"All of those deductions and analysis, for one charge", Panteku mocks, "a charge I began this trial with"
"The blasphemy and hypocrisy charges, are some of the heaviest charges", Ansi points out.
"Those charges alone could have been enough motive to send him to hell"
"I don't know what you've being eating in your end of the cosmos, but I thank you", the prosecutor said, "for making this fun for me"
"You've said a lot of interesting things"
"But my favourite part was your realisation that such an argument could wound up being a double edge sword"
"And it is a double edge sword, for I've found myself, holding the other end of it"
"Any argument that tries to deduce the traits and motifs of a being, be it any being, God or not"
"Remains incomplete, until one simple question is answered, that question being"
"Is the subject of our analysis a perfectionist or not?", Panteku inquired and confidently stepped forward.
"Well…", pondered Ansi, attempting to reply, "We have Lucifer to answer that question"
"Lucifer was God's perfect creation, He had it all, we are told"
"The looks, the wisdom, power, leadership, charisma, all such traits desired by mortals, all such traits that made him perfect", Ansi says.
"And how did that turn out? He believed and had enough confidence to think he could do God's work, he believed he deserved His throne", Ansi said.
"By the blessings of his perfections, came the ambition to want more, the ego to believe you are above all else, the pride to not accept a hierarchy that has you lesser than another"
"And thus His attempt to overthrow God"
"Has there been another Lucifer since then?", asked Ansi, "I ask that because the argument to your question will turn out exactly as I had argued regarding God's handling of Adam and Eve"
"To not create another perfect being, like Lucifer was supposed to be, is to assume any other perfect being in Lucifer's place will work against His will", Ansi claimed.
"And thus in order to protect His throne, the most efficient way to do it, would be by not constantly worrying about the plots of your own creations"
"Will this angel try to betray, or that angel, if it is war they seek you are powerful enough suffer no losses"
"But why fight a war? If you could simply never create another lucifer? For it is in creation that your greatest strength lies", the advocate argued.
"It is in your control over creation can you achieve universal submission"
"Yes, yes, you are telling me about a former angel, during a trial about a mortal", Panteku said, "too huge of a leap", it said brushing it off.
"The ten commandments", Panteku continued in rhetoric, "what are they for?"
"We must understand that the ten commandments, put simply are just rules from a creator"
"Now we all know they are rules for anything and everything"
"A rule for this and a rule for that, erk, tiring, aren't they?"
"And thus the question arises, in a world with so many rules how many of them are truly authentic rules?"
"How many hold merit?"
"Since the Homeless man spent a good deal of his childhood life racing in the track fields"
"Let us suppose there is to be a race", it begins, "and here comes a race official, who instructs that within this race no participant is allowed to fly"
"Objectively a rule is; any instruction that disallows you from doing something and prevents you from acting in a certain way"
"Thus without question the official has indeed made a rule. However, the rule holds no merit nor authenticity"
"Why?"
"Because track runners, like Homeless Gregor at least, are incapable of flying. So, it is a no brainer that is no need to tell him not to fly when he cannot fly"
"Suppose now, I'm holding a swimming competition, and I say to all participants, do not walk on water during the duration of this test", Panteku says.
"Unless at least one of the participants is Jesus Himself, the rule again holds no merits", it argues, "it is redundant in the face of what is blatant reality"
"From both these scenarios the rule targeted an ability that participants do not have, thereby ruining any merit it could have"
"We easily deduce that a rule must always conform itself to the reality of your participants in order for it to be authentic", Panteku argues.
"If I make up the rule, do not push any of your competitors during the entirety of this race, that rule holds merit, it is authentic"
"For it addresses a likely event, tenure, that all participants are indeed capable of"
"And from this authentic rule, we learn that an authentic rule becomes authentic when it is in favour of keeping the purpose of the game alive"
"The purpose of a race is to find the fastest competitor, thus if all runners are too busy pushing each other, the game itself loses purpose. We will not know who the fastest runner is, which is an unwanted ending", it elaborates.
"When we look at our two deductions simultaneously"
"We understand that not only should a rule conform to the reality of your participants abilities, it must also specifically address those abilities that could ruin the purpose of your game"
"As such to say, do not run in a walking competition is an authentic rule, because that is obviously not the point of the game"
"And here's where things become timidly interesting, in a walking competition you will not see a rule that states, do not crawl"
"In a running competition", it continues, "you will not find a rule that states, do not walk"
"See if you do either of those things, you will not be breaking the rules of the competition, all you would be doing is sabotaging your own chances of winning", the prosecutor points out.
"Therefore, we learn it is of zero interest to the creators of a rule to dictate how you should win a race"
"In fact instructing your participants to not crawl in a running competition is as redundant as disallowing flying, because whomever does crawl would have broken the rules regardless and lost the game"
"An officiate designs rules with the sole aim of keeping the purpose of their games alive"
"Crawl in a walking competition if you want to, walk in a running competition if you feel like it, nonetheless the purpose of the game remains alive"
"Hinder your own chance, you lose but won't be qualified, hinder the chances of another, and you'll lose and will be disqualified", it said.
"A creator of a rule, does not care with what mentality you approach their game"
"Or rather", it rectifies, "it is incorrect to phrase it like that"
"It becomes their own believe that because you know the rules of the game, it is in your best interest to not just play by the rules, but to play by the rules and win"
"Now, my dear friend Ansi"
"I ask you this"
"Of all ten commandments, is there any commandment that is not authentic? In the criteria that I've just deduced?"
"You do love your criteria's don't you", Ansi joked, "but yes, all ten are authentic rules"
"And thus arises another necessary question – what does it take to successively create authentic rules, apart from reason, of course?", asked Panteku.
"Awareness of possibility", Ansi answered.
"That's exactly right, by authentically inscribing the ten, God was aware of what His creations are capable of"
"In light of the awareness that His creations are capable of killing one another, He had to command, Thou Shalt not Kill"
"In light of their desires, lack of assets, and occurrence of those with desirable things, He had to command, Thou Shalt not Steal", Panteku said.
"Awareness of your participants", it repeats, "is what's needed to create authentic rules, and I believe I have contributed yet another trait to this shadow of God argument of yours"
"All such rules give purpose to His loyalty test. All such rules keep the test, the game - as I like to call it, alive"
"Oh", Panteku said in a shift to sarcastic tone, "what's that you just realised, you don't have enough materialistic things, you've just become aware that others have more than you do, you are suffering from how less you have, well here is a rule, Thou Shalt not Steal"
"Rule…authentic"
"Remember the reality of a game, is what keeps rules authentic"
"Thou Shalt not Steal, how can such a rule remain authentic if materialistic equality and wealth was even amongst all mortals?"
"If your home is the exact home of your neighbour, down to the brick and cement that makes up its foundation, and if your wife, is your neighbours wife, and your sheep are your neighbours sheep"
"The rule, Thou Shalt not Covet, loses authenticity, it becomes as redundant as do not fly in a running race devoid of wings and feathers"
"If I looked like you, and you look like me, if you and I are both a were mirror reflections of each other, physically and mentally too, where is the test of jealousy, where is the test for theft?"
"How can desires exist? How can the sins born out of desires become prevalent?"
"Forget the commandments, forgot the deadly seven sins, for virtue too will hold no meirt"
"They won't exist, the entire world is plain"
"You said, and I concur, that the loyalty test is of greatest precedence to God"
"Regardless of how you look at things, it is what He prioritises the most"
"And thus we have found the purest reason as to why a sin is a sin"
"Anything that diminishes the credibility of a loyalty test, is a sin"
"A lie is a sin, for by lying to his mother, Cynthia, the Homeless man, robs God the chance to judge on her true character is she knew the faults of her son"
"Ansi, you are on the right path, I love this shadow of God argument, you are basically psychoanalysing God"
"But don't stop at just deducing His traits"
"Go further, try to understand the system of design"
"To test loyalty, you must design an environment in such a way that the plausibility to break a rule becomes highly probable within that very environment. So the test can continue and the test is viable"
"It is from Adam and Eve, that we know God is willing to design things and say things in certain ways in order to test the obedience and loyalty of His mortals"
"Greed is a sin, we are told"
"To test one's greed, I must give them more than is necessary"
"If they fail the test, that is by disobeying my rule, I thus become just in punishing them of their sin, as I become just in rewarding them for it, when they do not fail"
"Theft is a sin, we are told", Panteku continued, "hard work and self-satisfaction are not sins"
"Thus by having too less to meet the stomachs grovels, or too few a clothing to cover thy skin, are you truly tested on things you should not take"
"And if you fail, I become just in punishing you, if you do not, I also become just in rewarding you for remaining true to the traits of a character I had advised"
"Understand, not one mortal lives long enough to be tested on all ten commandments, and laws written in the holy scriptures", says Panteku.
"Thus, not all tests are equal, they differ"
"Similar to my argument against the statistical approach in cosmic judgement. If a mortal was to ever spend his entire life, from beginning to end in complete solitude. That mortal would forfeit his character traits, he'd have no flaws and no virtue, for he was never placed in situations of self discovery"
"In such a case a solitary mortal, can only be argued to be noble, had he walked through the paths of life first, and then chose to abstain from everything that tried to lead him astray"
"Only then can arguments be made to define his character"
"Nobility, in my book at least, is not defined by never having done anything wrong. Nobility is to come across temptation, to see temptation, to be presented with an opportunity to act on temptation, yet still your chin turns away for your head refuses to be mislead"
"If we are to follow this chain of thought"
"We could argue that indeed the loyalty tests are individualistically purposed, and hence circumstances remain diverse. Because the game has overall rules, but some rules are more accurate, no, that's not the correct term"
"Some rules are more personal to certain mortals than others, for they can be directly applied to the general life a mortal lived, what they were given, what they lacked, all types of things that clearly defined their character", argued Panteku.
"Thus then to keep cosmic judgement just, this court and I, can prosecute them based on the choices they made in their given circumstances"
"What you are really doing with this shadow of God argument, is giving me a picture of His mind, a better understanding of why things happen the way they do"
"I can only test your loyalty in accordance to how well you obey the rules, but to test your obedience you must live in an environment of plausible rule breaking"
"We are deducing His traits here, so, let's take it from His perspective too"
"Would He have felt justified by initially placing Adam and Eve in a punitive derivative of the Garden of Eden, without some sort of action on their part?"
"No he would not have, for God to be the same God eternally, He must be just from the one set of His existence. And to have a just punishment"
"He must design an environment with plausible rule breaking"
"Had things gone differently, had He simply placed Adam and Eve in a derivative Garden and never tell them about the existence of Garden of Eden"
"He would no longer be just, and we would be unable to deduce this particular trait"
"This shows us that to be just in judgement at least, the officiate must not only make the rules of the game clear, but so too, befit the environment to the purpose of the game"
"And if you know there are to be rules in your game, or test rather, then are we not to assume a being that is just, or wants to be just when judging you, would have equipped you with enough reason to understand what and what not to do during one's days of breath?"
"Earlier you asked me, something along the lines of, how much reason does a mortal need to have had as to not be exempted from cosmic judgement"
"I admit, it was not clear to me how I'd answer such a question"
"But I can now"
"By your ongoing shadow of God argument, we know God must be just, by that very argument, we also know he has enough awareness to create authentic rules"
"Or rather, He creates beings that are vulnerable to His own rules, same thing to me", it muttered in between.
"Thus, if God is just, and is aware of the capabilities of mortals, am I not to assume he gave all mortals, your client included, enough reason to understand the rules of His test"
"To rephrase it, the Ten commandments would not be authentic if referred to a type of species that lacked reason, but because God is a creator with awareness, He referred them to a type of species that does have reason, sufficient reason for judgement to remain just"
"Rules are rules, the moment you do not follow the rules, is the moment I'm summoned to make sure you get what you deserve"
"But", said Ansi, "we're not prosecuting him for not understanding the rules, or the ten, to be specific"
"Of course, he understood them, they are plain and simple, easy to understand", it said.
"Exactly", agreed Panteku.
"Only", continued Ansi.
"You are prosecuting him because you claim he understood the rules yet still made choices against those rules"
"Oh for crying out loud", whined Panteku, "O dolly molly, if this molly really wants me to sound out everything, I will lose my holy marbles"
"I add", stated the prosecutor, "If God too referred these rules to creatures that are inherently incapable of following the rules, He is no longer a just God"
"Had He commanded lions to never kill, yet designed them to be hunters, He forfeits the right to judge them, but the ten were never directed towards lions were there?"
"Why not?"
"For the last time, it is because of His awareness"
"He knows mortals are capable of murder, but He also knows they are capable of not committing it, thus mortals have alternative of choice. With it He becomes logically justified of judgement and punishment"
"Thank you", said Ansi, "I really needed you to sound it out for me", it confessed.
"But please, don't you lose your marbles just yet"
"You are yet to answer your own question – is God a perfectionist or not?"
"Because that is where the deal breaker lies"
"For if God is a perfectionist and is just, then it is just to judge the Homeless man of His imperfections"
"But if God is not a perfectionist and is just, then it is unjust to judge the Homeless man on solely His imperfections"
"Thus", Ansi calmly said, "accurately answering said question, could potentially bury this trial for either of us"
"I like how you say potentially", said the devil's advocate, "like they'll be much to discuss once I reach a conclusion", it said and began to gather its thoughts.