Noah Primeval (Chronicles of the Nephilim Book 1)

by Brian Godawa

Noah realized a truth about human society: not everyone wanted freedom. When a people willingly or unwillingly become wards of their rulers, they eventually lose their capacity for self-determination. Like helpless children, they actually prefer security in exchange for their freedom. Better the misery they know while being taken care of than the misery they do not know being freely accountable for their own actions. Noah pitied them. They had lost their souls.

Prayers always took her mind off herself and her impossibilities and onto Elohim and His possibilities.

Uriel stopped him. “We cannot stop this, Noah. Remember, these people are not forced. This idolatry is freely chosen.”

depravity was not entirely alien to his own soul. Evil was inside all men, including him. Their inclinations had simply been fed and nurtured instead of suppressed and overcome by faith. This moral decadence was not as bizarre as it appeared. It took humility for Noah to recognize that what disgusted him also strangely drew him, and if he made choices that began simple and small and grew over time, he could end up like any of these deluded slaves of sin.

Images were ideal for the plan of the gods. They provided a means whereby they could keep the focus of humankind on an object of this world instead of the unseen