"he went forth again by the sea side" - Followers of Satan Everywhere

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Followers of Satan Everywhere

Why can Judaists keep their religious identity for 4000 years?

It is because they have faith that God loves them.  With this faith, they have never abandoned their religion, though they had been defeated so many times even before the coming of CHrist Jesus 2000 years ago and they were decisively defeated by Romans after the death of Christ Jesus.  And, in the 20th century, they experienced the Holocaust, but they kept their religion.  It is all because they think they are loved by God.

Christianity has continued for 2000 years.  It is because the Bible tells that God loves people.  Islam has continued for 1300 years, because Muslims believe that Allah loves them.

However, Buddhism has been also practiced and learnt to date since it was first launched by the Buddha 2500 years ago.  It is also love of the Buddha to people.  Because he loved people, he preached the truth about the world and humanity he realized, in order to save people from pain and sins.  

And the essence of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam is that men should know that there is God, the only God, who created and ruled the world and who loves them.

But the essence of Buddhism is that men should know that nothing in this world is good for men so that men should love to be born again in the highest spiritual domain where nothing not good for men exists.

If men do not appreciate God for His love, they would commit every sin and follow Satan to satisfy their desire.  Then, after having rich lives in this world with wealth obtained by following Satan, they are condemned to be thrown into the hell.

But, if you follow the teaching of Buddha, you can be at least exempted from such punishment by God, since you don't follow Satan.  So, the love of the Buddha is aimed at protecting men from Satan.

If you sell your souls to Satan, he will help you become rich.  But following Satan, you will become evil and bad to be eventually punished by God.

Nobody thinks that Satan loves him, if he believes this truth.  But if he denies God and rejects this truth, he will sell his soul to Satan to be materially rich.

If you deny God and this truth, there is no reason for you not to follow Satan to be rich.

Put simply, some people feel love of God and reject Satan, but others do not.  And, there are some people who do not understand God and the truth but are engaged in religion as their professions.

It may be a time to check Judaist, Christian, and Islamic communities along with this notion.  Even the Vatican cannot be an exception, since followers of Satan are everywhere.
  





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Mar 2:13 And he went forth again by the sea side; and all the multitude resorted unto him, and he taught them.
Mar 2:14 And as he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the receipt of custom, and said unto him, Follow me. And he arose and followed him.

"being warned of God in a dream" - Waves in the Universe and the Human Minds

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Waves in the Universe and the Human Minds

Gravitational waves fill the entire space around us.  Or gravitational force always works on us.

You cannot shield the force anywhere in this universal.  But isn't an entity emitting force losing its energy?  Gravity or electromagnetic force is incessantly emitted from elementary particles, such as electrons.  But they never lose all the energy they have and eventually turn to nothing.

An elementary particle that composes an atom has mass and thus gravitational force that works to the space around it and to other particles through the space.  But an energy source of its gravity is never depleted.  Therefor atoms and molecules around us do not collapse to nothing after emitting all of their energy in the forma of gravity or electromagnetic force.  They never get weathered.

However, this phenomenon might be only assured within a certain time frame.  In, say, trillions of trillion years, all these elementary particles might lose their existence energy as they use the energy for emitting gravity force, electromagnetic force, etc.  Their existence in the universe might be allowed only for trillions of trillion years but not forever.

To God, eternity is a tiny little thing.  God is a concept that is linked with any types of infinity.  If in trillions of trillion years all the elementary particles collapse in this world and the universe and thus every star, molecule, atom. and substance in this universe lose their shape and mass, God will think it is a matter of moment for Him.

Anyway, gravity did not exist in the beginning of the universe, and there will be no substances that have gravity in the far and far future in the universe and thus there will be no gravity eventually in the universe.

However, the words of God remain in the universe forever, since this universe was born according to His words.

Now you may like to study spiritual waves emitted through the universe or directly to human heats and minds from Heaven and the hell.




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Mat 2:12 And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.

"the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins" - Miracle 30 Million Years Ago

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Miracle 30 Million Years Ago

Mammals cannot see the color red.  Dogs and cats cannot distinguish red from other colors than blue.  However human beings and large-size apes can distinguish red.

It is because mammals were forced to live in hiding during the era of dinosaurs that continued for about 150 million years.  In the era, mammals mostly in the shape of a kind of mice acted at night so as not to be attacked by dinosaurs.  Accordingly, their eyes degraded.  Mammals became only capable of making discrimination between red and blue; therefore every color except blue looked similar and every color except blue looked similar in a different way.  Put simply they cannot tell difference between red and green.

However, 30 million years ago apes came to have ability to make color distinction based on perception of the three primary colors of red, green, and blue.

If this mutation evolution had not occurred, human beings could not probably produce civilization.  Our intellectual ability is supported by our sensory ability to appreciate the blue sky, green leaves, and red flowers.   If human beings could not see the world in its natural color, how could they establish civilization?

But as apes came to have the superior vision system, they could protect themselves more effectively from other animals.  That is why human beings could pursue more evolution.

So, God destroyed dinosaurs 65 million years ago and restored faculty of sight of apes so as to pave the way for evolution of mankind.

However, it is said that dinosaurs could see things in color based on the four primary colors: red, green, blue, and ultra-violet.  That maybe why they could rule the world dominantly from 200 million years ago to 65 million years ago when a gigantic meteor hit the earth.

Today birds, a kind of descendants of dinosaurs, have this tetrachromacy vision.  It is even said that about 2 to 3% of women in the world have tetrachromacy vision, since it was females among apes that first captured the vision system based on the three primary colors 30 million years ago.

According to the Bible, people had ability to see ill spirits as well as angels.  But as time went by, people gradually lost the ability along with development of material civilization.  Or have most of people become a kind of ill spirits themselves so that they cannot any more discern ill spirits?

However, even creatures living in a monochrome world must be able to discern brightness of God.





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Mar 2:10 But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (he saith to the sick of the palsy,)
Mar 2:11 I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way into thine house.

"take up thy bed, and walk?" - Satan in Money

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Satan in Money

If you were born in a village where no money is used, you will not probably invent money.

And if the village has been long isolated from the outer world before money was invented, everybody in your village should have no idea about money.  But people in the village live without any inconvenience without money.  Economy of the village is smoothly managed.  Without revenue of tax, the administration of the village has been carried without troubles by persons in charge.

But one day, strong troops should come to your village.  Merchants and business men accompany the troops.  They occupy your village and declare that your village is now put into money economy they are engaged in.  And surprisingly, there are no complaints among the villagers including you.  You must find great merit in money.

Your village becomes more prosperous through trade and business with the outer world.  However, when you look around, there is a new type of villagers in your village you never observed when the village was in non-money economy.  Money makes the riche richer while it makes the poor poorer.  But you look around, and you will see big roads, big building, modern services being provided, modern goods being sold, and the environment being full of products of modern engineering in which even the poorest man in the village is appreciating rich atmosphere.  And, you might think that money is needed for advancement of the village, though some unlucky people become poor.

However, as time goes by, you may come to sense something wrong.  Crimes!  Money has generated crimes that were never observed in the era of non-money economy.  Corruption! money has led some villagers to acts of corruption that were never observed in the era of non-money economy.

Finally, you find danger in unlimited desire prevailing among the villagers.  You find it impossible to set a limit of money people can earn and own.  In the non-money economy, the villagers didn't have unrestricted desire, since their desire was restricted by their necessity in lives and natural conditions of the environment.  But, for example, if you borrow money, interest will be counted up eventually to an infinite amount if you don't pay it back.

And, you will see people in a nation where your village was forced to be integrated try to launch a war against a neighboring country in competition for acquisition of wealth, natural resources, markets, etc. They are all driven by desire inflated by evil power of money.

Like belief in money, people in the world today believe in something that ancient people never dreamed of.  The belief is that there is no need to be afraid of God.  It is not God but the human wisdom, knowledge, artificial systems, laws and regulations, science and technology that solve problems and free people from every inconvenience.  The belief that we don't need God but all we need is human wisdom.

So, though most of people today do not openly deny existence of God, they think that they don't need God whether He exists or not, since they have become so rich without praying to God.

Satan is in money.  When will mankind be free from Satan?

  



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Mar 2:9 Whether is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk?

"he sent them to Bethlehem" - Possible Cause of Fatal Destruction on Mankind

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Possible Cause of Fatal Destruction on Mankind

The industrial revolution was not carried out under the initiative of the Vatican.

The modern science and technologies have been developed outside the Vatican.  The leading nations, the US and the UK, in this context has had no strong ties with the Vatican.　Indeed in terms of the number of past Nobel Prize winners in natural science, the US is No.1 followed by the UK.  But the two countries are not Catholic.

This suggests a significant matter: the modern science and technologies might not be blessed by God.

Or conversely, God might allow non-Catholic Christians to exist and grow so that they can develop the modern science and technologies, which the Vatican cannot do.

However, the question at issue is how much the modern science and technologies whose development has been led by non-Catholic Christian nations are blessed by God.  If they are not blessed by God at all, since the Vatican cannot develop them, ultimately the modern science and technologies might destroy mankind.

In other words, does God like human beings to develop science and technology while leaving the teaching of God?  Or does God overlook human beings to develop science and technology while they are paying less enthusiasm to learning of the word of God than they pay it to science and technology.  God might not feel comfortable to see human beings pursuing development of science and technology not because it is an act of paying respect to God but because science and technology produce great wealth.

In most cases, driven by material desire, men are engaged in development of science and technology.  Therefore, the Vatican cannot trigger the Industrial Revolution and win Nobel Prizes in natural science, at least.

In the early 16th century, Germany experienced the Protestant Reformation led by Martin Luther; around 1600, England established Anglican Church; around 1800, France carried out the French Revolution to separate the politics from religion or mostly the Catholicism, and the US got independent before the French Revolution even separating itself from the Anglican Church.  In this way, the leading Western countries in science and technology all alienated the Vatican.  Accordingly, they came to pursue science and technology without restriction imposed by the teaching of the Vatican.

However, they had pay big prices: the World War I and II.  These world wars were fought with modern weapons produced by the modern science and technologies.

Even, the leading industrial nation in non-Christian countries Japan had been almost under no influence of the Vatican.  Japanese could therefore develop modern science and technologies like Germany, England, France, and the US even before WWII, since Japan ended its centuries-long seclusion policy around 1850 to start modernization and Westernization.

In this context, the further nations alienated themselves from the Vatican in the modern era, the more they could develop the modern science and technology.  So, we had better suspect that it might be Satan but not God that has been helping mankind develop modern science and technologies.

So, we might conclude that since Muslims are more pious or honest to God than the Western countries, including Japan, as well as China, they cannot develop science and technology on their own to a level comparable to the West.

As stocks of hi-tech companies bring great fortunes to people through Wall Street and other stock markets, corporations, engineers, and scientists are highly motivated for development of science and technology.  They are not motivated by their faith in God.  So, it is essentially a very dangerous situation.

That is why there is a strong possibility that the modern science and technologies might cause fatal destruction on mankind in the future.  
    


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Mat 2:7 Then Herod, when he had privily called the wise men, enquired of them diligently what time the star appeared.
Mat 2:8 And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said, Go and search diligently for the young child; and when ye have found him, bring me word again, that I may come and worship him also.

"Jesus saith unto them, Fill the waterpots" - Circumstantial Evidence for Innocence of Oswald

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Circumstantial Evidence for Innocence of Oswald

President Kennedy was shot to death by snipers with rifles in November 1963.

One rifle was later found with three cartridge cases on the 6th floor of the Texas Schoolbook Depository building where Oswald was working.

The rifle was found later on the 6th floor and identified as the one Oswald had purchased by mail order several months ago.  So, the US Government officially regarded Oswald as the assassin of JFK.

Oswald, who had been working in the building for a few months before the assassination of JFK, had connections with FBI, CIA, and the Mafia, though he had retired Marines, traveled to the Soviet Union, worked in Minsk as a factory worker, married a young Russian woman, and then came back to the US.  After returning to the US, Oswald was working in some small companies and shops though he also acted as a pro-Castro activist.  In the summer of 1963, he distributed pro-Castro brochures on the street of New Orleans.  The address printed on the brochures was the same building as the one where an ex-FBI officer had office, working for anti-Castro activities in cooperation with CIA .

Oswald seems to have been acting as a low-level agent of CIA in disguise of a kind of communist.

Oswald's mother had some connection with the Mafia, though his father died before Oswald was born in 1939.  Before joining Marines to be assigned to the Atsugi air base, Japan, Oswald had joined the Civil Air Patrol Unit in New Orleans where he is believe to have acquainted with a strange pilot David Ferry who had connection with Mafia and died in strange circumstances during investigation by a district prosecutor in connection with the JFK assassination.      

So, if the Mafia and some group of CIA agents had been tied up in the planning of JFK assassination, Oswald could be a useful person for them to cover up their plot.

Therefore, if Oswald had been on the 6th floor of the Depository building and been involved in the JFK assassination, it was suspicious that he tried to kill JFK alone on his own initiative.  Oswald was not so crazy and desperate.

But would Oswald accept an order (from the Mafia or any other organization) to shoot at JFK from a window of the 6th floor that was his workshop with his own rifle?  It is tantamount to being arrested by the police and executed after the assassination.

How could the Mafia or any other organization persuade Oswald to accept the order to shoot at JFK?  Probably, they said to Oswald just to help a sniper.  And they must have said to Oswald that there would be no evidence for Oswald to be linked to the assassination.  But, they must have also said that Oswald should be on the 6th floor to check anybody trying to enter the room so as to prevent any interference with the sniper.  With this instruction, they deleted an alibi of Oswald.  And, the sniper seems to have used a similar type of rifle Oswald had without informing Oswald of the trick, so that later the rifle should be linked to Oswald (by replacing it with the real Oswald's rifle in the police office or somewhere), though it is not fully clear about this rifle matter.

So, JFK was hit, but the fatal shot came not from the Depository building behind JFK's limousine but from the so-called grassy knoll ahead of the JFK's convoy.

Several minutes after the firing, Oswald left the Depository building though he encountered a policeman rushing into the building in the 2F canteen and then was told by a workshop leader cancellation of the day's work.

It means that Oswald did not try to get away immediately after the incident.  He was drinking coke in the canteen when the policeman came in hurry in the building, being accompanied by a manager of the Depository.  It is as if Oswald thought that he would not be suspected.

Indeed, Oswald had not planned how to run away and hide after the incident.  He did not prepare money or means of transportation for defection.  He returned to his boarding house by taxi, after trying to get back by bus, to fetch a pistol to leave the house in hurry and was finally arrested in a movie theater just a mile or so away his boarding house.  It means that Oswald had not been prepared for necessary flight.
 
If he had carried out the JFK assassination on his own initiative, he should have some concrete plan for his escape.  Therefore, it seems that Oswald was forced to help the real sniper.  And, a scenario presented to Oswald must be that nobody would suspect Oswald though some evidence of firing from a window of the 6th floor might be found.

But as time went by, when he came back to his boarding house, Oswald found a possibility that he could be suspected.  So, he picked up the handgun and tried to contact with a Mafia member.  And on his way, probably, to Jack Ruby's residence, he might have encountered policeman Tippit who was killed then by Oswald and/or a Mafia member.

Two days later the Mafia sent Jack Ruby to the Dallas Police Department building to kill Oswald.  It means that there was probably a plan to kill Oswald immediately after shooting at JFK.  But Oswald happened to escape it on the day.

The point at issue is that Oswald was not prepared for his flight after shooting at JFK.  It means that he did not act on his initiatives and he only helped a real sniper by request from the Mafia.  And, Oswald thought that he was not suspected as a sniper by the police, because he just helped the sniper on the 6th floor.  So, he was not prepared for his own flight at all.

When a criminal plans a crime, the most important thing for him is whether he can escape a planned crime scene.  If he thinks that it is impossible to safely get away, he will abandon the plan.  Only a desperate or crazy killer commits a crime without a flight plan.  But, Oswald was neither desperate nor crazy.  He must have been assured by the Mafia or any other organization that there was no need for him to run away since Oswald would not be suspected.

This is circumstantial evidence that Oswald was not the murderer of President Kennedy.

Anyway, 50 years after the JFK assassination, it might be progress of the US society that there are no Mafias or any other organizations that try to kill the US President who is an African American, though most of African Americans supported JFK 50 years ago.

But what different world it would have been if JFK had led the US for eight years as President in 1960s?



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Joh 2:7 Jesus saith unto them, Fill the waterpots with water. And they filled them up to the brim.
Joh 2:8 And he saith unto them, Draw out now, and bear unto the governor of the feast. And they bare it.
Joh 2:9 When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not whence it was: (but the servants which drew the water knew;) the governor of the feast called the bridegroom,
Joh 2:10 And saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but thou hast kept the good wine until now.

"ye have despised the poor" - Tradition and Globalized Economy

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Tradition and Globalized Economy

There are at least two tribes in the world that have kept their lineage and tradition for 2000 years without changing their spiritual bases.

The Vatican has survived for 2000 years, but its members have not represented any natural tribe.  Egyptians have long been living along the Nile River, but they lost tradition their ancestors had had before the emergence of Islam or even before the conquer by Romans.  Hindus look like keeping Hinduism over 2000 years but they consist of many tribes.  Chinese have undergone too many imperial regime changes each time of which past integrity was almost abolished.  Koreans already lost their historical spiritual bases through their difficult history.

Only Judaists and Japanese, among major peoples, have kept their tradition as tribes for 2000 years or more.

Essentially the value systems of the Judaists and the Japanese are different from those of West Europeans that started with the Vatican and the Roman Empire and have been further developed mainly by Anglo-Saxon people to date.

So, till the start of the 21st century, the Western Europe and the US and other Anglo-Saxon origin nations had to deal with only Judaists and Japanese as unique partners in this context.  (Indeed, WWII is a war where Judaists and Japanese played major roles as symbolized by the Holocaust and Hiroshima/Nagasaki.)

But, now Muslims as a whole have come to emerge as an entity that has a different value system, while China has become another entity with its unique system and economic size.

Today's globalized economy is trying to engulf all the nations and peoples under its universal system supported by belief in money.  But power of tradition of those unique entities should work as a critical factor.

That is why the possible future of the world in the long run or within the 21st century cannot be a unified world under the globalized economy of the Anglo-Saxon style.

And, it is very dubious that God has chosen people with tradition of the Anglo-Saxon culture, such as Americans, on par with Hebrews who were chose 4000 years ago.

Bu then, who will God choose like Christ Jesus chose 12 or so disciples by Himself, if human history should further continue for next 2000 or 4000 years?



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Jam 2:5 Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?
Jam 2:6 But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?
Jam 2:7 Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the which ye are called?

"there were dwelling at Jerusalem" - Christianity Effected the Collapse of the Roman Empire

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Christianity Effected the Collapse of 

the Roman Empire

After the collapse of the Roman Empire, Christianity survived.  But why?

Christianity had been adopted as state religion by Rome about a century before the collapse of the Roman Empire in the late 5th century.  But, it did not save the Empire from the fatal collapse.  It looked strange that Christ Jesus, from the spiritual world, would not rather save the Empire.

On the contrary, we have to think that Christianity accelerated the collapse of the  Western Roman Empire.  To further promote Christianity among people, the Empire must have collapsed at the time.  Indeed, as a fact, after the collapse of the Empire, the Middle Ages began in Western Europe where Christianity or the Vatican came to have strong influence and social power comparable to Rome in the era of the Empire.

In this context, we have to conclude that the decisive factor of the collapse of the Western Roman Empire is Christianity.

Probably, learning the Bible and the words of Christ Jesus, Romans came to less cruel and bellicose.  Such an influence must have been crucial for the Roman military that had bolstered the Empire.  Under an influence of Christianity, the Roman military must have come to opt peaceful means when dealing with outside tribes.  The occupation by Romans of the vast territory of the empire must have become more conciliatory.  It is thought that Romans came to accept other tribes more in the territory of the Empire and respect independent movements of them.  The more they learnt Christianity, the softer they became to their enemies.

In a series of invasion by other tribes and groups of non-Roman people in the 5th century, the Empire lost control over its vast territory.    

However, the Empire was an administrative system centered around Rome, which was supported by the military.  If the Empire collapsed, only such a system vanished.  People's living must not have been so severely damaged.  Even people around Rome could survive without the social system centered around Rome.  Indeed, in the Middle Ages and after, Italy was prosperous.  Italian people might have become more prosperous than in the era of the Roman Empire.

In other words, Roman soldiers had been more cruel before Christianity became the state religion of the Roman Empire.  But they became a little peace-loving due to the influence of Christianity after Christianity was officially recognized by Rome.  But that change, no matter how subtle it might be, had a huge influence on its state of occupation of the vast territory.  Peace-loving Romans could not sustain their Empire in a cruel manner which was necessity for securing safety and dominance of Romans.  Inevitably, the Empire was fatally invaded and its military could not win wars against invading forces.

Now, today, does Christ Jesus want the Western countries, consisting mostly of Christian nations, to be more peace-loving to collapse, so that His words should spread more?  In this case, He would allow for establishment of another Christianity.

When Christ Jesus comes to the world again, He might abolish old Christianity and set up another religion, very naturally.  





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Act 2:3 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.
Act 2:4 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
Act 2:5 And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven.

"mine hour is not yet come" - What a Circle Teaches

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What a Circle Teaches

According to an old Japanese philosopher, there was a strange teacher and a strange 1st-grade primary school boy before WWII.

In the first lesson to boys and girls who first came to learn in an elementary school of Japan, the teacher drew a circle on the blackboard, saying, "Now draw this for your self, and raise your hands when you finish it,"

Every pupil drew a circle on a sheet of paper with a pencil.  Then one after another they raised the hands.  But there was one strange boy who was still working on his paper.  The teacher wondered what the boy was doing.  He stood by the desk of the boy with a little surprise.  Finally when the boy finished his drawing, the teacher stood before the blackboard, saying, "He drew a circle this way," and he picked up a chalk and drew one circle on the blackboard.

It was a black circle surrounded by an area filled in white with the white chalk, though it was a white circle surrounded by an area filled in black on the sheet of paper with a pencil by the boy.

The teacher started to think about what the white circle surrounded by the black area the boy drew meant.  He continued to think it for 60 years.  Then the ex-teacher realized something.

The old Japanese philosopher explained that a black circle drawn on a sheet of paper with a pencil is a shape of abstraction.  But a white circle surrounded by a black area marked out with a pencil is a shape of pure reality.

So, the Japanese philosopher concluded that though Japan made a crazy war against the US in WWII, there were always excellent persons in Japan, including the strange teacher and the school boy.





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Joh 2:4 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? mine hour is not yet come.
Joh 2:5 His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it.

"Herod the king had heard these things" - The Internet and Humanity

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The Internet and Humanity

The most important change in human society over the past 2000 years is the speed and expansion of information spreading across the general public.

In these 2000 years, especially after the Industrial Revolution, evolution of technology has drastically changed many aspects of living.  Human beings have conquered many diseases and inconvenience of environment by producing various products and services.  However, with focus on direct influences on the human minds, the most significant development is on information collection, exchange, and distribution.

So, if a prophet appears today, the news about his appearance should reach to the end of the world in hours, days, or weeks without taking a period of decades and centuries.  If Christ Jesus visits the human world again as advent, the news about His coming should spread all over the world in seconds, minutes, or hours without taking days.

In this respect, the Internet has a potential to be a holy tool, since it can transmit useful, sacred, or holy information and news generated at one location on the earth to all the users located everywhere on the earth in a matter of seconds.

From a secular point of view, if the Internet had existed before WWII, the rise of Hitler and the massacre of Judaists should have been prevented, since information about atrocity Nazis was conducting must have been widely and globally known so quickly.  They could not conceal their evil acts.  Even today, some autocratic states such as China control access to the Internet by their people.  As they have many secrets they want to hide from their people, they restrict use of the Internet.

However, criminals also find a great potential in the Internet.  The internet can be not only a convenient and efficient tool for committing a crime but also a place and a target of criminal acts.  Somewhere in the Internet, a huge amount of wealth is accumulated.  And, there is no universal police in charge of protecting the Internet from criminals including spies like Chinese ones stealing military secrets from US Government sites.

So, God might use the Internet to effectively send His prophets to the human world.  Or Satan might abuse the Internet to accelerate demolition of the world.

In this context, we have to keep in mind this unique feature of the Internet.  A piece of information transmitted through the Internet might trigger or prevent a war between nations.  The Internet is changing the world, good or bad.  And mankind may not be able to follow the speed of the change.  Then, it will be out of control.  No matter how much technology advances, this danger of the Internet cannot be essentially conquered.

The point at issue is, finally: Has mankind become so good enough to use the Internet in a very responsible manner.




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Mat 2:2 Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.
Mat 2:3 When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.

"again he entered into Capernaum" - How Serious Water Issues Are

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How Serious Water Issues Are

Water is very important for life of living things, including human beings.

Indeed, the Bible proves this importance as Christ Jesus is depicted with water so impressively.

Matthew 3:16 And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:
Matthew 14:29 And he said, Come. And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus.
John 2:7 Jesus saith unto them, Fill the waterpots with water. And they filled them up to the brim.
John 3:5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
John 4:7 There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink.
John 4:10 Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
John 4:13 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:
John 4:46 So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum.

As the modern material civilization is evolving and spreading, more and more water is consumed by more and more people in the world.

3. What is the total world annual consumption of potable water and seawater?People already use over half the world's accessible freshwater now, and may use nearly three-quarters by 2025. Over the twentieth century, the world annual water use has grown from about 300 km3 to about 2,100 km3 (see chart).

In this chart the annual water consumption is shown, as withdrawal and use. These two concepts are separated, because much of the withdrawn water is later returned to the water cycle, after application. An example is cooling water; it is used for power generation and is immediately released for further use downstream. 

Each country has a different equivalent use per person.
The annual per capita water use for each part of the world:- North Americans use 1,280 cubic meters- Europeans and Australians use 694 cubic meters- Asians use 535 cubic meters- South Americans use 311 cubic meters- Africans use 186 cubic meters 

Water is used for three main purposes; agricultural uses, industrial uses and domestic uses. Each country uses a different amount of its available water for these three main purposes. In percentages, the global use for the three main purposes is divided up as follows:
- Agriculture (mostly irrigation) = 69 %- Industry = 23 %- Domestic use (household water = drinking water, sanitation) = 8 % 

Current global water withdrawals for irrigation are estimated at about 2,000 to 2,555 cubic kilometres per year. The annual water volume used by industry is estimated 975 km3.
The water that humans use for drinking water preparation is mainly freshwater. But freshwater availability has become a problem over the years, as only 0.014% of the water on earth is readily available freshwater for drinking purposes. In some countries they are trying to solve this problem by withdrawal and desalination of seawater. Right now, 0.1% of the water that is used by humans is desalinated seawater.

 http://www.lenntech.com/specific-questions-water-quantities.htm#ixzz3yvgvB92U

As for daily water consumption per person in each country, the US and Australia are the two leading countries, probably because of their uniqueness as big nations in the new world.


http://www.data360.org/dsg.aspx?Data_Set_Group_Id=757


This data suggets that the US and Australia should accept more immigrants from water short areas to share their abundant water resources.

The keys to solving the water crisis must be development of water-related technology and responsible involvement of the US and Australia whose densities of population are 32.47 and 3.05　persons per square kilometers, respectively, while Japan's is 336.22 as of 2014.



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Mar 2:1 And again he entered into Capernaum after some days; and it was noised that he was in the house.

"shalt call his name JESUS" - Historical Role of Islam

33 km from the center of Tokyo

Historical Role of Islam

This universe is built or designed so marvelously.  It cannot be created by chance.  There must be a creator, and he must be God.

This is what the modern science teaches to mankind.

But without learning the modern science, for example, ancient people felt great power that controlled the nature.  However, in most cases, human beings did not feel sole god but a multitude of spirits.  Polytheism was more common than monotheistic religion.

For example, Africa, India, and tropical regions are full of living things, animals, and plants.  Human beings must have felt something supernatural in those abundant elements of the nature.  Human beings must have been overwhelmed by so many spirits behind scenes in environments they were living.  Even in temperate areas including Europe, China, Japan, etc., people had to first face various natural phenomena and spirits behind them.  Those spirits were given deity, since ancient people could not see physical laws and integrated structure of the nature so that they could not see hierarchical order in the nature and the spiritual world.

But, in desert areas, products of the nature are scarce.  People see just the desert, the blue sky, the sun, the moon, and stars.  For ancient people living in the desert could easily feel a great spirit governing the earth, since they could see bare structure of the universe and the earth so easily in the desert.

Therefore, the concept of the only one creator of the universe could be easily accepted by people in desert areas.  And, Islam really fit their mentality.

Historically, Islam made it decisive for human beings to accept monotheism.  The aspect of Christianity being a monotheistic religion was supported and strengthened by Islam.  Even Judaism must have been reminded of its aspect of being monotheism.

The greatest role Islam played in the human history is that it contributed to the notion that God is one rather than that God exists.

Today, even those who deny existence of God deny only and one God.

Under God, there is a spiritual world where many spirits live and work.  Hindus and Buddhists regard them as gods or kinds of gods.  But, they do not necessarily deny the super-existence of sole god above them.

Anyway, mankind needed Islam to establish its concept that God is one.  And Islam strengthened an idea of Judaism and Christianity that every man has to essentially alone stand before God.

Modern Christians and Juadists owe this common idea of today to Islam.  Without Islam, this idea must have been vaguer among Christians and Judaists as well as other members of mankind.

But as most of human beings have come to share this idea of God being one and alone and each man being destined to alone face God, we may think that the historical role of Islam has been completed.    

So, the new era has probably come to Muslims like Christians are facing the second coming of Christ.




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Luk 1:31 And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS.

"Simon's wife's mother lay sick" - One God and Many Religions

Tokyo

One God and Many Religions

Suppose that God is only one as the sole Creator of the universe.  Then, as everybody understands, the god of Judaists, the god of Christians, and the god of Muslims are one and the same.

It tells religion is not so important as God.  Accordingly, different religions are possible under one and only God.  Religions are paths to God.  There can be many paths around a mountain to its summit.  But without God, there cannot be any religions toward it.

In ancient days, Judaists did not think their god was the god for all mankind.  Each tribe had its own god.  Accordingly, the god of Judaists did not mind if Judaists destroyed other tribes for them to survive.  From today's humanitarian and democratic point of view, the god of Judaists cannot be the god of mankind.  But today, Judaists think that their god is the god of mankind.  It is interesting when they changed their view on their god.

Christians believed that their god is the god of mankind, including Judaists.  Therefore, Christ Jesus told His disciples to preach gospels to the world.

Muslims also believed that their god is the god of mankind, including Judaists and Christians, though they did not and do not believe that Christ Jesus is God.

The important point is how God sees this situation with those different religions established under His name.  Is it what He intended?  Or doesn't He mind rivalry between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam?

However, when God speaks to a man, He will not ask whether he is a Judaist, a Christian or a Muslim.  Rather he should ask if he believes in Him.

Moreover, God will not ask if a man reads and believes the Old Testament, the New Testament, or the Koran.   He will simply ask if he obeys His words.

The reason for the situation of the different religions under one God is that God seldom speaks to men directly.  He spoke to Abraham, Moses, Christ Jesus, and the founder of Islam.  But those who heard words of God from those holy men interpreted them in different ways.  Accordingly, different religions were established.

But, God as the sole Creator of the universe has not been a common concept among peoples.  For example, Buddhists have not based their religion on the concept of the sole god.

In this context, mankind has not yet fully understood or discovered God.  The existence of various religions in the world proves it.  For mankind to evolve, they have to fully understand God and unify all the religions into one.







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Mar 1:30 But Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever, and anon they tell him of her.
Mar 1:31 And he came and took her by the hand, and lifted her up; and immediately the fever left her, and she ministered unto them.

" John seeth Jesus coming unto him" - Lessons from the Roman Civilization

A Tokyo Street

Lessons from the Roman Civilization

The Roman Empire is featured by exhaustive use of metal.

According to a survey of ice in Greenland, the level of metal components in the air in the era of the Roman Empire is equivalent to those in the era of the Industrial Revolution from the 18th century.  Between the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century to the 18th century, no large metal components were included in the air.  It tells how aggressively metal resources were mined and refined in the territory of the Roman Empire.

Figure 2.2. An approximation of metal production in the Northern hemisphere as revealed by lead emissions found in the Greenland ice cap.
http://www.econ.ku.dk/kgp/doc/Lectfrms/New%20lecture/Notes/Efter%C3%A5r%202008/Kapitel%202.pdf


It was from the Arabic world that Europe again obtained the metal-related technology in the 11th century, but its large-scale development needed the Industrial Revolution.

Our world today may be another Roman Empire.  Like the fall of the Roman Empire, the modern world with full of advanced technologies might fall sooner or later.  And for mankind to recover from the coming demolition, it might take 1000 years like the case of the metal use after the Roman Empire.

However, no one expects that a devastating catastrophe should occur in the world in the near future to destroy the present material civilization.  Science and technology will develop and advance exponentially.  And mankind will soon reach Mars. Mankind will find other energy resources and develop new energy technologies.  Mankind will even control weather.  There will be no poverty in the world.  However, this optimistic view on the future of mankind lacks reflection on the evil nature of mankind.  Avarice and hubris of mankind might cause such a devastating disaster as was observed in the fall of the Roman Empire.

Then, it might take 2000 years for mankind to recover from obscurity.

9 Ways Humanity Could Bring About Its Own Destruction
1. Nuclear armageddon
2. Global Ecophagy
3. Everybody uploads — but no one is conscious
4. Robopocalypse
5. Artificial superintelligence
6. Particle accelerator accident
7. Deliberately engineered pandemic
8. Anthropogenic global warming
9. World War III

http://io9.gizmodo.com/5967660/9-ways-humanity-could-bring-about-our-own-destruction


Anyway, we had better still learn lessons from the fall of the Roman Empire.



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Joh 1:29 The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.

"all the region round about Galilee" - Who Can Identify God

A Tokyo street

Who Can Identify God

The Bible teaches that what is seen is made of what cannot be seen.

From a viewpoint of natural science, it is quite right.  The human body is made of cells, which cannot be seen, that are made of molecules and atoms which cannot be seen, either, with the human eyes.

More importantly, a man's living is controlled by his mind which cannot be seen.  A society is controlled by law and order which cannot be seen.  A nation is governed by the constitution, laws, regulations, and order which cannot be seen.  Therefore, generally speaking, the human world is made of human minds which cannot be seen.

The human mind is shaped, formed, and cultivated, taking years after birth of a man.  It is not a simple mechanism to control and preserve the human body and the physical existence of the human being.  It can judge, think, wish, and pray for something based on its intelligence beyond the limit of a living thing.  It finally admits existence of the spiritual world above the nature and the human mind.

If we admit that God created this universe and the spiritual world, it is easy to understand what we are.  We are not alone in the vast universe, but we were created by God who always watches us.  This connection to God can be called love from and to God.

Whether you are an atheist or not, if you are absorbed in a daily life involving money and desire, you have no time to think of God, the Creator of your body and soul.  Your connection to God becomes weak and weaker.  In such living, finally you will think and behave like an atheist with your own desire, pride, and happiness placed at the center of your world.  Then you are out of the grand law and order of the universe and the spiritual world that were created by God.  You will not be admitted to Heaven.

What you can see you can easily believe.  But what you can see is made of what you cannot see.  And, no man can see God fully, since God is spirit.

In the age of Christ Jesus, namely 2000 years ago, people saw Satan, devils, and ill spirits.  They saw some sick men or mad men being controlled by ill spirits.  So, Christ Jesus and His disciples could drive them out, since they could see ill spirits and devils.  It means that they could also see angels and holy ghosts.

But today, most people have lost ability to identify ill spirits, devils, and Satan (since they become so friendly to them to be their relatives).  It means that they have also lost the ability to see angels, holy ghosts, and Christ Jesus.

That is why we had better think that the Advent of Christ Jesus has been already realized in these years, but people have already lost ability to identify Him.

But, due to the origin of mankind, anybody will recognize and know God the moment he sees Him, since even Satan knows God very well.

(Then what are such people that cannot identify God?)



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Mar 1:28 And immediately his fame spread abroad throughout all the region round about Galilee.

"And Jesus rebuked him" - Gap between the Rich and the Poor

Along a Tokyo railway line

Gap between the Rich and the Poor

When there are two men in the field, can there be a gap between the rich and the poor between them?

If one man finds a banana tree full of bananas, he would share the fruits with another.  There will be no gap between the rich and the poor between them.

But if one man finds a gold stone on the ground, would he share the gold with another?  And, gold has value only in some sort of social organization where gold functions as money.

The gap between the rich and the poor emerged when human society came to use money. Money allows a man to get what he has not produced, acquired or possessed in exchange of money.

From a different aspect, if the two men find a banana tree, a stronger man may force the weaker one to take bananas from the tree for him and declare that all the bananas belong to him.  In this case, the gap between the rich and the poor emerges.

One strong tribe may attack and occupy a weak tribe to enslave them.  Then, the gap between the rich and the poor emerges no matter if no money economy is prevailing.  In this case, the key factor is violence.

From another different aspect, if two men find a banana tree, an evil one between them might try to trick, harm, injure or kill another by poison or any other means to take all the bananas for himself.  Then, the gap between the rich and the poor emerges no matter if no violence is involved.

Or if the two man find a banana tree, one who hates another might just plan and act to take all the bananas by any means, as he doesn't want another to enjoy bananas.

So, to address the gap between the rich and the poor, we have to address these cases of two men and a banana tree.  But can we stop the emergence of the gap between them, while we are so much civilized living in money economy, we possess so many weapons and have potential of violence, we are so much accustomed to evil things, and we hate somebody?

Any problems in this world are ascribed to the gap between the rich and the poor.  And, most of people accept the gap and problems.  However, God does not approve the gap between the rich and the poor.  It means that human beings will be punished by God for the reason that they let the gap between the rich and the poor unsolved.

The reason for the coming of the end of the world is the gap between the rich and the poor, in this context.




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Mar 1:24 Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God.
Mar 1:25 And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him.

"in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit" - Nations and Religions

Around Tokyo

Nations and Religions

Society needs order and rules so that citizens can live peacefully.

The order and rules must be deeply rooted in tradition and customs so that they can be respected and observed by citizens, since they respect tradition and customs.  And in any society people love and respect their ancestors with some exceptions.  Therefore society can be stable when it is governed and managed based on common religion in it.

But it will be a little difficult if a nation includes members of different religions with larger shares.  Even in an Islamic nation, difference in schools of the religion causes grave internal conflicts covertly or overtly.

Conversely, strong nations inevitably have one strong religion prevailing among their peoples.  Or, when people of a nation shares one common strong religion, the nation can grow strong and develop rich.

In this context, the Great British Empire was possible mostly because of its religion separated from the Vatican.  Germany became strong when Germans believed ideology of Hitler, though they mistook it.  The Soviet Union was strong when Russians and their close neighbors believed in communism, though they misunderstood it.  China today is trying to be strong based on belief of its people in dominance of the Chinese Communist Party, though it has long introduced capitalistic economic policies.

In this context, the key to success and prosperity of the US is its people's belief in the American Dream based on belief in Christianity separated from the Vatican and even the Church of England while absorbing part of Judaism.  Therefore the President of the US should be a person who the best symbolizes the American Dream of each era.  But whoever is elected as president, his personality is expected to be deeply concerned with the underlying religious paradigm of the US.

From this point of view, JFK was a difficult president as Kennedy was Catholic.  In fact, his administration ended with the tragic assassination of him.  And, Nixon looked not so religious too much, and accordingly he was strongly despised by his opponents.  In fact, Nixon was forced to step down in the middle of his second term.

No matter American voters are Democratic or Republican, they believe in the American value system that supports the American Dream.  And the root of the American value system is a notion that to keep the American society in peace and safety, they need faith in God of Christianity or Judaism.  So, American voters are secretly but intently checking how faithful in God or religion Presidential candidates are.  Their judgment on how much they can trust candidates mostly depends on this point.  Put simply, they want a President who is faithful as much as they are in God or religion so as to trust him or her in the White House.

As for Japan, the unity of its people is still largely ascribed to existence of the Imperial Family.  The Emperor of Japan is a symbol at least of Japan's 2000 year long history and tradition, including shintoism.  All the Japanese would think that their ancestors respected emperors for almost 2000 years or 1500 years as written history tells.

However this function of the emperor and the imperial family of Japan does not exclude people's acceptance of the concept of God as the sole creator of the universe.

Anyway, a nation without religion or ideology is impossible in the human world.  In this context, the more study in religions and ideologies should be needed for people today living in the era of the global politics.          

    




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Mar 1:23 And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out,
Mar 1:24 Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God.

"be ye doers of the word" - The Greatest Things from Mankind

Mt. Fuji observed from around Tokyo

The Greatest Things from Mankind

It is said that the founder of Islam sometimes fell on the floor from fear or with awe when he received revelation of God.  In addition, he had no intention to launch a new religion to compete with Judaists and Christians.

Then, how could such a man establish the great religion Islam?  It is because God wished so.  Indeed, great is the God but not the founder of Islam.

But why did God wish Islam, though He had already chosen Judaists as a special tribe of religion and sent His Son, Christ Jesus, to the world?

It must be because Judaists did not satisfy God and Christians, neither.  So, God must have decided to create the third religion through one Arab in the seventh century.  Therefore the unique feature of Islam is in that Judaists and Christians disappointed God.  If Judaists had not disappointed God, there should have been no Christianity.  If Christians had not disappointed God, there should have been no Islam.

But what would God do if He finds that Muslims have disappointed Him?  Of course, it is apparent from observation of the world that Muslims have betrayed God, since no Islamic countries can cope with Islamic terrorists but only Christian European and American countries can do,

Will the God allow any man to establish the fourth global religion?  Or did God always set a fate of mankind so that they will face the end of the world when they have disappointed God three times?

In that case, the history of mankind will be written by some intellectual species living somewhere in a galaxy and having a chance to visit the earth after extinction of mankind: "They met God three times.  They established Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, but as their faith was not true, they could not avoid the wrath of God, so that they went extinct.  Nothing is worthy that mankind invented and created except these religions, though."

So, a million years later, the earth might be called the "planet of the three religions" by some intellectual species living somewhere in the galaxy.

But what intellectual species in galaxies can satisfy God?  And how can they?

Anyway the greatest things mankind has ever produced are Judaism, Christianity, and Islam but not i-phones.





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Jam 1:22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
Jam 1:23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:

"the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God" - The Sun, Water, and Hydrogen

Mt. Fuji

The Sun, Water, and Hydrogen

The sun and water are the two similar entities.  They are made of hydrogen.

The sun is essentially made of hydrogen.  Hydrogen atoms form the sun, though two hydrogen atoms constitute a hydrogen molecule that is a gas on the earth.  But hydrogen nuclei are fused in the sun due to super-high pressure of their weight, as their number is enormous, generating heat and light and other forms of energy.

Water consists of many water molecules each of which consists of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom.  Two oxygen atoms form one oxygen molecule, and human species and other animals inhale air to take in oxygen gas (oxygen molecules) to live.

But till the modern science was established about two centuries ago and later, no one saw this relationships between our life, water and the sun.  Especially no one realized that the sun and water are a kind of products of hydrogen.

For men to live, they need oxygen to breathe and water to drink, but more than them, they need the sun that provides light and heat.  And the key elements of them are only the two types of atomic elements: hydrogen and oxygen.

Hydrogen in the sun is burning through nuclear fusion.  But hydrogen on the earth constitutes water by forming a chemical compound with oxygen.  The sun and water are essentially two relative substances.  But no one could realize the fact.

It might tell how foolish human beings were.  To see existence of hydrogen in the sun and water, human beings had to develop science.　　It is in 1776 that a scientist discovered hydrogen.  And it is in 1811 that a scientist found that a water molecule consists of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom.  And, it is in 1939 that a scientist found the physical phenomenon of the nuclear fusion reaction.

According to Christ Jesus, what constitutes a man is spirit; what makes a man live is love; and what a man must believe is God, since spirit and love comes from God.

It is about 2000 years ago that Christ Jesus declared this truth.  But most of people do not understand the significance of this truth, like they cannot understand significance of hydrogen in the sun and water.  
    



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Jam 1:19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
Jam 1:20 For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

"with the word of truth" - Right View on Gap between the Poor and the Rich

Snow around Tokyo

Right View on Gap between the Poor and the Rich

If all the people in the world get rich, will the complete peace be realized?

The answer is no.  On the contrary, those rich men will attack one another.  It is because for a man to be rich he cannot be good, humane, kind, benevolent, and humble.  Without sacrificing others, they cannot be rich.  Therefore, the situation that all the people are rich means that there are no good, humane, kind, benevolent, and humble persons.  In such a situation, endless strife will continue to the very end.

The fact that any human society has a gap between the rich and the poor poses a grave concern about what human beings are.

Animals don't mind poor members of their species or groups.  They act and live mostly in a selfish manner.  They seldom show compassion to poor members.  But animals are not given higher spirit like that observed in human beings.

God gave a very high level of spirit and intellectual ability to mankind.  He must have thought that mankind would use the spirit and ability to help one another and build the very peaceful world.  But, betraying the expectation of God, most of human beings use the power of their spirit and intellect to achieve selfish satisfaction of their desire.

To think that human beings are also a kind of animal and thus it is natural for rich men to neglect poor men is not balanced with the high level of spirit and intellect God gave to mankind.  The gap between the rich and the poor is a measure to judge how badly human beings have betrayed God.

In other word, human beings must clearly realize that God is angry at human beings, because God expected human beings to establish the world with mutual prosperity while, in reality, rich men are abusing poor men.  To break the gap between the rich and the poor is not simply a matter of humanity, morals, and ethics, but it is the expectation of God, the Creator of the universe and the mankind.

God expects human beings to do away with the gap between the rich and the poor.  This is the core of the teaching of Christ Jesus.  The gap between the poor and the rich is one of the largest matters of religion.

This is the right view on the longtime issue of the gap between the poor and the rich.



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Jam 1:18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

"from the Father of lights" - Revolution by Christianity

Tokyo

Revolution by Christianity

Judaism is vague in its recognition of the nature of God and Heaven.

However, Christianity clearly states that there are God and Heaven in the spiritual world.   And Christ Jesus made the distinction clear between the spirit and the mind of a living man.  If a man dies, his spirit survives, though it is not known whether it is destined to Heaven or the hell.

In the ancient world, people were living without clear distinction between the spiritual world and the nature or environments surrounding them.  To some people, Heaven and the hell were mere extension of this world as ancient Egyptians thought.  Even Judaists thought that a man should resurrect in a manner as he was in this world.  But Christ Jesus made it clear that only the spirit of a man enters Heaven.

This teaching of Christ Jesus was so revolutionary.  Ancient Romans living with a paradigm of vague gods, the heaven, and the hell must have been shocked to hear the teaching of Christ Jesus: God is spirit and men have also spirits that could enter Heaven after their death.

Christianity was so revolutionary when it emerged in the ancient world.  Even Greek myths turned to fairy stories.  Through Christianity people learnt that the spiritual world and Heaven are different from this world.  And, God put the nature under the spiritual world.  God gives birth of every man in the nature with his or her spirit; therefore God is Father of all.

The core of Christianity is this paradigm shift in the ancient world.  Accordingly, Islam created centuries after Christianity was from the beginning based on this notion that God and Heaven are in the spiritual world above the natural world where human being are living.  There is no vague view on the spiritual world in Islam.  In this context, Islam is based on teaching of Christ Jesus.  Islam was not an extension of any other ancient religion in which gods and spirits belong to this world or the world like this world.

Today everybody thinks that this world is essentially different from the spiritual world.  God, if they believe Him, exists in the sphere above this material world,  This universe follows laws of science.  Essentially spiritual entities have nothing to do with this material world.  This modern notion is originated in Christianity.

As for Buddhism, the boundary between the world of living men and that of the dead is ambiguous, though it has its own image of the spiritual world.  And, Buddhism does not admit that there is only one creator of the material world and the spiritual world.  Buddhists believe existence of the paradise and the hell.  And they know their souls go and live there after their death.  The world after death is not a foreign idea to Buddhists.  But they do not think that their souls were given by God, the Creator of the universe.

The Bible contains various episodes and scenes where Christ Jesus is depicted, in addition various moral teachings.  But if these parts are taken away, the Bible only presents a view on the human world and the spiritual world where God lives.  The reason why Christianity was accepted by Romans must lie in this view.

There is a clear boundary and distinction between this world and the spiritual world, though there are some paths linking them.  This common view of today was first clearly presented by Christ Jesus and ancient people learnt it though His words or the Bible.

This is one of secrets of diffusion and deployment of Christianity in the Roaman Empire and later Europe and world.

So, we should realize that Christianity was revolutionary from the beginning.






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Jam 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.