When faith exists, I’m not satisfied, but when faith is not there, the world is in chaos

Aletha 2021-12-23 08:01:43


In "Adam's Apple", there are two sane people. One is Adam.
Adam said he was evil. He is sober and has a clear mind. The affirmation of his often chaotic party brothers shows that he is evil and wise, and he is very admired by his group. He said he was evil, the priest was stupid. He was a little confused when he tried over and over again how the fallen Bible could be laid out in the Book of Job. But it can still be explained that this page may have been read by the priest himself. He smoked a few packs of cigarettes and finally read the book of Job. This wise and evil, who understood the book of Job, went to the priest and told him: The book of Job in the Bible says that God hates you, so he takes everything from you. Evil people can only read evil in the Bible. Is this the wisdom of the Bible writer—God himself? "You can't see it or hear it, or you can't understand it, lest you turn around and I'll heal you." This verse of the prophet Isaiah was quoted by Jesus and Paul. Evil becomes a roadblock for the wicked.

Just as selfishness becomes a roadblock to the selfish. No one can see the holy Lord God. Not because God is invisible, but because what I choose blinds my eyes. When the world clamored all the way: Where is God, show it to me. No one feels that he can't see it, not that God is not here. Because the world is still under God's management, Jesus revealed the golden rule of God's management in the New Testament: how do you want others to treat you, and how do you treat others. Luke 6:31 As you want people to treat you, you must treat others as well)
You like evil, what you see is evil, and you are treated by evil. You like to be self-centered, and you will find that most people around you are self-centered. You like deceit, and you seem to be surrounded by deceitful people. Even if you see people who are not deceitful, you will think that the other person is stupid and will not associate with you. Over time, the deceitful surroundings will eventually affect you. This phenomenon is also commonly known as: there is no one outside you, only yourself outside. In this way, of course God cannot be seen, because God is neither in evil nor in deceit.

Adam's previous revelations of the truth to the priest were correct. It's like a seed of suspicion being planted. Finally, when Adam thought he had seen the truth of the priest’s faith and exposed it to the priest, the priest’s self-doubt caused a brain tumor that had existed in his brain for many years, and he fell on his back, bleeding from seven holes. Why is there suffering? This epic question, the priest's resistance for many years, after revealing other truths time and time again, suspicion knocked him down. Adam stepped over him, like a Xiaoqiang who had been trampled to death by himself.

Just as Adam planted the seeds of doubt for the priest, at the same time, the priest also planted the seeds of doubt for Adam: the stove burned to the hands, it was the devil's obstruction. The old stove is broken too. The priest moved in a new furnace, which was struck by lightning that day and broke. Adam also began to wonder, if all this was really arranged by a certain force? He walked back to the priest lying on the floor bleeding. Outside was a storm of lightning and thunder, and the Bible fell on the ground violently flipping as if mourning for the priest. Adam walked into the storm: lightning from the sky struck the ground and sparks all over the ground. The lightning hit the apple tree. The apple tree that could only be climbed up on a ladder was folded into two sections like a small wooden stick. The section that fell to the ground turned out to be It burned in the storm and burned into dead branches. The anger of nature often makes human beings finally feel: this world is not mine.

Adam has always said that he is evil. Indeed, the evil can protect him from being bullied, and the evil can also protect him from doing bad things as he pleases. The evil can even protect him from the good feelings of a strong man. But evil cannot protect him from the wrath of nature. The lightning that knocked down the tree could knock him down without much effort and burn him to dryness. Later when Adam reads the Bible, he will definitely see the book of Ecclesiastes: No one has the power to control life and keep life; and no one has the power to control the period of death. No one can avoid this battle, and evil cannot save those who can do evil.
He ran back to take the priest to the hospital. The doctor said that he had only a few weeks to live and drove him out of the hospital. In the car going back, the priest did not speak. Adam began to feel a little unnatural. Although the priest didn't mean to blame him. Maybe it was just a little bit of guilt in Adam's heart. But at the beginning, he didn’t have anything. When he beat the priest so hard that he lost his sense of smell, Adam just mocked the priest: Don’t play with the father on the left cheek to the right cheek. I am an evil person and not a small one. The cream is fooled as soon as it is moved.

The priest sluggishly announced that he would no longer care about other people, what is love doing. Suddenly, the terrorist started to shoot people indiscriminately when he was upset, and went to grab the gas station again. The drunkard thief drank more frantically and participated in the gas station grabbing only alcohol. The social worker who suspected that the child she was pregnant with was not normal, she also started to drink alcohol without thinking. This radical environmentalist who cares about how many tigers in India die every day, but doesn't care if her children will be killed by herself? The people who had been sitting in the church together, who had been despised by him, suddenly went crazy. A sane person like Adam was completely powerless to them. Everything happened too fast and too messy. what happened? What did he think he was just a mad priest for so long in the past, to guide these people to live quietly? Do you use the belief called God? That belief that doesn't seem to be sensible to himself?

This is faith? Or, this is faith.
When I went to the church, I was full of disappointment; I looked at it again without God, and I was horrified and desperate.
The question is what standard are we using to accept this present? My standard? The standard of the holy city? What is the reference? Compared with horror and despair, what does it have to do with disappointment? People are alive under the blue sky. Leaving God, people killed each other for a little emotion, standing in front of the apple tree, unable to know if they were still alive the next hour.
Things got worse. The Nazi skinheads where Adam was in the past come back to seek revenge. Only the Pakistani and the terrorist are required for the roll call. Seeing a shopping mall just a little bit. Adam can only tell the Pakistanis to hide in the church first and talk to those accomplices himself. But those former associates didn't take him seriously. The priest suddenly ran out, shouted a few words and went to collect the weapons of the skinheads. Adam was stunned by his innocence. The priest was shot in the head. The skinheads looked at the priest lying on the ground and went back faintly. A bloody fight was stopped by one life, and the Pakistani left with his weapon. The priest was taken to the hospital, and the doctor said that he must die that night.


The thief returned an apple that he had stolen to Adam. Stealing is his habit. He will steal those things that he is not allowed to possess, even if he steals them, he will not do anything. Adam didn't know what to do, and now it seems that only one goal that was forced out by the priest has not been completed yet-to make an apple cake. He did it. A sturdy man was carefully looking for a priest in the hospital with a mini cake in his hand. The scene was indeed messy and funny. The priest was not dead, and the shot knocked out his tumor. Adam was not surprised to hear this news, not even as strange as he saw that there was an apple left behind. Perhaps in just a few weeks, after experiencing an apple being eaten by crows, eaten by insects, struck by lightning, burned, or taken to fill his stomach, he could still have an apple to make a cake. The priest is still alive. Job also came alive. God still keeps his people after all the suffering.

Adam stayed. Stay in faith. The priest’s car music is on: how deeply he loves.


In "Adam's Apple," another sane person is a doctor. The doctor said he was scientific and believed that the truth must be revealed. The doctor lives only for his principles. The truth is revealed, what good is there? Used by Adam to step on the priest, like stepping on someone else’s wounds deliberately. The doctor doesn't care about this. It seems that he cares about people, but he is more concerned about whether his cold-eyed observation is as accurate as his rational prediction. Seeing that the priest was not dead, he was so angry that he left the hospital. How could it be so that it made me face a loss, and it made my medical estimation invalid.

This similar scene has been staged many times. Jesus once accused the Pharisees of only caring about the right or wrong of their ideas, but not caring about those who were crushed by diseases who were truly living in front of him. They were not happy when Jesus was resurrected.

The church of the University of Nova Scotia, rows of chairs. Was it full of people? Now there are only 5 listeners left. An old Nazi man in a former concentration camp. A current Nazi skinhead, a Pakistani terrorist, an alcoholic thief, and an environmental worker who easily sleeps with people and conceives children. Where have all the people gone? Or this is really a church, a place where the lost can stay.

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  • Eileen 2022-03-26 09:01:08

    Adam's apple, is your soul an angel or a devil~~~ When facing weakness, what do you believe in~~~ How deep is your love?

  • Randi 2021-12-23 08:01:43

    Simply put, after reading it, I hope everyone can see it

Adam's Apples quotes

  • Ivan: Evil has many faces and it can be difficult to tell them apart and choose sides. Especially these days where so many things are said in this and that town. Everything has so many nuances. Also we humans. If the game of chess had undergone the same development as humans the queen would be in front, the rooks would be crooked, and the pawn would be the main piece. We no longer know who we are and this rootlessness...

  • Ivan: Poul Baekel Hermann, known to friend and foe as Poul Nordkap, lived a long and full life. In his life Poul learned that to know God you must dance with the Devil. If any Poul Nordkap surely did that. Poul learned that it's futile to fight good because despite all the cruelty, screaming and tears he had caused in his youth he realised in the end that this was just a mere moment. The ocean heaved but it was a wasted effort. The world continued and good prevailed as always. That's why Poul can return to God with peace of mind. Adam and I were by his side when he passed quietly away. His last words were: 'I'm not afraid. I'm ready.'