Greetings,

In wartorn Sudan-Kenya-Ethiopa, the Dinka/Sudanese people of their original faith are now wonderring about a main 'fable' of their religion. (In a fictionalized autobiography of one of the early refugees, Val Deng, written in the USA by Dave Eggars.) It makes for an important question for all of us seeking our way to the afterlife.

The fable relates that God originally gave a choice to the Dinka people:
they could choose to live with what God promises will be a good life of verdant pastures, clear water, and plenty of cattle,
OR
they can choose what else is available.
But what is the what?
God won't say.

By the mid 20th century when Val Deng was born, the Sudanese had gradually bartered much of their land to Arabs seeking at first winter pastures, but eventually wanting it all. What follows in the life of Val Deng is the longest nightmare of hell / life than I can ever recall hearing about. Deng becomes one of the 'Lost Boys,'  homeless refugees who were destroyed by starvation, diverse armies and rebels, hungry carnivores, floods, exhaustion, and incessant use as blood donors to wounded soldiers.

I have to include all that gory-implying overview in order to ask the question:
'What is the What"  to you?

Bets

Bets,

I appears that  they just like the Adam and Eve myth, God gave them two choices. The moved away from the good that god offered them and wandered down a long road of degereration.

alan

If omniscience holds, then all choices would be contained within God. The true God would know that minor beings simply do not have the extent of consciousness to make a truly conclusive choice between God and something else. Besides, that something else would also be contained within God.

Whoever offered the "what" was probably not a "god".


Desert