"nor of the will of man, but of God" - Punish the World with Corona-Viruses for its Collective Responsibility

 

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Punish the World with Corona-Viruses for its Collective Responsibility

The corona-pandemic has taken on and killed about 2 million people in the world until now, but malnutrition kills more than 9 million children every year before their reaching 5 years old in some statistics.  According to a UN statistics, 820 million children in the world are in the state of starvation in 2018. 

Malnutrition can be identified as an underlying cause for shortened life. 70% of childhood deaths (age 0–4) are reportedly due to diarrheal illness, acute respiratory infection, malaria and immunizable disease. However 56% of these childhood deaths can be attributed to the effects of malnutrition as an underlying cause. The effects of malnutrition include increased susceptibility to infection, musculature wasting, skeletal deformities and neurologic development delays. According to the World Health Organization, malnutrition is named as the biggest contributor to child mortality with 36 million deaths in 2005 related to malnutrition. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_causes_of_death_by_rate)

This situation must displease God and make Him angry.  Malnutrition of children symbolizes corruption and debasement of the human civilization.

The responsibility of rich countries such as the US, EU members, Japan, China, etc. must be heavy.  Accordingly, the God must have decided to punish them with the corona-pandemic.  This is a religious view on the corona-pandemic.

Indeed, the richest country in the world, the US, is suffering the most damage with about 400,000 deaths.

Although the Spanish Flu of a century ago is said to have killed about 100 million people in the world, this corona-pandemic might not end till at least 9 million are killed, since more than 9 million children die every year for malnutrition. 

If you do not feel God's anger behind the corona-pandemic, you might not take serious this pandemic that has occurred in the middle of prosperity of the world with despotic China becoming a new global economic power in Asia following Japan, while China neglects human rights and democracy.  

But if Americans feel God's anger behind the corona-pandemic, they might think that the God caused this pandemic to put the end to Trump's presidency.  However, we should think that the cause of this pandemic does not lie only in Trump but also in this material human civilization represented by rich people like Trump.  

In other words, as people have sold their souls to Satan to earn money and get rich while neglecting starving children in poor countries, the God must have decided to punish the world for its collective responsibility for neglecting starving children.   

 

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John 1 King James Version
11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

"into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ" - Pious Weak Men vs. Worldly Strong Men

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Pious Weak Men vs. Worldly Strong Men

It is said that weakness of the God is stronger than human strength.

A faithful man would be lost in any worldly competition against worldly strong men, but eventually it would be revealed that the real winner is the faithful man.

Men with human strength, physical strength, intellectual strength, financial strength, etc. would surely win in this world.  But in the course of life along with the time and history, such a man would lose his advantage and his assets.  None can be a champion forever.  But, a faithful, honest, and righteous man would be appreciated eventually as time goes by and situations change.

It is because the God created this human world based on the principle of love.  And love will not allow a man to defeat others for any material benefits.  Therefore a man with faith and love cannot become a winner in any competition.

So, for a faithful man to be rich, he cannot be allowed to use his human strength, physical strength, intellectual strength, etc.  In this context, he has to be a weak man.  But eventually, he will become a winner as other men who have relied on their human strength would sooner or later lose their merits and advantage as time goes by.  Only a man who relies on God's love should survive over countless ordeals along with time.

So, followers of Christ Jesus must look weak in the worldly sense.  They have no physical strength, intellectual strength, financial advantage, and social merits but have only faith in Christ Jesus and the God.  

No excellent men even with various merits and strengths cannot completely cope with countless situations and changes of phenomena.  But faithful men can be helped by Christ Jesus who could handle every change of conditions in this world.

It is as if worldly strong men had the numbers above a million, a billion, or a trillion but faithful men have only index numbers such as 10, 100, or 1000.  But if Christ Jesus gave a base number, such as 10, for the index numbers those faithful men have, their numbers would be 10 to the Xth power, such as 10^10, 10^100, 10^1000, etc., which would easily surpass a million, a billion, or a trillion.

In this context, those who are weak following the God and Christ Jesus, with only the number of 10, 100, or 1000, are stronger that worldly strong men with the big number of a million, a billion, or a trillion, since the God or Christ Jesus would provide the base number to these faithful men having index numbers.

In this context, pious weak men are stronger than worldly strong men.            

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2 Peter 1  King James Version
11 For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
12 Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.
13 Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;
14 Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.

"the Spirit like a dove descending upon him" - Theological Meaning in this Corona-Pandemic

 

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Theological Meaning in this Corona-Pandemic

It is said that there are 9 x 10^21 stars in the observable universe of the size of about 46.5 billion light years.  They were all created after the original state of the universe in the diameter of 10^(-34) cm before the inflation phenomenon and the subsequent Big Bang. 

Put simply, there was extraordinarily huge energy in the very tiny size of space, like trillions of trillions of the suns pushed into a gulf ball.  And, as the tiny space could not hold the huge energy, the space was rapidly expanded with huge heat discharged, resulting in the Big Bang explosion of the energy, leading to formation of materials and stars that can be observed today.

The point at issue is how such huge explosion of enormous energy could be controlled.  How could physical laws and mathematical theories be generated in this universe through such gigantic explosion of energy?  It is naturally estimated that there must have occurred great disorder and anarchy among the state of energy.  It cannot be expected that this process of generation of the universe would result in well-ordered establishment of galaxies, solar systems, planets, molecules, atoms, and elementary particles as well as various physical phenomena.  But, they have been surely realized with the current state of the well-organized universe.

If seemingly violent explosion of gunpowder resulted in a beautiful firework, we should know that engineers designed beforehand the firework with excellent pyrotechnics.  So, it is natural to assume and believe that the God had beforehand designed this process of generation of the universe.

And, it is also natural to think that according the design by the God, the earth was created in the universe, living things were created in the earth, and eventually the mankind was created among living things.

Now, the most critical question is how the God had designed the human mind, especially consciousness on good and evil or ethical judgment.  Furthermore, we might wonder how the God had designed the fate of the mankind and individuals.    

Put simply, the God might have designed the history of the mankind.  The end of the human world might have been decided from the beginning of this universe.  The moment the vacuum energy appeared from nothing into this world before the inflation phenomenon and the Bug Bang explosion, the fate of the mankind in the earth in this solar system of the Milky Way Galaxy must have been decided.   

Indeed, the God must have designed that Abraham was born circa 2000 BCE, Christ Jesus appeared circa AD 1, and the end of the human world should come about the 21 century or 2000s.         

But the God must be merciful and benevolent.  He must give enough warnings before the decisive incident leading to the end of the world for the mankind.  And, it is natural for us to regard this corona-pandemic as one of such warnings, since victims of corona-viruses are especially many in the Christian nations and regions such as West Europe and the U.S.

Therefore, we have to see any theological meaning in this corona-pandemic not only dangerous runaway of economic and military expansion of China, the most problematic non-Christian nation in the world.        

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Mark 1  King James Version
9 And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of John in Jordan.
10 And straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him:
11 And there came a voice from heaven, saying, Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
12 And immediately the spirit driveth him into the wilderness.