Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

we’re not far from the Holy Land,” Yellelle said. “That drawsmany pilgrimages in Heaven.”"So Jesus is there?" Ava asked her."Well, no. All the apostles are there, Pontius Pilate andJudas are there, Mary is there with the kids, but Jesus himselfisn't.""That's odd?""Not everyone makes it, people who are burned alivedon't get to heaven, and people who are frozen don't make it,whether or not they are harvested by your substrate.""None of those happened to Jesus," Ava said."Yeah, so I hear, I don't know what to tell you."Ava pondered that awhile. “Anyone else special whodidn’t make it?”“I don’t know of any more unexplained failures.”If her faith was strong enough, this shouldn’t surprise her.If she really did believe in the Son of God, she would nothave thought it at all surprising that he was not here. Shecould take that fact as proof that this is not God’s real heaven.She could take that as proof of the Divinity of Jesus. But thiswhole universe could very well be an encapsulation, andsince Alan knew more about the ancient Minoans than shedid, and probably as much about Jesus as she did, she couldnot use that fact as proof of anything. But still the fact that hewas not here strengthened her faith in the divinity of Jesus.She also remembered this was the time Christians werepersecuted by the Romans. It would probably be better if they476