List of Warrior Nun Areala Characters - God

God

Main article: God See also: Conceptions of God, Yahweh, Jehovah, Holy Trinity, and God in Christianity

God, in this fictitious series, is the Supreme Being, the Almighty Creator of Heaven and Earth, the Omnipotent, Omniscient, Omnipresent, the All-Perfect and All-Loving Father and Ruler of all Creation. Despite appearing only very rarely, He is the linchpin of the entire Warrior Nun Areala universe with His earthly representatives and servants protecting His children from the depredations of evil.

God—also called the Lord, the Almighty or Yahweh/Jehovah—created space-time along with all reality an indefinite time ago and created out of love for those who would be His children. Ruling from Heaven on high and "working in mysterious ways," He guides Creation to the ultimate good of His "children." Indeed, His Christian worshippers refer to Him as Father. However, not all wish to accept His love and even reject Him and His goodness altogether. In the beginning, one of His creations, Lucifer rejected God's wisdom and, thinking that he could be a superior leader than his omniscient Creator, sought to take the throne of Heaven. Lucifer's War of Heaven and rebellion against God and His goodness led to the creation of evil. To deliver His children whom He so loved from evil, He, as God the Father or Yahweh, sent Himself in the form God the Son or Jesus, and even sacrificed His own life so that whoever believes in Him should not die but have eternal life. Afterwards, God made His will known through the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church that His Son established on Saint Peter.

Over the millennia, God the Son's (that is to say Jesus) Church has proven an overall boon to civilization. Funding, engaging in, and promoting art, schools, science, literature, music, social justice, humanitarian aid, charity, hospitals, serving as a mediator between warring parties, keeping western civilization alive after the fall of the Roman Empire, the Catholic Church has done its best to serve God/Jesus, and quite admirably at that. However, being only human and thus more out of innate weakness rather than intentional malignancy, these churchmen more often than not fall miserably short of the ideals they strive to uphold. Out of their love for God, they nevertheless still try and do as well as mere mortals can.

However, that is not to say that, despite the Catholic Church being the "official" church, non-Catholic or even non-Christian churches are scorned. Warrior Nun Areala portrays God as acknowledging all as His children. Despite the fact the Jews mostly reject Christ as the Messiah, Jewish super-heroes are seen evidencing that the old covenant is still in force. There was once seen an Indian medicine man calling on the Great Spirit to battle monsters in a story set in the 1870s. (Being that not only His Earthly worshippers—Christian, Muslim, Jew—who number in the billions know of Him, but that He also has His worshippers from other planets in the universe and worshippers from all the parallel universes in the multiverse know of him, His children are infinite in number.)

To protect all His children, was why God ultimately—though indirectly—created the Catholic Corps. The Corps is a branch of His Church and exists to combat evil in whatever form it may take, though it is usually supernatural evil directed by Satan in an attempt to destroy the Church. While there had been earlier Judeo-Christian heroes fighting men and monsters in the name of God the Corps as an institution ultimately began in 1066. That was when a Valkyrie named Auria saw her fellow pagan deities for who they were, renounced them, and chose to serve the Lord. He accepted her conversion and gave her the name, Areala. Interestingly, this shows two things.

Despite His importance and the fact that He is constantly mentioned and the series main character lovingly refers to Him as Father, He almost never makes an appearance. In that He, in His infinity, is beyond all possible human comprehension, anyone who so much as sees Him will surely die. As such, He in the handful of appearances mostly appears as a disembodied voice, though even that is still overwhelming now as in ancient times. He does not "micromanage" Creation and to allow humanity full use of the freewill He gave it does not do for humanity what it can do for itself—albeit with help from Him. Thus He rarely intervenes directly and instead mostly delegates authority, giving a person a mission and the power necessary to complete that mission. At one point Ben Dunn said that just as the President of the United States will delegate authority, so does God.

A second thing this shows is that the lesser “gods” have mixed reactions towards Him. He tells His people point blank “I am the Lord thy God. Thou shalt have no other gods before me” and repeatedly admonishes them not to worship other gods—be they dead idols, demons in disguise, or supernatural beings. He is the God of gods. His prophets ask “Who among the gods is like you, O LORD ? /Who is like you—/ majestic in holiness, /awesome in glory,/working wonders?” The fact is that God is absolute and the lesser “gods” just cannot compare. Some deities such as Odin and Tyr, though they did not like it, resigned themselves to their fates and accepted that even after they were dead and forgotten by the mortal world, that there would still be a God greater than themselves “One so great that He cannot be named.” Others, such as Valkyrie Helga, violently resist Him even to the point of siding with Satan and the forces of evil.