"Mind if Jesus is not God for Christmas?"
The most significant issue since the birth of Jesus Christ has been, of course, as to whether or not he is God Himself.
First of all, however, the concept and the impression of the God are so diverse among mankind.
Nonetheless, mankind can be defined as a species that has at least a certain level of the concept and the impression of the God. And, the minimum level is characterized by the fear of the nature and the fear of an invisible being(s) that occupies the nature.
You may say that you don’t believe the existence of God. Yet, you will surely claim that you are not such a fool as does have no idea on what God means. Indeed, everybody is proud even when talking about the God.
So, I have to ask you, each of you, what concept and impression you have of the God.
“I don’t know” can be nice, but “I don’t like to answer” will be also respected.
Yet, I have to pose another question: “Do you mind if Jesus is not God at all?”
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St. Peter was a liar.
Every pope after St. Peter has been a liar.
Catholicism is a mass of lies.
The Vatican is a palace of lies and liars.
Judaists and Muslims must prevail and guide mankind, especially sternly reeducating those who ever trust, respect, and believe Christianity, since they are lied to blindly calling themselves Christians.
The whole European civilization in these 2000 years has been based on the bogus recognition: Jesus is God himself.
Then, there emerges a big enigma: Why has the European Civilization been able to develop, evolve, and flourish with huge success allowing European Christians to gain the hegemony over the world, while it is based on a simple lie that Jesus is God?
Indeed, something is wrong, since Yahweh or Allah is yet to punish Christians, especially European Christians while they have been living based on an unforgivable lie.
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Our Ever-Holy Jesus Christ never said, “Call me God, since I am God!”
The only definition of a Christian is that a Christian is a member of mankind who believes that “Jesus is God.”
It is so, because St. Peter who followed and lived with Jesus 24 hours a day for a certain period of time found that “Jesus is God.”
Nonetheless, St. Peter never allowed those who heard the story of Jesus from him to write a Gospel explicitly claiming that Jesus is God, since our Ever-Holy Jesus Christ never said, “Call me God, since I am God!”
So, Jesus is God, but He did not announce that He is God; and St. Peter understood the deep wisdom in it.
As the four Gospels of the New Testament are all based on St. Peter’s witness on living Jesus, they do not include the expression that Jesus clearly told his disciples that He is God.
In this context, the only definition of a Christian is that a Christian is a member of mankind who believes that "Jesus is God" in the very way St. Peter understood it.
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Now, let’s see whether or not the Vatican today believes that “Jesus is God” in the very way St. Peter understood it.
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Saturday 16 April 2005 (08 Rabi` al-Awwal 1426)
Vatican’s Ties With Islam
Amir Taheri
...In 2001 John Paul II visited Damascus and became the first pope to pray in a mosque. He also issued a formal apology for what he termed the misdeeds of Christendom toward Islam, including the Crusades and colonialism.
That strategy was not an easy sell to many Catholics. Islam and Christianity are the only two major religions that wish to convert the whole of mankind. For them to set their 1400 year-old competition for converts aside in the name of fighting the common enemies of secularism and atheism is not an easy option.
Politically, John Paul II’s strategy has scored a number of victories. The Vatican has united with a number of Muslim states, notably Iran and the Sudan, to block the extension of the secular concept of human rights in several instances.
In the Beijing conference on women, for example, Vatican and the Islamic bloc managed to prevent measures that would have given women equal rights with men.
John Paul II’s charisma was such that few dared challenge his strategy. Now that he is no longer there, however, his strategy will be subjected to scrutiny within the Catholic Church.
One critic is Cardinal Josef Ratzinger, a leading candidate for papacy. Ratzinger believes that John Paul II’s strategy of alliance with Islam has put the Vatican not on the side of the Muslim peoples but on the side of despotic regimes that dominate the Muslim world. Ratzinger sees relations between Islam and Catholicism as one of competition over the truth.
Ratzinger suggests an alternative strategy under which the Catholic Church would focus on the consolidation of its position in its traditional strongholds in Europe and the American Continent. In that context Ratzinger has publicly opposed the admission of Turkey into the European Union...
“Many Christians are uncomfortable with the idea of faith having its say on all issues,” he said. “In Islam, however, religion is still regarded as a legitimate participant in the public debate. We must work together to make this case in the global arena.”
In the next few days we shall know who has won the argument in the Vatican.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=62194&d=16&m=4&y=2005
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Does this sequence of strategies of the Vatican in this modern era, as mirrored by the relationship with Islam, mean that the Vatican today believes that “Jesus is God” in the very way St. Peter understood it?
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First of all, or again, the concept and the impression of the God we have are the main theme.
If something inside Jesus matches it perfectly, you would naturally think: “Ah, Jesus is God!”
Judaists and Muslims would like to hear your finding.
(I don’t blame anybody who is whitewashing his or her lack of faith, while calling himself or herself a Christian, since the Vatican and other churches have been materially so successful in these 2000 years all over the world. But, remember Christmas is closer; and what are you going to celebrate? The birth of the God?
http://www.fukuchan.ac/music/xmas/rudolph.html )
Rev 12:11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
Rev 12:12 Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.