Jesus Christ out of Tomb to Save the World - 3
If you buy a map in Japan, you will see the Japanese archipelago located at the center of the map. On the left hand side is the Eurasia continent, and on the right are the Pacific Ocean and the New World. The Atlantic is split at the both horizontal end of the map.
You will soon realize the belt area running from Japan to Morocco through China, Indochina, India, the Middle East, and North Africa is not a Christian domain.
The only exception is the Philippines, a Catholic country (though with many descent Muslims in it), situated east of Indochina in the ocean.
North of this belt is Europe and Siberia including Russia: the conventional Christian domain.
The two belts are running almost parallel across Asia, Europe, and a half of Africa, that is, from the east to the west of the Old World. But, it is very strange that Jesus Christ could not work on the lower belt, while He is God.
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At least Jesus’ influence should be found in the area now occupied by Muslims.
And, if an underlying influence of Jesus Christ is found on Islam, the world might look different.
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Jesus Christ is God for Christians, a prophet for Muslims, and just one fellow being for Israelites.
He worked as such for each of those who were later called early Christians, those who would become underlying believers for future Islam, and those who would be to remain as Israelites forever, respectively.
Why could it be possible? It is because He is God, and thus he could be God, a prophet, and a fellow being at his will according to needs of people.
Therefore, for Muslims, “Jesus” is nothing but a human prophet; for Israelites, “Jesus” is nothing but a fellow being, which is truly an act of God.
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In my theory, when Jesus Christ got out of the tomb and met with His disciples to give final blessings as God in a human form, He let his Spirit of God ascend to heaven and walked into regions east of Palestine as a prophet.
As a prophet, He performed untold but decisive work on people who turned to be a base for future propagation of Islam.
As a fellow Israelite, He also visited descendants of lost tribes of ancient Israelites in order to help them keep their traditions.
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In the first century of the Christian Era, there were Roman Empire in the west and Kingdom of Parthia in the east. But, there were no strong Arab countries. Iran, then called Parthia, had a long history as a political entity with overwhelming power in the ancient Middle East that no Arabs then could match.
(If ancient Persians defeated Greeks in 490 BC, there should not have been the Roman Empire and there could not been even current EU.)
Then, why would Persians later come to adopt a religion called Islam that was established and developed by Arabs who had never conquered Iran until the seventh century?
Would people employ a new and strange religion developed by other race that had never been superior to them in terms of culture and politics? But, later in the seventh century, Persians did.
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So, I suppose that there had been a special condition that persuaded Persians to adopt a foreign religion while abandoning their traditional one.
When we think of the history of religions in Persia, this enigma looms as a problem that admits of no solution.
But, my solution is that “Prophet Jesus” preached there 600 years before the arrival of Islam at Persia. Persians had been prepared for the opportunity by “Prophet Jesus.”
Of course, revival of Zoroastrianism and establishment of Manichaeism in the third century must be also influenced by this work of “Prophet Jesus” in the era of Parthia, that is, the first century AD, in my understanding.
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One of the most serious mysteries of the world is religious conversion of Persians to Islam in the seventh century. No one would rather connect it with the mysterious resurrection of Jesus Christ in the first century.
But, this is my theory so far God has not stopped me from contending to the world in the 21st century.
Persians, one of Aryan tribes, might have been crueler to neighboring Arabs in wars and battles without the common religion. In this point of view, the work of “Prophet Jesus” in Parthia, if so admitted by people concerned, was truly an act of a savior.
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Muslims might not like this theory. But, “Prophet Jesus,” in addition to Abraham and Moses, was mentioned in the Koran. And, I don't say that Jesus Christ did it, but “Prophet Jesus” did.
Anyway, Islam came after Christianity; without Judaism and Christianity, no Islam was possible from the beginning, from a historical point of view.
If God allows, I may further tell you some soon, so soon.
“TO DESTROY THE WALL”