"worship the Father in spirit and in truth" - Shakespeare and Betrayal

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Shakespeare and Betrayal

According to the Gospels, Christ Jesus was betrayed by one of His disciples: Judas Iscariot.  This story gave a great impact on people of later generations.  One of them was Shakespeare.

A man like Christ Jesus could be even betrayed by one of his followers.  Then any hero could be also betrayed by one of his followers or any inferior figure around him.

If such a situation was viewed from a psychological point of view, it could be a really appealing story.  Shakespeare applied the psychological aspect of the relationship between Christ Jesus and Judas to his dramas, though Christ Jesus was not so emotional as leading figures in Shakespeare's dramas.

Betrayal is one of the key issues for Shakespeare's dramas.  And, Shakespeare must have learnt the fact that any great man such as Christ Jesus could face betrayal by somebody close to Him.  And, it could be a theme for a really appealing drama.

However, it is unknown how much Shakespeare suffered this human tragedy in his real life.  Or it is unknown who Shakespeare betrayed.

Anyway dramas Shakespeare wrote which do not include a scenario of betrayal do not look so successful.

However, the Gospels might be interpreted as a warning to believers that they cannot get rid of betrayal in their lives as Christ Jesus had to face the betrayal by Judas.   Therefore, we have to be always awakened.

Shakespeare was a cautious man, so that he did not write documents other than plays.  Writing was his resource of wealth.  If he had written carelessly any other documents than his plays, somebody might have abused them to cause damage to his reputation.  He did not leave much written evidence about what a man he was, which constituted the mystery about him.

Christ Jesus did not write letters, either.  He might have been afraid that such documentation would have been abused, since possible betrayers were everywhere.



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Joh 4:23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
Joh 4:24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

"all men glorified God for that which was done" - From What Motive Running for Presidential Election?

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From What Motive Running for Presidential Election?

One of the most significant expressions in the Bible is an "evil motive."

It means there are two types of motives when we do something: evil motives and holy motives.  If we can act always from holy motives, we must not be blamed by God.  But do we always think about whether what we are going to do is based on an evil motive or a holy motive?

We usually do something, because it is necessary or we simply want to do it to satisfy ourselves.  We don't think about whether we are doing something from an evil motive or a holy motive.  Rather, we know at least that we are doing something not from a holy motive.  And, we think it is natural.

But Christ Jesus said that He was doing what His Father in Heaven wanted Him to do.  And, Christ Jesus must have been doing only what His Father in Heaven wanted Him to do.  In this context Christ Jesus was only one who was doing anything from holy motivation.

For us to be blamed for doing something from an evil motive means that we are inherently given ability to discern good from evil.  Therefore, we are requested to act from a good motive.  This ability cannot be generated from our existence in the nature.  It must come from Heaven through our social lives.

Essentially acts based on love to others are not from evil motives.  Acts to make oneself happy by sacrificing or neglecting others are from evil motives.

But acts based on love to God are from holy motives.  But most people do not know what it is to love God.  However, the first step toward loving God is to appreciate God for He allowed us to be born or have life.  It means to admit that God created this universe and the world as well as human beings and human souls.  It means that God is the Creator.

When we vote for, for example, US Presidential candidates, we have to think whether the candidates are running for presidency from an evil motive or a good motive.  If a candidate is driving his or her presidential campaign mostly for his/her happiness or desire, his/her election efforts are based on an evil motive.

But can we find any candidates who are running for election to make Americans and global citizens or especially poor Americans and poor global citizens happy?  




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Act 4:21 So when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people: for all men glorified God for that which was done.
Act 4:22 For the man was above forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was shewed.

"And he closed the book" - God Created the Universe on Purpose

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God Created the Universe on Purpose

Everything we can actually observe and handle in this world was created from hydrogen or through nuclear fusion starting from hydrogen nuclei.

From the beginning the sun is made of hydrogen.  In the sun, through processes of nuclear fusion many atomic elements from helium to iron are being created.  And, when the sun undergoes supernova explosion, heavier atomic elements than iron, such as gold and uranium, are created.

The earth is made of those atomic elements created by a sun that was one-generation older than the current sun.  So, the earth has gold, uranium, and other heavy atomic elements.

But, the sun that was one-generation older than the current sun had been also made of only hydrogen.　Though a hydrogen atom consists of one proton and one electron, hydrogen atoms in the sun consist of only proton as electrons are separated due to very high temperature.

Anyway, fixed stars, including our sun, consist of hydrogen only.  And, every type of atomic elements is created from hydrogen through nuclear fusion in fixed stars or supernova explosion of  fixed stars.

So, every type of material on the earth, such as silver, gold, and uranium, was made of hydrogen.  In addition, on the earth, water is made of oxygen and hydrogen.  There are many types of molecules that include hydrogen.　

So, no matter how complicated and diversified the material world around us looks, every material is essentially made of hydrogen.  And, a hydrogen atom consists of one proton and one electron.  This is the fundamental element of our material world.

But we are surrounded by a great amount of chemicals and a myriad of living things.  Hydrogen can turn to such a huge number of types of chemicals and living things.  It is a miracle.  Every physical property and feature of a proton and an electron is pre-determined so as to allow for building of a huge number of types of chemicals and living things.  If we use millions of supercomputers, we cannot design a proton and an electron for the effect.  It must have been designed by God.

You may deny existence of God and think that this universe happened to be created with such a miracle proton and electron.  Yes, in an infinite number of trials of crating a universe, our universe might have been created with such a proton and an electron, all by chance.  But it does not guarantee that our souls could be born in such a very rare miracle universe.

The fact that we were born in such a very rare miracle universe means more reasonably that God created this universe for the purpose to allow human beings to be born there.

Without God, if a process of creating a universe from vacuum energy was repeated in an infinite number of times, this miracle universe with the miracle hydrogen could be created.  But this probability is almost zero.  And, the probability that our souls were born on a planet in the universe is also almost zero.  The fact that we live on the earth in this miracle universe proves that this universe and human beings, including us, were created by God on purpose.




http://sciexplorer.blogspot.jp/2013/03/the-sun-part-2-from-gas-cloud-to.html



http://www.uni.edu/morgans/astro/course/Notes/section2/new8.html



http://edu.fradkov.com/NASA_Recycling.phtml?date=20110103



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Luk 4:20 And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.
Luk 4:21 And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.

"For thou hast had five husbands" - Flesh-Eating to Killing Other Men

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Flesh-Eating to Killing Other Men

Christ Jesus said to his disciples that they were like sheep among wolves.

Christ Jesus did not eat meat, though he might eat fish.  He did not eat beef and steak.  Does it mean meat-eating is an act of unholiness?

From the beginning, dose the nature need flesh-eating animals to suppress too much increase of grass-eating animals?　　However, according to a theory, animals are essentially flesh-eating, since they cannot take amino acid from grass.   Only special animals that keep in their digestive tracts some bacteria that produce amino acid from grass can live as grass-eating animals.

So, it seems that God created other animals in addition to plants so that men can eat them.  It might not be a sin at all for men to kill other animals to eat them.  And God might even allow flesh-eating animals to kill and eat grass-eating animals.  But there is a limit in killing other animals, of course.

For example, if white men with advanced weapons regard black men without effective weapons as living things inferior to them, the white men might enslave or kill the black men without the lash of their conscience.  If a man despises another too much to regard him as a fellow human being, he might kill the other like a flesh-eating animal killing a grass-eating animal.

So, a habit of meat-eating must be carefully observed.

God allowed human beings to kill and eat other animals.  But, through this habit, human beings developed skills of killing that could be easily directed to other human beings.

So, essentially human beings should not develop the skill and technology of killing more than that needed for killing other animals to eat them.  God must not have expected human beings to develop weapons so as to kill one another.

The world without weapons against other human beings must be a right one.

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Joh 4:16 Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.
Joh 4:17 The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband:
Joh 4:18 For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly.
Joh 4:19 The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.

"he taught in their synagogues" - A Miracle to Move a Mountain

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A Miracle to Move a Mountain

Christ Jesus said that if you had any little faith, you could move a mountain.

Nobody takes this teaching as it is literally.  Besides, you may wonder: Did Christ Jesus move any mountains?   Moving a mountain is just a parable for something great.  However, "move a mountain" might not necessarily mean "change the location of a mountain" but mean "shake a mountain."  It might mean that if we have any little faith, we can shake a volcano to have it erupt.

Mount Vesuvius is best known for its eruption in AD 79 that led to the burying and destruction of the Roman cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and several other settlements. That eruption ejected a cloud of stones, ash, and fumes to a height of 33 km (20.5 mi), spewing molten rock and pulverized pumice at the rate of 1.5 million tons per second, ultimately releasing a hundred thousand times the thermal energy released by the Hiroshima bombing.[1] An estimated 16,000 people died due to hydrothermal pyroclastic flows.[2] The only surviving eyewitness account of the event consists of two letters by Pliny the Younger to the historian Tacitus. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Vesuvius

http://www.approachguides.com/blog/touring-mount-vesuvius/


Around AD 79, the first Jewish-Roman war had been ended with the victory of Roman troops over Judaists.  And, St. Paul and St. Peter had been already executed by the Roman authority in Rome.

So, somebody who took over the leadership of early Christians must have said to God in Rome after the fall of Jerusalem and the death of St. Paul and St. Peter: "Oh God, please show justice.  Romans destroyed Jerusalem and killed so many Isrealites.  Please bring justice to Romans.  Oh, God, if you admit my faith and approve my role to succeed St. Peter, please give me power to exercise a miracle to move a mountain!"

So, several years after the first Jewish-Roman war (the fall of Jerusalem) and the death of St. Paul and St. Peter, Mt. Vesuvius erupted near Pompeii in AD 79.

With this miracle, the foundation of the Vatican must have been set.

Or are there any other reasons for Mt. Vesuvius, a little close to Rome, to have erupted in AD 79?  So, this is one example that the teaching of Jesus, "if you had any little faith, you could move a mountain," came true in history.  Despite so many victims of the eruption, many early Christians in Rome must have strengthened their faith as they saw this miracle, since this miracle told that there was someone who had true faith among them.



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Luk 4:14 And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about.
Luk 4:15 And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all.

"The sower soweth the word" - More than a Miracle

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More than a Miracle

When this universe was produced from vacuum energy about 14 billion years ago, a miracle occurred.

When this universe was first produced, no stars and galaxies might have been formed if too much or too little material had been included in the small universe at its birth.  If material was too much, the universe would have soon collapsed for its weight.  If material was too little, all the elements of the material should have flown at too high speed along with inflation and explosion of the universe, giving no chances to formation of stars and galaxies.

Accordingly, material or equivalent energy of the universe at its generation has to take a certain value.  But, of course, there is a range of error to the value.  But this allowed error is less than 10 to the power of minus 15 at one second after the emergence of the universe..

N - 0.000000000000001 < N < N + 0.000000000000001

The distance between the earth and the sun is:
150,000,000,000,000 mm = 1.5 x 10^14

Therefore the precision required for our universe could produce stars and galaxies is equivalent to measurement of the distance from the earth to the sun to the order of 0.1 mm.

If the energy density N of the universe with the diameter of 1,000,000,000,000 km at one second after its birth is less than N - 0.00000000000001 or larger than N + 0.00000000000001 of a certain unit, no stars and galaxies can be generated in the universe.

It may translate into the error of the size within 1 meter against 10^15 meters of the size of the universe at one second after its birth.  In analogy, it is 0.1 mm against the distance between the earth and the sun.

For reference, the diameter of an atom is about 10^7 mm (0.000001 mm).  Mankind cannot control the length of the diameter of an atom multiplied by 10 to the power of minus 8.

Of course, the process of emergence of a universe from vacuum energy can be tried repeatedly 10^15 times.  But, we can call a phenomenon a miracle if it can happen only once in 1000 years (10^3 years).  It is more than  a miracle.

Only God can correctly set the energy density of the universe one second after its generation at the precision of one to 10^15 (0.000000000000001).

Or how can we believe that we happened to be born in such a miracle universe while other 1,000,000,000,000,000 universes failed?




http://www.astronomy.org/programs/seasons/


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Mar 4:14 The sower soweth the word.
Mar 4:15 And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown; but when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately, and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts.

"all these things are done in parables" - Those Who Believe and Those Who Do Not

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Those Who Believe and Those Who Do Not

Nobody thinks that mankind will still exist on the earth one billion years later, since at the time, the sun will be inflated to engulf Mercury and Venus.  All the water in the earth will evaporate and the temperature will rise too high for any living things to survive.

Or nobody today thinks that he or she will live for 150 years or more.  Though advancement of science may allow men to live for 150 years or more in the future, but it is unthinkable that any individual will be able to live for one billion years.

Besides, we see many people dying around us or in the Middle East and other war-torn regions. Anybody should die someday.  This is the surest fact, and the mankind will get extinct even after the end of the earth, since no living things seem to have basic conditions for survive for one billion years.  Even if our descendants should live one billion years later, they cannot be called human beings due to expected drastic change in their biological conditions.

So, we are all living in a limited space and a time window.  And, we are all destined to die someday.  But people don't think about much about their death and afterlife.

It is natural that we don't worry about our death in daily living, since we were born to live but not to die.  We are expected to concentrate on living.  But, it is still strange that we don't fully think about our death.

Especially, those who deny existence and power of God do not think about afterlife, since they think there is no afterlife.  In this context, for them, only things in this world have value.  There is nothing that can prevent them from chasing satisfaction of their desire as much as human and social conditions allow them to..

But, those who believe in God sometimes think about afterlife.  Since God is spirit, the core of a man is also spirit that is never terminated by biological death of his or her body.  They believe that their spirit will be allowed to enter Heaven if they hold fast their belief in God.  Then, for them, things in this world do not have ultimate value.  Things or phenomena they will encounter in after life must have ultimate value.  Accordingly, they will not be so greedy or get attached to satisfaction of their desire in this world.

Those who don't believe in God might think what is good in being good if a man dies and disappears forever.  They will become evil as much as they can be if they can satisfy their desire.

But those who believe in God think that God requests them to be good, since they were created by God as God loves them.

When the earth is broken two billion years later and the human species have also gone extinct somewhere in the universe, a textbook used by angels might read that mankind was created by love of God on the earth but they did not believe in God doing every evil thing to go extinct.

So, angels should be disgusted with the human species and God should naturally get angry.  God must think: "I loved the human species to given them human souls, but they were not grateful for My love!"

Therefore, those who do not believe in existence of God are enemies of God and those who believe in God.

This must also apply to those who call themselves Judaists, Christians, or Muslims.




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Mar 4:11 And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables:
Mar 4:12 That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.

"Get thee behind me, Satan" - Like Living in the Solitary Island

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Like Living in the Solitary Island

If you are brought into a house where you are provided with foods and any entertainments you like, you still want to know where the house stands.  And if you find it is on a small island in the middle of the ocean and there are no means by which to get out of it, you may give up and start to eat foods and enjoy entertainments as long as you live.

But you will surely try to find who has brought you to the jail house in the solitary island far off in the ocean.  But you may soon give up your thinking and start enjoying foods and entertainments.

If you are accompanied by a group of people, there will be some dramas and various incidents involving all these people.  Then you may really forget that you are forced to live in the house as you are absorbed with human dramas going on in the house with the group of people.

Put simply, we human beings are living in such a way on this planet.  Our souls were brought to this planet and are forced to live as human beings.  We look up at the sky at night to see that this planet earth is completely isolated from other planets and stars.  Besides, we have foods and any types of entertainments.  And we are absorbed with incidents caused by us on the earth.

However, as the island and the house are surely monitored and observed by someone, this planet earth must be monitored and observed by God.

And, as that someone who brought you to the island and the house must expect you to think over and find who brought you to the solitary island and the mystery house and why he did so, God must expect human beings to think over who brought their souls to the planet earth and why.

We human beings are today behaving on this planet earth like people who are brought to the mysterious house in the solitary island far off in the ocean.

We have to stop eating favorite foods and enjoying entertainments and start to think about who God is and why He made us live on the earth.





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Luk 4:8 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
Luk 4:9 And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on a pinnacle of the temple, and said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down from hence:
Luk 4:10 For it is written, He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee:
Luk 4:11 And in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Luk 4:12 And Jesus answering said unto him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

"Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink" - Don't Toil on but Think about God

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Don't Toil on but Think about God

The Gospels were written about 2000 years ago, but they are not obsolete today.

People, including Christ Jesus, did not use smartphones and other modern electronic appliances.  They did not eat meals today we eat.  They did not travel in jet planes.  They did not enjoy sport and entertainment programs on TV.  But every episode written in the Gospels can be fully understood by people of today.

However, today people with knowledge of modern science do not simply believe existence or work of ill spirits or angels.  People living in 2000 years ago apparently believed in what today's people regard as superstitions.  They included absurd ideas about the nature, but some of superstitions must have been really related to the spiritual world some people of today also believe.

The big difference between modern people and those who lived 2000 years ago must be the amount of time they think about God.

As we are today surrounded by many material products, we are busy handling them.  As we are today offered many occasions of enjoying entertainments, we are busy enjoying them.  As we can today travel so easily to far and various places, we are busy travelling and observing something foreign.  Consequently, we have less time for thinking about God.

Christ Jesus and His disciples walking wilderness or fields must have a plenty of time for thinking about God.  Probably they think about god for several hours per day.  But very few people today think about God for several hours per day.

Therefore to understand the Bible, we have to abandon modern material living to secure time for thinking about God.  Maybe if we come to think about God for as long hours as people did 2000 years ago, we would be able to correctly read the Bible.

In this context, hard working people must be very careful not to be led to a state where they have no time for thinking about God.  Satan must be able to control busy men easily.

So, not for men to get off guard against Satan, Christ Jesus said not to worry themselves and toil on.

Indeed, when a man is thinking about God, he must be protected from Satan.    





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Joh 4:7 There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink.
Joh 4:8 (For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.)
Joh 4:9 Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.

"the devil taketh him up into the holy city" - Dualism and Heaven and the Hell

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Dualism and Heaven and the Hell

No one wants to live poor.  But there are different ways of living among people.

Almost 10% of people would sell their souls to Satan if they can be rich.  And, almost 10% of people try to follow God as much as possible no matter how much they don't like poverty, though God tells them to live humble and poor.

And the rest of 80% people are afraid of Satan but they cannot fully accept the teaching of God.  Therefore, followers of Satan is predominant in the human world, though it does not collapse for their evil acts since some righteous people are making efforts to maintain any little justice and humanity.

But this relationship of people looking at God and other people looking at Satan may have some analogy with some physical issue.

In particle physics, antimatter is a material composed of antiparticles, which have the same mass as particles of ordinary matter but opposite charges, as well as other particle properties such as lepton and baryon numbers and quantum spin. Collisions between particles and antiparticles lead to the annihilation of both, giving rise to variable proportions of intense photons (gamma rays), neutrinos, and less massive particle–antiparticle pairs.  

There is considerable speculation as to why the observable universe is composed almost entirely of ordinary matter, as opposed to a more even mixture of matter and antimatter. This asymmetry of matter and antimatter in the visible universe is one of the great unsolved problems in physics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimatter

Maybe the human world today is in a process of annihilation of bad souls.  If a man with a good soul should encounter with a man with an evil soul, both might disappear leaving some sort of spiritual energy.  Or, if a good part of man's soul should collide with an evil part of his soul, both might disappear in his inner space.  But, in the long run, good souls would prevail as the physical universe is.

So, dualism is a profound root in humanity and the physical universe.

Moral dualism began as a theological belief. Dualism was first seen implicitly in Egyptian Religious beliefs by the contrast of the gods Set (disorder, death) and Osiris (order, life).[2] The first explicit conception of dualism came from the Ancient Persian Religion of Zoroastrianism around the mid-fifth century BC. Zoroastrianism is a monotheistic religion that believes that Ahura Mazda is the eternal creator of all good things. Any violations of Ahura Mazda's order arise from druj, which is everything uncreated. From this comes a significant choice for humans to make. Either they fully participate in human life for Ahura Mazda or they do not and give druj power. Personal dualism is even more distinct in the beliefs of later religions. 

The religious dualism of Christianity between good and evil is not a perfect dualism as God (good) will inevitably destroy Satan (evil). Early Christian Dualism is largely based on Platonic Dualism (See: Neoplatonism and Christianity). There is also a personal dualism in Christianity with a soul-body distinction based on the idea of an immaterial Christian Soul.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dualism#History

Probably it is not right to think that a man should accept dualism, or both positive and negative or both holy and evil.  But it is right to think that a man should live as a process of erasing negative by positive or evil by goodness.

Anyway above the domain of dualism, there must be Heaven, and below the domain of dualism there must be the hell.

So, Christ Jesus said if we accumulated wealth in this world it would be rotten (by negative force), so that accumulate wealth in Heaven.



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Mat 4:5 Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple,
Mat 4:6 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.

"there went out a sower to sow" - Beyond the Domain of Probability

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Beyond the Domain of Probability

If you roll the dice 200 to 1200 times continually.  You may encounter a case that one-spot appears four times consecutively back-to-back.

And at the time, it does not necessarily mean that you have special ability.  It is a matter of probability.

In the human history of 2000 years, we might see emergence of such a man as Hitler or Napoleon.  But it does not necessarily mean that Hitler, Napoleon, or such a man is genius.  It is a matter of probability.

 So, you may say that the condition of a hero is that he is a right person in a right place at a right time.  As all the men have almost similar ability essentially as a member of the human species, the important factors for appearance of a hero are a situation and a timing.

For example, if Obama had been born a decade earlier or later, he should not have become US President.  He was a right person in a right place at a right timing in the 2008 US Presidential election.

So, in 4000 years of the human history, there is a possibility that a man like Abraham was born who was praised by God.  A man like Moses was born who was trusted by God.  And, a man like Muhammed was born who was given words of God.

But, it is unthinkable that a man like Christ Jesus was born who claimed that He was the Son of God or He was sent by God no matter if the human history becomes longer than 10,000, 100,000, 1 million, or 10 million years.

If Christ Jesus had not been born and Christianity had not been founded, this modern civilization should have been impossible.  The world of today must have been almost the same level of the Roman Empire 2000 years ago.  It is because the modern civilization owes its success to science, culture, and social systems of modern Europe that has been based on Christianity.

If living things continue evolution for a billion years, there is a chance that a species with higher intelligence would appear, and it might look like the human species.  But how the creature comes to develop its spiritual ability cannot be predicted.  They may not find God as their guide.  They may not have concepts of Heaven and the hell.  They may not obey ethical codes.  They may just end as intellectual apes but not as human beings.

The spiritual aspect of human beings seems to have been formed beyond a range where probability dominates.  It must be formed by interference of God.

If it is not realized by chance, there must be intention of somebody, God in this case.  But we cannot simply find with what intention God gave spiritual ability to mankind.

Anyway, this success of the human civilization is beyond a domain of probability in the nature.  We have to realize that mankind did not become mankind by its own intention or will.  We are just in the hand of God who can control any probability, since He is Almighty.

So, Christ Jesus appeared beyond the domain of probability 2000 years ago.



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Mar 4:3 Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow:
Mar 4:4 And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up.
Mar 4:5 And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth:
Mar 4:6 But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.
Mar 4:7 And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.

"fasted forty days and forty nights" - The Most Important Role of Religion

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The Most Important Role of Religion

If a man was born in a specific environment, the man would be surely influenced by the environment.

If a man was born in Islamic society, he or she will surely become a Muslim without doubt.  But, if he or she was born in Jewish society, he or she will surely become a Judaist.

But when they grow up, in most cases they will not change their religions.  They may not deny other religions, but they will stick to religions under which they were born.

These religions may call real regions, since they are so real to their followers.

Conversely, basically, there is no absolute religion that would convince people of any real religions that there is more authentic religion, which is the absolute religion, than those they observe.  But, each prevailing real religion has an absolute influence on its followers, convincing them that it is definitely the right religion.

So, there are two conditions for any religion to be judged to be real religion.  First, it should capture the minds of almost all the members in a society where the religion prevails.  Second, it should still convince them, even after they have grown up, that the religion is the best one in the world.

Then, what will satisfy these conditions?  Or by what features, do real regions can meet these conditions?

It is God.  Any real religion must present God as real existence to followers.  As followers see or sense God through their religion, they believe that their religion is real.

Indeed, Judaism is based on the relationship between God and Judaists.  Christianity depends on the faith that Christ Jesus is God.  Islam is based on words of God.

Therefore, the role of real religions is to indicate God to people.  So, after followers see or sense God, these religions can be forgotten.  All people have to do is just directly follow teaching of God.

Put extremely, they don't have to any more follow rules, forms, ways, customs, rituals, or even some teachings of religions they follow that teach the way to God to them.  Because those rules, forms, customs, rituals, and teaching of the religions were introduced to cope with specific conditions and environments and reach the minds of people.  But now that, the religions show God to followers, they should be replaced with direct teaching from God.

In this context, those who identify themselves as Judaists, Christians, or Muslims have not yet fully comprehended God, so that they still stick to individual religions.

It is to prove existence of God that any religions exist.  The most important role of any religions is to tell people that God exists and God is the lord of mankind.  And if followers of any religions understand that God exists and God is the lord of mankind, they should leave the religions for God.

Put simply, Judaists, Christians, and Muslims must take a step forward leaving their religions toward God.

Then to call oneself a Judaist, a Christian, or a Muslim means that he or she does not fully understand God and thus it may be a shame.

If people fully understand and obey God, they must feel ashamed if they happen to call themselves Judaists, Christians, or Muslims.
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Mat 4:2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.

"he began again to teach by the sea side" - Christ Jesus was Sent by God

Cherry Blossoms in a Shrine-side Park, around Tokyo 

Christ Jesus was Sent by God

One of the most important statements of Christ Jesus is that He had been sent by God to this world.

First of all, we have to decide to accept this statement or not.  If we don't accept this statement, we may naturally conclude that there is no God and thus Christ Jesus told a lie or the whole Christianity is based on such a lie.

Then, how do we live after denying the statement by Christ Jesus?  There is no God, we naturally think, in this world and universe.  No one is watching us; no one judges us; and no one punishes us no matter how evil things we do.  We, the human beings, must be the highest existence in this universe.  No matter how much we do evil things to make money, ultimately nothing and nobody can judge and punish us.

But we may afraid that if everyone starts to behave so badly and so violently, order will be lost in this world.  To enjoy wealth civilization produces, we have to maintain order in this world.  But if everyone denies God and starts to behave like a gangster, no civilization can be maintained and thus we cannot enjoy products and services civilization produces.

What is worse, if everybody thinks that if he or she kills and harms other, no one can punish him or her, there will be no order, no peace, no safety and no hope in everybody's living.  People try to attack others to rob them of their assets.  At every corner of a village, a town or a city, there will be violent crimes.  And no one will hesitate to tell a lie and dupe others to steal money.

So, rulers in the godless and faithless world would resort to stronger violence and laws and regulations to govern people.  But as the communist countries failed in the 20th century, rule of violence, fear, and man-made ideology cannot last long.

Accordingly, rulers in this godless and faithless world are using religion and any good nature of people to govern them.  But they use them as a means to secure order.  So, no matter how much they say they respect religion, justice, and humanity, they don't love them and believe in them.  For them, even Christianity is a means to control people.

In other word, to give authority to laws and regulations, they need a concept of God.  To encourage people to behave orderly, they pretend to respect ethics rooted in faith in God.

However, their true thought is that they need money to enjoy living.  But to establish and keep society where money economy works, order is needed.  To maintain order, Christianity and other religions are useful.  Anyway, they must think, there is no God in this universe.

But, this abuse of religions cannot last long.  Desire of people is not limited.  But the larger desire gets, the larger false religions must be to secure order and prevent mutual destruction among greedy people.  This balance will be broken someday.  Then, order will not be maintained any more.  People will start to attack one another with bare violence for money or the like.

It tells that we will perish someday if we don't accept the statement of Christ Jesus.  But if we accept it, we will be able to live simply peacefully but humbly.  By accepting the statement, we can survive and evolve eternally.

So, one of the most important statements of Christ Jesus is that He had been sent by God to this world.




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Mar 4:1 And he began again to teach by the sea side: and there was gathered unto him a great multitude, so that he entered into a ship, and sat in the sea; and the whole multitude was by the sea on the land.

"Envy thou not the oppressor" - Sinful Economic System of Today Based on Competition

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Sinful Economic System of Today Based on Competition

Christ Jesus told not to worry yourself but see the flowers along roadsides and the birds in the sky.

The opposite to this landscape is competition in society for money or positions.  It means that Christ Jesus is against competition among people in society.  Nobody should not worry himself to win competition in business or daily matters.  Indeed, no flowers and no birds look competing with one another.

It is fear that drives people to competition.  While others are trying hard to get money and higher status, how can a man look at flowers and birds like a fool.  If he becomes the last in competition, he cannot be rich and he cannot protect himself from others.  For this fear, every one is competing and toiling on.

However, people will say that competition is an engine that push the society forward and produce more useful goods and services along with development of technology and business.  And, those who win competition are those who contribute the most to advancement of the society.  Therefore, winners of competition, they argue, are entitled to get big rewards such as big money and great honor.

But, what Christ Jesus told is that advancement of the human society must be promoted through different means than sinful competition.  It is not a goal but a process that is important.

The value of lives of righteous people who lived, say, 2000 years ago without modern products and services must be higher that that of lives of  sinful rich men, namely winners of competition, of today.  

Human being can be blessed in their living without products of modern technologies that have been invented and realized through sinful competition.

Freedom does not necessarily need competition.  The free market economy can be realized without competition.
 
In other word, Christ Jesus is apparently against the economic system of today that is based on competition among people.





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Pro 3:30 Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done thee no harm.
Pro 3:31 Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.
Pro 3:32 For the froward is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous.

"He must increase, but I must decrease" - Unique Aspect of Christianity

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Unique Aspect of Christianity

Without authority, a nation cannot be governed.

In older days, kings and emperors also needed spiritual authority to stand above their people.  If their people admitted the spiritual authority, they would not become rebellious.  So, any kingdoms or nations needed religions.  And, kings and emperors should act as the highest priests of the religions.

It was observed in ancient Mesopotamia, ancient Egypt, ancient India, ancient China, etc.  Even ancient Greek had its myth.  But, leaders of ancient Greek cities were not representative priests of their religion.  Leaders of ancient Rome were not oracles or flamens.

In this context, the ancient Greek and Roman civilizations are unique.  Accordingly, from these civilizations, some cultural works that are still influential in today's world were generated.

In other words, except ancient Greek and Rome, the work of minds of people were confined by their religions.  But, ancient Greeks and Romans were given more freedom in their minds.  It is because their religions were not so binding.

Ancient Greeks were conquered by ancient Romans who had more freedom in their mentality.  But ancient Romans were conquered by tribes coming from the central Asia who must have had more freedom in their mentality.

After the fall of the Roman Empire, Christianity fully penetrated into Europe.  Christianity set free Europeans from more binding religions of their ancestors.  It worked in a manner of allowing them to raise their living standard and social structure to relatively civilized levels, though the era is called the dark Middle Ages.  And, eventually, when the Renaissance began, it gave more freedom to their mentality, and Europeans started to develop their modern civilization.

Even in the modern history, the US with more freedom in mentality could defeat Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan as well as the Soviet Union (in the Cold War).  Indeed, Christianity in the US gives more freedom to people's mentality than the Vatican does.

Religions adopted by kings and emperors to justify their rule were extremely binding.  They even suppressed free mental work of their people.  No paradigm changes were expected.  But ancient Romans and Greeks were under less binding spiritual conditions; that is why they succeeded culturally, politically, and militarily.

The modern Europe and America have had less binding Christianity; that is why they have succeeded in various aspects of civilization.

But Christianity essentially gives more freedom to the mentality of people.  It allows people to be free from more deeply rooted paradigm of humanity and human society than any old religions.

Therefore for mankind to survive and sustain themselves toward future, this unique characteristic or aspect of Christianity should play a more important role.  Conversely, future Christianity must allow people to be freed from the most conventional paradigm about human lives and human society.

In this context, the new spiritual movement for more freedom in line with the teaching of Christ Jesus may arise in the US rather than in the Vatican.  The Vatican must undergo a great paradigm change.



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Joh 3:28 Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him.
Joh 3:29 He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled.
Joh 3:30 He must increase, but I must decrease.

"which was the son of Er" - Revenge by God on Mankind

Imperial Palace Plaza, Tokyo

Revenge by God on Mankind

There is a parable Christ Jesus mentioned that an owner of a vine yard had his revenge on workers of the vine yard who killed servants and a son of the owner.  The owner sent them to the vine yard with expectation that those workers would respect the servants and his son, though the bad workers killed them to take the vine yard out of the owner.  Eventually the owner sent a band of his men to the vine yard to execute the rebellious workers.

Apparently the owner of the vine yard is God; the vine yard is this world; and his son is Christ Jesus.

Indeed, as mankind killed the Son of God who sent His Son with expectation that mankind would respect His Son, God would sent the army of Heaven to destroy mankind.

If you think that God really exists and He really sent His Son to the human world, but mankind killed His Son, namely Christ Jesus, who talked about the said parable before He was killed by mankind, you must be afraid of revenge by God.  However, 2000 years after the death of Christ Jesus, mankind still exists.  But can you be sure that God never revenges Himself on mankind?

Christians mean those who believe in Christ Jesus and believe the vineyard parable He told.  Therefore Christians mean those who are always extremely sorry for God and are afraid of a coming vengeance by God.  So, true Christians cannot enjoy their lives as the sin of mankind is so grave.  While mankind has put God into a rage, how can they enjoy living?

But strangely, no Christians show their remorse and repentance openly in or outside churches.  And more strangely, Christians are praying to God so that He would save them from any danger while they do not apologize to God for the murder of His Son.  How can God love these selfish and foolish Christians?  And, what is worse, there are much more people who do not even think that mankind ever killed the Son of God.  They are still continuing arrogant and sinful lives.

So, it is apparent that what is requested from mankind is fear, awe, and dread of God who should surely take out His revenge on mankind someday.

However, God seems to be extremely benevolent and merciful to mankind.  He seems to have given mankind enough time.  So, after the killing of God's Son, mankind could survive 2000 years.  But, the time limit may be close to us.

This universe was created by God.  This planet earth was also created by God.  And, on the earth in the universe, there living is mankind who killed the Son of God who kindly visited the human world to correct evil behaviors of mankind and save victims of evil deeds of mankind.  And, this mankind has not fully repent for 2000 years!  Such a species must not be allowed to exist on the earth in the universe God created.  It is logical and natural.  God should put an end to the history of mankind someday.

So, the issue is when and how God will take His revenge on mankind.

Truly without evil mankind is generating on the earth, the universe must look finer to the eyes of God.



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Prophecy of the Popes

The Prophecy of the Popes (Latin: Prophetia Sancti Malachiae Archiepiscopi, de Summis Pontificibus) is a series of 112 short, cryptic phrases in Latin which purport to predict the Roman Catholic popes (along with a few antipopes), beginning with Pope Celestine II. 


The prophecies conclude with a pope identified as "Peter the Roman", whose pontificate will allegedly precede the destruction of the city of Rome.[


Petrus Romanus[edit]
In recent times some interpreters of prophetic literature have drawn attention to the prophecies due to their imminent conclusion; if the list of descriptions is matched on a one-to-one basis to the list of historic popes since the prophecies' publication, Benedict XVI (2005–13) would correspond to the second to last of the papal descriptions, Gloria olivae (the glory of the olive).[13] The longest and final prophecy predicts the Apocalypse:[14]

In persecutione extrema S.R.E. sedebit.

Petrus Romanus, qui pascet oves in multis tribulationibus, quibus transactis civitas septicollis diruetur, & judex tremendus judicabit populum suum. Finis.

This may be translated into English as:

In the final persecution of the Holy Roman Church, there will sit [i.e., as bishop].

Peter the Roman, who will pasture his sheep in many tribulations, and when these things are finished, the city of seven hills [i.e. Rome] will be destroyed, and the dreadful judge will judge his people. The End.[15]

Several historians and interpreters of the prophecies note that they leave open the possibility of unlisted popes between "the glory of the olive" and the final pope, "Peter the Roman".[6][16] In the Lignum Vitae, the line In persecutione extrema S.R.E. sedebit. forms a separate sentence and paragraph of its own. While often read as part of the "Peter the Roman" prophecy, other interpreters view it as a separate, incomplete sentence explicitly referring to additional popes between "the glory of the olive" and "Peter the Roman".[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophecy_of_the_Popes#Popes_1590_to_present_.28post-publication.29




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Luk 3:28 Which was the son of Melchi, which was the son of Addi, which was the son of Cosam, which was the son of Elmodam, which was the son of Er,
Luk 3:29 Which was the son of Jose, which was the son of Eliezer, which was the son of Jorim, which was the son of Matthat, which was the son of Levi,
Luk 3:30 Which was the son of Simeon, which was the son of Juda, which was the son of Joseph, which was the son of Jonan, which was the son of Eliakim,
Luk 3:31 Which was the son of Melea, which was the son of Menan, which was the son of Mattatha, which was the son of Nathan, which was the son of David,
Luk 3:32 Which was the son of Jesse, which was the son of Obed, which was the son of Booz, which was the son of Salmon, which was the son of Naasson,

"No man can enter into a strong man's house" - Anti-Christian Movement and Islamic Terror

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Anti-Christian Movement and Islamic Terror

Anti-Christian movement is the core of globalization of economy, commercialism, and advanced financial business.

However, anti-Christian movements in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union were already demolished in the 20th century.

In capitalism and the free market system, it is thought to be the right thing to sell goods more and more.  To sell goods and services in increasing amounts, goods and services must be first wanted by consumers.  Therefore, businesses use advertisement to arouse lust in the minds of consumers.  To  stir desire of consumers and make them buy goods and services is a common technique of businesses.  But desire and lust are hated by Christ Jesus, since they drive people to selfish ways of living, negligence of others, and love to money, and hate to righteousness.

If you see TV today, you are forced to see various CM where naked women, abnormal guys, sinful riches, and violence are used as a means to get attention of watchers and seduce them  from humble, righteous, and simple lives.

As long as anti-Christian commercialism is prevailing in Europe and America, they cannot be free from terror since terrorists are also under influence of Western anti-Christian movement.

As to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to him, we beg you, brothers and sisters, not to be quickly shaken in mind or alarmed, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as though from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord is already here. Let no one deceive you in any way; for that day will not come unless the rebellion comes first and the lawless one is revealed, the one destined for destruction. He opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, declaring himself to be God.
— 2 Thessalonians 2:1–4 

For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work, but only until the one who now restrains it is removed. And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will destroy with the breath of his mouth, annihilating him by the manifestation of his coming. The coming of the lawless one is apparent in the working of Satan, who uses all power, signs, lying wonders, and every kind of wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.
— 2 Thessalonians 2:7–10

Indeed, there is nobody in governments, central banks, financial institutes, and financial markets who are engaged in their business to carry their duties in lined with the teaching of God.

Indeed, there is nobody in businesses who manage their operation in lined with the teaching of God.

They all aim to increase wealth of themselves, and they use anti-Christian advertisement as their means to sell their goods and services and earn big profits.

Any person trying to be rich without following the teaching of God is anti-Christian, but as systems and organizations, some people are chasing wealth, which is a graver type of anti-Christ movement.

As Islam is more  ascetic, terrorists from the Islamic environment would easily justify their evil act: Corrupt and rotten Western society must be punished by Allah or followers of Allah.

The Western society has to abandon anti-Christian commercialism even to avoid such terror.





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Mar 3:27 No man can enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he will first bind the strong man; and then he will spoil his house.
Mar 3:28 Verily I say unto you, All sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, and blasphemies wherewith soever they shall blaspheme:
Mar 3:29 But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation.

"all men come to him" - God is More Important than Any Individuals

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God is More Important than Any Individuals

One of key teachings of Christ Jesus is denial of old human relationships in society.

He ordered people to leave their family, their occupation, their social status and follow Him.  However, it does not necessary mean to leave the society or the nation one lives in.  It means to stop belonging to any authority that is not holy.

But men get happiness in their homes, earn money through their occupation, and identify themselves with status they have in their countries.  So, to follow the teaching of Christ Jesus, men have to abandon happiness, wealth, and social status they are enjoying in this world.

In other word, under worldly authority, men can work with pride or a sense of significance, earn money to buy goods and services they want, and enjoy their status.  The order of the world assures them of living rich lives if they accept the worldly authority and win competition.

However, according to Christ Jesus, this authority is false.  This worldly authority is not from God.  Anything obtained by following the worldly order must be therefore abandoned.

The main criterion for man's judgement in his living is how much he can get profit.  But Christ Jesus taught that the criterion must be how much man's judgment satisfy God.

Put simply, God is more important than any individuals.  Men are allowed to live only to serve God.  Or, to have mankind serve God, God created this universe and gave higher spirit to mankind.

In this context, a man's life is for God.  Though a man was born to live and die, there is nothing meaningful in his life for himself or others, because it is God who can give meaning to a man's life.  A life of a man has essentially no meaning for himself or other people.  It has only true and real meaning for God.  (That is why literary works that depict this meaninglessness are highly praised.)

But If a man took it wrong, he might fall into nihilism.  Or he will be lost even by himself if he cannot believe and love God.

True humanitarianism has to be rooted in the teaching of Christ Jesus.  As God created every man, men have to respect one another.  A man must not kill another man God created.

Essentially, as long as men do not admit that they belong to God and they should obey God, no problems in this world will be solved.  Because, if a man does not believe in God, he is the last authority for himself ultimately. So, whatever he desires he would try to achieve by sacrificing others.  In this Godless world, there cannot be true peace.  

Christians have to live for God, and Muslims have to live for Allah.  Then, peace will be realized in the world.

Any human efforts toward the global peace is useless if they are not corroborated by their faith in God.



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Joh 3:25 Then there arose a question between some of John's disciples and the Jews about purifying.
Joh 3:26 And they came unto John, and said unto him, Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond Jordan, to whom thou barest witness, behold, the same baptizeth, and all men come to him.
Joh 3:27 John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.

"if a house be divided against itself" - Confucius Not for Wealth

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Confucius Not for Wealth

One day a disciple of Confucius asked his master: "Some good people lived and died poor while other bad people lived and died rich.  How would you explain it, sir?"

Confucius answered: "If I think I have to succeed in this world, I would be the meanest servant of a minister or a king.  As I think this way of my life is right, I don't mind this inconvenience in living.  There is clear distinction among people for their ways of living."

Even in ancient China, to gain a successful career, one had to serve seniors, bosses, high-ranking officers, noblemen, or a king who could be mean as much as he could be.  Therefore Confucius tried to correct the minds of those who governed states and controlled the society.  Confucius thought that once decent leaders or kings had governed China, but as time went by, people lost righteousness.  Confucius tried to revive moral governance by teaching the true way of human beings.

While Confucius was living, those who made a fortune or got promoted in a government of each state of China at the time did not possess righteous minds and decent hearts with due respect to ancestors and traditions.  So, Confucius did not want to make a fortune or be a servant of a royal court, since it meant to abandon the right way for human beings.

To have a righteous mind and then receive what a righteous man can receive is his way of life.  Confucius saw that only rotten and evil guys making big money and being promoted in royal courts in ancient China.  And what he wanted to do is to make people abandon evil ways.

So, for Confucius, wealth and social status were secondary matter.  He wanted to correct minds of the elite as well as ordinary people.      

If Confucius wanted to be wealthy or successful in royal courts, his words must not have been respected by people.

However, Confucius must have thought that a righteous man like him should govern a state and control wealth of a nation.


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Mar 3:23 And he called them unto him, and said unto them in parables, How can Satan cast out Satan?
Mar 3:24 And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
Mar 3:25 And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
Mar 3:26 And if Satan rise up against himself, and be divided, he cannot stand, but hath an end.

"neither cometh to the light" - Ability to Sense God

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Ability to Sense God

Above the all-out clouds, there is always the sun in daytime as everybody knows.  But only a few believe that above the human world there is always God night and day.

In any country or community, men work to earn money that buys them commodities and luxuries.  And money is provided though social systems.  Men are obliged to accept the systems.  But the systems are not built on faith in God.  They are built just to control and regulate people.  In addition, there is competition among people, producing human conflicts.  So, the minds and hearts of most men are occupied by matters related to the systems and human conflicts.  They come to forget that there is God above the human world.

Some people become very successful in handling the systems and human conflicts, so that they become rich and super rich or they enjoy high and higher status in society.  But they may completely lose a sense to feel God above the human world.

If you think that there is nothing above the human world, you will lose the absolute code of conduct and the absolute criteria for judgment of good and bad.  So, such successful men are usually Satanic at the cores of their minds and hearts.  It is because to be rich and successful you have to deceive and abuse others without love and compassion to them.  They simply justify their evil acts by their belief that there is nothing above the human world, so that there is no need to be good or righteous.  Their notion that God does not exit above the human world is a major factor of their success and their evilness.    

But the worst are those who become rich and successful while being engaged in religious business.  They sell words of God they don't believe or they can't understand.  I suppose 90% of Christian priests or clergymen belong to this category.

And unbelievably worse, there are some priests or clergymen who believe existence of God but love evil more than good.  I suppose 9% of Christian priests or clergymen belong to this category.

However, there must be millions of people in the world who have still ability to feel God above the human world like the sun above all-out clouds.



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Joh 3:20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

"preached he unto the people" - Warm Winter

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Warm Winter

This winter is very different than usual ones.

Even around Tokyo, we have observed too many cloudy days and rainy days unlike the past winters.  Usually, the pacific side of Japan is dry and sunny in winter, but this winter is different.  It means Siberian high-pressure systems get weak or low-pressure systems on the Pacific Ocean side too often pull in wet and warm air to the Japanese archipelago.  Days of cold temperature do not continue over a week.  Hours of sunshine in Tokyo in this winter look like the shortest since 2006.

And, this looks like a global phenomenon.

Last month was far and away the hottest February on record for the planet, by a margin that has surprised even the climate scientists who closely monitor global temperature data. It was also the most anomalously warm month Earth has seen in 135 years of NASA record keeping, continuing an astonishing recent streak that could see 2016 set a new record for hottest year.

http://www.livescience.com/54041-february-blows-away-global-heat-record.html


The reason of the climate change is directly to the use of excessive energy by mankind rather than the increase of the amount of CO2 in the air.

When coal or oil is burnt for generating energy, it releases heat to the air, thus leading to global warming.  It also produces CO2 that contributes to the global warming.  But the primary cause is the burning of fossil fuel as well as other forms of use of energy by mankind, since consumed energy is turned to heat dissipated to the air.

CO2 is a very ambiguous and indirect expression.  No one would feel CO2.  But use of energy is rather a clear and direct expression.  Everyone feels heat, light, movement of motors, effects of electricity, and power of engines, which are all causes of the global warming.

CO2 is not a sign of warning to the whole material civilization of today.  But the use of energy is a warning to the whole industries, human livings, and other aspects of material civilization.

To have rich lives, you need energy.  And the CO2 propaganda makes you believe that you are OK having rich lives while spending big energy, if you can reduce CO2.  And if you are making some efforts to reduce CO2, you think you can use a huge amount of electricity that generates heat without emission of CO2.  CO2 gives you an excuse for continuing to have rich lives.

The use of any form of energy is the cause of global warming, so that we have to stop this material civilization based on electricity and other energy that eventually turn themselves to heat.

What is posed to human beings is not a need for cosmetic change of reducing CO2 but a total change of material civilization.





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Luk 3:18 And many other things in his exhortation preached he unto the people.

" I have need to be baptized of thee" - Spirit of Articles

Shinto Shrine around Tokyo

Spirit of Articles

There was an old Japanese woman whose husband had died a year before.

She called in a service company that had business of disposing of unwanted articles and articles left by the deceased.

She said to the manager of the service company to carry out a big sofa which had been exclusively used by her husband for 30 years.  But as a year had passed since his death, she decided to dispose of it.

The manager said to her that the sofa still looked well and usable, so that it looked appropriate to keep the important article with memory of her husband somewhere in her big house.

She said that her husband had always sit on the sofa after coming back home from his work place; he had sit there after taking bath and after having supper, drinking beer.  So, he had really loved the sofa.  But she had never sit on it.  Even after her husband died, she would not.  But as one year had passed since his death, she for the first time sat on the sofa.  Then she heard the sofa speaking to her: "Let me go to your husband, please!"  So, she decided to dispose of it.

The manager himself sat on the sofa.  He found anew that it was really a big sofa.  He said to her, "I feel this is surprisingly big!"  She said, "I feel so.  It is too big for me."

So, the manager of a service company that had business of disposing of unwanted articles and articles left by the deceased though that her husband in heaven must have told her to be free from the life style she had had with him.

So, he thought that articles used by the deceased must have something spiritual related to the past users.  They should not be handled lightly, he thought.

The way of thinking or feeling that articles or goods around men have their own spirit is very Japanese.  Traditionally Japanese have sometimes found spirit not only in living things, including plants, but also in daily commodities, such as earthen vessels or woodwork.

This spiritual tradition is most deeply reflected in shintoism.




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Mat 3:14 But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?
Mat 3:15 And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.

"he goeth up into a mountain" - The Plant Manager of the Fukushima Daiichi Plant

Tokyo

The Plant Manager of the Fukushima Daiichi Plant

The plant manager of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant when the nuclear accident was set off was Masao Yoshida (1955-2013).

He did not leave the plant for six days and nights after March 11, 2011 when the great earthquake/tsunami hit the Plant.  Since then, he continued to work in Fukushima Daiichi while spending weekends in his home in Tokyo, though he often joined meetings held in headquarters office of Tokyo Electric Power Co. in Tokyo.

Put simply, he did not run away from the Plant in the wake of the nuclear accident that started on March 12, 2011.  However, due to extreme stress, pressure and exposure to radiation, he was hospitalized in November 2011, since cancer was found in his body.  And, on July 9, 2013, he died.

There are some controversies about his responsibility and mistakes he made in efforts to prevent aggravation and expansion of the nuclear disaster at the time.  But, there is no denying that he did his best to restore the Plant after the hydrogen explosions of reactor units of the Plant.

However, how much he received radiation and what triggered the cancer are not clearly explained by the utility and the Japanese Government.  Indeed, the dead can't speak, and we can hear no more testimony of him about the situation of the Plant in early days of the nuclear disaster.  Maybe something important was yet to be reported by him.

Recently, the Committees for the Inquest of Prosecution in Tokyo decided to charge ex-chairman of the utility Tsunehisa Katsumata (1940-) and others for professional negligence resulting in death and injury related to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, though the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office had decided earlier that they would not bring charges against Katsumata and other ex-top corporate executives.  

Plant manager Yoshida should have requested the then top executives to raise breakwaters of the Plant in case that a 10-meter high tsunami should attack the Plant.  However, from attitudes of ex-chairman Katsumata, it is most likely that such a request was simply rejected on the grounds that it required huge costs and it was unlikely that a 10-meter high tsunami would attack the Plant in any time soon.

It is not clear whether Yoshida's death is counted in deaths related to the nuclear accident.

However Yoshida was interviewed by a writer before his death.  The book tells how he acted, thought, and felt during the nuclear accident in months after March 11, 2011.  Probably, this book should be translated into English to share lessons of Fukushima Daiichin with people in the world.   

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Mar 3:13 And he goeth up into a mountain, and calleth unto him whom he would: and they came unto him.
Mar 3:14 And he ordained twelve, that they should be with him, and that he might send them forth to preach,
Mar 3:15 And to have power to heal sicknesses, and to cast out devils: