"take no thought how or what" - Jesus must have been directly killed by Romans

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Jesus must have been directly killed by Romans

Jewish authority killed many Jewish enemies  without committing their execution to Roman troops that occupied Palestine 2000 yeas ago.

Before the execution of Christ Jesus the Temple authority of Jerusalem and Jewish kings killed John the Baptist and other Jewish enemies for religious and political reasons.  After the execution of Christ Jesus the Temple authority of Jerusalem and Jewish kings killed Saint Stephen and other Jewish enemies for religious and political reasons.  But they committed the execution of Christ Jesus to a Roman governor in Jerusalem.

It tells other truth of relationship between Christ Jesus and Jewish authority 2000 years ago.

If Christ Jesus had been beheaded or stoned to death directly by Jewish authority, namely by some Jewish people, God would not have allowed continued existence of Judaism or the tribe or race of Jewish people, since Christ Jesus was His son or was regarded as such by God Himself.

However, because Jewish authority was responsible for the death of Christ Jesus, no matter how indirectly, God later destroyed Jerusalem by allowing Roman troops to attack Jerusalem and Jewish insurgents.  And, because Romans were directly responsible for the execution of Christ Jesus, God caused destruction of the Roman Empire before the fifth century.

Consequently, there happened great discontinuity in Europe in terms of succession of the Roman Civilization.  Indeed, the fall of the Roman Empire is regarded as a kind of mystery even today.  However, the Jewish people and Judaism have survived to date.  But, if Jewish authority in religion and politics had directly killed Christ Jesus, the Jewish people and Judaism must have disappeared like the Roman Empire.  And if Roman troops in Jerusalem had not directly killed Christ Jesus, the Roman Empire might exist even today with its notable features of cruelty and belligerence.

Therefore, Christ Jesus must have been directly killed by Roman troops but indirectly by Jewish authority 2000 years ago.   


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Mat 10:19 But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak.

"enquire who in it is worthy" - One of Mysteries of Early Christianity

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One of Mysteries of Early Christianity

Christ Jesus had siblings:

The Gospel of Mark 6:3 and the Gospel of Matthew 13:55–56 state that James, Joses (or Joseph), Jude and Simon were the brothers of Jesus, the son of Mary. The same verses also mention unnamed sisters of Jesus. Mark 3:31–32 tells about Jesus' mother and brothers looking for Jesus. A verse in the Epistle to the Galatians 1:19 mentions seeing James, "the Lord's brother", and none other of the apostles except Peter, when Paul went to Jerusalem after his conversion. The "brothers of the Lord" are also mentioned, alongside (but separate from) Cephas and the apostles in 1 Corinthians 9:5, in which it is mentioned that they had wives. Some scholars claim that Jesus' relatives may have held positions of authority in the Jerusalem area until Trajan excluded Jews from the new city that he built on its ruins.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothers_of_Jesus

Among them James was especially notable:

Modern interpretation
The Encyclopædia Britannica relates that "James the Lord's brother was a Christian apostle, according to St. Paul, although not one of the original Twelve Apostles."[1] According to Schaff, James seems to have taken the place of James the son of Zebedee, after his martyrdom, around 44 AD.[14] 

Modern historians of the early Christian churches tend to place James in the tradition of Jewish Christianity; whereas Paul emphasized faith over observance of Mosaic Law, James is thought to have espoused the opposite position.[clarification needed][note 6] 

According to Schaff, James was the local head of the oldest church and the leader of the most conservative portion of Jewish Christianity.[14] Scholar James D. G. Dunn has proposed that Peter was the "bridge-man" (i.e. the pontifex maximus) between the two other "prominent leading figures": Paul and James the Just.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James,_brother_of_Jesus#Modern_interpretation

But James was killed by the Judaism authority in Jerusalem.

According to Josephus James was stoned to death by Ananus ben Ananus.[73]

Clement of Alexandria relates that "James was thrown from the pinnacle of the temple, and was beaten to death with a club".[68]

Hegesippus cites that "the Scribes and Pharisees placed James upon the pinnacle of the temple, and threw down the just man, and they began to stone him, for he was not killed by the fall. And one of them, who was a fuller, took the club with which he beat out clothes and struck the just man on the head".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James,_brother_of_Jesus#Death

So, first John the Baptist was killed; then Christ Jesus was killed, then James, a brother of Christ Jesus, was killed; and then Peter and Paul were killed in Rome.

Christianity was born through all these tragic deaths.  It tells how strong hatred, anger, and hostility against them were.  It also means that Christianity was established through literally deadly conflicts between the camp of Christ Jesus and that of opponents.

Judaism had also the history of deadly conflicts with other tribes and religions.  Islam was also established through wars.  The three great monotheistic religions were all launched through deadly fights between believers and opponents.  We may as well change our views on the religions.

Especially, it is grave that Christ Jesus and one of His brothers were killed by religious enemies in Jerusalem, since Christ Jesus was the Son of Gog who must have power to save his brother.  Why didn't Jesus help and save James?  It is one of mysteries of early Christianity.       

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Mat 10:11 And into whatsoever city or town ye shall enter, enquire who in it is worthy; and there abide till ye go thence.

"eat such things as are set before you" - Gospel of Peter/Mark

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Gospel of Peter/Mark

It is now thought among experts that the Gospel according to Mark was actually based on a story told by St. Peter.

That must be the reason why the Gospel according to Mark was adopted for canonical books, and other Gospels according to Matthew, Luke and John followed Mark.

Indeed, in the Gospel according to Mark, other scenes and conversations between Christ Jesus and other disciples are rare, and some episodes only Peter had known were recorded.  Mark must have traveled with Peter after Peter disappeared from the Acts around 48 AD, leaving Jerusalem to run away from persecution by the Jewish authority.  But was the Gospel written during this journey?  The Acts did not say even Paul and Peter met in Rome although both were killed by Emperor Nero in Rome.

As Peter belonged to Judaism that had its own Bible, it is unthinkable that Peter presented a new holy book.  Peter must have preached by talking to people outside Palestine without distributing the Gospel based on his memory and written by Mark.  So, there must have been a strong motivation for Peter to have Mark write a story of Christ Jesus and Peter.  As finally Peter went to Rome, he must have met Paul and tried to save Paul from a Roman trial.  To save Paul, Peter must have tried to show who and what Christ Jesus was to the Roman authority.  If Roman citizens understood their religion was not a dangerous religion, Paul might be released.  So, Peter must have had Mark write the Gospel.

Accordingly, the Gospel according to Mark was regarded as authentic among early Christians since its release to the public.  Therefore, Matthew, Luke, and John who had never seen Christ Jesus living and preaching had to partly or mostly copy Mark, although they must have also heard some other facts from Peter or Mark, thus modifying the Gospel of Mark.     

But why did not Luke write the Paul and Peter met in Rome?  It is another mystery.

The Gospel of Mark or of Peter? 

There is extremely reliable evidence through church tradition and early church historians that the Gospel of Mark is actually the gospel of Peter. Peter is said to have dictated his discipleship with Jesus to John Mark, who was a companion of his for many of the later years of his life. If you read the Gospel of Mark you can see the extremely fine details of what appears to be an eyewitness from the perspective of Peter. John Mark was not ever a disciple of Jesus and he was not an apostle. There is little doubt that the work of Mark and his gospel is actually the story of Peter who retold the story and then was written down by John Mark. This is testified by the fact that Mark was not present for Jesus’ ministry and the extremely intimate details that are described in Mark. Some of the events where Peter, John, and James who were often alone with Jesus, like the Transfiguration, are like a first-person retelling of the story.

https://www.whatchristianswanttoknow.com/apostle-peter-biography-timeline-life-and-death/ 

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Luk 10:8 And into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you, eat such things as are set before you:

"What did Moses command you?" - Paul and the Gospels

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Paul and the Gospels

There is a fundamental question about early Christianity.

Did Paul have access to Four gospels?

If you mean did he have access to Mark, Luke, John and Matthew? Not exactly.
Modern analysis suggests Paul lived 5AD-67AD.
The Gospels were almost certainly written after he died.
However, it’s pretty clear the Synoptic Gospels share 1 or more common sources, which means there may have been written documents during his lifetime that he was familiar with.
https://www.quora.com/Did-Paul-have-access-to-Four-gospels

However, in most of time, it is believed, Paul preached without knowledge of actual Christ Jesus.  Paul did not see or meet living Christ Jesus.  It is said that only once Paul encountered the spirit of Christ Jesus, which turned Paul from a persecutor of early Christians to the great leader of early Christians.

If so, what could Paul preach without knowing contents of the Gospels according to Mark, Luke, and Matthew?  What did Paul tell to Jewish people and Roman citizens at the time?  Why could Paul be so sure that he was delivering the teaching of Christ Jesus written in the Gospels?  And then, how did early Christian churches established by Paul without concrete knowledge about Christ Jesus come to accept and authorize those Gospels without authorization by Paul?

Paul traveled outside Palestine, preached the teaching of Christ Jesus and God, and established early Christian churches without concrete knowledge about Christ Jesus.

Then around the time when Paul was executed by Nero in Rome, the Gospels came to appear.  And, as time went by, Christian leaders accepted these Gospels and came to regard them as holy books, which tells that they believed that what was written in these Gospels were true.

The issue is the relationship between Paul, the great founder of the Christian Church, and the Gospels by Mark, Luke and Matthew.

If Paul thought it was necessary to have a gospel depicting life and the status of preaching of Christ Jesus for his mission, he should have asked somebody who had witnessed the actual work of Christ Jesus to write a document depicting His life.  However, it is not Paul who took initiative in writing the Gospels.   

My theory is that: While Paul was forced to live in Rome till judgment by the Roman authority, Peter came to Rome.  Peter asked Marco to write a gospel to save Paul by diffusing truth of Christ Jesus among Romans and showing that Christianity was not dangerous teaching.   But due to the big fire in Rome set by Nero, Peter was also arrested as one of Christians set as scapegoat for arson by Nero.   Then to save Paul and Peter, Matthew wrote his gospel based on Marco to save Paul and Peter by showing that Christians were part of Judaism.  However, Paul and Peter were executed despite these efforts by Marco and Matthew.  So, to prevent disturbance among early Christians, Luke wrote his version of gospels based on Marco and Matthew.  Finally, after the fall of Jerusalem in the Jewish-Roman War, the necessity to establish Christianity separately from Judaism made John write his version of gospels from a different angle than Marco, Matthew, and Luke. 

Circumstances in creating the Gospels of Marco, Mathew, and Luke must have been centered around Paul.  This mus be the truth.

But still a mystery remains: How could Paul establish early Christian churches without concrete knowledge of Christ Jesus and without reading the Gospels?



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Mar 10:3 And he answered and said unto them, What did Moses command you?
Mar 10:4 And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away.
Mar 10:5 And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.

"be slain, and be raised the third day" - Christians and Judaists

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Christians and Judaists

There seem to be many reasons why the Old Testament is included in Christianity.

The main reason must be that Christ Jesus relied on Judaism at the time, namely 2000 years ago, and the Old Testament.  There is no denying that Christ Jesus admitted the effect and authority of the Old Testament.

But if Christ Jesus had said that He had come from different God than God of Judaism, no people around him, namely Jewish people of 2000 years ago, would have accepted and followed Him.  What Christ Jesus respected should be respected by His followers and what Christ Jesus hated should be hated by His followers.  Therefore, early Christians, the Vatican and other Christian churches must have included the Old Testament in their holy books. 

However, it is a kind of mystery that Christians did not accept Jewish people for almost 2000 years in the history while they also handled the Old Testament as their own holy books.  Logically, part of Christianity overlaps Judaism through the Old Testament.  But Christians have not regraded Judaists as a kind of Christians, and Judaists did not claim that they were a kind of Christians.

Maybe, Jewish people rejected to be dealt with as the second class of Christians, since there were a sense of hierarchy in Christianity as well observed in the Vatican.

The solution may be to stop using the term of Christianity and Christians as well as Judaism and Jews.  They should each call themselves people under God and use the common name of their religions such as Goddism.


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Luk 9:22 Saying, The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be slain, and be raised the third day.
Luk 9:23 And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.

"fragments that remained to them twelve baskets" - Mark against Mathew and Luke

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Mark against Mathew and Luke

According to one theory about the establishment of the Gospels, Mathew and Luke were written in reference to Mark.

The authors of Mathew and Luke read the Gospel according to Mark but modified its contents according to their own interpretation of the life of Christ Jesus and added some new elements to Mark.   Therefore, the general outlines of Mathew and Luke became similar to that of Mark.  In other word, if Mark and Luke had not made out their versions of the Gospel based on Mark, the three versions could not have been akin to one another.

However, it meant that Mathew and Luke admitted authenticity of Mark.  But how could they be sure that the Gospel according to Mark was 100% true?  Or did they know who the author of Mark was?  What made Mathew and Luke believe the contents of Mark?

The most reasonable answer is that Mathew and Luke knew who Mark was and that Mark was someone close to Christ Jesus to the degree above suspicion.  In deed, Mark could be only written by someone who had directly witnessed the deeds and heard the words of Christ Jesus.

But it is more interesting that Mathew and Luke did not mention the author of Mark in their versions of the Gospel.  They did not even mention the existence of the Gospel according to Mark.  The Gospels are indeed keys to understanding early Christianity.


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Luk 9:17 And they did eat, and were all filled: and there was taken up of fragments that remained to them twelve baskets.
Luk 9:18 And it came to pass, as he was alone praying, his disciples were with him: and he asked them, saying, Whom say the people that I am?

"what the rising from the dead should mean" - Satan before the Cross

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Satan before the Cross

One hidden major player in the Gospels was Satan.

The preaching and activities of Christ Jesus were all done under monitoring by Satan as well as God.  Indeed, Satan appeared in front of Christ Jesus during his prayer in the wilderness for 40 days.  Truly, Christ Jesus sometimes drove an evil spirit out of a man.

Christ Jesus must have seen Satan's influence on the Jewish society of 2000 years ago in elite Jewish people and Judaism priests as well as in Roman rulers.  But, Christ Jesus did not come to preach the gospel to them, make them repent and forgive them.  He rather preached the gospel to poor people and ordinary people who were less occupied by Satan.

Satan was watching Christ Jesus preaching and healing poor people.  But while Christ Jesus was working in Galilee, Satan would not try to take on Christ Jesus.  But when Christ Jesus acted passionately especially in the Jerusalem Temple, Satan got a chance to push Christ Jesus into a corner.

It is not clear what Satan expected when Christ Jesus was betrayed by one of His disciples and sentenced to death by the Roman Governor.  Satan might have expected God to interfere.  Satan might have just wanted to enjoy seeing Christ Jesus get embarrassed and shamed as He could not prevent the betrayal and the arrest.

However, it seems that there is one thing sure.  Satan must have been surprised to see Christ Jesus simply and obediently die on the cross without interference of God.  Satan must have been confused and puzzled: "The Son of God should not die like that."  On the contrary, after the death of Christ Jesus on the cross, Christianity started to prevail.  The religion occupied the Roman Empire, which must have upset Satan.  Satan must have surely felt ashamed of his shallow wisdom and cheap strategy.

But, Satan did not simply give up.  He tried to confuse the Christian church.  Satan succeeded in imbuing a very stupid theory in the church that God was three and three were one God.  Satan did many stupid tricks to the church, but as the most remarkable influence of Satan, this theory still remains today in the Christian church.

We may as well start to check creeds and ideologies of the Vatican and the Protestant churches so as to remove influences of Satan.  Anyway, the Vatican and the Christian churches should admit that Satan is so strong that even the Gospels are not free from interference by Satan.  Yet, before God, Satan is nothing.  We may laugh at Satan as he must have been dismayed to see Christ Jesus simply and obediently die on the cross.

What a stupid guy Satan was before the cross!   


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Mar 9:10 And they kept that saying with themselves, questioning one with another what the rising from the dead should mean.
Mar 9:11 And they asked him, saying, Why say the scribes that Elias must first come?
Mar 9:12 And he answered and told them, Elias verily cometh first, and restoreth all things; and how it is written of the Son of man, that he must suffer many things, and be set at nought.

"This is my beloved Son" - Infinite God at the Core of Finite Christ Jesus

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Infinite God at the Core of Finite Christ Jesus

It is amazing that the rather simple life and teaching of Christ Jesus led to a great amount of religious work, operations, and studies.

It is true that Christ Jesus acted and preached in the extension of Judaism, but followers, Christian priests, scholars, etc. developed the new religion Christianity on a different basis from Judaism, producing various religious contents.  How could they enrich Christianity that started from the rather simple life and teaching of Christ Jesus?

The key to comprehending Christ Jesus and His words and deeds is God rather than Judaism.  The only sure thing about Christ Jesus is that He had stronger linkage with God than anybody.  When thinking about His words, people would finally face wisdom and power of God.  When analyzing the life of Christ Jesus, people would finally face intention and plans of God.

It might be possible that other men than Christ Jesus act and speak like Christ Jesus and even perform miracles like Christ Jesus did, but if they have no linkage to God as strong as Christ Jesus', no new religion comparable to Christianity should come to exist.  They might even show love to the poor and the weak like Christ Jesus, but if they have no linkage to God as strong as Christ Jesus', no new religion comparable to Christianity should come to exist. 

So, it is God that made Christ Jesus succeed in establishing Christianity.  As there was God at the core of life, deeds, and words of Christ Jesus, that rather simple life and teaching of Christ Jesus could lead to establishment of contents-rich Christianity.

God is infinite.  It is almost impossible for men to perceive Him.  So, God used a finite man so that men could easily perceive him.  God is covering the whole university.  Men cannot satisfactorily comprehend Him.  But, Christ Jesus was a finite man so that men could easily perceive Him.

Put extremely, the only way for men to access infinite God is though the special finite man Christ Jesus.  Otherwise, men should have to only stand foolishly and blindly before infinite God.


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Mar 9:7 And there was a cloud that overshadowed them: and a voice came out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son: hear him.

"to preach the kingdom of God" - Keys to Heaven and Hell

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Keys to Heaven and Hell 

A notable Japanese Buddhist, called Shinran, said in the 13th century, "If you made ascetic training as much as you can to achieve enlightenment and get admitted to the paradise,  you may still fall into the hell although you might succeed to enter the paradise."

Some contemporary Buddhist priest in Hawaii translated the teaching as follows: You have a key that can open the paradise but also the hell.   Before delivering this version of the Buddhist teaching to people, the monk said that he would tell a teaching they would never forget.

An American physicist wrote that he indeed could not forget the teaching, since the teaching might have an analogy to a theory of modern physics.

Shinran continued: "So, you have to abandon your ambition to get enlightened through your own ascetic training and every religious effort.  If you want to be saved and admitted to the paradise, you have to fully trust and rely on Amitabha Buddha.  Only you have to do is chant the Buddhist chant I recommend to you, which is "Namu amidabutsu!"
　
"Namu amidabutsu" means that "I fully become a believer of Amitabha Buddha and thus I salute to Amitabha Buddha."  And then, the Buddhists who practice this chanting will be surely saved by Amitabha Buddha without hard ascetic training.  Even sinners and criminals will be saved only if they also chant this simple chant.  Ascetic training might or might not save you finally, but chanting of "Namu amidabutsu" will surely save you.  This is the teaching of Shinran recognized as one of the greatest monks in Japan in 1500 years of the history of Japanese Buddhism.

It is Amitabha Buddha that has a key to the paradise for each one according to Shinran.

In the teaching of Christ Jesus, it is Christ Jesus that has a key to Heaven for each one.  And it is everybody that has a key to the hell.  Do not be made a fool of by stupid monks.   

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Luk 9:1 Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases.
Luk 9:2 And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick.

"he that sent me is true" - Wrong Ideology of the Vatican

The Arakawa River, around Tokyo

Wrong Ideology of the Vatican

God created human beings according to the Bible and the Christianity doctrine.

Then how would He behave if He should come to the human world?  God knows how little power the human beings have so that they cannot harm Him.  In other words, God is invincible in the human world, since He is the creator of the mankind.  There seems to be no reason for God not to behave as the lord of the mankind when He comes to the human world.  God would immediately make Himself known to all the mankind.  Then all the people would recognize God and immediately show full respect to Him.

But, the Vatican still claims that Christ Jesus was God Himself, while Christ Jesus did not declare that He was God and He did not behave like God, making all the people recognize Him as God.

God is the creator of the mankind.  God is the creator of the earth, the sun, and all the stars in the sky.  God is the creator of the whole universe and the physical world.  God is the creator of every material and spiritual work inside the human mind, too.  With this great and super power of God, how should He come to this world as a mere man named Jesus, if his purpose for coming to the human world is to have the mankind recognize that God has come to them?

Accordingly, the more you have learnt Christianity, the stronger your doubt about the creed that Jesus is God will be.  But, even if you come to doubt the Vatican's doctrines, you would not stop enjoying benefits you are receiving as elites in the Vatican.  However, your faith in justice and good will be harmed.  You may even come not to believe any creeds of the church.  You will be morally rotten if you happen to ascend to the throne of the Pope.   

So, there is danger to call Christ Jesus God.  Especially, it is the Vatican that decided that Christ Jesus was God.  God never appeared before people and declared that He was Christ Jesus or Christ Jesus was He.

If it is against the will of God for the Vatican and the church to call Christ Jesus God, it is a big sin.  If the Vatican and the church were established and have been working based on wrong belief, it is natural that they could not prevent wars and other tragedies in these 2000 years.

However, all the merits of the Vatican and the Christian church cannot be denied.  Only Satan would be satisfied, if the Vatican and the Christian church were completely denied and destroyed.

Nonetheless, it depends on God what fate the Vatican and the church would face in the future, since 2000 years have already passed since the emergence of Christ Jesus.


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Joh 8:25 Then said they unto him, Who art thou? And Jesus saith unto them, Even the same that I said unto you from the beginning.
Joh 8:26 I have many things to say and to judge of you: but he that sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard of him.

"ye shall die in your sins" - How Christ Jesus Ate Delivering Gospels

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How Christ Jesus Ate Delivering Gospels

It is strange that what and how Christ Jesus told and taught or behaved to His disciples, followers, and hosts of breakfasts, lunches, suppers, or feasts except a few cases of a wedding banquet, the Last Supper, etc. are not described abundantly in the Bibles.

One must eat to live and work.  Christ Jesus and other twelve, etc. must have also eaten somewhere and somehow every day.  In a year, they had hundred times of such an occasion.  Then, hundreds of teaching and parables should have been delivered from Christ Jesus in a year, some part of which should have been recorded in the Gospels.  But there are no such records described.

In addition, while there are four types of Gospels, their contents were too similar to one another without such an expected variety of contents.  Suppose that four authors try to write the life of Trump, Obama, Bush, or Clinton in their books, contents of each book must be widely different with so much different episodes of a selected president.  But, it is as if one writer had written all the four gospels in different occasion in different moods based on one memo of deeds and words of Christ Jesus.  And, we have almost no other documents reporting a live figure of Christ Jesus.

If there had not been the Gospels but only Paul's letters had been only documents available for believers or possible believers, could Christianity prevail so much in the Roman Empire and the later world?  Besides, St. Paul did not try to show and explain what and how the life of Christ Jesus had been.  St. Paul even did not know living and alive Christ Jesus!

But if one of followers or disciples had written the original or source document for the Gospels, could he or she neglect the teaching or parables Christ Jesus should have surely delivered at meals?  He or she should have also reported how Christ Jesus had dinner and what prayer He had delivered.  It is because talks at meals are  impressive for everybody in any era, so that if the original Gospel writer had joined meals with Christ Jesus, he or she could not have missed the scenes at meals.

From this point of view, the author of the underlying document for the Gospels or the Q document cannot be a member of disciples or followers of live Christ Jesus.  Then who wrote the document?

The possibility is that the author was Christ Jesus Himself or somebody who had followed and accompanied the band of Christ Jesus for a special purpose from the beginning to the apprehension of Christ Jesus.  Anyway, the author of the source document of the Gospels looks very close to Christ Jesus from the beginning.

However, there can be still other source documents that have been hidden for 2000 years, although the Gospel of Thomas, found in Egypt in 1945, looks like something else.     
 


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Joh 8:24 I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.

Joh 8:25 Then said they unto him, Who art thou? And Jesus saith unto them, Even the same that I said unto you from the beginning.

"the five loaves among five thousand" - Unconditional Belief in God

Mt. Fuji, Japan

Unconditional Belief in God

There is a possibility that our earth is the only planet that has the highly-developed creatures such as the mankind in the whole university or at least in the Milky Way.

Then all the laws of the nature, including Einstein's theories and the quantum physics, were prepared for generating the mankind on the earth, one of planets around the sun that is just one of 100 billion times 100 billion fixed stars in the universe.  And it took more than 13 billion years till the mankind fully developed on the earth since the birth of the universe.

God used such a large-scale and long-term scheme to create human beings that have ability to recognize, revere, and pray to God on the earth.  Indeed, what God planned is beyond our comprehension.

Therefore, we are required to unconditionally believe in God, since the scheme God used to create human beings is unconditionally beyond our comprehension.


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Mar 8:19 When I brake the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say unto him, Twelve.
Mar 8:20 And when the seven among four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? And they said, Seven.

"There shall no sign be given" - Christ Jesus having Come from God

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Christ Jesus having Come from God

Even if somebody acted like Christ Jesus, preaching the gospel, healing the sick, reviving the dead, and exercising other miracles, he cannot establish Christianity.

The key to the success and glory of Christ Jesus is His association with God.  There might be somebody who looks clever, stronger, or more merciful than Christ Jesus, but if his linkage to God is weaker than Christ Jesus, he cannot succeed in establishing a religion like Christianity.

In this context, the Gospels must be books proving Christ Jesus' tie with God.  The most important thing is that God sent Christ Jesus, which must be the main theme of the Gospels.  So, the Gospels should be written in a way that readers can see God through words and deeds of Christ Jesus.

God is above all the mankind.  God is god for every member of the mankind.  God is indeed the god of Hebrews or Jewish people, but He is more than that.  The Old Testament is volumes of books proving that God is the god of Hebrews or Jewish people; it does not tell that God is also the god of other tribes than Hebrews or Jewish people.  The Old Testament never asserts that God is also the god of Hindus, Chinese, Japanese, etc.     

The earliest Gospel Mark was not originally written with the intention to declare that God is the god of all the mankind, although later Gospels, Mathew, Luke, and John, tell that Christ Jesus told disciples to preach the words of God to the world.

So, the early Christianity needed to prove that Christ Jesus was from God, and then God is the god of all the mankind.  However, to achieve this goal, Mark describes only some concrete episodes of Christ Jesus in addition to some teachings of Christ Jesus.  Is such description enough to prove that Christ Jesus was sent by God to human beings?  Doesn't it need hundreds or more volumes of books to make readers fully understand the theory of Christ Jesus having come from God?

Nonetheless, Christians, priests, scholars, professors, etc. have been reading and studying the Gospels for 2000 years while arguing various issues at various depths.  So, it can be said that the Gospels are books that can at least withstand criticism, scrutiny, attacks or negligence.

Anyway, today for most of peoples in the world, Christianity is the Gospels themselves.  The most precious product the mankind has ever produced is the Gospels that prove Christ Jesus having come from God.


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Mar 8:12 And he sighed deeply in his spirit, and saith, Why doth this generation seek after a sign? verily I say unto you, There shall no sign be given unto this generation.

"How many loaves have ye?" - Christ Jesus, a Super Healer?

Pacific Coast, North East of Tokyo (with some signs of the 2011 great tsunami)

Christ Jesus, a Super Healer?

Christ Jesus was not specialized in healing.  He did not go and find sick people to heal them.  But only occasionally, He healed ill persons mostly on their request.

To preach the kingdom of God was the most important for Christ Jesus.  Even if a poor and sick man was healed, he might follow Satan after recovery.  No matter what conditions, one might be in, he or she was expected to hear and follow the teaching of God, and then health and foods would be provided by God, which was the core of Jesus' teaching.

In another example, Christ Jesus would not give money to poor men for the same reason.  But as Christ Jesus could heal sick persons and people haunted by evil spirits, He could earn big money or bring wealth.  But it was not His intention and purpose.  Just preaching the kingdom of God and having people accept the teaching of God was His main mission in this world.

So, it is wrong to regard Christ Jesus simply as a super healer.  He was anyway the Son of God.   



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Mar 8:5 And he asked them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven.
Mar 8:6 And he commanded the people to sit down on the ground: and he took the seven loaves, and gave thanks, and brake, and gave to his disciples to set before them; and they did set them before the people.

" a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand" - Two Gods in Two Testaments

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Two Gods in Two Testaments

Which should we believe in, the God in the New Testament or the other God in the Old Testament?

Whoever reads the New Testament and the Old Testament realizes that the characteristics and the nature of each God are different from those of the other God.

The God of the Old Testament ordered Jewish people to kill different tribes and secure their own territories.  But the God of the New Testament ordered all the mankind to forgive and love enemies.  The God of the Old Testament promised prosperity and success to Jewish people, while the God of the New Testament promised eternal life, however denying worldly wealth and success.

It is apparent that the God of the New Testament requested the man kind to live at a higher moral level subject to a higher standard than people can keep.  But the God of the Old Testament just requested Jewish people to keep faith only in Him to be wealthy and successful and satisfy worldly desires.

In other words, it is an astonishment that the New Testament is handled as an extension to the Old Testament in the light of admitting this discrepancy in recognition of Gods.  It can be ascribed to the historical fact that Christ Jesus was a member of Jewish people and He accepted the Old Testament.  But, if we regard Christ Jesus as somebody who has nothing to do with Judaism (of 2000 yeas ago), that difficulty in understanding the two Gods in one series of religion (from Judaism to Christianity) could be solved.

However, there are clues to solve this holy problem.  Judaism is for Jewish people, and the Old Testament is for Jewish people.  But Christianity is for the mankind, and the New Testament is for the mankind.

If you were members of Jewish people, you could understand God and satisfy God by living up to the Old Testament.  But if you are members of the mankind, you can only understand God and satisfy God by living up to the New Testament.  As Christ Jesus Himself was a Jewish man, any Jewish person can leave the Old Testament and adopt the New Testament, although we cannot say definitely whether such conversion is mandatory and voluntary unless we are anointed Jewish men.

Anyway, there seems to be no reason for thinking that God is pleased that the mankind still use the Old Testament as well as the New Testament.

Or at most, we should think that the Old Testament is a rock beneath a house called the New Testament.  If once the house is built, why should we mind so much the rock beneath the house in which we live and pray to God?


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Mat 7:26 And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:
Mat 7:27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.

"I never knew you: depart from me" - Judas, the Most Trusted Disciple

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Judas, the Most Trusted Disciple

Who sat on the left side of Christ Jesus at the last supper?

The Gospels depicted that a young man called John sat on the right side of Christ Jesus.  And Christ Jesus said that someone who would receive dipped bread from Him would betray Him.  But nobody accused that someone who received the dipped bread.  Other disciples discussed who would betray Christ Jesus while He said that someone who would receive dipped bread from Him would betray Him.

From the circumstances, it is clear that all the disciples except that someone could not clearly hear the word of Christ Jesus, since if they had, they should have immediately pointed to that someone, calling him the betrayer.  But, this word of Christ Jesus could be only clearly heard only by that someone who must have sit on the left side of Christ Jesus, except Christ Jesus.

The top disciple must sit down on the left side of Christ Jesus, while the second top disciple must sit down on the right side of Christ Jesus.  It means that someone who was most trusted by Christ Jesus and sat on the left side of Christ Jesus betrayed Him.  In other word, Judas Iscariot was most trusted by Christ Jesus.  And this Judas could only hear the word of Christ Jesus, but no other disciples.

It also means that the source document of the Gospels was written by either Judas or Christ Jesus, since no other disciples could hear the word of Christ Jesus.  So, it is natural to think that Christ Jesus Himself wrote the source document, which might be the Q document, of the Gospels after His Resurrection.

So, Da Vinci's picture The Last Super is wrong as Judas is not situated next to Christ Jesus on His left side in the picture.  In addition, it is believed by scholars that Christ Jesus and other disciples did not use chairs at the last supper, but they sat on the floor or the carpet, or sitting and leaning on a kind of scrolled carpets.

First, we need to consider the table setting itself. "The normal Jewish custom was to sit on the floor or eat meals standing up. However, during the Passover meal, it was ritual duty to recline at a table as a symbol of freedom. Since the Romans reclined, it was especially important to use these tables for Passover. The Jews anticipated the Messiah's coming to drive the Romans from the country, freeing Israel to once more be their own rulers. The act of reclining would no longer be in anticipation of freedom but would reflect reality. The Passover meal was a celebration of the Exodus and it was required to eat this meal in a manner usually reserves for the wealthy. That is to recline around the table, enjoying one's freedom in the Land. It would be impossible to recline around a table such as we eat at today. However, we do know that they are around a U-shaped table, called a triclinium. The meaning comes from the Latin "tri" meaning three and "clinium" meaning recline. Seating at a triclinium, three-sided table, was according to a traditional plan. The places of greater honor were to the left, and those of lesser honor to the right. It was these places of greater honor that Jesus counseled against selecting at a feast, "lest someone more distinguished than you may have been invited and then in disgrace you proceed to occupy the last place" (Luke 14:8, 9).

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Another important thing is that Christ Jesus did not try to stop Judas from betraying Him.  And one more important thing is that no other disciples beforehand doubted and suspected Judas.  There must have been more complicated conditions in the so-called betrayal by Judas.

Anyway, Christ Jesus did not simply die on the Cross to take sins of all the mankind on Himself, but it is possible that He died to put a crime on Himself as a scapegoat for His most trusted disciple Judas, probably, to save Judas or his family. 



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Mat 7:22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
Mat 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

"Art thou he that should come?" - God, a Product of Men, or Civilization, a product of God?

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God, a Product of Men, or Civilization, a product of God?

Is God a product of human mind work?  Or is the human mind a product by God?

Some might even argue that God is a product of the Bible, the Koran, or religion.  Others may claim that God did not exists until the mankind created the concept of God. 

For example, the sun is not a product by work of the human mind.  The sun exists and existed always on human beings in the sky before and after the emergence of the mankind.  But who ever saw God in the sky?

The key issue is that God cannot be seen by everybody like the sun in the sky.  How could we believe any entity whose existence cannot be seen by anybody?  We cannot see minds of others, but we could feel minds of others through their behaviors, facial expressions, their vocal expressions, etc.  But can we really feel God through natural or social phenomena?

Most of people, including the Pope and other church leaders, cannot feel God beyond reasonable doubt.  However, there are may people, including the Pope and other church leaders, earn money by pretending that they surely feel God.  However, their seeing God has never been proved objectively in a scientific manner.

On the other hand, it is almost 100% clear through long history that men cannot deny the existence of God beyond reasonable doubt.  Nobody has ever succeeded in proving non-existence of God objectively in a scientific manner.

Or should more centuries or thousand years pass till the mankind acquire ability to definitely prove existence or non-existence of God?

Today's civilization of the mankind, which has been mostly driven by Christian or Judaist Europeans and their descendants, is based on respect to God of Christianity and Judaism.  Even peripheral Arabs and other Muslims accept the God of Christianity and Judaism while joining the civilization.

How can the mankind build this civilization based on a wrong concept of God?  In this context, this civilization of the mankind rather belong to God than the mankind themselves.  Indeed, all the Gold and Silver in this world belong to God, in addition to the civilization.   

The mankind cannot even see this civilization from a viewpoint of God as well as they cannot see God yet.
 


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Luk 7:19 And John calling unto him two of his disciples sent them to Jesus, saying, Art thou he that should come? or look we for another?
Luk 7:20 When the men were come unto him, they said, John Baptist hath sent us unto thee, saying, Art thou he that should come? or look we for another?
Luk 7:21 And in that same hour he cured many of their infirmities and plagues, and of evil spirits; and unto many that were blind he gave sight.

"Hearken unto me" - Enter through the Narrow Gate

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Enter through the Narrow Gate

If a dog can think of God, it will assume that God is a kind of dog.

If a cat can think of God, it will suppose that God is a kind of cat.  If a bad man can think of God, he can at most think that God is a kind of bad man.  If an abnormal man can think about God, he must think that God is a kind of abnormal man.

But, as Christ Jesus is a righteous man, He can see that God is super righteous.

So, the Bible says, "Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.  But small is the gate and narrow the way that leads to life, and only a few find it ." 

To love a dog or a cat is a kind of wide and broad way to be reciprocally pleased psychologically.  Bur to love a righteous man or a holy man is a narrow gate to get satisfaction in return, since you must always feel how bad and mean you are while facing such a man.

In other word, do not trust a popular man.  A popular priest is a kind of contradictory expression.  Christ Jesus must have been also a narrow gate for ancient Jewish people, even though thousands admitted that He was a holy man who could exercise miracles. 


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Mar 7:14 And when he had called all the people unto him, he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one of you, and understand:
Mar 7:15 There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.

"in vain do they worship me" - Finite Human Beings and Infinite God

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Finite Human Beings and Infinite God

Is God infinite?

As the definition of God is almighty, God can have all the features that can be imagined or thought in the human mind.   As the infinitude can be imagined by the human mind, God must be able to meet this condition.

In other word, if God is not infinite, whoever is infinite surpass ability of God.  But nobody can surpass God who is almighty, since there cannot be anybody who is more than almighty.

But what should be the relationship between the finite human beings and infinite God?  From the beginning, how can the human beings see God?  In other word, how can the finite human beings understand infinite God?  The human beings should be puzzled if they think of God and would tell anything groundless about God.

So, the human beings can understand God only to the extent where God allows the human beings to understand Him.  The words of Christ Jesus should be reviewed from this standpoint without establishing dubious theology such as the Holy Trinity.



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Mar 7:7 Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
Mar 7:8 For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.

"he loveth our nation" - Living Standard of Christ Jesus

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Living Standard of Christ Jesus

Christ Jesus was a carpenter:

Mark 6:3
Isn’t this the carpenter? Isn’t this Mary’s son and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?” And they took offense at him.

He was not a farmer, a merchant, an official, a teacher, a scholar or a priest.  He was also neither a homeless nor a politician.  It means He was neither very poor nor very rich.  We may as well regard Him as positioned in the lower middle class of the society at the time.

But, according to mainstream interpretation of the Gospels, Christ Jesus suddenly one day started to act as a wandering or traveling priest, healer, prophet, and saint, leaving his life as a carpenter.  An ex-carpenter saint, this is Christ Jesus, but the Vatican and the Christian leaders have not attached importance to this fact.

In other word, all the Christian leaders, priests, and scholars should start their career as a carpenter or the like.  Then, they might catch any glimpse of the secret of Christianity or Christ Jesus.

In the Kingdom of God, there must be no poor men and no rich men.  But all the people in the Kingdom must enjoy the living standard allowed for carpenters who lived 2000 years ago in Palestine.

Contrarily,  Moses enjoyed the status of a leader of a tribe; the Buddha was a prince of a kingdom of India, Confucius asked for a high status in kingdoms of China, and Muhammad was a successful merchant.  They all enjoyed material living at a higher level than that allowed for a mere carpenter.

The carpenter might be a line Christians are not allowed to step over.  If your living standard converted to that in society 2000 years ago was higher than that of a carpenter, you might not be admitted to Heaven. 




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Luk 7:4 And when they came to Jesus, they besought him instantly, saying, That he was worthy for whom he should do this:
Luk 7:5 For he loveth our nation, and he hath built us a synagogue.
Luk 7:6 Then Jesus went with them. And when he was now not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying unto him, Lord, trouble not thyself: for I am not worthy that thou shouldest enter under my roof: