How to Survive in the Roanoke Colony-Chapter 147: Nameless (2)

I and you do not know all of the Lord's will! I am a vessel but not a potter, a sheep but not a shepherd!

Therefore, no one on this earth can call another a sinner, a heretic, an infidel, and kill or punish them!"

Everyone is silent before Him.

Over that silence, like a drop of blood on white drawing paper, His words echo red and dense.

"No one on this earth shall take the name of the Lord in vain! (Exodus 20:7, Deuteronomy 5:11) No one but your almighty Lord God Himself! No one shall judge or punish others in the name of the Lord!"

His words... fell into the hearts of the believers like a rock breaking down a solid fortress wall.

It struck down like lightning that instantly burns a thousand-year-old giant tree.

Like an ax breaking the frozen river, it cuts through their minds.

Everyone just quietly held their trembling hearts, engraving each word, each phrase.

'I too have come to make humanity like angels.'

Once He said. He came to make people like angels.

'The Lord said to love people, so now I tell you to serve people.'

He also said. To serve people, all of humanity.

'Follow your conscience that the Lord has given you.'

He said to follow one's own conscience.

'Ask questions. Inquire and inquire.'

He said to ask questions.

On top of that, a piece of commandment is added again.

He said, one who does not know the Lord's will shall not punish people in the Lord's name.

Like a precisely crafted clock turning, all sentences fit together as if they had been arranged together from the beginning.

At this fact, Raleigh, and thousands of other people, tremble.

He said to make all humanity like angels, to serve all humanity, so how could one label someone an infidel and divide person from person?

He told everyone to follow their own conscience, so who could call someone a sinner if they served humanity and did not violate their conscience?

He said to endlessly question and inquire, so how could one not question even the words given by a messenger of God?

They had not just heard a single sentence.

They would now live in a new world.

A world where no one would be killed for being an infidel or a heretic.

The apostles quietly show their respect toward His back.

The sun has already rotated in silence, changing day to night.

Starlight settles over everyone's heads like white frost.

==

...Fortunately, the situation was well resolved.

No, it wasn't just resolved.

It was tied up.

I uprooted and removed elements that could threaten me and the community in our doctrine. I eliminated any room for arguments about heretics or infidels.

And at the same time, one thing gained.

Knock. Knock.

"Nemo, the voting has concluded. Let's go together."

"Ah... Walter? Has it already become that time?"

"It's long past that time. It just took time to prepare until we could escort you."

"That isn't necessary..."

"It is necessary. Isn't this the day to elect the government of our community?"

Separation of church and state.

I am still the leader of this community.

That doesn't change. Because I sustain this community, and this community protects me.

But now those who will assist me and build this community with me will be determined by votes in the assembly.

Regardless of religion.

With 189 years left until the French Revolution, the world's first country with separation of church and state has been established.

Anyway, while thinking about various complicated thoughts, I walk with Raleigh toward the meeting hall (which was also newly built, separate from the church) and feel nervous.

What kind of people will work with me in the future? Probably most will be natives? How will I hand over Excel skills and other things? Ah... if it's new people, it might be a bit uncomfortable...

Creak!

So the door opens.

And as I step in.

"There he is!"

"Nemo!"

"..."

Eleanor, Vicente, Manteo, White, Hewett... Raleigh.

All familiar people.

All apostles.

"Walter, perhaps..."

"We decided to elect a total of six people, and when we lined them up by votes, it turned out like this."

"..."

"Isn't familiarity good? In wartime, you don't change horses, you know."

"..."

I see.

Separation of church and... state?

Is this right?

...It must be.

==

"You... truly, truly must know. This is certainly a new commandment, but also not a new commandment.

The first commandment He gave is an expansion of the new commandment that the Son of Man gave us, the commandment to 'love one another' (John 13:34).

Because we love one another, we can further love and serve all of humanity. Therefore, this is not at all new.

In the case of the second commandment, it's a bit unusual, but we can also see its basis in the Bible.

The Son of Man said to the Jews, 'If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free' (John 8:31-32).

Here, the Lord used the words 'disciple' and 'truth.'

Jesus Christ, the Son of Man, as the Word made flesh, is Himself the truth. Therefore, knowing Him naturally frees our souls.

But here, He called His followers 'disciples.'

And a disciple is one who seeks and learns knowledge. What we need to know is the Lord Himself. And as the Lord is the One who created this world, His traces are everywhere.

And to know, we must first ask questions.

We must question this world and the Lord within it. We must question Nemo and God.

Therefore, the second commandment cannot be called an entirely new commandment either.

And the third commandment... is a broader interpretation of the third commandment of the Ten Commandments. No, it can be said to be a greater emphasis and repetition of it.

Moses told the Jewish people, 'You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain' (Exodus 20:7, Deuteronomy 5:11). The important part here is 'in vain.'

When Jesus delivered the Sermon on the Mount, He said that those who falsely act as prophets in the Lord's name and pretend to exercise power are lawless ones. (Matthew 7:22-23)

Yes. Those who try to punish people in the Lord's name are those who try to act as false prophets.

Do not listen to words like, 'Burn the Protestants. It is God's will.', 'Behead the Catholics. It is God's will.', 'Kill the Muslims and Jews. It is God's will.'

Those who insult and oppress their neighbors as infidels are themselves infidels.

Those who kill and humiliate their neighbors as heretics are themselves heretics.

Because the Lord only said to love your neighbor.

Thus, 'His' words do not deviate in the slightest from the Lord's will.

'He' even called Himself 'No One (NEMO),' which is His intention to be humble before the Lord."

Thud.

Hewett closes the book that people call "The Books of Thomas Huet" and walks off the platform. Then many people show their respect to him.

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To His apostle.

"He gave up even His name to give all glory to the Lord, so He is truly the Nameless One. But by doing so, the Lord and all humanity were glorified, so His insignificant, non-existent name is truly a noble name."

At Hewett's words, everyone gathered here to listen to the sermon nods.

"Following the Nameless One, we have been given a shared duty to make all people like angels. We help people, save people, and serve people. We wish not for our names to shine, but for the names of all to shine. We wish for the Lord's name to shine! Therefore, our church has no name (Nameless Church). If it must be called something, it can only be called Namelessism. For humanity."

People of many tribes and many denominations nod, quietly making the sign of the cross or putting their hands together in prayer.

A church that never existed before is established in this land.

A church where no one is killed as an infidel.

A church of those who follow their own conscience.

That church had no name.

Just like the angel who leads that church.