In the following time, seven exchange students, including loranthel, were taken to a small church on the hillside.
There was an older pastor and two nuns. There are not many people. It's quiet. It's on the west side of the holy mountain of kalenrill. Pilgrims won't pass by here.
Seven of them will learn basic knowledge about the angel church, such as the history of the origin and changes of the church, as well as how to preach, how to preach, what rules to follow, how to guide people to pray, cultivate their minds, and solve some simple life questions, etc.
It will take about two months to finish these courses, and then transfer to other institutions and departments.
Under a big tree in front of the church, several students, dressed in black and white nuns and friars' clothes, sat on wooden stools and stumps, listening to the priest's knowledge.
"When the angel church first rose, there were different branches in different places. Although the origins were all Angel sequences, there were still many differences in people's ideas and ideas."
"After several debates, one of them grew stronger and stronger: the candlelight church."
"After hundreds of years of spread, candlelight church gradually became the mainstream, and other small schools gradually disappeared."
"In the year 842 of the third century, a clergyman of a small school publicly published" ten sins of denouncing the wickedness of Candlelight ", refuting and resisting many abominable acts of the candlelight church, including but not limited to, blind worship, persecution of dissidents, embezzlement of donations, contempt of human life, and so on."
"It caused a lot of disputes on the mainland, and many royal families and nobles no longer supported candlelight church as before."
"After nearly a hundred years of internal debate, new doctrines and ideas gradually formed. Finally, the 11th Pope read out the" glorious reform ", repealing many unreasonable regulations before, changing scriptures to make them more in line with human ethics, adding adjudication department for self-examination, breaking away from the secular world, no longer interfering in various countries and organizations, and so on."
"Since then, although the strength of the church has been weakened, it has been able to save people's hearts and minds and has continued to this day."
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Although it was a disgraceful history of his family, the old priest did not shy away from telling these students frankly.
There are many wise people in the church. If these well-informed ermenas students still use those words against civilians, they are just insulting others. Moreover, most of these students will become the elites of various organizations in a few years. There is no need to leave a bad feeling.
Therefore, those who have always taught exchange students these basic knowledge are also the enlightened ones in the church.
A student raised his hand and asked, "Reverend Vincent, I want to ask you a question."
"You say it." The priest in the white robe of Phnom Penh looked at the student and answered with tolerance.
He looks about fifty years old and kind-hearted.
"Have we changed the book of candlelight a few days ago?"
"Yes, it has undergone four major revisions and more than 100 minor revisions."
"Is the story in there true?"
"I can only say that most of them are real, which is the same as history. In fact, even those who experience them will write different words and messages from different angles."
"What we can do is to find out the most reasonable part that meets our cognition and needs, and write it as a scripture to popularize it."
"Do you believe in God?" Asked a boy next to him, a little stout and named Hessian.
"I believe in God." Said the minister.
"Now."
"That's what I've been chasing."
"If God doesn't exist, why believe in him?" Asked a tall, thin student named crow, a student of the necromancer sequence.
"People have many imperfections, such as character, will, strength, life span, wisdom and so on, but we are eager to achieve that perfect and unified state, and the gods are the end of our long journey."
"His existence is our goal."
"Can man be a God?"
"I don't know, but we're getting closer and closer to it, and maybe one day, we can reach the end."
This seemingly ordinary old priest answers many students' questions with simple and intelligent sentences. Let's be convinced that some dissatisfaction caused by the discomfort of living in the holy land has been resolved, and we are looking forward to this exchange learning journey.
Lorraine Hill also sat on a stump under the tree and wrote down the sentence with a pen on the thick yellow paper.
Compared with other students, she knew more about the old man's extraordinary origin. According to the system, the old priest is the priest of angel 8 · grace and a retired archbishop of the diocese.
Although he was unable to compete for the position of Pope because of his old age (about 120 years old) and insufficient strength, his qualifications and seniority in the church were very high.
After other students finished asking, the girl in black gauze raised her wrist.
"Do you have any questions, Rochelle?"
Among these students, who cares most about Vincent is the silver haired girl named Rochelle. According to the care of some important figures in the church, if the girl can officially join the church, she will be in charge of a large parish in a few years.
"I'm very interested in angels. Do they have gender, are they entities, and where do they come from?"
Contrary to what he said before, Vincent thought for a while before answering slowly.
"Angels have no entity, and there is no gender. When they are attached to a creature, they will be displayed in the form of that creature."
"However, we are talking about higher-level angels. Some ordinary angels do have entities. They will be special."
"More detailed information about angels is recorded in the ecclesiastical chamber. Because of some rules, I can't tell you all about angels for the time being."
"If you join the church in the future, you will know the secret gradually with your age and seniority."
"Ah?..." Hearing such an explanation, the students present were a little unhappy, but they could only understand that they were not fully open to you after all.
"So..." Lorraine Hill lowered his head, murmured, and drew a small circle on the paper with the nib of his finger.
However, it can be seen from another aspect that the priest is relatively honest. He did not deceive or mislead. Instead, he said directly, I can't say this casually.
When arousing everyone's curiosity, we also let these students approach the church step by step.
It is worthy of being the Archbishop of the past, so bright and resourceful, to attract these talents from ermenas.
Knowing that he couldn't get effective information from the priest, Lorraine Hill had to think of another way.