"And he goeth up into a mountain" - Why We Have to Have Faith in the God despite Pandemics and other Tragedies

 

Mt. Fuji from a Vicinity of Tokyo, 100 Km Far

Why We Have to Have Faith in the God despite Pandemics and other Tragedies

Some people think that there cannot be the God, since there is Satan and every evil thing, in addition to unhappiness, in this world.

However, the God needs Satan to be perfect.  Something that does not include incompleteness cannot be complete.  So, for the God to be complete, He needs something called Satan as something that denies Him.  Even, for a man to understand happiness, he has to know unhappiness.  

However, it does not mean that Satan being incomplete has a chance to defeat the God.  Satan's role is to challenge the God to be defeated, thus helping the God enjoy the status of completeness.

What is complete should include incompleteness as its element.  Otherwise, it cannot be complete.

Therefore the God should allow Satan to exist as an element in its complete domain. 

What is complete should not lack incompleteness to be complete and perfect.  Otherwise, it cannot understand what is incomplete.

Therefore the God should allow men and Satan to exist as elements in its complete domain. 

However, the contents of God's completeness are boundless and limitless.  Satan and all evil things occupy a minimum portion of the domain of God's completeness.  The God can neglect Satan as Satan is almost nothing for the God.  But for men, Satan is a great threat, since Satan's only reason for existence is to prevent men from having faith in the God.  So, to save men from Satan, the God sent His Son, Christ Jesus, to the human world.  This is the basic condition for these 2000 years. 

Therefore, from this point of view, we have to endure our unhappiness caused by Satan for the God.  But what would the God do to men who have sold their souls to Satan for provisional happiness?  As such men are regarded as joining Satan trying to harm completeness of the God, the God should punish them in addition to Satan.

From the beginning, the God created this material world and men for exercising and proving His power, so that the mankind should always glorify the God even if some of their members are unhappy.  A man should glorify the God even if he is unhappy.  The protagonist in this world is not the mankind but the God.  The God did not create men to make them happy but to exercise and prove His power.  Therefore, there is no discrepancy in the facts that there is the God and that men can be unhappy sometimes despite existence of the God.  And Satan abuses these facts.

That is why Jewish people do not deny the God despite having experienced such past tragedies as the tribe, though, chosen by the God.  And, past European Christians did not deny the God despite having experienced so many plagues.  Even Muslims have not denied the God despite having experienced so many tragedies.     

This corona-pandemic should not lessen faith in the God among believers.  The corona-pandemic has never harmed the God.  And how much the God would save men from viruses depends on the God, taking into account the state of men's faith in the God and men's acceptance of Satan.

Without viruses bringing some useful elements into men's DNAs and genes, the mankind could not have been established through evolution.  And without unhappiness and tragedies Satan has brought into men's livings, the mankind cannot contribute to completeness of the God.  So, we should not blame the God for our unhappiness and tragedies.  What is complete should include what is incomplete.  Even for us to be completely happy, we have to know unhappiness.

But what would happen if the God stops being complete?  Even if the God retreats from the domain of completeness and incompleteness, the God must be still more than being complete; there are no problems for the God.  But in that case, how poor the mankind should be, without mentioning Satan?  In this context, unhappiness and tragedies are part of God's love to exist in the domain of completeness and incompleteness.  Indeed, if the God closed the domain of completeness/incompleteness, both men and Satan should not be able to exist or should lose the ground for existence; they are of no use for the God.  

And, if we die in the corona-pandemic, we can be given eternal life by Christ Jesus as long as we have faith in the God.     

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Mark 3, King James Version
11 And unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, saying, Thou art the Son of God.
12 And he straitly charged them that they should not make him known.
13 And he goeth up into a mountain, and calleth unto him whom he would: and they came unto him.
14 And he ordained twelve, that they should be with him, and that he might send them forth to preach,
15 And to have power to heal sicknesses, and to cast out devils:

"For he had healed many" - Satan's Influence like Corona-Viruses

 

Mt. Fuji from around Tokyo, 100 Km Far, Westward

Satan's Influence like Corona-Viruses

The Gospels are reports on the battle between Christ Jesus and Satan, since the battle against Satan and its demons is the most important thing for the mankind. 

As Satan was against the God, when it found that the God was going to send His Son to the human world, Satan immediately decided to destroy the God's plan.  So, a Gospel told that a Jewish king tried to kill the baby Jesus, probably, as the king was influenced by Satan.

Satan waited for Jesus to grow.  But it must have made various tricks to impede sound growth of Jesus, which are not written in the Gospels.  And, in the process of Satan's interference on Jesus's life, the biological father Joseph must have been lost, probably, in fierce battles, which are not also written in the Gospels.

And finally, when Christ Jesus decided to save the world, get prepared for the mission, and go to the wilderness of the desert for purifying Himself, Satan came to destroy Christ Jesus with temptations:

Matthew 4
2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
3 And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.
4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
5 Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple,
6 And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
7 Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
8 Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;
9 And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.
10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
11 Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.

First of all, Satan and the devils were liars, which Christ Jesus knew well, so that He must have been laughing at them in His mind.  Christ Jesus knew that the God was the creator of the universe and the world.  The God could give all the kingdoms of the world to Christ Jesus at any time.  But, for some profound or sacred reasons, the God had not set Christ Jesus as the emperor of the kingdoms of the world.

But, Christ Jesus had to learn a man's desire to be a king.  As Christ Jesus knew that the God would set Him as a king any time soon only if He asked so, He must have not known or understood such a desire.  Christ Jesus was a hidden king.  Therefore, it is indeed laughable that the devil offered the status of king to Christ Jesus who was a potential king.  But, with the devil's world, Christ Jesus must have learned that a man would fall down and worship even Satan if he could be a king. 

Through this communication with the devil, Christ Jesus must have learnt man's desires and how Satan used these desires to make men its slaves.

On Satan's side, it must have not expected that Christ Jesus would accept his foolish temptations and stupid offer.  But Satan must have thought that it could hurt Christ Jesus' pride as such an act of temptation by the devil meant that the devil saw human desires in Christ Jesus or Christ Jesus having human desires.  If Christ Jesus had been psychologically hurt as He had looked like an ordinary mean man to the devil, Satan should have been glad.

In other words, Satan must have known from the beginning that it would fail to tempt Christ Jesus, but it must have thought that it could hurt Christ Jesus's pride by offering such foolish proposals.  Satan must have wanted to tell Christ Jesus that now that He was a mere man, he should want to be a king.  And, Satan must have wanted to see what the God would do if Christ Jesus asked the status of a king from the God.  Would the God recall Christ Jesus from the world?

However, Christ Jesus decided to live as a mere man, which must have alarmed Satan.  The God had allowed men to have a desire to be a king.  But, the God seemed to expect His Son to live as a mere man.  It was against the paradigm of Satan who expected to fight Christ Jesus as a king.  Satan wanted at least to behave like a god who had authority to set a man as a king.  But its poor show was simply broken by Christ Jesus.  Satan was not only making fun of Christ Jesus but also of the God.  Therefore, Christ Jesus got angry, and the devil disappeared.          　

In this way, the Gospels tell how Satan tried to make fun of the God through attacking His Son Christ Jesus.  But, Satan's battle against the God is still going on after 2000 years since the first mission of Christ Jesus.

Satan's devils are everywhere even today.  They must be more widespread than corona-viruses.  It is as if the God had sent the Angel of Death with corona-viruses to the human world to have the mankind realize how widespread Satan's influence is.  

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Mark 3, King James Version
8 And from Jerusalem, and from Idumaea, and from beyond Jordan; and they about Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, when they had heard what great things he did, came unto him.
9 And he spake to his disciples, that a small ship should wait on him because of the multitude, lest they should throng him.
10 For he had healed many; insomuch that they pressed upon him for to touch him, as many as had plagues.
11 And unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, saying, Thou art the Son of God.

"who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?" - Worldly Wise and Strong but Foolish and Weak in the Spiritual World

 

Mt. Fuji from around Tokyo over 100 Km

Worldly Wise and Strong but Foolish and Weak in the Spiritual World

There is an impressive teaching in the Bible:
1 Corinthians 1
25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

People following Satan, pursuing wealth and money and wishing for worldly success, cannot understand the need to accept the teaching of the God and live in poverty, humbleness, and self-sacrifice.  Therefore, they have more worldly wisdom, power, and influence than those following the God and Christ Jesus.  So, to such worldly people, followers of Christ Jesus look foolish.

Those worldly people think that those followers of Christ Jesus are wrong and evil as they do not follow teachings of Satan.  Those worldly people are brainwashed by Satan to respect and trust teachings of Satan, so that to their eyes follows of Christ Jesus look bad and evil as they are against Satan.  This is a completely crazy world where followers of the God are regarded as being evil, since they do not respect and follow Satan.

The world today is close to this crazy world, since almost everybody wishes for money with which Satan controls people.       

However, the God is the lord of the mankind and the king over this world and the spiritual world, thus He can defeat Satan at any time.  Therefore, those followers of Satan who became rich and powerful would finally die and go to the hell.  Even in their life in this world, they could be abandoned even by Satan who should laugh at them losing everything in this world or in life after death.

Indeed, those following Satan and pursuing money think that those following the God and Christ Jesus and accepting poverty are foolish.  But finally, Satan followers would be rejected at Heaven, but followers of the God and Christ Jesus would be accepted in Heaven. 

And any weak men admitted into Heaven should turn to be stronger than any worldly strong men falling into the hell.

In this context, kings, presidents, billionaires, pundits, notable and successful men, etc. in this world would be foolish and weak in the spiritual world, while homeless, low-income people, people without academic backgrounds and social status, etc. would be wise and strong in Heaven. 

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Luke 3, King James Version
6 And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.
7 Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
8 Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.