(urth) You have the wrong creation you ninny - eschatology and genesis

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes danldo at gmail.com
Wed Sep 10 13:12:53 PDT 2014


On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 11:43 AM, António Marques <entonio at gmail.com> wrote:

> Or with God's promise that the Earth would not again be flooded: on the
> one hand, Wolfe chose flooding when he could have chosen anything else, so
> backtracking on it makes no sense. On the other hand, there are times when
> God does seem to have broken promises.
>

Actually, God never promises that the Earth will not again be flooded -
only that He will not do it. And, in New Sun, God does not do it; the
Yesodis and Severian do.



> My view is that Severian's universe is not unlike ours, but with slightly
> different Jews and Christ was never born there. The issue tackled is, how
> did such a universe end up, and how can it be saved, in a soteriological
> sense? And each Book of the X Sun gives an answer.
>

I like this.

-- 
Dan'l Danehy-Oakes
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