Monday, April 19, 2021

"To preach the acceptable year of the Lord" - Please Forgive our Sins and Save us from this Pandemic!





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Please Forgive our Sins and Save us from this Pandemic!

The God said to Moses:
14 And God said unto Moses, I Am That I Am: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I Am hath sent me unto you. (Exodus 3, King James Version)

If we trust in the Bible, the God actually spoke to Moses about 3300 years ago, saying that He described Himself as somebody that could exist only due to Himself alone. 

Everything and everyman that exist can only exist due to certain appropriate preceding conditions.  Everything exists due to certain appropriate physical or natural conditions.  Everyone exists due to certain appropriate biological and spiritual conditions.  But the God's existence does not owe itself to anything but itself or the God Himself.  Existence of anything depends on the God or His intention to allow such existence.   In this context, the God is equivalent to existence in logic or discussion.  

Above the concept of existence or non-existence, there must be some ascendant concept that the mankind cannot still understand.  And the God must be originally there.  It means that the God does not have to even exist, since He is above existence.  But the word "I am" implies that He decided to exist for Himself and execute the power of existence.

If this material universe had not been created about 13.7 billion years ago, which means that no mankind could be also created 250,000 years ago, the God should exit or more than exist.

With continuation of development of man's science, the mankind may understand and explicate all the wonders, mysteries and secrets of what can exist, but it must be theoretically impossible for us to know the full aspects of the God who is also above existence.

We think that the God somewhat resembles us, and thus we often think that the God should save us immediately if He finds we are at risk, in danger, or in a trouble.  If we have faith in the God, He should surely save us, but He might save us in a way and manner we cannot understand.  For example, He might not save our life in this world, but He might decide and plan to accept us in Heaven after our life in this world.

Therefore, men with faith in the God are not afraid of the corona-virus and other fatal disease germs and viruses.

In addition, traditionally it is thought that the God is the highest good.  We might have to think of the God from this point of view other than the point that the God has the power to save us in a predicament such as a pandemic.  

And in that case, we must have a wonder if the God would save us without a higher level of goodness or virtue the God should expect.  Indeed, it looks sure that the God would surely save the mankind from any pandemic immediately if all the mankind are good enough to rejoice the God who is also the highest good.  

Finally, all we can do is still pray to the God, saying, "Please forgive our sins and save us from this pandemic!"        

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Luke 4, King James Version
17 And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written,
18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
19 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
20 And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.