The Trial

On the Seventh Day, God rested, dreaming of His Creation. When God wakes (after 18 billion years), He encounters a world filled with violence, desperation, and God-lessness. His active dream of perfection has become a total nightmare. In response to this calamity, God's Conscience takes God to trial in the Court of Heaven. To God's defense comes Adam, his first son, and Plato, the Philosopher. The Prosecution calls forth Rufus and Cicero, with Lucifer joining them. As the trial intensifies, new witnesses are called: Eve (Adam's wife), Jesus of Nazareth, St. Augustine, Mark Twain and the late Christopher Hitchens. While the defense tries to prove God "not guilty" by virtue of "not having been awake," the prosecution attempts to show beyond a reasonable doubt a universe that evolved by itself. Will evolution exonerate the existence of God, leaving mankind in the hands of science and to his own moral equity, or will God reform the chaotic universe led into evil by His prevailing nightmare? Chapter One - The Womb Chapter Two - Genesis Chapter Three - God's Confession Chapter Four - The Intruder Chapter Five - The Judge Chapter Six - Servius Suplicius Rufus Chapter Seven - Adam Chapter Eight - Marcus Tullius Cicero's Opening Statement Chapter Nine - Satan's Testimony Chapter Ten - Delusion The Scrolls of Mark Twain Chapter Eleven - Plato and St. Augustine Chapter Twelve - The Scrolls of Mark Twain Chapter Thirteen - Jesus of Nazareth Chapter Fourteen - Jesus' Testimony Chapter Fifteen - Sons of God Chapter Sixteen - The God of Chaos Chapter Seventeen - Eve's Testimony Chapter Eighteen - The Luciferian Principle Chapter Nineteen - The Ghost of Mark Twain Chapter Twenty - The Spirit of Muhammad Twenty-One - Of Islam and Honor Killings Twenty-Two - Free Will and Determination: God's Attributes Chapter Twenty-Three - De Nihilo Vita Fit (Out of Nothing, Life Comes) Chapter Twenty-Four - Christopher Hitchens Chapter Twenty-Five - The "Hitch" Chapter Twenty-Six - Satan's Closing Argument Chapter Twenty-Seven - The Verdict Chapter Twenty-Eight - The First Man Chapter Twenty-Nine - One Hundred Commandments for Islam Chapter Thirty - Epilogue