The Divine Interview: Part IX

Point–Counterpoint: A Conversation Between God and Lucifer
Interview Conducted by Alex Reed

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Part IX: The Final Question

Alex Reed: It’s just us now.

God: "It always was."

(A pause. The air has changed. The tension has drained, but something else lingers in its place, a kind of gravity.)

Alex Reed: May I ask one more question?

God: "Yes."

Alex Reed: Do you ever regret creating him?

God (a deep, still silence before speaking):
"No."

(Another pause.)

God: "I regret his pain. I regret his choices. I regret the wound he carved into creation. But I do not regret the light he once was, or the love I still hold for him."

Alex Reed: Will he ever return?

God: "That is not mine to decide anymore. That key is in his hands. And it always has been."

Alex Reed: Do you still hope?

God: "I am hope."

(He rises now. Not abruptly, not grandly. Just stands, as if gravity itself were letting Him go.)

God: "Thank you, Alex."

Alex Reed: Thank you.

(And He, too, is gone. Not vanished. Simply absent. Like the silence after a symphony.)

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Part X: Editor's Note — Final Reflections

I don’t know how to end this.

I came into this interview a journalist. I left it a witness.

What I saw was not myth, not metaphor, not madness. It was pain. Cosmic, human, eternal pain. Love too large to be safe. Grief too long to forget. Anger that smolders through eternity. And hope—stubborn, luminous, terrifying.

You don’t have to believe me. But I believe it.

--Alex Reed