Christ Jesus once said that He had come to the human world to call and invite sinners but not the so-called righteous men.
A certain past leader of a Japanese Buddhist school said that it went without saying that bad men were saved by the Buddha since even the so-called good men were saved.
There is a turnover of worldly value judgment or philosophy. The most symbolic word of Christ Jesus in this sense is that rich men could not enter Heaven but poor men could.
It is easy for a rich or blessed man to look pious and good. As long as he lives observing laws, conventions or rules of the society, or tradition, he can live rich without taking blame, since he has enough money and right position in the society to save him from disgrace.
But most of poor men have to do something adventurous or risky to live, so that they are often regarded as persons without credibility. They might be even regraded as sinners or bad men. However, they must feel guilty or have a sense of sin when they make dubious actions. If they have no money when they are hungry, they might steal bread from a shop, which rich and pious men never do.
The past leader of a Japanese Buddhist school must have thought that feeling guilty and suffering a sense of sin lead a man to understanding of truth of the human nature and human society, which rich and good men could not understand. Therefore, the so-called bad men are closer to the paradise. Therefore, there is no reason that bad men are not saved if good men are saved. In other words, bad men are surely saved because even the so-called good men are saved by mercy of the Buddha.
Likewise, Christ Jesus loved poor people who were forced to break rules of the society to live. If such poor men lived in the society under Judaism, they would be blamed as sinners. So, it is natural for Christ Jesus to have said that he had come to the human world to call sinners but not rich or righteous men.
Christ Jesus also said that healthy and sound men did not need medical doctors but sick men needed. However, it might imply that it was due to rich and heathy men that caused sickness in poor men, according the Japanese leader of a Buddhist school.
This turnover of worldly value judgment or philosophy must be understood even today by those who know tragedies of being poor and immorality of rich men. They must see that what is high in terms of wealth and positions is low in terms of justice and love or those having wealth and positions are mean in terms of humanity.
In Buddhism, it is said that a beautiful lotus bloom blossoms in mud water. The lotus bloom is the spirit of a poor man or a so-called bad man, and the mud water is the society built by so-called rich and good men.
So, to the eyes of Angels sent by the God who can see the true state of men, shining must be the spirits of poor men and suffering sinners but not those of rich and so-called righteous men. However, we must be cautious to declare that high is low, sinful is sacred, or good is bad, although we must accept the teaching of Christ Jesus that rich men cannot enter Heaven but poor men can.
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Mar 11:10 Blessed be the kingdom of our father David, that cometh in the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest.
Mar 11:11 And Jesus entered into Jerusalem, and into the temple: and when he had looked round about upon all things, and now the eventide was come, he went out unto Bethany with the twelve.
Mar 11:12 And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry:
Mar 11:13 And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet.
Mar 11:14 And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever. And his disciples heard it.