(In the vicinity of a Grand Shrine which once faced the Tokyo Bay deeply getting inland 2000 years ago as seagulls even today vist it sometimes)DO NOT JUDGE A MAN
No foreigners or strangers can feel a divine atmosphere in a precinct of any shintoism shrine in Japan.
Even no Chinese and no Koreans can share the sense of purity of his or her soul that Japanese people feel when entering a Shinto shrine.
Only Japanese know this sense. But it is not easy to have foreigners understand it through words and letters based on any skills or logic of language.
The main stream of the Japanese races consists of those who can feel this catharsis and purification of their own souls when entering a shinto shrine or a holy mountain.
Only those Japanese must be truly called "Nihon-Jin" or more specifically "Yamato-Minzoku" (the bona-fide Japanese tribe), though we have to admit other types of Japanese races for political correctness.
And, good or bad on words and deeds of bona-fide Japanese cannot be judged without knowing this unique spiritual structure.
Therefore we should not judge any Japanese, at least, on any written or even verbal witness.
Jesus Christ simply ordered not to judge anybody.
SECTION I: They are still arguing deity of Jesus
It is really nice to see that some Americans are still arguing the deity of Jesus Christ in earnest.
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…The only real argument that remains, is that Jesus was just a legend or myth. There is little likelihood that Jesus' claims are legend. There just wasn't enough time for any legendary development of the story to replace what really happened. For instance, we now know that the Gospels were written 30 to 50 years after the crucifixion of Jesus. More dramatically, we now date some of the early Christian creeds, proclaiming the life, death and resurrection of Jesus, to 3 to 10 years after His crucifixion. This includes Paul's letters to the Corinthians, Romans and Galatians. Finally, if Jesus' claim of deity was a myth, the early Jewish opponents of Christianity would surely have presented the fact that these claims never happened. Unlike modern skeptics, the Jewish rabbis never denied that Jesus made the claim that He was God. Instead, they called Him a liar, and tried Him for blasphemy.
Is Jesus God? The Only Answer
Is Jesus God? Once you have asked all your questions, weighed all the evidence, and tested all the arguments, you will ultimately be confronted with this question. In Mathew 16:15, Jesus put it this way, 'But who do you say that I am?' One of His disciples, Simon Peter, replied: 'You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.' What is your reply?
http://www.allaboutjesuschrist.org/is-jesus-god-c.htm
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But, I will repeat here that you cannot prove if Jesus Christ is God or not based on the Gospels, since those holy books were intended not to be used as a proof of Jesus’ Deity, probably, very carefully.
The Bible was written, edited, and compiled so as not be used as a witness to Jesus being the God, though people say that Daniel prophesied Jesus would come to save Israel.
It is St. Peter who found his God or the God of Israel in Jesus.
The witness is the awe St. Peter was struck with.
SECTION II: How Witness was Relayed
Please check my drawing below, though it is still a draft version.
(Click to enlarge.)In the above scheme, there are four persons who directly heard the witness from St. Peter. One of the four is Mark.
However, there must be some variations in St. Peter’s talk to these four of the first-level witnesses, which led to differences between the Book of St. Peter-Mark, the Book of St. Peter-Luke, the Book of St. Peter Matthew, and even the Book of St. Peter-John.
SECTION III: Why Pope Must be a Judaist
If you are not an Israelite, you cannot find the God in Jesus Christ, whether you live 2000 years ago or today.
If you are ancient Greeks or ancient Romans educated by ancient Greeks, you must feel frustrated not to be able to find God or any proof of Jesus’ deity in written witness on Jesus, say, even by St. Paul.
The proof is in the awe generated in St. Peter’s mind which could not be translated into words and letters in a manner that ancient Romans and Greeks could comprehend, since the awe was very Judaistic.
Therefore, you cannot get many believers by simply claiming that Jesus is God in the Gospels. Rather, ancient Romans and Greeks would have doubted sincerity of ancient Christians relying on poor logic and story-telling in proving the deity of Jesus.
In that case, wise Early Christians would abandon efforts to create a Gospel that could prove the deity of Jesus Christ so controversially or in vain.
Instead, they would claim that the deity of Jesus is only proved by direct inheritance of the secret through a face-to-face disclosure which started from St. Peter.
Therefore, the Vatican even today claims that Protestants cannot find God in Jesus if they only rely on the Gospels. In order to find God in Jesus, they must come to a Catholic church where a clergyman would give some portion of the proof of Jesus’ Diety through religious ceremony as instructed by the Vatican, the only successor of St. Peter and his witness on the deity of Jesus.
Yet, though the Vatican has this secret knowledge, it has no ability to find God in Jesus by itself, since it is no more Judaistic, while St. Peter’s awe in finding God in Jesus was only possible due to his being a Judaist, namely an Israelite 2000 years ago.
So, the Vatican and Popes in these centuries have been only masters of formality and knowledge but not honest performers of St. Peter’s awe.
In summary, for the Vatican to get the ability to feel the same holy awe as St. Peter did, it must have a Judaistic Pope.
And, a Judaistic Pope must live in Jerusalem, since other Judaists have already returned to Israel since 1948.
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But, where have other Gospels based on witnesses of eleven Disciples except St. Peter gone?
There must have been situations where our Ever-Holy Jesus and, say, James alone were talking without St. Peter anywhere around to listen to their conversations.
Jesus might have said, "Look at the sky. Without it, there is no ground, since the Spirit, from the sky, gives existence to the ground on which we stand."
But, this precious teaching has not survived the history but vanished away, since James’ Gospel was searched and destroyed by evil forces in the first century.
(That is all for today, since a stupid Japanese comedian called “Morita” is now on a TV screen. Decades ago when he put on ordinary glasses but not sunglasses, he made his first or second TV appearance, as I happened to see it around Tokyo, to present poor performance of imitating mah-jong players speaking four different pseudo-languages. Nowadays, I seldom see his regular TV performance around the noon.
Anyway, strangers do not know glory of any legends temporarily hidden in the faintly glittering mist of night.
http://www.menziesera.com/midi/stranger.mid )
Joh 12:23 And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified.
Joh 12:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
Joh 12:25 He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.
Joh 12:26 If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.