Against Rotten Church Systems and Satan of Materialism
Almost 2000 years ago, Jewish people had the concept of God, no matter how simple it was, to the right direction of cogitation and belief.
Egyptians, Greeks and Romans had also their concepts on gods, which were however not toward the right path to the true and only God.
And, when some of Jewish people was confident that they had seen, met, walked and talked together with the Son of God, they must have a great shock and wonder as well as joy and pride. And as the Son of God told them to go and preach the gospel to poor people of the Roman Empire, they would surely gladly go and preach the gospel driven by the shock and wonder.
In this way, Paul and other Disciples of Christ Jesus went out and preached the gospel to poor people, which however was regraded as deviation from orthodox Judaism and an act to be suppressed. Nonetheless, their conviction that they were following the Son of God and thus God was so strong that they despised religious leaders who were against them. In this way, early Christianity started with great energy or passion of followers of the spirit of Christ Jesus.
One of the major factors for early Christianity to prevail in the Roman Empire was this passion and energy.
In other words, the extreme strength of the shock and wonder such Jewish people felt when they discovered holy nature or divinity in Christ Jesus was reflected in the success of Christianity in the Roman Empire.
But today, we cannot clearly and vividly feel this strength of the shock and wonder in Christian churches including the Vatican. The Pope is reading ambiguous sentences in the Bible, wearing stupidly rich ancient clothes, and being surrounded by similarly stupidly rich cardinals and bishops, while American Protestant priests were revering false gods or Satan of materialism.
So, God eventually punished and destroyed the Roman Empire. Will not He do the same thing to the current human world?
Anyway, the only way for us to be forgiven by God is to take a clear stance against rotten church systems and false gods or Satan of materialism.
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Mar 2:9 Whether is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk?
Mar 2:10 But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (he saith to the sick of the palsy,)
Mar 2:11 I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way into thine house.