Saturday, February 24, 2024

"A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons" - How to Worship the God in Spirit


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How to Worship the God in Spirit

The Lord Jesus Christ said that the God is spirit:
24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. (John 4)

This saying means that spirits can work even in the material world or the human world, since the God created this material world where the human world belongs so that men can be in spirit as this saying means.  And, the right way for human beings to connect to the God is through their spiritual power.  To use the spiritual power, we have to become spiritual but not materialistic or human. 

So, a man who does not pursue material riches and human honors, which are materialistic, can have more chances to use the spiritual power than in other cases.  Therefor, a religious man such as a priest or a monk would choose to leave the material or the human world.  While leaving the material or the human world, such a religious man should come to know spiritual power that gives him more insight into the human world, the material world, and the spiritual world.  Accordingly, he would know truth of this world and the afterlife, knowing power of the God and strengthening their faith in the God. 

But ordinary people who are absorbed in the material and human world cannot see such truth.  Fish in water cannot know the world on the ground or in air.  Therefore, to know power of the God, men should not be rich and seek for material happiness to satisfy their material desires.  And, understanding power of the God means understanding truth of this material world and the human world as well as the spiritual world.   

Indeed, the Lord Jesus Christ who knew power of the God knew truth of this material world and the human world as well as the spiritual world.  In addition, He could use spiritual power, healing the sick and taking foods from nowhere, and even walking on the water.

The word "worship the God in spirit" means to worship the God with spiritual power.  To worship the God with spiritual power means to worship the God from the bottom of the mind, invoking one's spiritual power, with a belief that that the the God is almighty and totally good.  To invoke spiritual power, one has to concentrate one's mind on his soul, for which one has to know that he is made of a physical body and a soul.  At the deepest part of one's mind, one can only find his soul that can use spiritual power.

So, the Lord Jesus Christ does not deny existence of the soul, spiritual power, the spirit world, etc.  He should not deny spiritualism, either.      


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Luke 2, King James Version
22 And when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord;
23 (As it is written in the law of the Lord, Every male that openeth the womb shall be called holy to the Lord;)
24 And to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.
25 And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him.
26 And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ.


Thursday, February 22, 2024

"when they saw the miracles which he did" - A Japanese Female Miraculous Doctor

 

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A Japanese Female Miraculous Doctor

A Japanese female doctor of psychiatry experienced teleportation when she lost a purple amethyst stone one day suddenly but two years later found it in a pocket of a brand-new knapsack as she was told by phone from a hospital that her nephew became ill and unconscious and then she tried distant healing with prayer.  

She thought that she could have concentrated her mind more effectively on praying if she had the stone at hand.  Then a guardian angel in her mind spoke to her: "It is in a knapsack you recently bought."  So, she dubiously unpacked a parcel of the knapsack to find in its pocket the purple amethyst stone she had lost two years ago.  Encouraged by this miracle, she strongly prayed that her nephew would be recovered.  Then, 10 minutes later, she was informed by phone that her nephew came back to himself.  The boy could get out of the hospital a little later.      

When she was a little child, she could see what ordinary people could not see such as spiritual phenomena.  And she wanted to become a medical doctor when she was a teenager as her younger brother died due to an erroneous diagnosis of a doctor.  So, she became a medical doctor with psychic abilities.  So, she is a medical doctor with motivation to help and cure the sick.

This amethyst stone later caused another miracle when her friend's daughter became unconscious in a hospital.  An attending doctor told her friend that he could do nothing anymore to her daughter.  When hearing the situation, she gave her friend the stone.  Her friend took it to the hospital and put it in a hand of her daughter who shortly afterward came back to herself and sat up.  She saw the stone in her hand, saying, "What a beautiful stone!"  The doctor was puzzled and could not understand what happed.      

The female doctor Keiko Ochiai also performed past life therapy.  He cured a Japanese patient in his 30s with depression.  He was cured as she could make him recall his previous life as an astronaut of NASA.  The patient came to her office in a jacket like a spacesuit.  As he found that he had once been an American astronaut, he smiled and got relieved from depression, since he had worked in a U.S. related company.  

Later she checked and found that there had been a corresponding American astronaut. The patient also found the same American astronaut in the internet.  He said to her over phone, "I really must be he, since his face looks like me and his birth day is different from mine only by three days."          

The doctor of psychiatry wrote that it was really a miracle that one can check and confirm his/her former life.  

She was born with an adrenal gland disorder which is so rare in a ratio of 1 in 20,000 babies.  She was treated with various medicines, so that she suffered such anguish as to wish death at her age of five.  Later she suffered children's dysentery to get in a state of apparent death, but before being put into a coffin, she recovered.  She really had a near-death experience.  It is a kind of miracles.  Before she became a doctor, she used to see miracles or paranormal phenomena around her. 

So, she thinks that modern Western medicine is not the only way to save and cure the sick.  Although she cannot perform spiritual healing like the late Harry Edwards, she sometimes performs hand-healing therapy, aromatherapy, etc.  As she is an accredited medical doctor, there seems to be no legal problems if she claims that a miracle can cure a sick person.     

Finally I wonder if the late American astronaut really wished to be born again as a Japanese man.  Yet, the Lord Jesus Christ said that none knew where a spirit went.             

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John 2, King James Version
20 Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?
21 But he spake of the temple of his body.
22 When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.
23 Now when he was in Jerusalem at the passover, in the feast day, many believed in his name, when they saw the miracles which he did.
24 But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all men,
25 And needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man.


Tuesday, February 20, 2024

"Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?" - Why Is the God Good?

 

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Why Is the God Good?

It is said that the God is almighty and perfectly good.  It can be easily understood that the God has all capacity and capability, but why must the God be good?

Especially the God is the creator of this material world (including the human world) and the spirit world (including the afterlife).  There are no laws or principles that put good above evil in the material world or the nature, or there are no concepts of good and evil in the material world or the nature.  So, then why is the God perfectly good?  

In addition, the matter between death and life seems to have nothing to do with the matter between good and evil.  But the God who rules the matter between death and life is said to be perfectly good but not evil.  Then, why must the God who is the creator of the material world and the nature be perfectly good but not tolerable to evil?  How does the matter between life and death be related to the matter between good and evil?   

Yet from the beginning it is said that the God is perfect.  Perfection should mean including everything thinkable.  So, true perfection should include imperfection.  What is perfect should include imperfection or what denies perfection.  Therefore, it can be understood that the God who embodies perfection should include imperfection.  In other word as the God includes imperfection He is perfect or complete and total.  Above this level of concepts, there should be heavenly perfect.  At the level, there should be no matter between good and evil.  Everything should be sacred there.  Therefore, these issues should disappear in the domain of the God.

We are in the material world or the nature including the human world where life and death is a critical issue.  Especially in the human world good and evil is a critical issue, too.  But, when men die, they enter into the spirit world where good spirits are accepted in Heaven and evil spirits go to the hells.  Good spirits may further be allowed to come closer to the domain of the God where even the concept between perfection and imperfection does not exist.  Only what is sacred allowed there.

Anyway, we should not be afraid of death, since there is the afterlife.  However, good spirits are allowed to be accepted in Haven to be given eternal life while evil spirits should go to the hells to be eventually destroyed.  And, good spirits given eternal life should further try to come closer or reach the domain of the God.  But, only elite angels may be allowed.  What is the state of God's domain should be unknown to human beings, human souls, and human spirits.  All we can do is to acknowledge the afterlife or the spirt world with Heaven and the hells, and choose and love good over evil, since goodness is the key to understanding the God.      

If a builder of a great building gets mad, he would try to destroy the building after completion of the building or during building it.  Seeing the great building with complete proportionality and wonderful design being destroyed and reduced to imperfect structure, people would think that such destruction is an act of evil.  People would think that it is good to keep the building .  So, the God who has created the spirit world, the material world, and the human world love these worlds to keep them integral and perfect, which should be called an act being good.  Indeed, the creator God is only good in this context but not users of the building. 

Yet, Satan still tries to harm the building or these worlds.  Satan is mad in this context.  He belongs to the worlds where imperfection is allowed to exist by the God.  Satan has found money effective in his plot.  Therefore, money becomes a source of evil.  The more men get money, the more they follow Satan and hate the God.  So, rich men are not accepted in Heaven.  Satan richer than any man in terms of money cannot be accepted in Heaven.  It is doomed to be finally destroyed in the hells of the spirit world.

Put simply, life and death, good and evil, and divinity and blasphemy can be fully understand by taking the domain of the God and the spirit world into account.  In the human world, we have to be taught by the Lord Jesus Christ as we are partly products of the nature where there is full of imperfection.

Material science cannot lead us to the spirit world.  But, faith and love should lead us to the truth.  Poverty without money makes men closer to faith and love like early Christians.  But, as living men cannot see the God, we have to enter into Heaven after death in the material world and our spirits there may be allowed to look up to the domain of the God.  It must surely look good beyond the domain of good and evil.              


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John 2, King James Version
18 Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things?
19 Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
20 Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?
21 But he spake of the temple of his body.
22 When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.