"there came unto him a centurion" - True Religion

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True Religion

Christ Jesus healed some sick people.  He never failed in healing them.

In Buddhism, there are four types of pain for human beings: living, disease, aging, and death.  Christ Jesus saved people from living, disease, and death.  But what about aging?

However Christ Jesus said that one had to be like a child to enter the Kingdom of God.

Or it might imply that there is no aging for men who are admitted into the Kingdom of God.  And Christianity teaches that the goal of righteous life is to get eternal life where there are no problems related to aging.

Every trouble in living, every trouble in disease, every trouble in aging, and every fear in death must be addressed by any true religion.  In this context, teaching of Christ Jesus is a true religion.


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Mat 8:5 And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him,
Mat 8:6 And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented.
Mat 8:7 And Jesus saith unto him, I will come and heal him.

"with bread here in the wilderness?" - Spiritual Descendants of Hebrews

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Spiritual Descendants of Hebrews

The effect of the Gospels are easily understood.  Even people today can become familiar with the situation in Palestine 2000 years ago.  But the effect of the Old Testament in the Christian Bible is also significant.

When they read the Gospels, people of today even find that human situations in Palestine 2000 years ago are very easy to understand.  Nothing so remote and uniquely foreign is depicted in the Gospels except some traditions and practices concerning spiritual and religious matters such as Satan and devils.  Words of Christ Jesus and attitudes of disciples are rather modern.  There are no barriers caused by the time gap of 2000 years that make people of today find it difficult to comprehend contents of the Gospels.  Christ Jesus is depicted as if He was alive only decades ago.  So, when reading the Gospels, even people of today believe that Christ Jesus was once alive and spoke and acted as the Gospels showed.

But when reading the Old Testament, what do people of today feel and find?   It is the history of Hebrews, a tribe in the Middle East, in a time span between days 4000 years ago and 2000 years ago.  But, people would learn the history of Hebrews as if it were the history of their ancestors.  Some European Christians, American Christians, African Christians, and Asian Christians read the Old Testament as if it were the history of their ancestors.

The purpose of including the Old Testament in the Christian Bible was to prove that Christ Jesus was the Son of God or the Messiah who had been prophesied, predicted and expected long by Hebrews.  But, Christian leaders in the first to fifth or so centuries must have thought that the only meaningful history for them was not the history of their ancestors, mostly Romans or the like, but the history of human ancestors of Christ Jesus.

When those books of the Christian Bible were being selected by Christian leaders around the fourth to the fifth century, the Roman Empire was being collapsed.  Different tribes were invading the Empire from the north and the northeast.  People must have been in confusion.  All they could rely on was their religion Christianity.  They chose to regard the history of human ancestors of Christ Jesus as their own to rely on as their backbone of existence.

So, if anybody in a conquered tribe or nation had become Christians, it could forgotten about or did not need to mind the history of its ancestors that was being lost due to dominance and occupation by other powerful force but it could find the history of Hebrews depicted in the Old Testament as its own.

So, pious Christians might believe that the history of their ancestors was written in the Old Testament no matter if they were not originally from Hebrews.

Indeed the history of Hebrews looked not so worse or better than any other tribe's.   It is humane enough.  In this context, people who believe Christ Jesus today, at least partially, share the same history as that of Judaists.  And it might go the same with Muslims who respect Abraham, Moses, etc.

So, the representative history of the mankind up to 2000 years ago might be the Old Testament.  It means that today there are so many spiritual descendants of Hebrews who had lived till 2000 years ago.


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Mar 8:4 And his disciples answered him, From whence can a man satisfy these men with bread here in the wilderness?
Mar 8:5 And he asked them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven.

"with bread here in the wilderness" - The Most Revolutionary Concept in Christianity

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The Most Revolutionary Concept in Christianity

The most revolutionary concept in Christianity is that God sent His Son to the human world.

In ancient world before the emergence of Christ Jesus, there had been no such a concept that God would send His Son to the human world.  Although God or His Angels sometimes appeared to Abraham, his sons, Moses, etc. and the direct relationship between God and Judaists was not so foreign, such a concept was not popular among other tribes, including Greeks and Romans at the time.

This gap in perception of the relationship between God and human beings was very large.  But this concept was eventually accepted and supported by a majority of Roman citizens consisting of various people of different tribes with different cultural and religious backgrounds.

The core of Christianity is this intimacy between God and human beings.  So, to emphasize this concept, it may be natural that devout leaders of Christians adopted the idea that Christ Jesus Himself was God.  This idea was also so revolutionary.   Many reviews were made on this theory.  But as it was the highest way to show respect for Christ Jesus to regard Him as God, true or wrong, proponents of  this theory wan disputes about theology of Christianity.

However, today who can prove that Christ Jesus is God?

Nonetheless, there had been no such a concept as a certain person, who lived as a simple human being, was God in the ancient world, so that the mankind as the whole entered a new era with introduction of the theory that Christ Jesus was God.

Yet, we have to review whether it was truly an intention of God.



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Mar 8:3 And if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way: for divers of them came from far.
Mar 8:4 And his disciples answered him, From whence can a man satisfy these men with bread here in the wilderness?

" the twelve were with him" - Travelling through Cities and Villages

 

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Travelling through Cities and Villages

Christianity began with Christ Jesus.  But we know how He acted from the Gospels.

Christ Jesus traveled throughout every city and village with the twelve disciples, preaching the word of God and healing people.

It is truly a mystery that Christianity began with such small and simple activities.

But, giving more thought on the situation, have there any other men who traveled throughout every city and village with the twelve disciples, preaching the word of God and healing people in the history except Christ Jesus?

Indeed, if anybody but not the Son of God tried to travel throughout every city and village with twelve followers, preaching the word of God and healing people, he should fail.  Because nobody would give them foods and shelters.

Only the Son of God can make people help Him preaching as a homeless man.

A very small and simple thing but only the Son of God can do is what Christ Jesus performed, from a certain point of view.



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Luk 8:1 And it came to pass afterward, that he went throughout every city and village, preaching and shewing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God: and the twelve were with him,
Luk 8:2 And certain women, which had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary called Magdalene, out of whom went seven devils,
Luk 8:3 And Joanna the wife of Chuza Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many others, which ministered unto him of their substance.

"the counsel of God" - One of 300 Billion Times 300 Billion

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One of 300 Billion Times 300 Billion

Our sun has the life duration of abut 10 billion years, though it is about 5 billion years old like the earth.

It means that if any high-intelligent species emerges in any other planet in our galaxy, the Milky Way, which is about 13 billion years old, the planet must be 5 billion years old.

But our sun is the second generation.  The materials, including some heavy metals, constituting the earth were created when the first generation sun was exploded to vanish.  So, other planets where high-intelligent creatures emerge should be also planets around the second or younger generation of fixed stars.

Most of fix stars in the Milky Way have the life duration between 1000 times longer than our sun's and 1000 time shorter than our sun's.  And there are currently 300 billion fixed stars in the Milky Way.  Then, how many among these fixed stars are younger than the second generation and can have planets 5 billion year old or more, which is necessary for the earth to produce the human species?

In addition, if once high-intelligent species could emerge and develop their civilizations after 5 billion years in their planets, they would be probably able to build advanced  signaling systems that would function to send radio signals to the universe on a permanent basis even after their civilizations are terminated or solar systems to which their planets belong have been exploded to vanish.   In this case, artificial radio signals must continue to be sent to the universe even after the builders of the signaling systems have been terminated.  

So, how many fixed stars and planets could have such high-intelligent species as can and could build advanced systems to send their artificial signals on a permanent basis to the universe in our Milky Way that has 300 billion fixed stars?

May be 1/100 of 1/100 of 300 billion, then there are 30 million fixed stars could meat the condition of 5 billion years.  Then, how may among them can have actually planets where life can be generated.  May be 1/100 of 30 million, then there are 300,000.  Actually some scientists estimate that there are some 100,000 planets in our galaxy where life was generated.

But how many among these planets can sustain life and allow continual evolution of living things to the level of anthropoid apes of the earth?

May be 1/100 of 300,000, so there are 3,000 planets that might have living things equivalent to anthropoid apes of the earth.  But how many of them allow further evolution to the level of the mankind on the earth?

May be 1/100 of 3,000, so that there are 30 planets in our galaxy that might have living things equivalent to the mankind on the earth.

Then, there can be 30 radio signaling systems sending signals to all over the Milky Way whose diameter is about 100,000 light years.  Those high-intelligent species in other planets might have started to send signals 1 billion years ago, 1 million years ago, or just 100,000 years ago or 100 year ago.  Probably 70% of them must have started signal sending 100,000 years ago or in older time.  Then we, on the earth, could receive more than 20 different artificial radio signals from somewhere in the Milky Way.

And there are 300 billion galaxies in the whole universe.  Although this universe is more than 13 billion light years wide (or 40 billion light year wide due to acceleration of the expansion of the universe), 1/100 of 1/100 of all the galaxies might be within a range where artificial signals could reach the earth from them as distinct artificial signals.  So then, millions of artificial signals coming from not only our galaxy but also other galaxies must be reaching the earth now.

However, so far as now, we have not received any such artificial radio signals from not only our galaxy but also other galaxies.  

So, we have to review the calculation method.  Although there are 30 planets in our galaxy that might have living things equivalent to the mankind on the earth, the probability that their civilizations develop from the level of ancient Egypt to the level of post-Industrial Revolution of the earth must be less than 1/100.  Even if it is 1/100, none of these 30 planets can have high-intelligent species whose civilizations can develop from the level of ancient Egypt to the level of post-Industrial Revolution of the earth.  If this probability is one part per million, there will be absolutely no high-intelligent specie that can send radio signals on a permanent basis to the universe.  If it is one billionth, no such high-intelligent species in the whole universe.

But we could develop from the level of ancient Egypt to the level of post-Industrial Revolution.  This must be the only case in the whole universe.  We will soon build a radio signaling system sending messages to the whole universe that can function on a permanent basis.  Then, a million years or a billion years later, a high-intelligent species on a planet somewhere in the universe might miraculously catch the signal.

Then, what made the human beings on the earth develop their civilization from the level of ancient Egypt to the level of post-Industrial Revolution?  In other word, what happened between ancient Egypt where great pyramids were built and the post-Industrial Revolution era with advanced science and technologies?

The answer is the emergence of the Son of God on the earth 2000 years ago in addition to various direct interference of God with Judaists, Christians, and Muslims in these 4000 years.

Only God can create and allow high-intelligent species of the level of the mankind to develop their civilization to the post-Industrial Revolution level in this universe.   And the probability of the emergence of the Son of God and direct interference of God must be one of 300 billion times 300 billion, since there are 300 billion fixed stars in one galaxy and there are 300 billion galaxies in the whole universe.







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Luk 7:29 And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.
Luk 7:30 But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him.
Luk 7:31 And the Lord said, Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like?

"the devil is gone out of thy daughter" - Why No Other Civilizations in the Universe

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Why No Other Civilizations in the Universe

In the Milky Way, there are 300 billion  fixed stars or kind of suns.  The diameter of the Milky Way is about 100,000 light years.

So, if the mankind sends radio-wave signals to other fixed stars in the Milky Way, they will be received by other high-intelligent species, if they existed, in planets around these fixed stars within 100,000 years.

It has been 13 billion years since this Milky Way was created.  And it took 5 billion years for the mankind to emerge on the earth.  And the mankind will sooner or later send  radio-wave signals to other fixed stars in the Milky Way on a permanent basis.  The mankind will build a special advanced system that will function for 100 years, 10,000 years, or one million years to automatically send these signals to other species in other planets in this Milky Way.   Then, if another high-intelligent species emerges in another planet in the Milky Way, they will surely receive the radio waves the mankind is sending.

However, on the other hand, although it has been 13 billion years since this Milky Way was created and radio waves can travel across the Milky Way in 100,000 years, we, the mankind on the earth, have not received any such artificial radio signals from any other planets in the Milky Way.   We have not received any such signals from other galaxies outside the Milky Way while this whole universe was created about 14 billion years ago.

It is strange.  High-intelligent species, if they existed, in other planets in the Milky Way or other galaxies must be able to build special advanced systems that function for 100 years, 10,000 years, or one million years to automatically send their radio signals to other species in other planets, including the earth.  But we have not received any such signals from the universe.

It means that the probability that high-intelligent creatures, like the mankind, emerge on any planet is zero not only in this Milky Way but also in any other galaxies in the universe.

There are some factors that have influence on this probability such as the probability of fixed stars to be situated in an appropriate range from a galaxy center, the probability of a fixed star to have appropriate planets for emergence of life, the probability of appropriate conditions of the nature of a planet for development and evolution of living things from their primitive forms to advanced forms, the probability of advanced living things to have higher intelligence like the mankind on the earth, the probability of the high-intelligent species to survive long and build civilization like that of mankind, etc.   And it is thought that the total probability for a high-intelligent species to appear in a planet in the whole universe, not only in the Milky Way, is almost zero.  The mankind on the earth in this solar system of this galaxy, the Milky Way, is extremely exceptional.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation

So, we have to think why the mankind could develop its civilization to this advanced state.  And, the answer is there was direct interference of God with the creatures on the earth.  Due to God of Abraham, Christ Jesus, and Islam, the mankind could build this advanced civilization.  Especially it was almost 1700 years after the appearance of the Son of God on the earth that the Industrial Revolution occurred in the Christian Europe.  And such interference has not occurred in any other planets in the universe in these 14 billion years.  Therefore, there are no other advanced civilizations in this universe except that of the mankind which should be ascribed to interference of God.    

That is why we cannot find any other civilizations in our Milky Way and other galaxies or the whole universe where there are countless fixed starts, whose specific number can be calculated as 300 billion (the number of fixed stars in a galaxy) times 300 billion (the number of galaxies in the whole universe), in addition to more planets.



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Mar 7:29 And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter.
Mar 7:30 And when she was come to her house, she found the devil gone out, and her daughter laid upon the bed.