Use of Power or Crucifixion
Jesus Christ was arrested by Roman soldiers.
In other world, if followers of Jesus Christ had overwhelmed Roman soldiers with their arms and weapons, the arrest, the trial, and the crucifixion should not have been possible.
In this context, Christianity is subject to arms and weapons or self-defense ability.
However, the lesson is that a man engaged in a holy mission must not face evil forces with any defence forces, as exemplified by Jesus Christ. He must solely rely on God who manifests His glory through any worldly tragedy, such as the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and the great earthquakes in Haiti and Chile.
With this background, what I can present today is as follows:
SECTION I: G2 - China & USA
In Japan, critics now judge that the boom of G2 in the White House and Wall Street is dwindling down.
Some even say that China is going to try to overwhelm the U.S. with military expansion. China has a plan to equip itself with more arms and weapons than America. As the first step, Beijing will try to overwhelm Taiwan with its military power, so that Taipei will not even try to protest when the Chinese military of the large scale lands on the Taiwan island some day.
It will be the moment, in the plan of the Chinese Communist Party, that the U.S. will realize that it cannot stop or stand against China with military forces.
The Taiwanese military will surrender without fight; America will avoid defeat in war with China over Taiwan; and Japan will support China...Beijing might be musing so.
However, in my view, the Chinese Communist Party will have to face a new revolution on its land before starting its armed venture into Taiwan.
(From the beginning, China today is based on revolution but not legitimacy in history. So, it cannot claim Taiwan as its own. Taiwan's independence is also a revolution against hegemony of China. As China is authentic, if appropriate to say so, independent Taiwan is all the more authentic.)
SECTION II: TRUTH AFTER BURIAL OF JESUS CHRIST
It must have been brothers of Jesus Christ that carried out secretly the corpse of Jesus Christ from the tomb He had been placed in after the crucifixion.
They took the dead body of Jesus Christ to their home town or tomb in Galilee.
And then, they kept silent all about it to date.
However, it is also likely that it was His brothers that Jesus Christ met on the Mt. Olive where St. Peter and other two disciples followed Him.
On the mountain, Jesus Christ and His brothers must have arranged what to do after the inevitable Crucifixion.
And, the rest of the story was wrote down in the Bible.
Yet, a miracle must have happened in these passages and proceedings.
It is even possible that two brothers played a role of Jesus Christ.
Or, you may believe that Jesus Christ came back to life actually to go out of the tomb with His brothers to eventually travel to Damascus, Alexandria, Rome, or Mecca for some preparation.
SECTION III: U.S. Marines in Okinawa
The U.S. Marine Corps in Okinawa can be dispatched to Taiwan to defend the island nation from China.
The U.S. Marine Corps in Okinawa can be dispatched to South Korea to defend the peninsula country from North Korea.
They can also act to evacuate American citizens living or working in China, Taiwan, and Korea from the regions in case of emergency.
But, Japan does not need U.S. Marines for its defence from China and North Korea.
What Japan needs is hundreds of U.S. Patriot missile squadrons and the U.S. Seventh Fleet to patrol on the water between Japan and China, Taiwan, South Korea, North Korea, and Russia.
However, if Taiwan and South Korea ask Japan to keep U.S. Marines in Okinawa, Japan may respect their solicitation. Or, if America solicits Japan for continued admission of U.S. Marines in Okinawa for global re-deployment of U.S. forces, Japan may respect the solicitation.
Yet, the Hatoyama Cabinet should review the whole Japan-U.S. security relationship with an eye on China's military expansion that cannot be condoned. Prime Minister Mr. Yukio Hatoyama must tell China to stop military expansion and then America to reduce its presence in Okinawa. The Futenma Marine base issue is a secondary matter in this context.
Anyway, no one will be fully satisfied with whatever solution the Japanese Government will offer to the U.S. Government, Okinawa residents, and other people concerned in Japan, Asia, and the world.
SECTION IV: Islamic Film About Jesus
Iranians made a film to claim that Jesus Christ was not crucified at all.
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Nader Talebzadeh sees his movie, "Jesus, the Spirit of God," as an Islamic answer to Western productions like Mel Gibson's 2004 blockbuster "The Passion of the Christ". He has praised that film as admirable, but quite simply "wrong". Really.
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Examining the Claims Made By the Islamic Jesus Movie
Thus we have the following startling claims made in the movie:
1. Jesus was not crucified, and instead was was saved the night of the last supper and taken directly up to Heaven.
2. Another - Judas Iscariot, one of the 12 apostles - was crucified in His place. The film maker offers evidence in the Koran for this, as well as The Gospel of Barnabas.
3. Jesus was only a prophet of God - nothing more. He did not claim to be, nor does the evidence point to Him as the Son of God.
4. Jesus allegedly "talked about Mohammad many, many times." What if any supporting evidence is there for this assertion?
5. The producer refers in great detail to a so-called "Gospel of Barnabas". Did such a gospel exist at the time of the New Testament gospels, and can it be trusted as an authoritative document?
http://www.evidencetobelieve.net/islamic_film_about_jesus.htm
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Of course, as Christians nowadays are used to make stupid films on Jesus Christ, such as "The Passion of the Christ," Muslims would not feel any trouble in making their version of "Jesus Christ story."
But, remember that the 1998 film on Jesus Christ "The Last Temptation of Christ" can be regarded as one factor for the 2001 9/11 Terror; and the 2004 film "The Passion of the Christ" can be as one for the 2008 9/15 Lehman Shock, in religious terms.
So, this film "Jesus, the Spirit of God" or "The Messiah" made in Iran in 2008 can be a factor for something vastly influential in future.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Messiah_(Iranian_film)
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If hundreds of followers and believers had been around Jesus Christ day and night on alert, it should have been very difficult for Roman soldiers to arrest him, since in that case even Judas should have been unable to find a moment when Jesus Christ was alone or only accompanied by twelve poor men.
If somebody had informed Jesus Christ or His followers of the coming arrest or ongoing conspiracy, Jesus Christ might have avoided the arrest.
But, no such things happened, while the Son of God must have had the ability to make them happen.
So, the only conclusion is that Jesus Christ opted to be arrested, tried, and crucified.
But, for what?
It is because it was the only way to make His followers truly believe in Him. The followers who still believed in Him despite such a tragedy were true believers only from whom Christianity could develop.
Accordingly, if you cannot find divinity in the arrest, the trial, and the crucifixion which could have been avoided by simply mobilizing 100 or so armed guards, you are still not a Christian expected by Jesus Christ, in my humble view. This constitutes the basic definition of a Christian.
Act 3:2 And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple;
Act 3:3 Who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked an alms.
Act 3:4 And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him with John, said, Look on us.
Act 3:5 And he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive something of them.
Act 3:6 Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk.