Saturday, August 07, 2021

"some fell among thorns" - The Good News for the Poor while the Books of Curse for the Rich




The Tokyo Tower

The Good News for the Poor while the Books of Curse for the Rich

The Christianity is based on the notion that there is the afterlife or the life after death, so that everybody should not be afraid of death in this world.  

However, the core of the teaching of Christ Jesus is not only this notion but also His declaration that everybody should go to either Heaven or the hell from the afterlife.  And the good and faithful are allowed to enter into Heaven while the evil are destined to go to the hell.   Furthermore, the poor are regarded as the good while the rich are regarded as the evil.  Therefore, Christ Jesus said to the poor to rejoice because they will be accepted in Heaven.

It is a revolutionary teaching that the poor in this world will surely enter into the Heaven while the rich in this world cannot.  It is also extended to the notion that the unhappy in this world will enter into the Heaven while the happy in this world cannot.  The lower classes in this world will enter into the Heaven while the elite in this world cannot.  The value system in this world is denied in the afterlife, and the value system is turned over in the afterlife.

That is why Christ Jesus lived as a kind of homeless preacher, so that He will be king in the spirit world.  That is why the God especially loves the poor, unhappy, and unsuccessful people in this world while Satan tries to capture souls of people by promising them to make them rich, happy, and successful.

In other words, tears the poor have in this world would turn to gold in Heaven while gold the rich have in this world would turn to trash in the hell.        

In this context, the Gospels are good news for the poor, the unhappy, and the unsuccessful in this world while they are books of course for the rich, the happy, and the successful in this world.

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Luke 8, King James Version
5 A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it.
6 And some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture.
7 And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it.
8 And other fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit an hundredfold. And when he had said these things, he cried, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
9 And his disciples asked him, saying, What might this parable be?
10 And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.