"will he for a fish give him a serpent?" - Ask Forgiveness from Christ Jesus

 

Mt. Fuji from around Tokyo

Ask Forgiveness from Christ Jesus

When a young Jewish tried to enter a school for higher education for Jewish people, he was asked in interview examination why he wanted to be enrolled at the school.

The young Jewish man answered that he wanted to learn more about Judaism.  Then, the interviewer said that he did not have to be a student of the school to learn Judaism.  So, the young Jewish man asked for what reason he should be accepted into the school.  The interviewer said, "You can learn Judaism for yourself.  But you have to enter the school to see and study under Jewish persons of character." 

The Jewish young man understood that it was not knowledge but personalities or integrity of excellent Jewish scholars that he had to learn in the school.   

In this context, without seniors having excellent personalities or integrity and without learning from them, you cannot be a model Jewish man.

However, according to Christ Jesus, there is nobody good except the God.  You only have to learn words of the God and practice them by yourself.   

For example, the Buddha said to his disciples to live like moving of rhino's horn and not to depend on anybody except the law of the universe.

A certain past founder of a Japanese Buddhist sect taught people to just call a Buddhist chant "Namu Amida Buddha" and fully rely on the Buddha and Buddhist saints even if they did not know any theories and contents of Buddhism, so that their souls would be saved.  

So, Jewish people believe that there are good men among themselves with personalities or integrity worthy of learning.  This belief binds them as an ethnic group and gives them pride over other groups or races.

However, it is unknown that a man can be admitted into Heaven only if he is a member of the Jewish group of the mankind.  Rather, it seems that a bad Jewish man is as bad as a bad Christian, a bad Muslim, a bad Japanese or a bad Buddhist.  It is so, since the betrayer of Christ Jesus was a Jewish man.

If your are a Jewish man like Judas Iscariot, you only have to ask forgiveness from Christ Jesus to be saved.  It must be useless if you learn Judaism more for yourself.

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Luke 11    King James Version

9 And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
10 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
11 If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?