his hand for Roy to sit. “Please, take a seat.”
“Aye,19 you’ve a good memory, but actually it’s a lot older than Rod Stewart. In fact, about two hundred years older.” Replied Roy as he took a seat at the table.
“But I expect you didn’t call me to talk about old pop songs.” He smiled.
“No,” agreed David pushing the second mug towards Roy. “I got you a coffee.”
“Cheers!” Said Roy placing the mug in front of him.
David pulled the leaflet from his right jacket pocket and placed it on the table in front of him.
“Actually, I wanted to talk about this leaflet,” said David.
“OK.” Nodded Roy.
“There’s some pretty controversial statements here,” said David with his index finger on the leaflet. “I mean . . . ” He started reading from the leaflet. “You have been murdered!” “You must be born again.” “Only in Jesus Christ can we find life.” and . . . “Understanding the Bible answers the meaning of life.”
“It’s all true.” Said Roy.
“But what does it all mean?” David asked waving his hand across the leaflet.
“In a nutshell, it means that we are all dead, David, and the cause of all of our deaths is MURDER!” Roy stated emphatically.
“We are all dead? So, are you saying that none of this is real?” David replied incredulously motioning his hand around the bar and the street outside the window.
“Oh, it’s real alright.” Replied Roy. “We’ve all been REALLY murdered,” Roy emphasized.
“OK, so explain it to me!” David demanded folding his arms.
“Take this coffee for example.” Roy picked up the mug in front of him. “You bought this coffee for me and gave me it to drink, aye?” asked Roy.
“Of course.” Replied David, a little disappointed by the simplicity of the statement. He was hoping for something a bit more profound, more meaningful. Something to give meaning to his own life.
“Now, supposing you knew that it had something in it that was poisonous to me and deceived me by telling me it was good to drink, and I believed you and drank it and it killed me. Would you say that that was murder?” Asked Roy putting the mug of coffee to his lips and drinking.
“That would technically be murder, I guess. I mean, if you didn’t know what was in it and I knew that what was in it was poisonous to you and gave it to you to drink and you drank it and it killed you. Yep, that sounds like murder. But I still don’t get it.” David replied with more interest.
“There is a true God, David, just as there is a real devil. This devil was a murderer from the beginning, and he has deceived you just as he has deceived all of us and indeed all mankind. You have been robbed and deceived. Robbed of life and deceived into death. By deceiving us into death the devil is committing genocide or rather as I call it ‘Anthropocide’, that is the systematic destruction of mankind and over the years and he’s become quite adept at it.” Roy informed very seriously.
“You’re saying that I have been deceived by the devil? Is that what you are saying?” Asked David incredulously.
“Aye, they say that it’s easier to deceive people than to convince them that they have been deceived.” Replied Roy.
“Now that may be true.” Agreed David.
“It is true,” Roy assured him. “We don’t want to believe we could be so gullible. But the devil has robbed us of the greatest gift that mankind could ever have: Eternal life.”
“But a real devil? Replied David incredulously. I’m not sure I believe in a real God let alone a real devil!”
“Oh, he’s real alright.” Answered Roy.
David thought for a moment.
“OK, I have some questions,” said David pulling out of his left jacket pocket the A4 paper with his notes. “Do you mind?”
“Not at all, fire away!” said Roy.
“The Bible says that people were created by God, doesn’t it?” Asked David reading from the first item on his list.
“Aye, the Bible says that God created man and he created him in the image of God,” answered Roy.
“So, what about evolution? Isn’t it now in the twenty-first century an accepted scientific fact that all life evolved from like a primordial soup or something like that?” Asked David.
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