Mutual Incomprehension

"The Problem of Pain."

Peter Berg's incomprehension continues and is reciprocated. How many different ways are there to conceptualize a death?

Enherrian's daughter, Arrack, pulls Berg away from a rock on which he would have been smashed but then she goes under and is drowned.

(i) Berg tries to express sympathy. Arrack's brother says that it is unnecessary.

(ii) Berg says that she died saving him. Her brother replies that she also saved what Berg was carrying.

(iii) Enherrian says that she fought well and gave God honour. Berg wonders whether this means that she prayed and confessed. (No way.)

(iv) Berg says that she is in heaven. Enherrian wonders how Arrack can be anywhere when she is dead. (Excellent question.)

(v) Berg refers to her spirit and Enherrian replies that it will be remembered in pride.

(vi) Olga Berg asks whether they do not believe that the spirit outlives the body? Enherrian expresses incomprehension and does not want to continue the conversation.

I have counted six incomprehensions.

I would once have said that God must understand and accept all His creatures, having, after all, created them. I would still say this, at least in a notional or hypothetical sense.