"as he sowed, some fell by the way side" - God's World, the Spiritual World, and the Human World

 

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God's World,  the Spiritual World, and the Human World

The most important issue for the mankind is whether the God can control everything in the human world as He wishes.  For example, if He can do, the God can at any time put the end to the corona-pandemic.  Or the God might have caused this pandemic for some reason.  Then all the mankind should do is to pray and ask the God to terminate this pandemic.

Based on the ideology of non-nonsense religions, such as Christianity, the God can do, since those religions are based on the belief that the God is almighty and is the Creator of the physical world and the spiritual world.  At least, in the Bible, it is written that the God can do anything the mankind cannot do.

In my view, the God had existed before anything that can exist started to exist due to the power of the God.  Or, from a human point of view, we might say that everything that can exist actually exists as the God wishes so.  Conversely, if the God had not wanted to exist, nothing should have started to exist.  The God is above existence.  He does not need to exist, but for certain reasons, He decided to exist.  And, subsequently, Angels started to exit, Heaven started to exist, the spiritual world started to exist, the physical world started to exit, the university started to exit, the stars started to exist, the earth started to exist, the living things started to exit, and finally the human beings started to exist with their minds that are linked to the spiritual world, in addition to Satan, devils, demos, evil spirits, the hell, etc.  And, most importantly, the human history started to exit, where the Son of the God came to appear 2000 years ago.  

Of course, everyone of the human beings exists doe to this power of the God.  None exists due to his own power, capacity, or ability but by the power of the God or due to His intention.

It is easily understood that the nature moves as the God determined: the stars and the molecules move as the God wishes.  But, it is a little difficult that the human world and the minds of people can be controlled by the God.  Or the human history or any one's life can be controlled by the God.

However, the human world is based on the mass of the minds of all the people.  And every one has the free will.  Yet, it is not inconsistent that the God can control the human world and human minds and every one has freedom of thought and action.

If the  mankind finds reasons why the God has given freedom of thought and action to everyone, while the God can control the human world and everybody, they might simply try to follow the will and intention of the God.

Most importantly, it seems that Satan hates the God while it understands the reason why the God gives freedom of thought and action to the mankind in addition to Satan.  Anyway, Christ Jesus said to love the God as much as possible but not to be loved by the God as much as possible.  We have to love the God, but not to try to be loved by the God as much as possible, although we should be surely loved by the God if we love the God as much as possible.   

While we live in this human and material world, the spiritual world is a mystery.  But if we live in the spiritual world, God's world might be still a mystery, assuming that God's world is above the spiritual world that is above the human and material world. 

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Mark 4, King James Version
3 Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow:
4 And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up.
5 And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth:
6 But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.
7 And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.
8 And other fell on good ground, and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased; and brought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, and some an hundred.
9 And he said unto them, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

"I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him" - With the Faith like Immunity and Vaccine

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With the Faith like Immunity and Vaccine

If you are the only Jewish man in a Christian country, you might be afraid of being attacked by Christians around you, since you do not admit that Christ Jesus is the God.  But if you are the only Christian man in a Jewish country, you might be afraid of being attacked by Jewish people, since you believe that Christ Jesus is the God, which Jewish people deny.   

If you are the only white man in a black country, you might be afraid of being attacked by black people; if your are the only black man in a white country, you might be afraid of being attacked by white people.

If you are the only Chinese man in the U.S., you might be afraid of being attacked by Americans; if you are the only American man in China, you might be afraid of being attacked by Chinese.

Indeed, being only one person with a specific feature in an environment where no others share the same specific feature is dangerous even in terms of religion, race, and nationality.

However, how dangerous you are, if you are the only follower of the God, in an environment where all the others are followers of Satan.  In this context, the words of Christ Jesus should be understood:

"Luke 10: 3: Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves."

When wolves, namely followers of Satan find a lamb, that is, a follower of the God, they would attack and kill the lamb.  And, indeed, Christ Jesus was killed, though only for three days, by followers of Satan, in the shapes of Jewish and Roman authority 2000 years ago.

So, Christ Jesus knew how dangerous it was for a follower of the God to live in a society where all the citizens are only followers of Satan.  And, if there is no possibility that any followers of Satan in a city would repent and leave Satan, the God should immediately send a multitude of Angels of Death to the society to destroy it.

But the fact that Christ Jesus sent his followers to this world meant that there was a possibility that some followers of Satan would repent and leave Satan when they heard words of the God or Christ Jesus.  

If you are the only healthy person in corona-virus contaminated country, you might be afraid of being attacked by corona-viruses possessed by others.  And, if you are the only God believing person in a country controlled by Satan, you might be afraid of being attacked by other followers of Satan.  

Now, 2000 years after Christ Jesus, in democratic countries based on teachings of Christ Jesus, you can live in peace and safety, if you have a different religion, different color of skins, and different nationality.  You might not be afraid even of being attacked corona-viruses, since vaccination and other medical measures should be there widely provided.

But, wherever you may go in this world on the earth, an overwhelming majority of people around you might be followers or quasi-followers of Satan, while true followers of the God or Christ Jesus must be less that 10%.  So, we have to still remember the words of Christ Jesus: wolves are everywhere while you are lambs.  But, there are other encouraging words in the Bible: whoever upset you will be punished by the God.        

Finally, we have to go and live in the world where Satan has still an influence, following Christ Jesus, with the faith like immunity and vaccine. 

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John 3, King James Version
26 And they came unto John, and said unto him, Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond Jordan, to whom thou barest witness, behold, the same baptizeth, and all men come to him.
27 John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.
28 Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him.
29 He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled.

"the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are your's" - Jesus Surrounded by Enemies Worse than Coronaviruses

 

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Jesus Surrounded by Enemies Worse than Coronaviruses

Not all the actions Christ Jesus did in His everyday life are recorded in the Gospels.  Not all the words Christ Jesus spoke are recorded in the Gospels.  And, not all the attacks Satan made to Christ Jesus are also recorded. 

Christ Jesus described in the Gospels was just walking, giving insight of life and the world, preaching about love of the God, teaching how to pray to the God, praying to the God, healing the sick, showing compassion to the poor, and fighting Satan.

He never relished a joke, enjoyed His meal, and talked about foods, clothes, places to rest, rumors about certain people, gossips and small talks, how to gain money and even what He was truly.  And, more importantly Christ Jesus never talked about His family.

So, we might be allowed to wonder what He was doing and what He was thinking in His everyday life.

First of all, Christ Jesus knew that He was under attack by Satan, its devils, the Jewish authority, opposite priests of Judaism, and people brainwashed by Satan.  He must have been aware that spies and betrayers were everywhere, so that He must have been mostly silent.

On the other hand, what were the enemies of Christ Jesus doing except sending spies and betrayers around Him?  Christ Jesus was regarded as an enemy of the Jewish authority, Jewish priests, and Roman troops occupying Israel at the time.  They must have checked His family backgrounds, professional relationships, friends, and enemies.  They must have tried to buy or bribe some of His families, friends, and followers without mentioning Judas of Iscariot.

The consequences of their efforts against Christ Jesus might be even today seen among Jewish people.  And it should be reflected on the Gospels, so that people who became opposite to Christ Jesus due to Satan's efforts were omitted in the Gospels except Judas of Iscariot, etc.  In this context, it is assumed that Christ Jesus was betrayed by more people, including His families, friends, etc., than those described in the Gospels.  The Gospels should depict Christ Jesus narrowly avoiding attacks from everywhere in His human relationships, although they presented Christ Jesus peacefully and safely walking, talking, and preaching.  Christ Jesus was in the middle of battles with enemies sent by Satan.  

Therefore, we may understand why the Gospels do not describe Christ Jesus joking, laughing, and relaxing.  And there is no wonder if most of His families, personal friends, business associates, etc. sold out Him, so that there are no detailed descriptions about them in the Gospels.  

For example, even if Christ Jesus had had a wife or a girl friend, she might have sold Him, so that we may be allowed to think that there are no descriptions of Jesus' wife or girl friend as a result.  And that may be why there are no detailed descriptions of His physical father, brothers, sisters, and cousins and nieces except John the Baptist.  And in this case, compared with those hidden betrayers, the sin of Judas might be lighter.       

Put simply, the Gospels do not report how Christ Jesus was daily harassed, annoyed, and afflicted by evil people brainwashed and used by Satan as its subordinates for attacking Christ Jesus.   And those evil people might include His family members, friends, etc. whom the Gospels do not describe.

In this context, 50% of people who were close to Christ Jesus or who encountered with Christ Jesus might have been brainwashed and used by Satan as its subordinates for attacking Christ Jesus.  Enemies of Christ Jesus must be everywhere.  Christ Jesus must have been living all the time in circumstances surrounded by enemies worse than corona-viruses.  

But, the Gospels are presenting Christ Jesus as if He had been living in peace time for a certain care, so that even children can read the Bible.  We should not think that Christ Jesus preached in a leisurely setting and in an easy state.  He must have been always aware that Satan was waiting for its chance to harm or kill Him.  So, there must be more secrets in the Gospels yet uncovered.

 

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1 Corinthians 3, King James Version
19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
20 And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.
21 Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are your's;
22 Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are your's;
23 And ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.

"Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened" - Danger for the Mankind after the Corona-Pandemic

 

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Danger for the Mankind after the Corona-Pandemic 

According an old story related to Buddhism, complied about four centuries before the era of Christ Jesus, a field rat who was the Buddha in his previous life destroyed a wild dog that killed and ate other field rats.  

In certain woods, there was a wild dog who tried to gather field rats to eat them.  For this purpose, he pretend to be a saint.  So, he stood on his two legs instead of four.  When field rats saw the wild dog, they asked why he stood on two legs.  He answered that he was reducing the burden of the earth supporting his weight, because two legs instead of four would give less weights on the earth.

So, all the field rats thought that the wild dog was a saint and came to see him everyday.  But when they went back home in the evening, the wild dog attacked the last one of the field rats leaving for their homes and ate it.  Day after day, the number of field rats decreased.  So, the field rat who was the Buddha in his previous life suspected what had happened to those lost field rats.  

One day, he decided to leave the wild dog on his two legs as the last one.  And, the wild dog attacked the Buddha in life of a field rat.  The field rat found that the wild dog was just a pretender, so that the field rat struck back at the wild dog to bite it to death.  Although it is a little bloody, the story tells that the Buddha, as a field rat in one of his previous lives, killed an evil wild dog to save other field rats.

So, even centuries before the era of Christ Jesus in India far from Palestine, people knew that there was a false saint or Satan pretending to be a saint to gather people with a trick to kill them.

In the Bible, there is warning to a false prophet who would give false warning to people:
Matthew 24
11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.         

Although nobody seems to have predicted this occurrence of the corona-pandemic,  if there had been any pundit who had predicted this pandemic before 2020, people might have been easily handled according to his intention as such a man must have gained a reputation.

However, after this corona-pandemic, people would be more afraid of another pandemic than before.  They might be psychologically unstable and get easily duped by false prophets, evil politicians, etc. offering false solutions to people's anxieties.  And, if Christ Jesus does not come as the second time to destroy them, people might be drawn to real danger of losing their souls.

Anyway, this corona-pandemic would open a new era where the fate of the mankind should get at stake.  Even after the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, Hitler emerged, results of which people still do not forget.       

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Luke 3, King James Version
18 And many other things in his exhortation preached he unto the people.
19 But Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias his brother Philip's wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done,
20 Added yet this above all, that he shut up John in prison.
21 Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened,
22 And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased.

"For every one that doeth evil hateth the light" - Through Spiritual Training We Might be Able to See Satan and Viruses

 

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Through Spiritual Training We Might be Able to See Satan and Viruses

To die means to lose one's mind, since one's mind relies on work of the brain, namely, a part of one's body that stops biologically functioning when one dies.  

In other words, a man is not afraid of one's death if he has confidence that his mind would survive his biological death.  And every religion is based on the notion that one's mind lives after one's physical death.  Especially Christianity is based on this notion with belief in the words of Christ Jesus that those who believe in Him could live forever.

However, it seems to be apparent that when one dies, his brain as a part of his body would also die or stop functioning; therefore when one dies, his mind should also die.  But if there is the soul above the mind or above work of the mind and the soul can live, even if the body or the brain dies, leaving the brain and the mind for the spiritual world, our entity can live in the soul in the spiritual world.

It is true we cannot clearly see our own soul above our mind, but saints like Christ Jesus must be able to see souls above minds of people.  Therefore, those saints must be able to see Satan, devils, and other evil spirits that are intangible sprits but not biologically living things.

And the Gospels are reports of the battles between Christ Jesus and Satan, etc.  So, if you do not believe existence of souls, spirits, Angels, Satan, and other intangible spiritual entities, without mentioning the God, you cannot understand the Gospels and the words of Christ Jesus.

If we ask Christ Jesus whether we have souls, He would definitely say Yes.  If we ask Christ Jesus whether there is the spiritual world, He would definitely say Yes.  If we ask Christ Jesus whether there is Heaven, He would definitely say Yes.  And, if we ask Christ Jesus whether Satan exists, He would definitely say Yes.

Even wise men say that what is seen consists of what cannot be seen.  We cannot see contents of minds of other people.  But their deeds and actions are based on their minds that cannot be seen from the outside.

But, saints like Christ Jesus must be able to see contents of the minds of other men.  They must be able to see souls of other men in addition to Angels and evil spirits.  Unless we can see minds of other men in addition to spiritual entities such as Angels, devils, etc., we cannot fully understand the Bible and the Gospels.

Education, training, ascetic practices, etc. should essentially aim at increasing the ability to see what cannot be seen with physical eyes.  Indeed, as a man lives longer, he can learn various things to increase the ability to see what others think in their minds.  Academic or systematic training accelerates obtainment of this ability.  Especially through spiritual training, we might be able to see Angels and Satan. 

For example, we cannot see corona-viruses with physical eyes.  But our diseases and deaths that can be seen with physical eyes are caused by unseen viruses.  So, through spiritual training, we might be able to obtain and enhance the ability to see Satan in addition to corona-viruses. 

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John 3, King James Version
18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

"should not perish, but have everlasting life" - Win Viruses with Medication Working like Followers of Christ Jesus

 

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Win Viruses with Medication Working like Followers of Christ Jesus

How can you prove that you are followers of Christ Jesus?  Even if you are the Pope, it does not mean that you are a follower of Christ Jesus, since the Pope is enjoying richer life that Christ Jesus's.  Those who follow Christ Jesus should not have richer life than Christ Jesus's, since Christ Jesus rejected rich life Satan offered to Christ Jesus.  However, if Christ Jesus allowed the Pope to have such rich life, others should not blame the Pope.  Yet, the Pope should prove that he is a follower of Christ Jesus. 

It is very difficult for men to find and judge that any man has the biggest belief in Christ Jesus and the God and thus has the largest faith.   It is because we cannot and should not try to define the expected faith in the God, since by doing so we are defining the God who cannot be defined by men.  It is close to a blasphemy.

But, if we can prove that we have been attacked by Satan more than any body, we may be allowed to claim that we are followers of Christ Jesus.

In this context, Satan can be a measure of our faith.  The more we are attacked by Satan, the more we might be allowed to claim that we are following Christ Jesus.

The Gospels should be read as reports of the battles between Christ Jesus and Satan.  After various incidents, as is written in the Gospels, Satan could kill Christ Jesus, but finally Christ Jesus resurrected to defeat Satan.

But, Satan knew from the beginning that Christ Jesus was the Son of the God whom Satan could not destroy.  But Satan tried to kill Him when the Son of the God appeared in the human world as a mere human being.  Mad Satan tried to secure its occupancy in the human world, since Satan must have thought that the God had permitted its occupancy in the human world.  Poor Satan must have tried to tell the God to leave it alone in the human world by killing His Son who appeared in the human world as a mere man.  Foolish Satan must have thought that the God would approve its dominance in the human world since Satan could kill His Son as it got angry with the God's interference.  Probably, the God should have assured Satan that it could occupy the human world if men chose to follow Satan, since the human world was so small compared with the spiritual world and Heaven.  

However, the God should get angrier than Satan, since Satan must have done something the God could not tolerate, so that He decided to send His Son to the human world to defeat Satan.  It must be God's love to men.  

In this context, the key factor in the human world is Satan.  Therefore, how much a man has been hated, attacked, harassed, and afflicted by Satan can be a proof that he is a follower of Christ Jesus.

When those brainwashed by Satan see a man following Christ Jesus, they would think that how evil and bad the man is, since he is against Satan who is sacred to them.    

When corona-viruses see human cells not contaminated by viruses, they should think how evil and bad those cells are, since those cells do not accept viruses.  Therefore, corona-viruses would attack those sound cells as if exercising their own justice.

With medication that can act act like followers of Christ Jesus against Satan in the human body, we must be saved from corona-viruses. 


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John 3, King James Version
15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

"Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now" - Suppress Corona-viruses by Reading the Bible as It has a Soul

 

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Suppress Corona-viruses by Reading the Bible as It has a Soul

On  a TV display or screen, we can see everything that can be displayed as we see real things.  But, it disappears when we cut off the power supply.  The TV set functions based on electricity, decoding electric signals to restore original images carried by electric signals.  Our brain works as if it were a kind of TV set.

No chemical compounds, molecules, atoms and any other substances making our brains include our mind.  So, our mind is not material.  It is an electromagnetic phenomenon generated by those substances or materials such as nerves, cells, chemical compounds, molecules, atoms, etc.

Therefore, our mind disappears when our body made of nerves, cells, chemical compounds, etc. stops biologically functioning and working as we die.  It is just like a TV set is turned off.  Like nothing is displayed on a TV screen when powered off, nothing works as our mind in the brain when we die.  So, some people say that there is nothing for us when we die.

However, the people of the past found something called souls in men through their observation of living and dead men.  Our minds disappear as our bodies die, but our souls survive.  Every human religion is based on this notion.

And, some people think that not only human beings but also every living thing has its mind and soul:

Animism is the belief that objects, places, and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence. Potentially, animism perceives all things—animals, plants, rocks, rivers, weather systems, human handiwork, and perhaps even words—as animated and alive. Animism is used in the anthropology of religion as a term for the belief system of many indigenous peoples, especially in contrast to the relatively more recent development of organised religions.　(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animism)

Even some Japanese of the past found a spirit in a human action.  This notion led to various cultural trainings and arts such as Japanese art of self-defense (Judo), Japanese art of fencing (Kendo),  the tea ceremony (Sado), the art of flower arrangement (Kado), etc.

This material world or universe must be connected to other worlds or universes, which is out of the scope of human science, although some scientists claim that our material universe is actually linked with other material universes through gravity or electromagnetic forces. 

Therefore every living thing in our material world must have a soul that is connected to another world that should be called the spiritual world, although the mankind has its own spiritual world and every other living thing has its own spiritual world. In other words, the God gives a human soul to a human being and other types of souls to other living things.

Our mind is an electromagnetic phenomenon generated in our brain, which disappears as our body dies and our brain dies. But, our mind has a soul. And the God is spirit:
John 4
24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

The God is not a biologically living thing, but the God exists and lives as a spirit.  Therefore we can live as a spirit but not only as a biologically living thing.  When our mind dies as our body dies, our soul should take over our self consciousness from our dying mind.  And our soul should enter the spiritual world where the God and other various spirits live.  But, our soul might die even in the spiritual world if the God does not give eternal life.  Christianity is concerned with this fate of souls.

A man has a soul, a dog has a soul, a flower has a soul, and even a virus might has a soul.  However, we cannot know what the souls of corona-viruses are.

But as long as a corona-virus is a living thing, at least when it is in our body, it must be controlled by the God or by our faith in the God who is a spirit.  Therefore, to suppress corona-viruses, we have to pray and ask the God to exterminate it.  Put simply, we can suppress it by reading the Bible.     

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Matthew 3, King James Version
13 Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him.
14 But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?
15 And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.
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:

"And he goeth up into a mountain" - Why We Have to Have Faith in the God despite Pandemics and other Tragedies

 

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Why We Have to Have Faith in the God despite Pandemics and other Tragedies

Some people think that there cannot be the God, since there is Satan and every evil thing, in addition to unhappiness, in this world.

However, the God needs Satan to be perfect.  Something that does not include incompleteness cannot be complete.  So, for the God to be complete, He needs something called Satan as something that denies Him.  Even, for a man to understand happiness, he has to know unhappiness.  

However, it does not mean that Satan being incomplete has a chance to defeat the God.  Satan's role is to challenge the God to be defeated, thus helping the God enjoy the status of completeness.

What is complete should include incompleteness as its element.  Otherwise, it cannot be complete.

Therefore the God should allow Satan to exist as an element in its complete domain. 

What is complete should not lack incompleteness to be complete and perfect.  Otherwise, it cannot understand what is incomplete.

Therefore the God should allow men and Satan to exist as elements in its complete domain. 

However, the contents of God's completeness are boundless and limitless.  Satan and all evil things occupy a minimum portion of the domain of God's completeness.  The God can neglect Satan as Satan is almost nothing for the God.  But for men, Satan is a great threat, since Satan's only reason for existence is to prevent men from having faith in the God.  So, to save men from Satan, the God sent His Son, Christ Jesus, to the human world.  This is the basic condition for these 2000 years. 

Therefore, from this point of view, we have to endure our unhappiness caused by Satan for the God.  But what would the God do to men who have sold their souls to Satan for provisional happiness?  As such men are regarded as joining Satan trying to harm completeness of the God, the God should punish them in addition to Satan.

From the beginning, the God created this material world and men for exercising and proving His power, so that the mankind should always glorify the God even if some of their members are unhappy.  A man should glorify the God even if he is unhappy.  The protagonist in this world is not the mankind but the God.  The God did not create men to make them happy but to exercise and prove His power.  Therefore, there is no discrepancy in the facts that there is the God and that men can be unhappy sometimes despite existence of the God.  And Satan abuses these facts.

That is why Jewish people do not deny the God despite having experienced such past tragedies as the tribe, though, chosen by the God.  And, past European Christians did not deny the God despite having experienced so many plagues.  Even Muslims have not denied the God despite having experienced so many tragedies.     

This corona-pandemic should not lessen faith in the God among believers.  The corona-pandemic has never harmed the God.  And how much the God would save men from viruses depends on the God, taking into account the state of men's faith in the God and men's acceptance of Satan.

Without viruses bringing some useful elements into men's DNAs and genes, the mankind could not have been established through evolution.  And without unhappiness and tragedies Satan has brought into men's livings, the mankind cannot contribute to completeness of the God.  So, we should not blame the God for our unhappiness and tragedies.  What is complete should include what is incomplete.  Even for us to be completely happy, we have to know unhappiness.

But what would happen if the God stops being complete?  Even if the God retreats from the domain of completeness and incompleteness, the God must be still more than being complete; there are no problems for the God.  But in that case, how poor the mankind should be, without mentioning Satan?  In this context, unhappiness and tragedies are part of God's love to exist in the domain of completeness and incompleteness.  Indeed, if the God closed the domain of completeness/incompleteness, both men and Satan should not be able to exist or should lose the ground for existence; they are of no use for the God.  

And, if we die in the corona-pandemic, we can be given eternal life by Christ Jesus as long as we have faith in the God.     

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Mark 3, King James Version
11 And unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, saying, Thou art the Son of God.
12 And he straitly charged them that they should not make him known.
13 And he goeth up into a mountain, and calleth unto him whom he would: and they came unto him.
14 And he ordained twelve, that they should be with him, and that he might send them forth to preach,
15 And to have power to heal sicknesses, and to cast out devils:

"For he had healed many" - Satan's Influence like Corona-Viruses

 

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Satan's Influence like Corona-Viruses

The Gospels are reports on the battle between Christ Jesus and Satan, since the battle against Satan and its demons is the most important thing for the mankind. 

As Satan was against the God, when it found that the God was going to send His Son to the human world, Satan immediately decided to destroy the God's plan.  So, a Gospel told that a Jewish king tried to kill the baby Jesus, probably, as the king was influenced by Satan.

Satan waited for Jesus to grow.  But it must have made various tricks to impede sound growth of Jesus, which are not written in the Gospels.  And, in the process of Satan's interference on Jesus's life, the biological father Joseph must have been lost, probably, in fierce battles, which are not also written in the Gospels.

And finally, when Christ Jesus decided to save the world, get prepared for the mission, and go to the wilderness of the desert for purifying Himself, Satan came to destroy Christ Jesus with temptations:

Matthew 4
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.

First of all, Satan and the devils were liars, which Christ Jesus knew well, so that He must have been laughing at them in His mind.  Christ Jesus knew that the God was the creator of the universe and the world.  The God could give all the kingdoms of the world to Christ Jesus at any time.  But, for some profound or sacred reasons, the God had not set Christ Jesus as the emperor of the kingdoms of the world.

But, Christ Jesus had to learn a man's desire to be a king.  As Christ Jesus knew that the God would set Him as a king any time soon only if He asked so, He must have not known or understood such a desire.  Christ Jesus was a hidden king.  Therefore, it is indeed laughable that the devil offered the status of king to Christ Jesus who was a potential king.  But, with the devil's world, Christ Jesus must have learned that a man would fall down and worship even Satan if he could be a king. 

Through this communication with the devil, Christ Jesus must have learnt man's desires and how Satan used these desires to make men its slaves.

On Satan's side, it must have not expected that Christ Jesus would accept his foolish temptations and stupid offer.  But Satan must have thought that it could hurt Christ Jesus' pride as such an act of temptation by the devil meant that the devil saw human desires in Christ Jesus or Christ Jesus having human desires.  If Christ Jesus had been psychologically hurt as He had looked like an ordinary mean man to the devil, Satan should have been glad.

In other words, Satan must have known from the beginning that it would fail to tempt Christ Jesus, but it must have thought that it could hurt Christ Jesus's pride by offering such foolish proposals.  Satan must have wanted to tell Christ Jesus that now that He was a mere man, he should want to be a king.  And, Satan must have wanted to see what the God would do if Christ Jesus asked the status of a king from the God.  Would the God recall Christ Jesus from the world?

However, Christ Jesus decided to live as a mere man, which must have alarmed Satan.  The God had allowed men to have a desire to be a king.  But, the God seemed to expect His Son to live as a mere man.  It was against the paradigm of Satan who expected to fight Christ Jesus as a king.  Satan wanted at least to behave like a god who had authority to set a man as a king.  But its poor show was simply broken by Christ Jesus.  Satan was not only making fun of Christ Jesus but also of the God.  Therefore, Christ Jesus got angry, and the devil disappeared.          　

In this way, the Gospels tell how Satan tried to make fun of the God through attacking His Son Christ Jesus.  But, Satan's battle against the God is still going on after 2000 years since the first mission of Christ Jesus.

Satan's devils are everywhere even today.  They must be more widespread than corona-viruses.  It is as if the God had sent the Angel of Death with corona-viruses to the human world to have the mankind realize how widespread Satan's influence is.  

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Mark 3, King James Version
8 And from Jerusalem, and from Idumaea, and from beyond Jordan; and they about Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, when they had heard what great things he did, came unto him.
9 And he spake to his disciples, that a small ship should wait on him because of the multitude, lest they should throng him.
10 For he had healed many; insomuch that they pressed upon him for to touch him, as many as had plagues.
11 And unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, saying, Thou art the Son of God.

"who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?" - Worldly Wise and Strong but Foolish and Weak in the Spiritual World

 

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Worldly Wise and Strong but Foolish and Weak in the Spiritual World

There is an impressive teaching in the Bible:
1 Corinthians 1
25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

People following Satan, pursuing wealth and money and wishing for worldly success, cannot understand the need to accept the teaching of the God and live in poverty, humbleness, and self-sacrifice.  Therefore, they have more worldly wisdom, power, and influence than those following the God and Christ Jesus.  So, to such worldly people, followers of Christ Jesus look foolish.

Those worldly people think that those followers of Christ Jesus are wrong and evil as they do not follow teachings of Satan.  Those worldly people are brainwashed by Satan to respect and trust teachings of Satan, so that to their eyes follows of Christ Jesus look bad and evil as they are against Satan.  This is a completely crazy world where followers of the God are regarded as being evil, since they do not respect and follow Satan.

The world today is close to this crazy world, since almost everybody wishes for money with which Satan controls people.       

However, the God is the lord of the mankind and the king over this world and the spiritual world, thus He can defeat Satan at any time.  Therefore, those followers of Satan who became rich and powerful would finally die and go to the hell.  Even in their life in this world, they could be abandoned even by Satan who should laugh at them losing everything in this world or in life after death.

Indeed, those following Satan and pursuing money think that those following the God and Christ Jesus and accepting poverty are foolish.  But finally, Satan followers would be rejected at Heaven, but followers of the God and Christ Jesus would be accepted in Heaven. 

And any weak men admitted into Heaven should turn to be stronger than any worldly strong men falling into the hell.

In this context, kings, presidents, billionaires, pundits, notable and successful men, etc. in this world would be foolish and weak in the spiritual world, while homeless, low-income people, people without academic backgrounds and social status, etc. would be wise and strong in Heaven. 

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Luke 3, King James Version
6 And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.
7 Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
8 Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.

"Prepare ye the way of the Lord" - A Rich Man Shall Hardly Enter into the Kingdom of Heaven

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A Rich Man Shall Hardly Enter into the Kingdom of Heaven

The most important teaching of Christ Jesus is of course:

Mark 12
29 And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
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.
31 And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

And the most unique teaching of Christ Jesus in all the human religions is:

Matthew 19
23 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven.
24 And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

People wish and ask happiness and wealth when following a religion, but Christ Jesus clearly said that rich men cannot most probably enter into Heaven.  It means that you have to be poor to be admitted into Heaven. 

In other words, Christianity is a religion encouraging people to be poor.  Buddhism also encourages people to abandon their desires, but it does not emphasis especially on a need to be poor, although the Buddha lived and preached, begging people for foods.

When Christ Jesus went out to the desert to allow Satan to attempt Him, Satan used worldly wealth, success,  honor, etc. as traps for making Him stumble over human desire.  However, Christ Jesus said, "Go away, Satan!," rejecting all the offering of Satan.  And later, He preached to people to love the God but hate money.

In this context, the core of the teachings of Christ Jesus is that a man should be materially and economically poor if he is rich in faith.  In deed, for a man to earn even a dollar, he has to sell any part of his soul to Satan.  Money brings everything evil to the man.  Satan uses money as a tool to make men become its followers and betray the God.      

Indeed, it is said in the Bible that Judas Iscariot betrayed Christ Jesus for 30 silver coins.  Therefore, true followers of Christ Jesus, even if such a man calls himself the Pope, should not have money equivalent to 30 silver coins or more.  But the palace of the Vatican costs more than that.

Poverty and Christianity must be the critical issue to be addressed.   Because, rich men can hardly enter Heaven, according to the teaching of Christ Jesus. 

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Luke 3, King James Version
3 And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins;
4 As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
5 Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth;
6 And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.

"whether he would heal him on the sabbath day" - The Conditions to be Certified as a Follower of Christ Jesus

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The Conditions to be Certified as a Follower of Christ Jesus

What should be the conditions to be certified and admitted as followers of Christ Jesus?

1. First, you have to admit that Christ Jesus came from the God, although you might not be able to judge on whether He is the God, the Son of the God, an embodied angel, or other deity.

2. Second, you have to accept His teachings, although you might not be able to understand the true meaning of all His teachings.

3. Thirdly, you have to perform His teachings and live in accordance with them, although it must be difficult to do it 100% in your everyday living.  So, you have to make full efforts to do it as much as possible.

However, you have to believe that the God exists as basic condition like Jewish people, Muslims, conventional Christians, etc.

Put simply. believing in Christ Jesus is believing his words that He came from the God; He lived in the God; and the God lived in Him.  Therefore, those who believe in Christ Jesus believe in the existence of the spiritual world including Heaven and the hell.

But how can we believe in Christ Jesus?  Ironically, if we find evil influence of Satan around us, we may find divinity or divine nature of Christ Jesus.  The Bible clearly shows the state of Christ Jesus being attacked by Satan.

Or we had better think what state the present world would be in without Christ Jesus.  We own most of the culture, science, technology, and the way of thinking of today to Christ Jesus and Christianity through 2000 year history.  Even those who deny divinity of Christ Jesus today are living and thinking in environments established or influenced by Christianity.

Lastly, the most impressive teaching of Christ Jesus is that rich men cannot enter into Heaven but poor men can.  Therefore to be a follower of Christ Jesus, you have to be poor.  In this context, every rich leader of organizations related to Christianity cannot be regarded as a follower of Christ Jesus and thus cannot enter into Heaven.

In this context, even the Pope who is apparently richer than homeless Americans might not be able to enter into Heaven.  This is the most important issue for billions of Christians in the world. 

Indeed, Christ Jesus said that none was good except the God.         

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Mark 3, King James Version

And he entered again into the synagogue; and there was a man there which had a withered hand.
2 And they watched him, whether he would heal him on the sabbath day; that they might accuse him.
3 And he saith unto the man which had the withered hand, Stand forth.
4 And he saith unto them, Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? to save life, or to kill? But they held their peace.

"the Holy Ghost was upon him" - Be Poor as Much as Possible before Contracted by Corona-Viruses

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Be Poor as Much as Possible before Contracted by Corona-Viruses 

Everybody dies someday 100%, within 130 years at most, so that the most important thing in this world is whether there is life after death.

The answer is yes; because Christ Jesus talked about life after death.

But could we trust in Christ Jesus?  

The answer is yes; because He has proved that He came from the God even with the simple fact that the history in these 2000 years has developed on His teaching and mission.  Without the power from the God, Christ Jesus could not have achieved so many things in this world, conquering the world by his teaching spreading all over the world. 

But can the God exist?

The answer is yes; because even we, humble and tiny creatures with limited capacity, exist.  And, the reason for existence of everything in this world must be that somebody gave the possibility of existence and that somebody must be the God.  So, the God who could give existence to everything must exist for Himself.

What will happen when we die?

Indeed, our physical or biological bodies die; our minds die; but our souls would survive and move to the spiritual world to have life after death.

What are our souls?  How different are they from our minds?

The soul came from the spiritual world to our minds in our bodies.  The souls were not born in this world, but they came from the spiritual world, so that when our bodies and minds die, they return to the spiritual world to have life after death.    

The soul control our mind, although it is not clearly felt by the mind.  And, Christ Jesus took it as a matter of course that everyone has his own soul which would go into the spiritual world after our death.

Could we enter into Heaven?

Christ Jesus said that usually rich men could not enter into Heaven.  So, if you want to enter into Heaven, you have to be poor.

But some rich men think that there is no Heaven or the hell.  If they die, thy think, there will be nothing.  Their death means the end of everything for them.  So, they would concentrate on worldly matters to enjoy riches as much as possible. 

  

However, if death brings nothingness to a man, he might be nothing from the beginning.  He might not exist from the beginning.  Then, he might be part of nothingness from the beginning.  In this context, he would go mad if he thinks seriously what he is, since what comes back to nothingness is part of nothingness.  All he thinks and feel are nothing essentially.  But, our souls should tell that it is not right.

And Christ Jesus tells that one's soul should go to Heaven or the hell after life in this world.  Judaism is not complete in this point.  Judaism respects the God, but it does not teach that we can come closer to the God in the spiritual world.  However, Christ Jesus taught that we could live in the Kingdom of God even we were living in this world before our death, and we should be surely able to live the Kingdom of God after our death in this world, which is called Heaven in the spiritual world.

So, indeed, if we get trillion dollars in this world but if our souls are not allowed to enter Heave, it is absurd.  Rather, we have to be poor as much as possible to be allowed to enter Heaven.

On the other hand, their souls that move to the hell after their death in this world should perish or vanish to nothingness.  Indeed, those who believe that everything after their death is nothing should fall into the hell and turn to nothing. 

Finally, it is recommended for you to become poor as much as possible before you are contracted by corona-viruses, so that you can go into Heaven, in case.         

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Luke 2, King James Version
24 And to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.
25 And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him.
26 And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ.

"why do they on the sabbath day that which is not lawful?" - Natural that the Corona-Pandemic has Attacked the World Trying to be Rich

 

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Natural that the Corona-Pandemic has Attacked the World Trying to be Rich

There are millions of books and billions of utterances about Christianity and Christ Jesus.  And it is required to learn and understand thousands of issues and discussions related to Christianity and Christ Jesus to be certified as believers or professionals of the religion.  But, there is no assurance that your are saved even if you fulfil these requirements.

Christ Jesus told only simple truth by which anybody, including those without academic knowledge, can be saved.

First, Christ Jesus said that one should go to Heaven or the hell after one's death.  So, it is not that there is nothing after one's death, but there is Heaven and the hell.  And He also taught that one could not be admitted to Heaven if one was rich in this world.  Only poor men could be allowed to Heaven.  This is the core of the teaching of Christ Jesus.

Therefore, one has to be as poor as he can be while living in this world, for his soul to be admitted into Heaven after his death.  There must be competition for poverty but not for wealth among Christians, if they follow Christ Jesus to be allowed into enter Heaven.      

Indeed, without selling any part of one's soul to Satan, one cannot earn even one dollar.  To earn money, one would do anything wrong and evil.  Without this teaching, Christianity would lose its power.

Material wealth is an enemy of the God, so that one should stop pursuing wealth.  Truth is in poverty.  To protect one's faith, one has to be poor.  The God loves the poor, and He may be seen in poverty.  This must be the core of the religion.  Christianity should be unique in that it recommends poverty among many religions in this world.

So, Christ Jesus preached to poor people that the God loved them, so that they had to love the God.

Indeed, no matter how much rich the mankind have become to develop science and technology, there is no possibility that their souls can be saved by the God.  But those who are poor because they cannot accept any attempts of Satan, like Christ Jesus in the desert, should be saved in their souls.

What is written in the Gospels is how one's soul can be saved by the God and admitted into Heaven.  For this purpose, one has to be poor as much as possible.

From this point of view, it is thought natural that the corona-pandemic has attacked the world where everyone has been striving to be rich.  In other words, if everyone makes efforts to be poor, the pandemic should vanish. 

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Mark 2  King James Version
23 And it came to pass, that he went through the corn fields on the sabbath day; and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of corn.
24 And the Pharisees said unto him, Behold, why do they on the sabbath day that which is not lawful?
25 And he said unto them, Have ye never read what David did, when he had need, and was an hungred, he, and they that were with him?

"his name was called Jesus, which was so named of the angel" - Money-Loving People or God-Loving People

 

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Money-Loving People or God-Loving People

Calling a name of a god or a deity in Buddhism is recommended in Chinse Taoism to avoid tribulation and calamity.  And, some schools of Japanese Buddhism also put it in the core of their teachings almost 800 yeas ago. 

It was impossible for farmers and ordinary people to learn and understand sophisticated teaching of Buddhism.  But people needed help in their difficult life.  So, some leading monks launched their schools based on the principle that every body could be saved by simply calling the name of the Buddha or other prominent deity in Buddhism.  "You only have to call the name of the Buddha or the holy title of a deity with full belief in him." they taught.  This teaching prevailed since then to date.

Nianfo (pinyin: niànfó, Japanese:  nenbutsu,...Vietnamese: niệm Phật) is a term commonly seen in Pure Land Buddhism. In the context of Pure Land practice, it generally refers to the repetition of the name of Amitābha. It is a translation of Sanskrit buddhānusmṛti (or, "recollection of the Buddha")...

In the Jodo Shinshu tradition in Japan, variant forms of the nianfo have been used since its inception. The founder, Shinran, used a nine-character Kujimyōgō in the Shoshinge and the Sanamidabutsuge hymns...

The term nembutsu-ban is applied to the event in Kyoto, Japan in 1207 where Hōnen and his followers were banned from the city and forced into exile. This occurred when the leaders of older schools of Buddhism persuaded the civil authorities to prohibit the newer practices including the recitation of Namu Amida Butsu. The ban was lifted in 1211.(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nianfo) 

When Christ Jesus started His mission 2000 years ago, He mostly faced and preached poor people who could not read and write.  And what He taught them was not sophisticated theories of Judaism or Christianity or theological issues, although it was not recommendation to call the names of the God, holy prophets, and other angels.

Teaching a simple method for practicing religion to poor and simple people is a basic for missionary work.  So, Japanese monks who became the founders of some schools of Japanese Buddhism told people to just call the names of the Buddha and other deities or recite holy short words such as Namu Amida Butsu.

However, Christ Jesus did not even teach so.  He taught simple truth any one could not forget such as ”No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.”

If you are taught to love the God and hate money, you would surely not forget it, even though you might deny it.

Even evil ones would call the name of the God, if not Satan, when they are in a critical situation.  Some schools of Japanese Buddhism taught that such an evil one could be saved only if he called the name of the Buddha or cited Buddhist invocation.  But Christ Jesus taught to remember His teaching and act accordingly, since His teaching was so simple that anyone could remember.  

In this context, to defeat corona-viruses, evil ones for men, we have to simply invoke power of immunity the God provided in human bodies for survival of the mankind.

Or, we may call the names of the Buddha and other deities or cite holy phrases to defeat viruses in our bodies.  But, even the modern medical science focuses to develop vaccines to suppress viruses by activating the immunity system in the human body.  While remembering simple teachings of Christ Jesus, we must be able to reinforce the sophisticated immunity system in our bodies.

The corona-viruses must love money-loving people more than God-loving people.   

   

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Luke 2, King James Version
20 And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them.
21 And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, his name was called Jesus, which was so named of the angel before he was conceived in the womb.
22 And when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord;
23 (As it is written in the law of the Lord, Every male that openeth the womb shall be called holy to the Lord;)