed them in the garden, told them what and not what to do, and at the same time let the serpent be, He orchestrated freedom of choice"
"You and I both can agree, the occurrence of free-will began with Adam and Eve, as the conditions for it were exactly right", argued Panteku.
"I'm glad you chose their situation to make your deductions, in that garden, a lesson was learnt, there will always be rules, you are free to make your choice, but every choice has a consequence"
"I'm not denying that it was in fact a test, but let's not forget the purpose behind it"
"You know, our titles are rather ironic, I'm called the devil's advocate, yet what I'm really doing is implementing God's laws", it says, "I need a change in title"
"But, I continue", it said.
"Ansi's scenario had at least two deducible motifs behind the mighty one's actions"
"I was going to get to that part", Ansi affirmed, "but do, throw my bones at me"
"Seems like great minds do think alike, for I was going to use Adam and Eve to complete my criteria for judgement", the Prosecutor claims.
"But, I am no copycat, so, I'll take another route and still circle back to Adam and Eve", it boasted.
"Just get on with it already", handler demanded.
"Suppose Homeless Gregor here was from a world in which mortals like him were the only species that existed, and eating was the only way to survive, would he be a cannibal?", the Prosecutor asked.
"Not in term", replied Ansi, "the reality of that scenario, suggests no other species exist, and a cannibal by definition is a being that feeds on their own species"
"But also in term, species is a collective term that distinguishes between types of animals. In your scenario, they are a singularity in an environment without types of creatures, the naming structure simplifies, thus they never come across the need to distinguish creatures by their habits or physical forms because every creature would look and behave the same"
"And if I am to assume mortal intelligence works in the same manner as they do right now, they can only define things they've come across, so species is beyond the scope of their imagination"
"But since a mortal cannot live on an empty stomach nor on leaves alone, they will be eating each other, but it won't be cannibalism, it would be normal"
"No evil, no good, no ignorance, just normal"
"Hunting", Ansi said, "simply hunting"
"I knew I could rely on you", agrees Panteku, "if hunting another mortal was cosmically wrong, we would be unable to judge the Homeless man, and any mortal that comes from such a world", it argued.
"For there was no room for choice, and they would have been just in eating each other"
"However, our accused is not from such a world, had he preyed on other mortals from where he comes from, that would have made him a cannibalist, and this court thus becomes just in judging him"
"How so do we become just in judging him?", Panteku asked itself, "because what was true in his environment, that isn't true in my scenario are…the alternatives"
"The alternatives of choice"
"It is only by designing an environment with distinct species, various ways of living, does the designer of that environment simultaneously creates choice and free-will"
"Circling back to Adam and Eve, and why you just cherry picked a conclusion"
"Had the forbidden fruit being the only fruit in the garden of Eden, God would not be just in punishing them for eating the only thing that could have calmed their hunger", Panteku deduces.
"But they had every other tree they could have eaten from, so many, yet still they ate out of the forbidden one"
"Alternative choice gives birth to morality", it says, "Alternative choices gives birth to morality", it repeats.
"Morality, is the choice you make from the alternatives presented to you in your environment"
"That is the third and final criteria for judgement", it completed.
"Adam and Eve were the only mortals who were innocent until proven guilty, as you've said, to which I agree, but do not forget, that when the two became the first to be judged, cosmic judgement criteria formed right there and then"
"He gave them life, that was one"
"He gave them reason, that was two"
"And through the alternative of choices, He was free to make rules, and through rules, He created two general paths"
"Obedience or disobedience"
"In other words morality was also created"
"Having granted them free-will by the existence of alternative choice, He is free to test loyalty, and is justified in punishing"
"Three things", Panteku said out loud, "three simple things, and suddenly the judgement of creator to His creations becomes just"
"To hit your father, or to not hit your father, to lie, or to tell the truth, all of those are choices, if you are morally ethical"
"I reiterate, as ethics can be defined in a plethora of ways, if one is morally ethical by biblical abidance, then I would not bother leaving my pit of hell to prosecute them all", it said smirking.
"If you look at this criteria", it continued, "we know that the Homeless man is here because the first two assessments are true, he bore life, and he had reason"
"Thus then he is eligible for cosmic judgement"
"We look at the third and final assessment of the criteria to inspect if he is eligible for Heaven", it says, "look at the choices he made during his lifetime and you'll know he fell too far from the blessing of eternal life", it argued.
"With this criteria, I've made this trial and all others as simple as they can get", it believed.
"I agree with everything you just said '', Ansi stated, to Panteku's surprise.