"him will my Father honour" - Otherwise the God might Punish the Mankind with a New Pandemic

Northeast of Tokyo

Otherwise the God might Punish the Mankind with a New Pandemic

One of historical mysteries is the cool relationship between Christianity and Judaism.

Judaism never recommends Jewish people to revere, respect, and worship Christ Jesus, while Christianity is based on the Bible implying the death of Christ Jesus caused by Jewish priests and authority 2000 years ago.

Although Jewish people and Christians believe in the one same God, they never think that they belong to one same religion.  And, in these 2000 years, the two religions have never been merged to form one great religion.

Indeed, Abraham, Moses, and other Jewish prophets or heroes never clearly stated that the God would send His son, named Jesus, to the human world around AD 1.  And, Christ Jesus, St. Peter, St. Paul, etc. had never told not to regard Jewish people with hostility.   

However, there have been many serious things and events that have occurred in these 2000 years but that have never been prophesized by Abraham, Moses, and other Jewish prophets or heroes who had lived more than 2000 years ago.  

And, for early Christians, to have the Roman Empire adopt Christianity as its state religion was the largest object for expansion of Christianity to the wider world beyond the Jewish community, so that they even accepted the Christian theology established under authority of a Roman Emperor.  Even the Bible written in the Roman Empire reflects their inclination to make clear the difference between followers of Christianity and Jewish people.    

Apart from these past situations, as a historical fact, today Christianity is supported by billions of people all over the world while Judaism is still practiced by most of Jewish people superficially neglecting Christianity.  As a result, there must have been confusion and doubt about power, authority, intentions, etc. of the God.

But, if this state in the relationship between Christianity and Judaism is against the mind of the God, it is grave and serous.  If the God wishes that Jewish people admit Christ Jesus and Christians accept Jewish people while they don't, the God might punish Jewish people and Christians alike.

As the first step to solve this issue, the Jewish authority should recommend that Jewish people respect Christ Jesus if not as the God but at least as the Son of the God, the Savior, or a successful great rabbi.  Christian churches should declare that the Bible should not be read as accusing ordinary and general Jewish people of causing death on Christ Jesus.

Otherwise, the God might further punish the mankind with a new pandemic after the current corona-pandemic.    

  

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John 12  King James Version
25 He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.
26 If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.
27 Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.
28 Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.

"Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come" - Like One Sun in the Sky, One Unified Religion for the One God

Mt. Fuji 100 km far from around Tokyo

Like One Sun in the Sky, One Unified Religion for the One God

It is said that there are about 10 to the 80th power of atoms in this universe.  But there are no proven theories denying that all of them follow one system of physics and have the same structure.

If this universe had happened to be generated from a chance through random processes, the estimation about identicalness of all the atoms in the universe cannot be established.  In other words, there must have been various types of atoms with different structure.  However, scientists have confidence that carbon atoms and oxygen atoms in any stars are the same as those in the earth, therefore CO2 in any stars are the same as those in the earth.

Consequently, we have to assume that there is a designer of this universe.  And it is natural to call the designer the God or the Creator of the universe, since it is truly an act of the God to create or produce anything in quantity of 10 to the 80th power precisely in the same manner. 

Besides, if any one denies the existence of the God, he cannot deny his own existence.  They may think what exists captures the higher ground than what does not exist.  By denying the existence of the God, such a man puts himself above the God.  It is a blasphemy.  You should better think that as a lower entity such as you exists, the God with higher capacity must surely exists.

So, we must admit that the God exists as the Creator of the universe and the human world in addition to Heaven, the hell, and the spiritual world.  Therefore, the most important matter for the mankind must be the relationship between the God and the mankind or each member of the mankind.

Most importantly, it is not like that one day an individual realized that there is the God above men and started to bring the notion among his family, his clan, his tribe, and all other peoples.  But, the notion about the God was generated and prevailed among a tribe as a guardian god of the clan.  There were many tribes in the world in ancient times, but only the Jewish people could succeed in making almost all the mankind accept their guardian god as the God of the mankind.  Christianity and Islam, the two major religion of the mankind, believe in the same God as the God of Judaism. 

But it is not because Jewish people proved scientifically that their God is the Creator of the universe.  It is rather because the God taught them to be ethically right and good.  Jewish people must have seen the God as the source of goodness and justice, and accordingly, they accepted the God, which seemed to please the God.

Then, Christ Jesus came to teach that the God is also the source of love, which was accepted by some Jewish people and other people, leading to the establishment of Christianity.

However, most of Jewish people have denied Christianity mostly because they have not been able to accept the idea that Christ Jesus is the God, the Son of the God, or a messiah sent by the God.  Indeed, the God has not sent any prophets among Jewish people in these 2000 years to openly or officially declare and announce that Christ is the God, the Son of the God, or a messiah sent by the God.

This fact has caused many confusions, troubles, and tragedies in Christians as well as Jewish people.  Is Christ Jesus the God, the Son of the God, or a messiah sent by the God?  This has been the most important issue for the mankind in these 2000 years, to which the mankind cannot give a clear answer even today.  What is more, the God has been silent on this issue.  What is the intention of the God?  Or what does the God expect from the mankind?

If Judaism is right, all the Christians of today and in the past should be said to have believed in a wrong religion.  If Christianity is right, all the Jewish people in these 2000 years have displeased the God.

But, it is thought that most of Jewish people living today secretly accept Christ Jesus as the Son of the God or a messiah sent by the God, if not as the God Himself, at the bottoms of their hearts, since the effect of power of Christianity has been manifested through these 2000 years. 

Rationally and logically, the mankind should have only one common belief in the God.  The human history must be the process for such a belief to be established.  As everyone sees only one sun in the sky through their similar eyes, all the mankind should believe in only one God through a common religion in their minds.

In this context, it is unthinkable that the mankind will go extinct due to any tragedies or disasters, such as the current corona-pandemic, before unification of religions.  However, if the God judges that there is no possibility for the mankind to reach the state of having the common belief in the God, He may not stop the coming of extinction of the mankind.

Individually, I think that Judaism should be absorbed in Christianity where Christ Jesus promises to give eternal life to each believer while what would happen after death of even an honest Jewish man is unclear in Judaism.    

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John 12  King James Version
23 And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified.
24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
25 He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.

"in his name shall the Gentiles trust" - What is Impossible without Interference by the God

Tokyo Skytree Tower

What is Impossible without Interference by the God

It is astonishing that Jewish people have survived these 4000 years as a unique and independent tribe since God's approval of Abraham and his becoming the ancestor of Jewish people around 2000 BCE.

But they had faced the danger of extermination or disappearance in history thrice before the emergence of Christ Jesus.

They were made salves of Egyptians but were led out of Egypt by Moses and rescued by the God around 1200 BCE.  Then they fell in the Babylonian captivity around 590 BCE but freed by a Persian king around 540 BCE to return to Jerusalem to build the Second Temple.  Finally, the Jewish people got into the fatal confrontation with the Roman Empire to lose their Temple in Jerusalem and get dispersed from Palestine.

However, by compiling the Hebrew Bible, Talmud, etc., they consolidated a new phase of Judaism to survive as a tribe although members of the tribe were scattered across the Roman Empire and beyond.

But, it was after Christianity was born that Jewish people launched fatal wars against Romans.  And while Jewish people were wondering across the Roman Empire, Christianity was gaining public notion and recognition in the Empire to become the sate religion of the Roman Empire, although, through severe struggles and frictions.  

Therefore, it is rather thought that there must have been some influence of Christianity favorable for Jewish people.  Romans must have come to realize importance of the Jewish tribe from which Christianity had been born.  Even many Jewish documents such as the Talmud were compiled while the Christian Bible was being created, so that Jewish people could keep their integrity and uniqueness.  It is as if Judaism had been competing with Christianity in making sacred documents.

Although the Roman Empire collapsed around AD 500, Christianity continued to survive and prevail in whole Europe, making Europeans have special interest in Jewish people, which must have strengthen self-consciousness of Jewish people to save them from oblivion in history.

Jewish people must have fled to various regions around Palestine after the Jewish Roman Wars and the fall of Jerusalem, but Jewish people who mostly moved to the territory of the Roman Empire, which finally accepted Christianity as its state religion, could survive to date.  Christianity must have contributed to survival of Jewish people in whatsoever mysterious ways.

It is true that Jewish people have suffered persecution in Europe some times, but there must have been also conditions necessary to save them from such godless hideous acts.  For example, it is mostly Christian Americans that saved Jewish people from Hitler and Nazis.       

No matter how much Jewish people think that Christians believe in a wrong religion, it is in the world where Christianity has been dominant that Jewish people has succeed in surviving.  Real Christians cannot deny that their religion is based on Judaism and Christ Jesus was born as a Jewish man, so that they cannot exterminate Jewish traditions and Jewish people.  This traditional condition of Christianity must have saved the Jewish tribe from extermination and oblivion in history in these 2000 years or since the era of the Roman Empire.

In this context, it can be thought that the God sent His Son among Jewish people before the fatal wars against Romans, so that the Jewish tribe would not be lost.  The God sent Moses when Jewish people were about to disappear in Egypt; He sent Daniel and other prophets when they were in captivity in Babylonia; and finally He sent His Son when they were almost doomed to perish in wars against the Roman Empire.

Put simply, Jewish people owe their existence today to Christ Jesus from this historical point of view as much as to Moses, Daniel, and other prophets.  Indeed, it must be impossible without interference by the God for a tribe to survive 4000 years.

As other examples in terms of survival of major tribes over thousand years, we may point to the Han Chinese and Japanese.  But, their histories and stories might belong to other paradigms of culture and religion.  (So, the fact should not be held low account that the corona-pandemic was generated in China.)

      

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Matthew 12  King James Version
21 And in his name shall the Gentiles trust.
22 Then was brought unto him one possessed with a devil, blind, and dumb: and he healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb both spake and saw.
23 And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David?
24 But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils.
25 And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand: