There was once in a time a good master. He was so good that everything around him for a distance (the compound) was good as well. He lived in the midst of tranquility. Everything he did was good, everything he said was good and everything in the compound was good.

 

People lived in the compound with the good master. Daily life was perfect in the compound; food was plentiful and provided, everything was lush and green, there was no disease or pain or danger. There were no storms, no catastrophes or difficulties and no unhappiness. Life was good, thanks to the good master!

 

As the people played and explored around the compound, they came upon a gate. It was not a locked gate and one could freely leave at any time. The good master had told the people that they must never leave the compound through that gate as they would be subject to a lack of his goodness. And so the people obeyed. For a long time everything was good and right and perfect. The good master loved them and they loved him.

 

And then one day some of the people decided they wanted to go outside the gate and explore, disobeying the good master's direction. And so they left the goodness of the compound and the good master's love and entered a new world, a world where hard work was necessary to produce food, where weeds grew normally and the ground had to be tilled to keep it lush and green, and where disease, pain and danger were plentiful. They didn't like this world but they had disobeyed the good master, finding they could no longer reenter the compound the way they had left it.

 

The good master was disappointed that the people who left the compound did not love him enough to follow his simple instructions, despite the fact that he supplied their every need. But now they had left and they needed to learn a lesson. A lesson they had chosen to take upon themselves. Yet he still loved them and wanted them back. And so he devised a plan and gave it to the people who had left.

 

The people received the plan and were at first grateful to have the opportunity to return to the compound. They wanted to come back very badly as they missed the good master and the compound, and all that they offered. But they had developed a liking for some of the things outside of the good master's goodness, things that did not and indeed could not exist in the compound. The good master's plan called for them to leave these things behind when they returned. But they could not. And so they stayed outside the compound, and held on to those things which the good master could not tolerate. Even though they included disease, pain, danger and unhappiness-and even death, they decided to turn down the good master's offer.

 

And so, life outside the compound went on. It included very bad things like earthquakes and other natural disasters which hurt and killed people, sickness and disease, pain and suffering, and even bad things done by the people to the people. Things like abusing children, rape, murder and various other sins not allowed by the good master in the compound. Outside the compound was a very bad and difficult place to live.

 

Meanwhile inside the compound things continued to be perfect, with the goodness of the good master making it so. But the good master still had such a love in his heart for the people who had left that he thought about them constantly. He knew they needed to learn a lesson and decide for themselves where they wanted to live, either with him inside the compound or without him outside the compound. It was fully their decision. It caused him grief to see them suffer so, needlessly, but he could not make the decision for them. And yet he came up with another plan and sent his servants to deliver it to the people. This was a difficult decision for him because he loved his servants as well, but his love for the people was so great that he sent his servants into harm's way anyway. He did this because of his love for the people and his desire for their return.

 

When his servants reached the people with the plan of the good master they were happy. They rejoiced and celebrated that they could go home to the compound. But once again they were reminded that they could not take the bad things they had acquired back to the good master's compound. And they became angry, arguing with the servants. The servants returned to the good master with this news and the good master reiterated the plan, returning the servants to tell the people. This so outraged the people that they killed the good master's servants. When the good master discovered that his servants had been killed by the very people they were trying to save, he was greatly disturbed and angry. And yet his love for those people who had left the compound was so great it still grieved him that they would not return.

 

Life went on for everyone; perfect for those inside the compound and difficult for those outside. Those outside the compound continue to find death and destruction, and pain and misery at every turn. Whenever there were difficulties, they would remember the good master and wish that he were there to help them with his goodness. They would think about his plan allowing them to return to the goodness of the compound. But in the end, they were not willing to give up the bad things they had developed a taste for. And so the child molesting, rapes, murders, and calamities and death continued.

 

From time to time the people would sit around and talk. The conversation would turn to the good master and some would blame him for the calamities. They would ask how someone who was supposed to be good could allow all these bad things. They would wonder why they had to experience all these bad things, and watch others experience these bad things, and why the good master didn't put a stop to them if he was so good.

 

This was hurtful to the good master and so he sent forth yet another person with word of his ultimate plan for the people to return to the compound and experience the abundant life with the good master. This time he sent his son whom he loved very much to deliver the plan to the people. Some asked why he would do that, knowing how they had treated his servants. It was because his love for the people was so great that he would even risk his own son's life to provide them a means of escape from their evil world to return to the compound to live with him.

 

As his son left the compound he found friends along the way and trained them on how to get back to the compound. From his father, he carried a very simple message. The people needed only to understand the good master's love for them and decide to follow the son back to the compound, and they would be reunited with the good master once again, forever. No more calamities or problems, no more pain or suffering, no more difficulties. No more child rapes or molesting, no more murders and no more death. But if they chose to turn their backs on this offer they could know that these bad things and even worse things would come.

 

When the son found the people he gave them the simple message: love the good master and forsake the things outside the compound, and follow the son back home. When the people heard it they were divided. Some were willing to give up everything and follow him, and some wanted no part of him, desiring to keep what they had and continue in their own ways.

 

This latter group not only decided not to take him up on his offer, they hated him and wanted him dead. In keeping with the way things were in their current world they lied about him and had him arrested, and eventually put to death. They thought they had finally put a stop to the good master's love which they had rejected. But the good master's love for his son was also sufficient to bring him back from the dead to the compound to live with the good master forever, along with the servants who had been killed delivering the earlier messages and those who had accepted his plan.

 

Those who heard and wanted to follow him were at first saddened at his death as they didn't understand the fullness of the good master's plan. But when the son came back from the dead and explained the fullness of the plan, they were very happy. The son also explained that the friends he had brought along knew the way back to the compound if they wanted to follow. And many did, being welcomed into the perfect beauty of the compound by the good master himself! And those who followed left behind all those bad things of the world, grateful to the good master for his forgiveness of their leaving in the first place, their bad treatment of his servants and son, and the many bad things they had done while they were outside the compound.

 

However, those who had killed his son continued to suffer in the world they chose full of calamities and disaster, pain and suffering, and misery and death, all the while blaming the good master for their situation.