AUTHOR'S NOTE: I posted this thread just after the forums got back up, but nobody was on yet, so it has 26 views and 0 replies. This is supposed to be my viewpoint on how minecraft was created from a biblical sort of standpoint. I really did put a lot of work into this, so any critical feedback would be greatly appreciated. It is rather long too. If I get enough positive feedback I'll create the second part. Right now I have up until evolution took place, that explains the worlds and most of the mobs. Remember; CONVERT TO ENDERISM!
Definition: Gehenna - The after world, a place where the dead go; heaven Definition: Abecedaries - Someone who gives knowledge; teachers
The Legacy An Epic by GreyZap
Book of Enderism: Pre-human Era
ACHIEVING BALANCE
The land was in unison with the sky at one point in time. And the rocks would sing, and the dirt would hum, and the sky would sit over all as a comforting blue blanket. Earth had it’s qualities of peace and antiquity, and though the ground was solid, it never had a definite shape, and never was one greater than the other. The only thing that roamed was a perfect representation of the creator himself; tall slender beings with peaceful eyes and gentle hearts. These were the divine, and their life and purpose was simple. The divine would move the earth the way they felt and create beautiful structures and awesome landscapes. The important thing about this serene age was that all existed as one. No other resented or sinned. No other would dislike, or mistrust. Every confrontation would be meat with an equally powerful solution. Alas this seemingly perfect time of the divine was not what the creator saw fit. The divine were alone in a world of hollow shapes. So the creator made a being that was to keep the divine company, and was to balance out the creation. The creator made destruction, and named it the abecedaries. The abecedaries were quadra-pedal green creatures that were created to tear down the old structures in order to make room for newer creations. And every time something old was destroyed, there was a place for something new to be built. Balance was perfect.
SIN AMONG THE GODLY
The divine and the abecedaries naturally opposed one another for the sake of creating a perfect scale for the world to sit on. This however changed as the years went on. Day after day the divine became more and more distressed to see their perfect creations that represented the creator himself destroyed by the new beings who called themselves the abecedaries. And time and time again the abecedaries were angered to see their new world being rebuilt on by the divine, and so it came to war. The creator ordered his beloved creations to end the hostility towards each other but their hearts had had enough, and the hatred for each other grew too strong. The very beings that were supposed to balance and bring peace to the world were creating chaos and havoc that was throwing it into a horrible darkness. The skies grew white shapes that slowly turned black and clustered so close that they blotted out the sun. Rain began to fall from the home of the creator, and the strange blue substance filled the sky and deep valleys. Then the creator ordered the war over by throwing down a bright light of searing energy. Fire was born when the first strike of inferno hit the soft earthly soil. The creator continued to cry over his universe as he destroyed his people and plunged them into the abyss. He sent them to a place he called Gehenna where they could never return. This war carried on for years and years until the ashes and dust settled, and there were no more in the world the creator could love. The dirt and stone had turned red. The ashes held the sins of his people past, and the water he had created boiled away leaving nothing but hot stone that eventually filled the war-struck world. The creator couldn’t stand to see all he had worked for destroyed by the very sins he tried to fend off, so he plunged it down and covered it with a new world. He sealed off the connection with a stone so mighty it could never be broken. The world was never to be seen by the divine or abecedaries again.
RECREATION OF ALL
There was nothing for what seemed like millenniums, but then the creator had an epiphany. He ordered all the divine and abecedaries to build him a new world. So the two godly kinds worked without so much as a break until the new world was completed. The new world was named the Over World. There were hills and valleys, and oceans, and rivers. But best of all, the Over World had a new form of life. The sole of the abecedaries slipped into the soil, and the heart of the divine cast dark balancing shadows where the light of the sun could not reach. The dirt was topped with a luscious green substance that thrived in the sun. There were incredible canopies made of trees, literal jungles dense with ferns and vines too. The creator was proud of the work of the two kinds that had fought so fiercely not long ago, and feeling generous, decided to let the divine and abecedaries stay in it. But he could not risk another disaster like the one before. It simply could not happen. So he took almost all the power out of the two kinds. The divine could no longer change entire landscapes at will. The abecedaries could no longer destroy entire mountains with a whim, and if they were to destroy at all it would come with a terrible price; death. And to end the dispute over who was godlier the creator took the last of him out of them, leaving them with nothing but a vast world and memories of their sins. A deep sadness fell across the faces of all the abecedaries, and the divine hid from the creator in the very shadows they created. Time went by, and before long all was lost about the past. All that was left was the fear of sun and the sadness on a face.
AWAKENING OF THE PAST
The creator could hear the speak of the divine, but he could never see them in his world. He searched long and hard for them, looking under every canopy, at the bottom of every ocean. It was a hopeless hunt though, so he devised a plan to beckon the divine out of their hiding. He hid the sun out of sight and plunged the world into darkness, and before long the divine came out of their tunnels to see where the light had gone. When the creator returned the sun however, the divine returned to their hiding. So every day from that day on the creator would hide the sun and convince the divine to come greet him. The abecedaries had no fear of the sun, and remained out in the midst of it, but they did enjoy it particularly at night along with the divine. Little did the creator know, the divine had begun to grow curious of their past. They began to experiment with all kinds of things trying to find out why their people hated the sun so much. So they began to build hideouts in their caves that experimented with the dimensions the creator had made. They spent years and years playing the same game with the creator until they unlocked the secrets of the universe. The divine Left the Over World to learn about their past, and who they really were, and the creator no longer saw the divine at night. When he peered into the Gehenna he saw all his beloved divine learning about everything that was supposed to be lost in the past. So he broke their gateways between dimensions and left them alone in the abyss.
EVOLUTION
With only the abecedaries left in the Over World the creator felt the same way he had when only the divine existed in the world before. The land became deformed and filled with holes over time as there was nothing there to balance out the abecedaries and their natural ways. To resurrect the Over World from its dying state the creator took an abecedary and changed it into what became the first pig. Even though the abecedary had a new species to mingle with, the world still didn’t possess all it needed to be balanced. So the creator continued to work non-stop, and eventually the cow, sheep, chicken, squid, ocelots, wolves, and spiders were created. All these new creatures peacefully played their own part in the subtly changing Over World, and before a thousand days had passed all was back to normal accept for the divine that were thought to be forever gone. While the divine were in the Gehenna they read ancient carvings made by their very selves. They learned about the great war, and how the old world was below the new one, and they learned all about their sins, and how they made it into the Over World in the first place. The divine also learned something special about the dimensions and how the creator built everything the way it was. So the divine returned to the Over World one by one and flourished with their new knowledge. And with the new knowledge came the very first human.
I posted this thread just after the forums got back up, but nobody was on yet, so it has 26 views and 0 replies. This is supposed to be my viewpoint on how minecraft was created from a biblical sort of standpoint. I really did put a lot of work into this, so any critical feedback would be greatly appreciated. It is rather long too. If I get enough positive feedback I'll create the second part. Right now I have up until evolution took place, that explains the worlds and most of the mobs. Remember; CONVERT TO ENDERISM!
Definition: Gehenna - The after world, a place where the dead go; heaven
Definition: Abecedaries - Someone who gives knowledge; teachers
The Legacy
An Epic by GreyZap
Book of Enderism: Pre-human Era
ACHIEVING BALANCE
The land was in unison with the sky at one point in time. And the rocks would sing, and the dirt would hum, and the sky would sit over all as a comforting blue blanket. Earth had it’s qualities of peace and antiquity, and though the ground was solid, it never had a definite shape, and never was one greater than the other. The only thing that roamed was a perfect representation of the creator himself; tall slender beings with peaceful eyes and gentle hearts. These were the divine, and their life and purpose was simple. The divine would move the earth the way they felt and create beautiful structures and awesome landscapes.
The important thing about this serene age was that all existed as one. No other resented or sinned. No other would dislike, or mistrust. Every confrontation would be meat with an equally powerful solution. Alas this seemingly perfect time of the divine was not what the creator saw fit. The divine were alone in a world of hollow shapes. So the creator made a being that was to keep the divine company, and was to balance out the creation. The creator made destruction, and named it the abecedaries. The abecedaries were quadra-pedal green creatures that were created to tear down the old structures in order to make room for newer creations. And every time something old was destroyed, there was a place for something new to be built. Balance was perfect.
SIN AMONG THE GODLY
The divine and the abecedaries naturally opposed one another for the sake of creating a perfect scale for the world to sit on. This however changed as the years went on. Day after day the divine became more and more distressed to see their perfect creations that represented the creator himself destroyed by the new beings who called themselves the abecedaries. And time and time again the abecedaries were angered to see their new world being rebuilt on by the divine, and so it came to war. The creator ordered his beloved creations to end the hostility towards each other but their hearts had had enough, and the hatred for each other grew too strong. The very beings that were supposed to balance and bring peace to the world were creating chaos and havoc that was throwing it into a horrible darkness. The skies grew white shapes that slowly turned black and clustered so close that they blotted out the sun. Rain began to fall from the home of the creator, and the strange blue substance filled the sky and deep valleys. Then the creator ordered the war over by throwing down a bright light of searing energy. Fire was born when the first strike of inferno hit the soft earthly soil. The creator continued to cry over his universe as he destroyed his people and plunged them into the abyss. He sent them to a place he called Gehenna where they could never return. This war carried on for years and years until the ashes and dust settled, and there were no more in the world the creator could love. The dirt and stone had turned red. The ashes held the sins of his people past, and the water he had created boiled away leaving nothing but hot stone that eventually filled the war-struck world. The creator couldn’t stand to see all he had worked for destroyed by the very sins he tried to fend off, so he plunged it down and covered it with a new world. He sealed off the connection with a stone so mighty it could never be broken. The world was never to be seen by the divine or abecedaries again.
RECREATION OF ALL
There was nothing for what seemed like millenniums, but then the creator had an epiphany. He ordered all the divine and abecedaries to build him a new world. So the two godly kinds worked without so much as a break until the new world was completed. The new world was named the Over World. There were hills and valleys, and oceans, and rivers. But best of all, the Over World had a new form of life. The sole of the abecedaries slipped into the soil, and the heart of the divine cast dark balancing shadows where the light of the sun could not reach. The dirt was topped with a luscious green substance that thrived in the sun. There were incredible canopies made of trees, literal jungles dense with ferns and vines too. The creator was proud of the work of the two kinds that had fought so fiercely not long ago, and feeling generous, decided to let the divine and abecedaries stay in it. But he could not risk another disaster like the one before. It simply could not happen. So he took almost all the power out of the two kinds. The divine could no longer change entire landscapes at will. The abecedaries could no longer destroy entire mountains with a whim, and if they were to destroy at all it would come with a terrible price; death. And to end the dispute over who was godlier the creator took the last of him out of them, leaving them with nothing but a vast world and memories of their sins.
A deep sadness fell across the faces of all the abecedaries, and the divine hid from the creator in the very shadows they created. Time went by, and before long all was lost about the past. All that was left was the fear of sun and the sadness on a face.
AWAKENING OF THE PAST
The creator could hear the speak of the divine, but he could never see them in his world. He searched long and hard for them, looking under every canopy, at the bottom of every ocean. It was a hopeless hunt though, so he devised a plan to beckon the divine out of their hiding. He hid the sun out of sight and plunged the world into darkness, and before long the divine came out of their tunnels to see where the light had gone. When the creator returned the sun however, the divine returned to their hiding. So every day from that day on the creator would hide the sun and convince the divine to come greet him. The abecedaries had no fear of the sun, and remained out in the midst of it, but they did enjoy it particularly at night along with the divine.
Little did the creator know, the divine had begun to grow curious of their past. They began to experiment with all kinds of things trying to find out why their people hated the sun so much. So they began to build hideouts in their caves that experimented with the dimensions the creator had made. They spent years and years playing the same game with the creator until they unlocked the secrets of the universe. The divine Left the Over World to learn about their past, and who they really were, and the creator no longer saw the divine at night. When he peered into the Gehenna he saw all his beloved divine learning about everything that was supposed to be lost in the past. So he broke their gateways between dimensions and left them alone in the abyss.
EVOLUTION
With only the abecedaries left in the Over World the creator felt the same way he had when only the divine existed in the world before. The land became deformed and filled with holes over time as there was nothing there to balance out the abecedaries and their natural ways. To resurrect the Over World from its dying state the creator took an abecedary and changed it into what became the first pig. Even though the abecedary had a new species to mingle with, the world still didn’t possess all it needed to be balanced. So the creator continued to work non-stop, and eventually the cow, sheep, chicken, squid, ocelots, wolves, and spiders were created. All these new creatures peacefully played their own part in the subtly changing Over World, and before a thousand days had passed all was back to normal accept for the divine that were thought to be forever gone.
While the divine were in the Gehenna they read ancient carvings made by their very selves. They learned about the great war, and how the old world was below the new one, and they learned all about their sins, and how they made it into the Over World in the first place. The divine also learned something special about the dimensions and how the creator built everything the way it was. So the divine returned to the Over World one by one and flourished with their new knowledge. And with the new knowledge came the very first human.