"for they were fishers" - Devil vs. Jesus instead of Satan vs. God

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Devil vs. Jesus instead of Satan vs. God

The Gospel said Satan attempted to make Christ Jesus betray God in wilderness:

Matthew 4:1-11King James Version (KJV)
Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
3 And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.
4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
5 Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple,
6 And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
7 Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
8 Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;
9 And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.
10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
11 Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.

It is strange that if Christ Jesus was God, how would the devil try to tempt Him?  Even the devil called Christ Jesus the Son of God.  And, Christ Jesus answered: "Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God."  Or were Christ Jesus and the devil so stupid that they could not tell the difference between God and the Son of God?

Indeed, 300 years later after the establishment of the Gospels, the Vatican and a Roman emperor decided that Christ Jesus was God but also the Son of God.  It meant that God was pretending that He is His Son while the devil accepted the self-dramatization of God.  So, the devil was a collaborator with God.  Otherwise, the devil would say: "You are God, Jesus! Don't pretend that you are a son of yourself!"

However, we may support Vatican's creed that Christ Jesus is God.  Satan must have the ability to tell the difference between God and the Son of God.  But, more than Satan's ability, God could conceal His nature before Satan.  We may think that God successfully pretended that He was His Son and Jesus before Satan.  God also successfully hid His nature before followers of Himself as Jesus as depicted in the Gospels.  But did God allow the Vatican and a Roman emperor, in the fourth century, to find and proclaim that Christ Jesus was the Son of God and God Himself at the same time?

If God did not allow them, even in the case that Christ Jesus was God Himself, the act of the Vatican and a Roman emperor of deciding to call Christ Jesus God was a big blasphemy.

If God had wanted to appear as His son before human beings, the Vatican should have respected the intention of God.  If Christ Jesus had been really the Son of God, the Vatican commited a great sin.

So, the truth must be:
Satan saw the success of Christianity.  The Roman Empire adopted Christianity for its state religion.  So, Satan decided to make the Vatican commit a great sin.  Satan put a crazy idea into the brains of Vatican leaders that Christ Jesus was God Himself, so that calling Christ Jesus God would show great respect for God and Christ Jesus.  The Vatican leaders thought that it was better to serve God than a simple son of God.  So, they began proudly to call Christ Jesus God.  Sana's plot succeeded.  The Vatican started to oppress or expel those who could not accept the creed that Christ Jesus was God.  However, God interfered with the human history by giving Islam to people living east of the regions occupied by the Roman Empire.  So, the Koran strongly opposes the idea that Christ Jesus was God.

However today, nobody seriously discusses whether or not Christ Jesus is God.  Christians and Muslims, in addition to Judaists, of today show no interest on whether or not Christ Jesus is God.

Does anybody believe any scientific theory presented 1600 years ago?  It is time to review the Christian theory presented 1600 years ago with support from a Roman emperor.

Do you believe that Christ Jesus is God as Vatican leaders and a Roman emperor determined 1600 years ago?  Or do you think it is pious that we call Christ Jesus God even if He were God while God concealed His identity in Christ Jesus 2000 years ago for some unknown holy reason?



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Mar 1:16 Now as he walked by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers.
Mar 1:17 And Jesus said unto them, Come ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men.

"Jesus came into Galilee" - The Industrial Revolution vs. the Vatican

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The Industrial Revolution vs. the Vatican

One of big questions in the history is why the Industrial Revolution and the modern capitalism occurred only in England of Christian Europe but not in the Islamic world, India, China, etc.

There are many economic, social, and cultural conditions that enabled the Industrial Revolution in England in the middle of the 18th century.  But specifically, the critical one is religious.

Rulers and elites with power governing people with spiritual authority of religion would not allow people to act beyond spiritual and psychological boundaries that were conveniently set for those leaders.  Order of society was important for the rulers.  If people under their power were absorbed in reading holy books they authorized, there was no fear for revolution.  People were tied down in conventional views and thinking as their leaders were.  The strongest frame that restricted people's views and thinking was religion.

England was separated from continental Europe that had been under Vatican's authority.  Although the Vatican tried to stop development of modern science, as seen in the case of Galileo, Christianity was essentially revolutionary.  Christianity was a challenge to the preceding religion Judaism.  It freed people from old spiritual authority.  It encouraged people to change their views so that they could see the Kingdom of God, which was truth.  This spirit and mindset could apply to daily lives of Christians.  It would not suppress people's inclination to discovery and invention.

However, as the Vatican had adopted a dubious and sinful creed that Christ Jesus was God, they had to strongly control churches and believers.  As their fundamental creed was groundless, if put extremely, Vatican leaders had to suppress people's freedom in thinking and reviewing, so that the Vatican could keep their authority and spiritual power.  This atmosphere suffocated people's momentum for discovery and invention, although Europeans ventured into the Age of Great Exploration because of desire for trade with Asia accompanied by the Christian sense of mission to diffuse Christianity in the world. 

As England came to be freed from this spiritual suppression by the Vatican as early as the 16th century, the British were accustomed to freely think, try, and incarnate their ideas in their lives.  So, Shakespeare emerged; Newton emerged, and the Industrial Revolution emerged.  And, Judaists free from the Vatican's creed helped this movement in financing.

So, the Industrial Revolution and the modern capitalism were made possible in England, a domain where the Vatican's control had less influence.           

In this context, other religions in the world did not give people spiritual freedom enough to allow them to venture into an industrial revolution.


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Mar 1:14 Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God,
Mar 1:15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.

"he was troubled, and fear fell upon him" - How to Work Miracles on Sick People

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How to Work Miracles on Sick People

He came to the bank of a lake.  The sky was mostly blue and the sun was high.  The air was warm and some clouds, after a small rain, were floating high. 

He saw the ground.  Some plants were growing well and some came into flower.  But over the lake, he could view a desert and rocky hills without green.  He thought seeds could not bud in such wildness without rain, although without the sun no plants could grow.  If seeds of the same kind fell on the grounds in different conditions, some would sprout but others could not.

Then he saw children playing around him.  He blessed them while they were smiling at him.  He could see their bodies were growing as cells of their body were growing proliferously.  Surrounded by the good nature and living in love from their families, these children were growing in good health.  He could see the light and heat from the sun in the sky and nourishment they got from foods contributing sound growth of their bodies and cells.

Then he saw some grass in the shadow of rocks withered and dried up in brown.  It looked like a sick body of a human being.  Then he understood how people got sick like some plants.  Cells of a plant needed some good condition to grow soundly to sprout and blossom.  Cells of the human body also needed good conditions to grow soundly.  He could also see DNAs in human cells.  According to conditions, they worked in cells and multiplied.  He could also see molecules in DNAs act and work specifically according to conditions.  If molecules, DNAs, and cells could not be in suitable conditions, they did not correctly and soundly function, resulting in human illness.  A kind of super senses he had, about 2000 years ago, could show him all these things that modern science would reveal.

Then, he thought if he could play some critical role to human bodies like the sun and a rain working on plants, he might be able to promote sound growth or function of them.  Plants, their seeds, and their cells only feel the natural environment.  But human bodies and their cells were tightly linked with the nerve system that could feel a human atmosphere.  As children were loved by their parents and family members, their nerves sensed it, the effect of which was transmitted to the cells of their bodies, resulting in their sound growth.  The effect should even come down to DNAs and molecules in the cells, which in turn should encourage sound cell division.  But even if an adult happened to lack good conditions, their cells and DNAs would be affected badly.

So, he came to understand how to cure sick people.  If he loved a sick person with strong love, his or her nerves would feel it and let linked sick cells cure themselves like plants receiving the light and heat from the sun and water from a rain.

In this way, Jesus mastered how to work miracles on sick people and even dying people.  Accordingly, the Gospels report many cases of His healing physically or spiritually damaged and sick people.         

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Luk 1:12 And when Zacharias saw him, he was troubled, and fear fell upon him.
Luk 1:13 But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John.

"while he executed the priest's office before God" - The Wrong Christian Creed

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The Wrong Christian Creed

Christianity is based on the creed that Christ Jesus is God, which He forbade making spoken outwardly.

But since the Vatican adopted this creed, with a Roman emperor, in the fourth century, Christians built complicated theories about divinity of Christ Jesus: why God appeared as a man called Jesus; why God had to die on the cross; why God performed miracles to certain people and did not to others; why God should be betrayed by Judas, etc., all in a manner conforming to the creed.

The Vatican and European Christians have studied these issues while building complicated theology.  As such acts are against the teaching of Christ Jesus, they could not obtain clear answers so that they could explainn them to fishermen, poor farmers, and the likes who cannot read and write in a plain way made by Christ Jesus.

Put simply, the creed is wrong, although as European Christians were required to make great intellectual efforts in building their theology, their work contributed to great advancement of their intellect and establishment of the European civilization after the fall of the Roman Empire.  Even if Christ Jesus is God, the Vatican and Christians should not have established the creed that Christ Jesus is God, since Christ Jesus prohibited His followers to discuss what He was.

All the contents of the Christian mythology should be reviewed and rebuilt based on the new creed that nobody should call Christ Jesus God even if He actually is.

Then, Judaists, Muslims, and even Buddhists might start to read the Christian Gospels.


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Luk 1:8 And it came to pass, that while he executed the priest's office before God in the order of his course,
Luk 1:9 According to the custom of the priest's office, his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord.

"both righteous before God" - Don't Call Me God

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Don't Call Me God

Christ Jesus came to this world to save the poor and preach the word of God.  He did not come to be respected as God.

But if Christ Jesus had been God, it could have been impossible for His followers to be unable to sense the truth that Christ Jesus was God; accordingly on some occasions they called Him God, but Christ Jesus told them not to call Him God.

Or rather on anone occasion, Christ Jesus asked His followers who they thought Him to be.  The competed in showing respect, saying, "You are a messiah!" and "You are the Son of God!"  But Christ Jesus also told them not to tell who He was.

Later Christianity adopted a creed that Christ Jesus was God and other doctrines based on the creed.  However, God did not destroy the Vatican.  Yet, He allowed the establishment of another religion Islam that denied the Christian creed that Christ Jesus was God.

Today, however, there is no dispute as to whether or not Christ Jesus was God between Christians and Muslims as well as between Christians and Judaists.  Rather, Muslims who suffered wars and other tragedies have left their countries and immigrated into Christian Europe.  If religion was more important then their safety and lives, those Muslims would not have asked shelters in Christian Europe.

In addition, there have been many Jewish people having been engaged in various sectors of Christian societies.  They have obtained high reputation due to their success, especially, in the financial sector, the academic sector, the entertainment sector, etc.  How could those Jewish people feel content in their success in societies whose mainstream religion they could not accept?       

Put extremely, nobody believes in religion.  They don't mind what and who their God is.  They believe that God does not save them but money does.  And the major source of money is outwardly-Christian Europe and America.  Whatever religions they might belong to, they would rather immigrate into Europe and America or continue to build their lives there as long as safety and wealth are promised there.  And, those successful Jewish people and Muslims would still perform their religions in Europe and America most of whose people believe, on a superficial level, that Christ Jesus is God, which their religions originally and officially cannot accept.

Put frankly, nobody believe in his religion.  They don't believe God saves them but believe money does.  Even Christians in Europe and America don't mind their God.  For them, it is also money but not God that saves them.  So, Christians in Europe and America don't mind that Judaists and Muslims don't believe that Christ Jesus is God as long as they believe that money saves them but not God.  They - Christians, Judaists, and Muslims - believe in the same religion where money is positioned above God.  They understand one another as believers of money.  They belong to the same religion overriding Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

So, if God gave a new religion to the mankind, the result would be the same.  The mankind might accept the new religion facially, but they respect money more.  That is why God has not given another religion to the mankind since He gave Islam.

So, Christ Jesus said not to call Him God.  If people had done so, though actually they did, their sins would have been much worse as we observe the situation today.     



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Luk 1:6 And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.

"which from the beginning were eyewitnesses" - In the Case of Christ Jesus' Mission

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 In the Case of Christ Jesus' Mission

It is said that Who, What, Why, When, and Where are five questions kids learn in grade school or when they first learn a language, in addition to the sixth How.  In the case of Christ Jesus' mission:

Who: the Son of God as claimed by Christ Jesus Himself
What: Preaching the word of God
Why: To save the poor people, the tribe of Hebrews, and the mankind
When: Years after the era of Caesar and Cleopatra and before the Jewish-Roman War
Where: Around the Galilee Lake, the River Jordan, and Jerusalem
How: Traveling, preaching, healing and performing other miracles and resurrecting Himself after the Crucifixion

However, it was mostly Roman citizens in the Roman Empire who came to accept Christ Jesus but not Judaists who fled Palestine and Jerusalem after the Jewish-Roman War.  And more importantly, leaders of those so-called Christians in the Empire, with the Emperor, established a creed that forced believers of Christianity to accept Christ Jesus as God though He was also a man.  But, soon after the establishment of this creed by the early Vatican, the Empire fell in a mysterious manner.  And further interestingly, soon after the fall of the Roman Empire, Islam was given to Arabs, which denied the creed of the Vatican that Christ Jesus was God while anti-Christianity Judaism continued to survive among Jewish people.

None could change this history.  What happened in the past has its reason.  But the meaning of the history should be reviewed and modified, if necessary, by later generations.

The core of this situation is of course Christ Jesus Himself.  And, the creed that He was God was adopted by only handful of Christian leaders around the 4th century, and it was never changed since then while knowledge of the religion expanded to more people as time went by.  What was decided by men should be reviewed by new generations and should be corrected and changed accordingly.

It is time for people to review the creed that Christ Jesus is God.  Especially, Who, What, Why, When, Where, and How in the case of Christ Jesus' mission suggest that it was not a direct act of God.


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Luk 1:2 Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word;
Luk 1:3 It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus,
Luk 1:4 That thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed.

"Jesus Christ, the Son of God" - Miracle-enabled Jesus vs Miracle-disabled Priests

Mt. Tsukuba, a Shrine City, and Mt. Fuji in Straight Line Viewed from Tokyo Skytree Tower on January 1  

Miracle-enabled Jesus vs Miracle-disabled Priests

The list of miracles by Christ Jesus is as follows:

1. Born to a virgin - Miracles of Jesus
2. Changing water into wine - Miracles of Jesus
3. Healing of the royal official's son - Miracles of Jesus
4. Healing of the Capernaum demoniac - Miracles of Jesus
5. Healing of Peter's mother-in-law - Miracles of Jesus
6. Healing the sick during the evening - Miracles of Jesus
7. Catching a large number of fish - Miracles of Jesus
8. Healing a leper - Miracles of Jesus
9. Miracle of healing a centurion's servant - Miracles of Jesus
10. Healing a paralyzed man - Miracles of Jesus
11. Healing a withered hand - Miracles of Jesus
12. Raising a widow's son - Miracles of Jesus
13. Calming the storm - Miracles of Jesus
14. Healing the Gerasene man possessed by demons - Miracles of Jesus
15. Healing a woman with internal bleeding - Miracles of Jesus
16. Raising Jairus' daughter - Miracles of Jesus
17. Healing two blind men - Miracles of Jesus
18. Healing a mute demon-possessed man - Miracles of Jesus
19. Healing a 38 year invalid - Miracles of Jesus
20. Feeding 5000 men and their families - Miracles of Jesus
21. Walking on water - Miracles of Jesus
22. Miraculous healing of many people in Gennesaret
23. Healing a girl possessed by a demon - Miracles of Jesus
24. Healing a deaf man with a speech impediment - Miracles of Jesus
25. Feeding the 4,000 men and their families - Miracles of Jesus
26. Healing a blind man - Miracles of Jesus
27. Healing a man born blind - Miracles of Jesus
28. Healing a demon-possessed boy - Miracles of Jesus
29. Catching a fish with a coin in its mouth - Miracles of Jesus
30. Healing a blind and mute man who was demon-possessed - Miracles of Jesus
31. Healing a woman with an 18-year infirmity - Miracles of Jesus
32. Healing a man with dropsy - Miracles of Jesus
33. Healing 10 lepers - Miracles of Jesus
34. Raising of Lazarus - Miracles of Jesus
35. Healing Bartimaeus of blindness - Miracles of Jesus
36. Jesus curses the fig tree with no fruit - Miracles of Jesus
37. Restoring a severed ear - Miracles of Jesus
38. The resurrection of Jesus - Miracles of Jesus
39. Catching 153 fish - Miracles of Jesus
40. The ascension of Jesus - Miracles of Jesus 

http://www.aboutbibleprophecy.com/miracles.htm

Christ Jesus said that God was inside Him, so that it is no wonder that He could perform those miracles since God is almighty.  But, Christ Jesus was also a man, so that His miracles should be restricted by His being a man but not God Himself.

It is apparent that those healing acts were based on His love to sick people.  When He pitied a sick person, he executed His healing power.  Those episodes show how much and how many times Christ Jesus pitied and loved sick people.

Christ Jesus did not give money to poor and sick people.  Instead, He loved them and healed them.  Money could buy medicines and cares by medical doctors.  But, money also belonged to Satan.  If money and medication bought by money had cured sick people, their lives should have been under Satan's influence.  Christ Jesus had no intention to make and help healthy servants of Satan.

Without these miracles, Christ Jesus should have been just a preacher, a teacher, or a prophet.  But as He performed those miracles and curing of sick people, Christ Jesus was more than such a man, which impressed His followers.  So, His followers followed Christ Jesus for a few years till His Crucifixion.

The band of Christ Jesus was welcomed and respected by people.  If somebody preached the word of God to people, such a preacher would be soon forgotten because priests in the Temple of Jerusalem could also teach the word of God.  But if that somebody performed healing with love to the sick, people should be impressed in a very different way.

Christ Jesus must have performed miracles in addition to preaching the word of God, which Jewish priests in the Jerusalem Temple could not do.  People would naturally follow Christ Jesus than those priests.  In this context, the miracles of Christ Jesus were targeted at the Temple priests.  Because those priests could not cure sick people and perform other miracles, it showed that they were not supported by God.

Accordingly, those priests decided to kill Christ Jesus and wipe away His influence.  Though they partly succeeded in fulfilling their evil plot, they were ultimately wiped away through the Jewish-Roman War.  Today, there are no heritage and legacies of the priests of the Temple in Jerusalem in the first century.  Indeed, those Jewish priests could not perform miracles but Christ Jesus could. 


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Mar 1:1 The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God;
Mar 1:2 As it is written in the prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.
Mar 1:3 The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.

"thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart" - Sinful Arrogance in Nicaea in AD 325

Buddhist Temple around Tokyo on the Day before the Year End

Sinful Arrogance in Nicaea in AD 325

Christianity started to fail in AD 325 when  a council of Christian bishops convened in  Nicaea (now İznik, Turkey) by the Roman Emperor Constantine I.

Almost 300 years later since the Crucifixion of Christ Jesus, Christian leaders decided that those who don't admit that Christ Jesus was God must be excluded from the church, which Christ Jesus never ordered.  It is unforgivable arrogance that Christian leaders tried to define what Christ Jesus was based on the authority of the Roman Emperor.

In Rome, for example, the Apostles' Creed was popular, especially for use in Lent and the Easter season. In the Council of Nicaea, one specific creed was used to define the Church's faith clearly, to include those who professed it, and to exclude those who did not. 

Some distinctive elements in the Nicene Creed, perhaps from the hand of Hosius of Cordova, were added, some specifically to counter the Arian point of view.[12][50] 

1. Jesus Christ is described as "Light from Light, true God from true God," proclaiming his divinity. 

2. Jesus Christ is said to be "begotten, not made," asserting that he was not a mere creature, brought into being out of nothing, but the true Son of God, brought into being "from the substance of the Father." 

3. He is said to be "of one being with the Father," proclaiming that although Jesus Christ is "true God" and God the Father is also "true God," they are "of one being," in accord to what is found in John 10:30: "I and the Father are one." The Greek term homoousios, or consubstantial (i.e., "of the same substance) is ascribed by Eusebius to Constantine who, on this particular point, may have chosen to exercise his authority. The significance of this clause, however, is extremely ambiguous as to the extent in which Jesus Christ and God the Father are "of one being," and the issues it raised would be seriously controverted in the future.
 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Council_of_Nicaea) 

It is apparent that God was displeased with this movement of the Vatican and other churches.  So, God preserved Judaists who did not accept the idea that Christ Jesus was God and later allowed Islam to prevail.

However, God did not destroy the Vatican and other Christian churches that upheld the creed that Christ Jesus was God.  God must have judged that it was better to allow existence and development of Christianity despite its wrong creed about divinity of Christ Jesus than to destroy it.

From the beginning, Christ Jesus started His mission by preaching to fishermen, farmers, and poor people in the society but not to the elites of the society.  He did not teach theology to the Roman Emperor.  He did not want His followers to discuss what He was in the relationship with God.  Christ Jesus did not come to present a complicated theory about the relationship between Him and the God to illiterate people.  Therefore, the First Council of Nicaea and the following Councils must be neglected.

We should allow people to think that Christ Jesus is God, Christ Jesus cannot be God, or Christ Jesus is at the same time God and a man, or Christ Jesus is something else, as long as people accept His teaching and live their lives following His teaching.

Then, even Judaists and Muslims might start to live in accordance with the teaching of Christ Jesus.  They will lose reasons for regrading Christians as their enemies or enemies of their religions and God.  It is never too late to correct a mistake.  The Vatican, especially, should declare that their creed should be invalidated.

Anyway there is not more sinful arrogance than to try to define what Christ Jesus is by simple men, if a Roman Emperor is included.

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Mar 12:30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.
Mar 12:31 And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

"Father, save me from this hour" - Question on the Gospel according to John

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Question on the Gospel according to John

There is one question about the Gospel according to John:

In the New Testament exorcisms are primarily found in the Synoptic Gospels and Acts. No exorcisms are referred to in the Gospel of John.
(https://www.gracenotes.info/documents/topics_doc/exorcism.pdf)

John is featured by its assertion that Christ Jesus is God:

Jesus is identified with the Word ("Logos"), and the Word is identified with theos ("god" in Greek); no such identification is made in the synoptics. In Mark, Jesus urges his disciples to keep his divinity secret, but in John he is very open in discussing it, even referring to himself as "I AM", the title God gives himself in Exodus at his self-revelation to Moses.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_John) 

The adversary relationship between God and Satan is one of key factors of the religion Christianity.  So, it is natural that Satan is defeated by Christ Jesus as depicted in Mark, Luke, and Mathew.  But, John does not mention the direct confrontation between Christ Jesus and Satan in the form of  Jesus' performance of exorcisms.  On the other hand, John clearly implies or claims that Christ Jesus is God, though implying sometimes that people may call Him the Son of God.

The Gospel of John was written after the establishment of Mark, Luke and Mathew.  The success of Christianity was promised by diffusion and wider acceptance of the Synoptic Gospels of Mark, Luke and Mathew.  Bur, John was added, as if to further promote assure success of Christianity.

If there had been Satan, how could he let this situation pass?  Satan must have interfered.  He could not change contents of Mark, Luke, and Mathew any more.  But, there, John was writing the other Gospel with the passion based on his belief that Christ Jesus was God.  And, John actually asserted that Christ Jesus was God while He forbade to say or write who He was.

Although John was not Satan or influenced by Satan, Satan could have influence on John.  Satan wanted John to assert Christ Jesus was God, which John actually did.  Accordingly, later the Vatican claimed that only those who admitted that Christ Jesus was God were Christians.  This creed caused many tragedies.  It finally separated Christianity from Judaism.  And centuries later, God had to give Islam to Arabs, a religion where it was asserted that Christ Jesus could not be God.  The three religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, were definitely separated, which caused many tragedies.

So, if Satan exerted an influence on John, it is understandable that Jesus' exorcisms was omitted from the Gospel of John, because Satan could not bare with those descriptions.

Anyway, even if John had not been written, Christianity must have been successfully accepted by people with the Gospels according to Mark, Luke, and Mathew.  But, the desire of John to write his own Gospel based on his belief that Christ Jesus was God despite a warning of Christ Jesus gave a chance to Satan to interfere with Christianity.

Even today, the gaps between Christianity and other religions, such as Judaism and Islam, where Christ Jesus is not admitted as God are despairingly wide and fixed as they are, which has caused many tragedies.     
     

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Joh 12:27 Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.
Joh 12:28 Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.

"the Son of man should be glorified" - Christmas Story

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Christmas Story

On the River Jordan 2000 Years Ago

One day, 2000 years ago, a man appeared from nowhere to the bank of the River Jordan.

In the river, there was a prophet baptizing people with water.  Scores of people were in the river and on the river side waiting to be baptized.  The sky was clear, and trees and weeds are in the early summer.

The man walked down to the river, but he realized there were a few Roman officers on horses watching the prophet and the people.  There were also some Jewish officials from King's palace and Temple priests standing near the Roman officers.

While the man was approaching to the prophet, he saw a terrible vision.  The prophet was arrested and put in a jail, and a dancing girl shouted, "Kill him!"   And then, he could further see a more terrible vision where he himself was hung on the cross to be killed by Roman soldiers.   But he continued to walk down to the prophet.

The prophet looked up to see the man coming into the river toward him.  They exchanged words, and the prophet baptized him.  Then, a strong voice came down from the Heaven like a thunder in summer, telling: "It is My Son," although some people looked like not hearing it.

And then, Jesus started his mission, though, he continued his journey back to his old house he had left more than a decade before to see his mother and brothers who, however, would not believe that he was authorized by God.

The Righteous Servant at the Wedding at Cana

The man finally reached his old house.

Then, his mother took him to a wedding ceremony for which he had returned from Qumran through the River Jordan.  However, when he met a prophet there, he changed, but he continued to travel to his old home where he came back the first time in a decade or more.

Nobody, later, would tell whose wedding it was and what relationship his family had with the newly married couple.  However, it was clear that his mother played an important role in the ceremonial.  Jesus was needed because his father had been off to a very remote place.  It was a wedding ceremony at least where the mother and the father of Jesus had been expected to attend.

They served meals and wine.  But one servant took a little amount of wine, each time he poured it from a jar to a cup, out of the cup to another jar and poured an equal amount of water to the half-filled cup from other jar in a corner of the kitchen of the host house.

As the party was going on, somebody who was loudly speaking Greek requested more wine, but the servant told the host of the party that there was no more wine.  The host was embarrassed; so were the newly married couple.  The guest who requested another cup of wine looked important for the host family.

Then, Jesus said to the servant, "Bring another jar filled with water!"  His mother looked puzzled, but soon she realized that her son had looked mysteriously changed since he had returned home.  And he helped her find something missing in her house, although he had been away from home for a long time.  She said, as if she had been the wife of the host, to the servant to obey her son.

So, the servant went into the corner of the kitchen, where he had prepared cups of wine while doing his secret business, stealing wine, to fetch the jar with water.  He came back with the water jar to the hall and dipped water from the jar to the cup of the requesting guest.  The guest drank the water and said, "How sweet this wine is.  Usually a host offered poor-quality wine when guests got drunken.  But this house prepares the best quality wine for the end of the party!"

And then everybody took more cups of wine from the jar.

But there was another servant who was watching the party from the beginning.  He of course noticed that the bad servant was making a dirty trick.  When he heard the voice of Jesus, he exchanged the two jars in their positions in the corner, so that the bad servant took the jar with stolen wine to the hall as he thought it was the jar with water.

But Jesus saw the face of the bad servant who was wondering why it was wine but not water.  The bad servant looked at the face of the righteous servant in a vindictive mood.  So, Jesus said to the important guest, "This is my first miracle in this village."  The guest looked astonished and tried to say something.  But Jesus stood up and started leaving the party with his mother who exchanged goodbyes, in a hurry, with  the bridegroom and then bride.

This was the only social event Jesus joined since he had returned from Qumran to his old home through the River Jordan.

On the Galilee Lake

On the Galilee Lake 2000 years ago, two poor fishermen were mending nets.

"If we could catch fish enough to fill our boat, we could be rich men," said a younger brother.
"If we could catch fish enough to fill our boat, we would sell them even to Roman soldiers," said an elder one.

They continued their work outside the boat on the ground.

"Only if we could catch fish enough to fill the boat every night, I could build my house," said the younger brother.
"If we could catch fish enough to fill our boat over and over again, we would sell them even to Greeks at nice prices," said the elder one.

They continued their work under the softly blue sky with spring birds flying.

"Indeed, if we could catch fish enough to fill the boat and get big money, I could marry a beautiful girl," said the younger brother.
"If we could always catch fish enough to fill our boat and become famous, we would sell fish even to Jerusalem priests at very nice prices," said the elder one.

They continued their work in the warm air, being surrounded by spring flowers along the shore.  In good time, a strange strong wind started to blow over the Lake.  Then suddenly they saw a Moses-like man walking swiftly through the Lake toward them with water being parted so as to make a path for the man to travel.  He got on the shore while the wind stopped and the Lake returned to the ordinary state.  Then, he stood by the two brothers.

"Master, we could not catch fish at all though we had tried hard all night," said the elder brother at strain as he could not know what to say to a Moses.  "Then, take your boat to the middle of the Lake and throw your net!" said the Moses-like man.

The two brothers silently and obediently, as if blamed by a prophet, rowed their boat to the middle of the Lake in the wake of the path where the Moses-like man had come, and threw their net to soon find many fish caught.  They took the fish into the boat over and over again, so that the boat got full of fish.  They hurriedly returned to the shore with shock and awe, and got on land, leaving fish in the boat.   And, they knelt down before the man like two criminals under the death sentence.

Then Jesus said to them, "Follow me and you will catch many souls."  They started to follow him, leaving the boat with full of fish that should have generated a great fortune for them, although the younger brother looked back at the boat for a moment.


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Joh 12:23 And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified.

"the blind and dumb both spake and saw" - On the Galilee Lake

Tokyo at winter dusk

On the Galilee Lake

On the Galilee Lake 2000 years ago, two poor fishermen were mending nets.

"If we could catch fish enough to fill our boat, we could be rich men," said a younger brother.
"If we could catch fish enough to fill our boat, we would sell them even to Roman soldiers," said an elder one.

They continued their work outside the boat on the ground.

"Only if we could catch fish enough to fill the boat every night, I could build my house," said the younger brother.
"If we could catch fish enough to fill our boat over and over again, we would sell them even to Greeks at nice prices," said the elder one.

They continued their work under the softly blue sky with spring birds flying.

"Indeed, if we could catch fish enough to fill the boat and get big money, I could marry a beautiful girl," said the younger brother.
"If we could always catch fish enough to fill our boat and become famous, we would sell fish even to Jerusalem priests at very nice prices," said the elder one.

They continued their work in the warm air, being surrounded by spring flowers along the shore.  In good time, a strange strong wind started to blow over the Lake.  Then suddenly they saw a Moses-like man walking swiftly through the Lake toward them with water being parted so as to make a path for the man to travel.  He got on the shore while the wind stopped and the Lake returned to the ordinary state.  Then, he stood by the two brothers.

"Master, we could not catch fish at all though we had tried hard all night," said the elder brother at strain as he could not know what to say to a Moses.  "Then, take your boat to the middle of the Lake and throw your net!" said the Moses-like man.

The two brothers silently and obediently, as if blamed by a prophet, rowed their boat to the middle of the Lake in the wake of the path where the Moses-like man had come, and threw their net to soon find many fish caught.  They took the fish into the boat over and over again, so that the boat got full of fish.  They hurriedly returned to the shore with shock and awe, and got on land, leaving fish in the boat.   And, they knelt down before the man like two criminals under the death sentence.

Then Jesus said to them, "Follow me and you will catch many souls."  They started to follow him, leaving the boat with full of fish that should have generated a great fortune for them, although the younger brother looked back at the boat for a moment.



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Mat 12:21 And in his name shall the Gentiles trust.
Mat 12:22 Then was brought unto him one possessed with a devil, blind, and dumb: and he healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb both spake and saw.
Mat 12:23 And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David?

"neither shall any man hear his voice in the streets" - Malachy's False Prophecy

Asakusa, Tokyo

Malachy's False Prophecy

 Malachy's prophecy on popes is believed to be forgery:

The Prophecy of the Popes (Latin: Prophetia Sancti Malachiae Archiepiscopi, de Summis Pontificibus) is a series of 112 short, cryptic phrases in Latin which purport to predict the Roman Catholic popes (along with a few antipopes), beginning with Pope Celestine II. The alleged prophecies were first published by Benedictine monk Arnold Wion in 1595. Wion attributes the prophecies to Saint Malachy, a 12th-century Archbishop of Armagh, Ireland. 

Given the very accurate description of popes up to around 1590 and lack of accuracy for the popes that follow, historians generally conclude that the alleged prophecies are a fabrication written shortly before they were published. Certain theologians in the Roman Catholic Church have dismissed them as forgery.[1][2] The Catholic Church has no official stance on the prophecies, however. 

The prophecies conclude with a pope identified as "Peter the Roman", whose pontificate will allegedly precede the destruction of the city of Rome.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophecy_of_the_Popes

But its list of popes ends at one who is regraded as the incumbent pope.  Especially descriptions about the popes immediately prior to the incumbent one are somewhat truthful.  Even if it is forgery in the late 16th century, some spirit might have used the person who faked it as a kind of a prophet.

Anyway the Vatican should be now facing a challenge that has never been seen.  

Even in the U.S., Christianity is facing a challenge:

Surveys have for many years shown that the United States has a Christian majority (see GSS data below). A 2010 Report on the global Christian population gave the total number of US Christians as 246,780,000, representing 79.5% of the total US population and 11.3% of all Christians worldwide. (Source: Pew Forum). 

A 2012 Pew Forum survey indicated that from 2007 to 2012:
The number of US adults who identify as 'Atheist' increased by 50% to 2.4% of the total US population. 

The number of persons who identify as 'Protestant' decreased by 5% to 48% and 'Catholic' by 1% to 22%. 

A later survey published in 2015 indicated that from 2007 to 2014:
The number of US adults who identify as 'Atheist' increased to 3.1%, a near doubling in 7 years. 

The number of persons who identify as 'Protestant' decreased by 4.8% to 46.5% and 'Catholic' by 3.1% to 20.8%.

...

Results from the 2012 GSS survey indicate:
3.1% of Americans say that they do not believe in God, in relative terms, this represents an increase of over 100% since 1988.
59.1% of Americans believe in God, with no doubts, a fall of 4.8% over the period 1991-2012.

https://faithsurvey.co.uk/united-states-surveys.html 

In this trend, in 100 years or so, Christians might become a minority in the US and the world.  However, the civilization of today has relied on Christianity.  But science and technology the civilization has produced has boosted economy and commercialism that have made people leave the religion, ironically.

Indeed, Malachy's false prophecy might be right in that people are coming to loose interest in the Pope.  If even so but God exists, He might surely interfere with the human world. 　



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Mat 12:19 He shall not strive, nor cry; neither shall any man hear his voice in the streets.
Mat 12:20 A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench, till he send forth judgment unto victory.

"should not make him known" - The Righteous Servant at the Wedding at Cana

The Tokyo Station

The Righteous Servant at the Wedding at Cana

The man finally reached his old house.

Then, his mother took him to a wedding ceremony for which he had returned from Qumran through the River Jordan.  However, when he met a prophet there, he changed, but he continued to travel to his old home where he came back the first time in a decade or more.

Nobody, later, would tell whose wedding it was and what relationship his family had with the newly married couple.  However, it was clear that his mother played an important role in the ceremonial.  Jesus was needed because his father had been off to a very remote place.  It was a wedding ceremony at least where the mother and the father of Jesus had been expected to attend.

They served meals and wine.  But one servant took a little amount of wine, each time he poured it from a jar to a cup, out of the cup to another jar and poured an equal amount of water to the half-filled cup from other jar in a corner of the kitchen of the host house.

As the party was going on, somebody who was loudly speaking Greek requested more wine, but the servant told the host of the party that there was no more wine.  The host was embarrassed; so were the newly married couple.  The guest who requested another cup of wine looked important for the host family.

Then, Jesus said to the servant, "Bring another jar filled with water!"  His mother looked puzzled, but soon she realized that her son had looked mysteriously changed since he had returned home.  And he helped her find something missing in her house, although he had been away from home for a long time.  She said, as if she had been the wife of the host, to the servant to obey her son.

So, the servant went into the corner of the kitchen, where he had prepared cups of wine while doing his secret business, stealing wine, to fetch the jar with water.  He came back with the water jar to the hall and dipped water from the jar to the cup of the requesting guest.  The guest drank the water and said, "How sweet this wine is.  Usually a host offered poor-quality wine when guests got drunken.  But this house prepares the best quality wine for the end of the party!"

And then everybody took more cups of wine from the jar.

But there was another servant who was watching the party from the beginning.  He of course noticed that the bad servant was making a dirty trick.  When he heard the voice of Jesus, he exchanged the two jars in their positions in the corner, so that the bad servant took the jar with stolen wine to the hall as he thought it was the jar with water.

But Jesus saw the face of the bad servant who was wondering why it was wine but not water.  The bad servant looked at the face of the righteous servant in a vindictive mood.  So, Jesus said to the important guest, "This is my first miracle in this village."  The guest looked astonished and tried to say something.  But Jesus stood up and started leaving the party with his mother who exchanged goodbyes, in a hurry, with  the bridegroom and then bride.

This was the only social event Jesus joined since he had returned from Qumran to his old home through the River Jordan.

   

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Mat 12:16 And charged them that they should not make him known:
Mat 12:17 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying,
Mat 12:18 Behold my servant, whom I have chosen; my beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall shew judgment to the Gentiles.

"Stretch forth thine hand" - On the River Jordan 2000 Years Ago

Mt. Fuji, 100 Km Far from around Tokyo

On the River Jordan 2000 Years Ago

One day, 2000 years ago, a man appeared from nowhere to the bank of the River Jordan.

In the river, there was a prophet baptizing people with water.  Scores of people were in the river and on the river side waiting to be baptized.  The sky was clear, and trees and weeds are in the early summer.

The man walked down to the river, but he realized there were a few Roman officers on horses watching the prophet and the people.  There were also some Jewish officials from King's palace and Temple priests standing near the Roman officers.

While the man was approaching to the prophet, he saw a terrible vision.  The prophet was arrested and put in a jail, and a dancing girl shouted, "Kill him!"   And then, he could further see a more terrible vision where he himself was hung on the cross to be killed by Roman soldiers.   But he continued to walk down to the prophet.

The prophet looked up to see the man coming into the river toward him.  They exchanged words, and the prophet baptized him.  Then, a strong voice came down from the Heaven like a thunder in summer, telling: "It is My Son," although some people looked like not hearing it.

And then, Jesus started his mission, though, he continued his journey back to his old house he had left more than a decade before to see his mother and brothers who, however, would not believe that he was authorized by God.


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Mat 12:13 Then saith he to the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it forth; and it was restored whole, like as the other.

"Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days?" - Big Mistake by the Christian Church

A December Holiday of a Shrine around Tokyo

Big Mistake by the Christian Church

It is said that it was not early Christians but Judaists that separated Christianity from Judaism.

Christ Jesus, though He was nobody but a Judaist, however did not strictly or literally follow the law of Judaism.  He did not preach in a way where He said that it was right because it was written in the law or it was wrong because it was not written in the law.  Instead, he used allegory to mean what people should do and should not do.

But 30 years after His death or till the Jewish-Roman war, early Christianity was apparently a part of Judaism at the time.  Those who preached early Christianity also thought they were a kind of Judaists.  Accordingly, they did not write and establish a Christian bible.  The Jewish bible was also their bible.  Especially, even the Christian Gospels do not present Christ Jesus telling his followers or the audience of his preaching to leave Judaism and establish a new religion.

After the Jewish-Roman war, Jewish people lost the Temple of Jerusalem, the foundation of their religion, so that they came to rely on the Jewish Bible.  Later, they started to write and compile the Talmuds in Jerusalem and Babylonia.  Judaism became the religion more strictly based on the Jewish holy books.   So, they could not recognize early Christians as members of their religion.       

So, early Christians rejected by Judaists came to have their own holy books.  The Gospels were adopted as their bible.  And, especially, they adopted the Gospel according to John, which focused on divinity of Christ Jesus.

So, we had better assume that the Gospels according to Mark, Luke, and Mathew were written before the decisive separation of Christianity from Judaism, bu the Gospel according to John was written in the process of the separation.

Having been free from Judaism, Christians found that they could regard Christ Jesus as God.  And they actually did so.  But it made the gap between the two religions despairingly wide.  No Judaists could accept or allow the belief that Christ Jesus was God.  Only for this reason, Judaists stuck to their religion even when Christianity became a mainstream in Europe and the world.

The point at issue is that the Vatican knew that the synoptic Gospels had been written in the era when Christianity had not been completely separated from Judaism and most of followers of Christianity at the time had not explicitly claimed that Christ Jesus had been God, but they adopted the synoptic Gospels.　

So, the Christian Church of even today includes contradiction and inconsistency about the identity of Christ Jesus.  But still the Christian Church claims that those who cannot admit that Christ Jesus is God are not Christians and thus potentially enemies of them.
     
It is time to review this Christian faith.  Even Islam cannot admit that Christ Jesus was God.  And, most of seven billion people in this world today cannot believe or prove that Christ Jesus is God.

And, if the Christian Church declares that they made a big mistake by calling Christ Jesus God, the dignity, honor, and authority of God cannot be abated.


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Mat 12:10 And, behold, there was a man which had his hand withered. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days? that they might accuse him.
Mat 12:11 And he said unto them, What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out?

"he went into their synagogue" - Jesus' Mission for the Coming 2000 Years

Shibuya, Tokyo

Jesus' Mission for the Coming 2000 Years

What plan did Christ Jesus have when He started the mission in Palestine 2000 years ago?

Did He believe that He could save people, Israel, and the world?  Or did He start His mission to save people, Israel, and the world?  Or did He intend to launch a new religion called Christianity for this purpose?  Or what his followers feel about His intention at the time?

If Christ Jesus had been God, He must have been able to foresee the progress of the world in future when He came to this world 2000 years ago.  He must have been able to foresee His death on the cross, His resurrection, the subsequent Jewish-Roman war, the establishment of the Vatican, the fall of the Roman Empire, the spread of Christianity in Europe, the emergence of Islam, the discovery of America, the rise of Martin Luther, the French Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, the success of America, the corruption of Europe, and the turmoil in Islamic regions, etc.  But did He indicate these future images to His followers and the Apostles?

In this context, the Gospels teach no specific behaviors of Christ Jesus facing the future of the mankind in order to guide or save the mankind in preparation for the future.

However, He did not deny that the end of the world is coming soon.  Most of scholars today could not give any answers to this question that the end of the world did not come so soon as Christ Jesus predicted.  So, they have concocted foolish and complicated theory about the end of the world.  The Vatican has not even presented a convincing answer while it claimed that they had succeeded Christ Jesus.

It is apparent that Christ Jesus foresaw the coming war between Judaists and the Roman Empire.  He said indeed that He was sent for Israel.  His mission was to save Israelites from Roman troops.  The war could not be avoided.  Isrealites or Judaists would lose Jerusalem.  They would be absorbed by may other various people in the Empire.  Judaism would be forgotten.  The tradition since Abraham and Moses would be lost.  He must have foreseen it.

So, Christ Jesus must have thought what He should do to have Judaism survive and sustain and develop faith in God.

Accordingly, Christ Jesus started his mission by visiting poor, sick, and deprived people of Israel to heel them and teach them the teaching of God.  And He finally went up to Jerusalem to see Temple's priests and the Roman Governor, however, not to be judged by them but to give them the last chance of not being condemned by God as the killers of the Son of God.   However, they failed and thus executed Christ Jesus.  There was no excuse for them, since they had been given a chance to change their minds as Christ Jesus had faced them.

Accordingly, the Jewish-Roman war erupted to destroy the Temple of Jerusalem, and centuries later, the West Roman Empire fell while the Vatican survived.   

Now that, Judaists have returned to Jerusalem 1900 years after the Jewsih-Roman war,  and today it is 2000 years after the emergence of Christ Jesus.  So, the world must be entering a new era after 2000 years since the mission of Christ Jesus.  What made Christ Jesus venture into His mission must become obsolete.  God must be ready for another intervention to the human history.

But do people today keep the ability to listen to God?       




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Mat 12:8 For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.
Mat 12:9 And when he was departed thence, he went into their synagogue:

"ye would not have condemned the guiltless" - Jerusalem, the Center of the World

Mt. Fuji from around Tokyo, 100 Km Far

Jerusalem, the Center of the World

The center of the world is Palestine as it is situated at the connection point among Africa, Europe and Asia.

God chose Palestine and Jerusalem when He called out Abraham from Mesopotamia.  And, for this reason, He also called out Moses from Egypt.  Finally, He sent His Son to Jerusalem 2000 years ago.  It was an unbelievably excellent choice.

And while India and China were counted in, the Asian side of Jerusalem became wider.  But God allowed Columbus to find America.  So, Jerusalem could keep its position as the center of the world.  It is situated at the connecting point between Africa, Europe, and the Middle East.  It is also between America and India/China.  It is truly the center of the world.

In addition, it is also in the middle between Rome and Mecca.  It is between the center of Christianity and that of Islam.  Indeed, it is the center of the world.


America, Rome, Europe => Jerusalem <=  Middle East, Mecca, India/China
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                                              Africa

This is a miracle and apparently a proof that God interfered with the history of the mankind.  For this reason, we have to believe in God.

However, Christ Jesus said that people would come to pray to God in other places than Jerusalem.  It means any place where faith is found can be another Jerusalem.  Christ Jesus also said that God would produce descendants of Abraham even from stones.

We, the mankind, have to be humble before God.  None could claim that Jerusalem is his own, except God.



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Mat 12:7 But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.