Friday, November 22, 2019

"It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon" - Existence of God as a Matter of Course




Tokyo viewed from Mt. Takao

Existence of God as a Matter of Course

It is said that "The existence of God is a subject of debate in the philosophy of religion and popular culture (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existence_of_God)."

However, Christ Jesus did not prove that the God existed although He did not deny the existence of Satan.

From the beginning, if the God should exist but He did not have any relations with the human beings, there would be no use for the God for human beings.  Even if the God had created this universe and the human beings but had no interest in the human beings and was indifferent about the human beings, it would be useless for men to think about the God and pray to Him.

But if the God was in the position where He would be called the father in Heaven of the human beings, as Christ Jesus mentioned, the God must have the significant meaning for the human beings.

In this context, the following words of Christ Jesus should be reviewed:
Joh:5:24: Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. 
If we believe in the Gospel ad Christ Jesus, He was sent to this world by the God.  And if we believe the word of Christ Jesus, we will be given everlasting life and can avoid condemnation.  Finally, we will be lifted up from the world of death to life.

If this teaching is true, everybody who is not brainwashed and controlled by Satan would believe in Christ Jesus.  And, everybody will believe existence of the God beyond any arguments or theories that deny existence of God.

In other word, if one believes in Christ Jesus, he or she will not doubt existence of the God.

Put simply, we may say that the proof of existence of God is that Christ Jesus, who is the greatest man in the human history, took existence of the God as a matter of course.

Conversely, if one denies Christ Jesus who claimed that He was the Son of the God, nobody else, including Satan, never promises eternal life.  Satan might promise people rich and successful lives only if they follow Satan, but those who follow Satan should surely finally fall into the hell, according the Bible.

Poor men who have nothing to protect themselves with would surely believe in Christ Jesus.  But rich men who have money, social status, and many other things to protect themselves with would not find a need to follow Christ Jesus, believe His words, and love the poor like Christ Jesus.   

From another point of view, when one is in a crisis and danger without any means to cope with it, it is natural that he or she asks help from the God.

In this case, one thinks that the God can change a situation and execute a miracle to save a man.  And, based on the fact that Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have survived up to today, we may say that there were many cases where the God had changed situations and executed miracles in the human history to save people.

Without many such untold cases, Christianity must have faded away at a certain past point in history.

Finally, we have to believe existence of the God, since Christ Jesus, the greatest man in history, took it as a matter of course.


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M't:11:21: Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
M't:11:22: But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you.
M't:11:23: And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.
M't:11:24: But I say unto you, That it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee.