"Let me go..."
"......”
"But I don't know..." (Mais je ne sais pas.)
I CAME, WATCHED, AND BELIEVED
(or "Veni vidi vici" as Caesar so shouted)
The most valuable description of the Bible (here the King James Version), as a historical evidence to understand what happened 2000 years ago, is of the scene when followers of Jesus Christ went to the tomb where His dead body had been laid down:
Joh 20:01 The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.
Joh 20:02 Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the LORD out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him.
Joh 20:03 Peter therefore went forth, and that other disciple, and came to the sepulchre.
Joh 20:04 So they ran both together: and the other disciple did outrun Peter, and came first to the sepulchre.
Joh 20:05 And he stooping down, and looking in, saw the linen clothes lying; yet went he not in.
Joh 20:06 Then cometh Simon Peter following him, and went into the sepulchre, and seeth the linen clothes lie,
Joh 20:07 And the napkin, that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself.
Joh 20:08 Then went in also that other disciple, which came first to the sepulchre, and he saw, and believed.
Now, here, what and why did the disciple believe by seeing something in the tomb?
This is one of grounds for admitting a theory that a body shape of Jesus Christ was imprinted on "the linen clothes."
However, it does not lead to taking the shroud in Turin as an authentic one. It might be the second copy or something like that.
If we accept this theory, the answers to the mystery arising from the last sentence, Joh 20:08, are clear.
Even if, say, Tom Sawyer left his body image in a coffin and disappeared before his burial, people would believe that Tom resurrected and he was actually a holy messenger, departing for a new mission from his territory along the Mississippi.
Indeed, those who believe without seeing are more blessed, though it is often said that seeing is believing.
(A Japanese newscaster reported that a US cable TV was reporting all day long on the Minnesota bridge accident without interruption.
The foreign-looking newscaster herself went out to an expressway outside Tokyo and gave a warning about the global warming.
Indeed, nowadays everything complicated, including extinction of a species in a cyberspace, seems to be ascribed to the CO2 emission of cars.
However, in Japan, you can still enjoy skiing and, say, Christmas!!.....
Uh!.....Have a summer vacation, too.; You, too, good girls!
I'm a busy man until midnight as is usual since 1997 when...)
"...Rather, how happy are those who hear the word of God and obey it..."