GOOD vs. EVIL (on WALL STREET)
There are two ways for a man to come to revere the God.
One is through reason. Another is through ethics.
In other words, you can prove the existence of God based on the pursuit of scientific truth; you can also prove the existence of God based on the pursuit of good and evil.
Put drastically, when you find an undeniable shadow of the Creator of the universe in your pursuit of scientific truth, you cannot help but accept the existence of the God as the sole creator of the whole universe.
Put drastically, when you find an undeniable shadow of the Governor of the human mind and soul in your pursuit of good and evil, you cannot help but accept the existence of the God as the sole lord of the whole human spiritual world.
Both physically and spiritually, you can find the God.
But, at this point, the most significant problem appears: insurgency against the God.
To our astonishment, mankind, namely a God’s creature, is given ability or a function to revolt against the God.
In this insurgency against the God, a man can even say, “I do not admit the existence of the God.”
Of course, it is made possible, since the God created the Devil who helps living and survival of people who opt to be an enemy of the God.
Therefore, one of the most important questions for mankind is as to why the God created the Devil whose sole mission is insurgency against the God.
Yet, before this discussion, we have to check monotheism and dualism.
If the God is above all, the Devil is under the God.
If good and evil is regarded as essentially equal, it might be conceived that the both are on the same level if not putting the Devil upon the God. Though this thinking is theoretically possible, mankind has proved that its survival is only secured when admitting the supremacy of the God over the all including the Devil.
However, outside the world of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, people have been living traditionally in the following spiritual world:
However, apart from recognition of or belief in the supremacy of the God, a man can still revolt against the God.
It is because mankind accepts the following false order:
In this respect, what is revolutionary for Jesus Christ in the human history is that he clearly declared that the true order is the poverty is above richness.
"God loves the poor but not the rich," said Jesus Christ.
"Happy people do not need God," said Jesus Christ.
But, those Mafia-like workers in Wall Street seem to adopt the following spiritual order.
Whatever belongs to or is linked with justice, such as love to neighbors, the poor, the weak, and losers, is regarded as something at the lower level of the value order by them.
More or less, of course, even ordinary people behave based on the above false order as occasion demands.
Yet, Jesus Christ’s doctrine and injunctions are absolute. He never admits exception.
In whatever situation you are, you must not adopt the above false order; this is the core of his teachings.
That is why Japanese people traditionally by intuition find it impossible to be a Christian.
If you cannot be a Christian, you should not pretend to be a Christian; so honestly Japanese people distance themselves from Christianity.
Indeed, Japan had culturally and spiritually fully developed when it encountered Christianity in the 16th century.
This can be applied to China and India.
That is why Japan, China, and India are expected to take major part in the 21st century when no followers of the teachings of God, such as Judaists, Christians, and Muslims, cannot stop the way of life, namely virtually accepting the above false order while calling themselves monotheists.
Yet, the God might give a great role to poor Christians, poor Muslims, and poor Judaists as He wishes in this century.
Anyway, truth must be so simple that people without education can easily grasp it.
And, people with higher education and advanced experiences must grasp it obediently.
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That is all for today, since this is Friday.
It is a miracle that only three types of elementary particles, electrons, neutrons, and protons, virtually make our whole body and any other materials around us, in addition to light or photons (which are mostly absorbed and emitted by an electron).
Take three types of round marbles and try to make a man of them, no matter how many of each type you have to use.
If you are a God, you must be able to do it.
If you cannot, you are proven not to be a God at all.
Yet, if a miracle can happen around you to promote your faith in God, you are blessed.
I think the recent Wall Street turmoil is a kind of miracle I expected, since before September 11, 2001 there was no such a huge amount of money on Wall Street to your astonishment.
Indeed, the Devil must have found a great chance in the American mind set since September 11, 2001.
We have to continue our efforts to realize a change in the material value system and the spiritual order system here and there.
("The God never changes. My heart never changes." Have you ever been said to so?
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Mat 9:19 And Jesus arose, and followed him, and so did his disciples.
Mat 9:20 And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment:
Mat 9:21 For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole.
Mat 9:22 But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour.