There’s a TTRPG called Demon: The Fallen put out by an old gothic horror publisher called White Wolf. In one of the opening stage-setting chapters, it describes the Lucifierian Fall. At one point an angel approaches God, concerned that nascent proto-humanity is failing and invoking God’s Wrath, and councils that God change The Plan. God retorts, “to understand my design you must see things as I do”. The angel returns to God later and insists it would like to do just that. And its never seen or heard from again.
The other angels posit what this could possibly portend. Several assert that the angel was abolished for its hubris. Others suggest that to “see things as I do”, the angel would have been re-incorporated into God’s form, at which point it was functionally no more.
When people talk about “joining God in Heaven”, I can’t help but think of it that way. Losing your personality and your individuality to re-glom with this greater being that you believe is better than you. Its a very bleak way to see yourself and your surroundings. Just waiting on a divine annihilation because you think its better than existence.
There’s a TTRPG called Demon: The Fallen put out by an old gothic horror publisher called White Wolf. In one of the opening stage-setting chapters, it describes the Lucifierian Fall. At one point an angel approaches God, concerned that nascent proto-humanity is failing and invoking God’s Wrath, and councils that God change The Plan. God retorts, “to understand my design you must see things as I do”. The angel returns to God later and insists it would like to do just that. And its never seen or heard from again.
The other angels posit what this could possibly portend. Several assert that the angel was abolished for its hubris. Others suggest that to “see things as I do”, the angel would have been re-incorporated into God’s form, at which point it was functionally no more.
When people talk about “joining God in Heaven”, I can’t help but think of it that way. Losing your personality and your individuality to re-glom with this greater being that you believe is better than you. Its a very bleak way to see yourself and your surroundings. Just waiting on a divine annihilation because you think its better than existence.