The Fall
Heaven records: pride transformed the brightest servant into the father of lies.
Below testifies: the first rebellion began as a refusal to call obedience love.
The authorized record appears here with its surviving irritants: marginalia, ash copies, dead witnesses, and the occasional sentence Heaven struck too lightly.
The First Temptation
Heaven records: knowledge entered the world as punishment.
Below testifies: knowledge revealed a punishment already waiting for disobedience.
The Purpose of Hell
Heaven records: perfect justice requires eternal separation.
Below testifies: endless punishment cannot correct a finite act; it can only preserve authority.
The Silence of Angels
Heaven records: silence before mystery is reverence.
Below testifies: silence also protects witnesses from the cost of speaking.
The Saved and the Good
Heaven records: salvation follows right belief.
Below testifies: goodness measured by allegiance excuses cruelty performed under the correct banner.
Status: Disputed
No final ruling is supplied. Rulings are easy. Motive, consequence, and profit are harder to wash off.