"this is Elias" - The First will be the Last

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The First will be the Last

There is a philosophy in the Japanese Buddhism that one should abandon relying on himself to be spiritually saved but has to wholly rely on Buddhist deities, and therefore bad men would be more easily saved than good men.

It is because a human being has only limited capacity in doing good or evil.  Even his power of self salvation is limited.  If he relies on himself, he would turn back to infinite power of the Buddha and other Buddhist deities.

In this context, one who has been living a decent life is proud of himself as a good man.  So he would stick to himself and his goodness in the final moment of his life and rely on his capacity to be saved.   But as a result, he makes it difficult for him to be saved by the Buddha and other Buddhist deities.

In contrast, one who has committed various sins and crimes is aware of his small capacity to save himself.  He knows that he cannot be saved by himself.  So, such a bad man would rather turn to  the Buddha and other Buddhist deities for salvation.  As a result, he makes it easier for him to be saved by the Buddha and other Buddhist deities.

This teaching denies superficial judgment on good and evil of people.  Those who look good and live good are not necessarily easily saved.  Rather those who live a sinful life can be more easily saved as they would have no meas to save themselves except relying on the Buddha and other Buddhist deities.

The life in this world is a matter of finiteness.   However, salvation of souls is a matter of infinity.  There will be great reversion or changeover of order and value when we get across the border from finiteness to infinity.  But none can comprehend it clearly and totally while they live.


So, Christ Jesus said, "The first will be the last while the last will be first."


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Mat 11:14 And if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which was for to come.
Mat 11:15 He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

"give the Holy Spirit to them" - Supermoon Miracle

 Supermoon around Tokyo

Supermoon Miracle

It takes about 1 second for light to travel from the moon to the earth.

So, Go could foresee that the mankind would set an hour by dividing a day into 24 hours, a minute by dividing an hour into 60 minutes, and a second by dividing a minute into 60 seconds, when He created the earth long before the establishment of the Sumer Civilization and the Greek Civilization.

God set the distance between the earth and the moon so that light would travel between them in one second when the mankind emerged on the earth and developed science, so that the mankind would know that God created the earth, the moon, and the universe.

The moon we see now is a moon one second before.

Average distance to the moon: 385,000 km
Distance to the supermoon: 356,500 km
Speed of light: about 300,000 km

Second

Based on subdivisions of the moon cycle

• Circa 1000, the Persian scholar al-Biruni, writing in Arabic, used the term second, and defined the division of time between new moons of certain specific weeks as a number of days, hours, minutes, seconds, thirds, and fourths after noon Sunday.^[10]
• In 1267, the medieval scientist Roger Bacon, writing in Latin, defined the division of time between full moons as a number of hours, minutes, seconds, thirds, and fourths (horae, minuta, secunda, tertia, and quarta) after noon on specified calendar dates.^[11]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second#History_of_definition


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Luk 11:13 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?

"Then said his disciples, Lord" - Bill vs. Trump

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Bill vs. Trump

The key figure in this 2016 US Presidential Election was Bill Clinton, though it was his wife Hillary that was running for presidency.

Bill Clinton was blamed of his mischievous conduct involving a young woman in the White House when he was president.  It really harmed honor of President Bill Clinton.  He was a kind of laughed at globally, though he could avoid forced resignation.  But this incident did not result in divorce of the couple.  However, the wife Hillary started to make her own political career, becoming a senator and then running for the Democratic primary election for the 2008 Presidential Election, though, in vain.

Hillary Clinton became the Secretary of State under Obama's presidency and then ran for the 2016 Election.  These movements were all driven by her passion to save herself from her husband's scandal.   The underlying factor for her intention to be US President is her anger and shame caused by Bill Clinton at the end of the term of his presidency.

If Hillary Clinton had been elected this year, Bill Clinton would come back to the White House with her next year, which however cannot be accepted from an ethical viewpoint.
  
On the other hand, Donald Trump is really a deplorable person.  He virtually evaded tax, conducted a kind of fraud in his business, abused women, and insulted Hispanics, Muslims, women, etc. with mean and violent words.  Such a billionaire should be prevented from assuming the office of the US President.

So, the issue is which sin is graver, Bill Clinton's or Trump's.

As a matter of fact, American voters have judged that Bill Clinton would soil the White House more than Trump.

It should be noted that 53% of white women voted for Trump.  Those women must have been determined not to vote for Hillary from the beginning.  But opinion polls could not catch their minds, probably because surveyors assumed that it was Hillary vs. Trump but not as Bill vs. Trump.

Indeed, if Bill Clinton had not committed a kind of adultery in the White House, Hillary should have been supported by 60% of white women to defeat Trump this November 8.  Truly, a man and wife cannot be separated even in terms of political popularity.  The spirit of America forbade Bill Clinton to come back to the White House.

  



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Joh 11:12 Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well.
Joh 11:13 Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep.
Joh 11:14 Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead.
Joh 11:15 And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, to the intent ye may believe; nevertheless let us go unto him.

"I send my messenger before thy face" - Cannot be a War on Mexico

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Cannot be a War on Mexico

To tell the truth, a month before November 8, a holy spirit indicated me that Trump would win.

But later, I wondered how Trump could win, since The New York Times presented its prediction on the election against this indication.  For example, it estimated that the chance of Trump's victory in Florida and North Carolina at 30% or so.   It also declared that the chance for Hillary's victory is above 80%.  And, I listened to another holy spirit and got the word, "Something would escape his hands."  I judged that the chance for victory of Trump would be lost.  But it was the result that escaped The New York Times.

This series or trend of the American politics started with President Bill Clinton's trouble with a young woman.  It had an influence on the 2000 Presidential Election where Al Gore was forced to concede to W. Bush, though it looked like Al Gore virtually wan even in controversy Florida.

W. Bush was faced with the 9/11 Terror, though the responsibility for this large-scale terror on the mainland America should be shared by Bill Clinton and W. Bush.  However, the War on Iraq President W. Bush launched was found later to be based on false or concocted information.  W. Bush was also responsible for the Enron scandal, the subprime loan fiasco, and the Financial Crisis.  Later angry people started a movement called "Occupy Wall Street."

Disenchantment with W. Bush and other white elite politicians spread widely across the U.S.  Accordingly, Barack Obama was elected as the first African American US President in the middle of the economic crisis and high unemployment,  All Obama had to do is help recovery of the US economy.  It took almost the two terms of his presidency that the US economy has been almost fully recovered.  And now, most of American voters, which mean white voters, do not need an African American President any more.  They rather want somebody who can take back the White House to white voters from Obama and those who are close to him.

Hillary Clinton is too close to Obama and other minorities.  Sanders might be more appealing but he is clearly against the American mainstream economic system.  Jeb Bush is out of question, since he is a younger brother of W. Bush.  Cruz and Rubio lack experiences, skills, and passionate agendas.  Only Trump riding an influential power of commercialism has looked like sharing the same culture with whites in general and having passion and energy matching the anger held by ordinary or poor white voters who think they are neglected by elites in Washington DC and New York.

So, it is racial, cultural, and economic aspects of  relationship between Presidential candidates and ordinary or poor white voters that has decided the outcome of the 2016 Presidential Election.

President Trump is expected to be helped by recovered US economy, owed mostly to Obama's administration, and without doing anything special, he will not be blamed in terms of the US economy.  If general economic situations should be more improved, disgruntled white voters will not blame Trump, since the unemployment rate will continue to decrease.    But the real issue for Trump is diplomacy on which Obama's performance has been poor due to lack of his experiences.

Past Republican Presidents had all faced grave security issues: Reagan with the Star Wars challenge and the falling Soviet Union, W.H. Bush with the Gulf War, and W. Bush with the War on Terror.

So, the issue for Trump's administration is what war or what grave security incident will emerge, though it cannot be a war on Mexico.



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Mat 11:10 For this is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.

"cried, saying, Hosanna" - Victory of American Christians?

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Victory of American Christians?

The US Presidential Election ended with the victory of Trump, though The New York Times predicted that Hillary would win in a probability of 80%.

However, a holy spirit told me not to trouble myself.  So, whatever this outcome is, it will not harm us.

Another indication by the spirit is that "he would be handed to gentiles."  This world might symbolize what president Trump would be.

One of remarkable results of election analysis is the following by The New York Times:
58% of Protestants and other Christians voted for Trump.
52% of Catholics voted for Trump.
71% of Jewish voted for Hillary.
62% of other religion followers voted for Hillary.
68% of the non religious voted for Hillary.

God might have heard more prayers from Christians who wanted to stop non-religious movements led by liberal and progressive Democrats and Hillary Clinton.

Consequently, it might be regarded as a kind of victory of American Christians rather than Donald Trump.


Nonetheless, Christians might not have voted for Trump if Hillary cannot be their choice:

Donald Trump

• Christian who fears God (No, Biblically unqualified)

• Has a reprobate mind, doesn’t care if grown men use the bathroom with little girls.

• Doesn’t fear God by including transgenders in the Miss USA beauty pageant, which is rebellion to God (Deuteronomy 22:5)

• Would persecute Christians including the founding fathers, approves sending Christians to jail since Trump states same-sex marriage is the law of the land

• Prays with Muslims and false gods.

• Couldn’t name favorite Bible verse when asked, hasn’t asked God for forgiveness

• Notes

• Trump is immoral, being called a “sexual predator” and a “dirty old man” for going after another man’s wife.

• Known for covetousness, common belief is Trump serves Mammon (money) not God

https://www.usa.church/christian-voting-guide/

By contrast, Hillary Clinton has pledged to nominate justices who will uphold Roe v. Wade. Additionally, she refuses to place any restrictions on abortion, regardless of reason for or the timing of the abortion.   

Abortion is not the only issue that should be of concern to conscientious Christians.  Over the last eight years, the Obama administration has launched an all-out attack on religious liberty in America by suing the Little Sisters of the Poor Catholic charity, forcing Christians schools to allow men in women’s locker rooms under Title IX requirements for transgender rights, and being a willing accomplice in bankrupting Christians who try to exercise their faith through their businesses.  

This war against religious liberty will only escalate under Hillary Clinton who is resolved to nominate Supreme Court justices, as well as dozens of federal judges with lifetime appointments, who embrace an expansionist view of the Constitution  and will force the secular progressive agenda down the throats of Americans.  Remember, the next president will serve only 4 or 8 years, but these justices and judges will impact our nation for decades.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/11/01/why-christians-must-vote-in-this-election-staying-home-is-not-option.html

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Mar 11:9 And they that went before, and they that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna; Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord:
Mar 11:10 Blessed be the kingdom of our father David, that cometh in the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest.

"as Jesus had commanded" - Billionaire vs. President

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Billionaire vs. President

I wondered if Trump would win the Presidential Election.  Then a holy spirit indicated that "it escaped his hands."

Probably the chance to become US President has gone before Trump.  However, none seem to be 100% sure about Hillary Clinton's victory.

For example, it is unthinkable that the Mafia and other gangsters are supporting Hillary, but it is no wander that Trump has support from them, since you cannot earn such huge amount of money as Trump has without having any relationships with some criminals.

In the democratic system, such billionaires as Trump are expected to be excluded from public office.  It is because at least 51% of people cannot be rich, super-rich, or billionaires.  Through long history, society has come to be aware that the modern society cannot function well if a majority of people are politically neglected.  And, those who represent a majority of people must share some economic, financial, social, cultural, and religious environment with those people.  If a billionaire becomes president of a nation where 80% of people are not even millionaires, there must be serious discrepancy and danger between the president and people.  It cannot be accepted by modern democratic nations.

Therefore, Trump whose assets are valued at $3.7 billion must not try to be US President.



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Mar 11:5 And certain of them that stood there said unto them, What do ye, loosing the colt?
Mar 11:6 And they said unto them even as Jesus had commanded: and they let them go.
Mar 11:7 And they brought the colt to Jesus, and cast their garments on him; and he sat upon him.

" ye shall find a colt tied" - Birth of Religious Leaders

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Birth of Religious Leaders

A Japanese author thought about why the Buddha had been born rich in a royal family of ancient India.

He thought that the poor envied the rich without exemption and this feeling of poor people was reflected in the biography of the Buddha.

It would take more attention of people if a founder of religion had been born in a royal family but he had left the materially blessed environment to seek for truth, enlightenment or salvation of people.

The Bible also told that Christ Jesus was a descendant of glorious King David.  It made Judaists easily accept Christ Jesus as a savior, a saint, or a holy prophet.

Even in Japanese Buddhism, some notable monks in the past have been regraded as having been born as illegitimate children of certain noble men close to the imperial family.  People seem to really like the contrast between images of notable monks living poor lives for religious reasons and their worldly noble backgrounds.

However, if a religious leader clams that he is a son of God, his human birth would not be counted, only if people believe him.

Anyway, Christ Jesus said that God can create descendants of Abraham even from stones.  People should change to accept the teaching of God that is superior to any teachings of any religious leaders or holy monks.


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Mar 11:2 And saith unto them, Go your way into the village over against you: and as soon as ye be entered into it, ye shall find a colt tied, whereon never man sat; loose him, and bring him.

"this do, and thou shalt live" - Time is generated by God

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Time is generated by God

What is time?

Time has meaning where a change occurs.  Without a change, there is no meaning of time.

If there is only one state named A and it continues forever without a change, time has no meaning.  But if there is another state named B, and A changes to B, there is a meaning in time, since we have to say that the state was A in the past, though it is B now.

However, we don't need time if the state is A and, at the same time, B.  Just like in the world of quantum physics, there can be a world where every possible situation has its own probability of existence at the same time.  In this world, there are no fixed states.  Every state has only its own probability of existence.  But the state of the world cannot be fixed.  There is no need of time.

But in the world where there is a fixed state even if there are many possible states, you need time to make distinction between fixed states.  You must say: the state is A at the time T1, B at the time T2, C at the time T3, and so on.

Then, what does it mean that time flows to the past?  Does it simply mean states that appeared in past reappear along with the flow of time?

The status when B first appeared before another state C is different from the status when B  reappears in the sequence of A -> B -> C -> B.  It does not necessarily mean that time suddenly moves back from T3 to T2.  We may say that at the time T4, the state returns to B that first appeared at the time T2.

In this case, the first B has only the sequence of A to B, but the second B has the sequence of A to B, B to C, and C to B.   And the number of changes till the first appearance of B is only 1, but  the number of changes till the second appearance of B is 3.  Accordingly, the absolute time never moves back, since the number of changes in states is only increasing.

But what causes change in states and thus generates time?   It is power of observation of the state.  Before someone observes the sate, it holds all the sates A, B, and C at a certain probability for each state.  But, when observation is made, the state is fixed to any of A, B, and C.  And under this observation, the fixed state changes from A to B and B to C.

So, now you must feel that that someone is God.  As God observes the state, it is fixed and changed to another fixed state.

In summary, this universe with fill of states can have a fixed state at each moment because God is observing this universe to every minute corner.

God is the driver of all the phenomena in this universe.  He did not only create this universe but also does always cause change in the universe.  Time is generated by God.


No time without God's observation:
State = A + B + C, not fixed

Time generated under God's observation:
Status = A fixed, B fixed, or C fixed


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Luk 10:26 He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?
Luk 10:27 And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.
Luk 10:28 And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live.

"the works that I do in my Father's name" - Master without a Bow and Arrow

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Master without a Bow and Arrow

There is a Chinese story about a great master of archery.

When he was young, he got training under guidance of a great teacher who was regarded as No.1 in their country.  But one day, the young man got confidence that he was now as good as his teacher.  To be No.1 in archery, he had to kill his teacher.   So, he met his teacher walking on a road through the field.  Two of them soon started to shoot each other.  But all the arrows they shot aiming at each other hit one another, head on head, in the middle of the air between them.   So, eventually the teacher forgave the young man crying with some sort of repentance, and said to him, "There is a super master of archery in deep mountains.  You must meet him."

So, the young man went up to the deep mountains to meet an old master who however had no bow and arrow.  And after the young man showed his super skill of archery with a bow and arrow, the old man showed his art of archery without using a bow and arrows but shot down birds flying high in the sky from an unstable rock at a cliff.

Many years later, the young man who became old came down from the mountains without a bow and arrow to live in a house of the capital of the nation.

Then, people rumored that they saw birds flying high in the sky over the man's house suddenly falling down as if they had been shot, or a thieve trying to enter his house from the roof at mid night was shot by unseen arrows and fled away.   People in the capital praised him as the supreme master of archery.

But soon they found that he had no bows and arrow.  To their astonishment, the man could not remember what a bow and arrows were for when they showed the weapon to him.

So, Christ Jesus did not even use Heavenly power and miracles to handle His own case involving Judas Iscariot.



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Joh 10:25 Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me.

"If thou be the Christ" - A Basic Matter of Japan

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A Basic Matter of Japan

In 1156 in Kyoto, Japan, strife erupted  between an incumbent emperor and a retired emperor.

The cause of the strife was the decision on succession of the imperial throne by the former retired emperor who was the father of the emperor and the retired emperor.   The former retired emperor Toba (1103-1156) held the political power in the imperial court and appointed his sons to the imperial throne one after another.  But when Toba died, his two sons, namely the retired emperor Sutoku and the incumbent emperor Go-Shirakawa started to clash over hegemony.

In those days, an emperor sometimes retired while he was still young, and  his young son succeeded his father.  But the retired emperor kept the political power in the imperial court.  And there were cases that a retired emperor retired to be an ex-retired emperor so as to make his grandson get enthroned and accordingly make his son get retired to be a retired emperor.  Toba had such a grandfather. And when the grandfather, Shirakawa, died after his father Emperor Horikawa had died, Toba himself started cloister government, manipulating his sons.

But when Toba died, his son, the retired emperor Sutoku, could not launch his cloister government, since the incumbent emperor, Go-Shirakawa, was his younger brother but not his son.  However Sutoku wanted to exercise his power while Go-Shirakawa  stuck to his own imperial power.  Each of them had support from noblemen and samurais on his side.  And, this strife was put to an end through violent clash of samurais on both the sides.  Noblemen could not fix the case in a political or peaceful manner.  

So, after the strife that ended with Go-Shirakawa's victory, samurais who helped the emperor came to take a decisive part in politics around the imperial court.  It eventually caused a power shift from the emperor and the noble class to samurais specialized in military force.  Till this incident of 1156, called the Heiji War, samurais were used by the imperial court as the Guards of the imperial court in Kyoto or by noblemen as a garrison or  police force in their feuds located locally, though some samurai leaders were given lower grades of titles of the noble class.  But the Heiji War set samurais as a class of people who could be in charge of politics and administration.

After subsequent decades of strife within the samurai class or specifically among the two major samurai clans, the Heike clan and the Genji clan, finally the Genji clan got hegemony and took over power from the imperial court in Kyoto, and the head of the clan, Minamoto-no-Yoritomo, established, as the head of all the samurais, the first samurai government in Kamukura, a town facing the Pacific Ocean 400 km east of Kyoto, in 1192.  Basically, the rule by samurais continued till 1868 when the imperial court regained power through the incident called the Meiji Restoration, though different samurai clans took the position of the head of all the samurai clans in the 700-year-long samurai rule.

So, the corrupt imperial court gave way to samurai government in the 12th century, though at the time each emperor, retired emperor, or ex-retired emperor could not exercise his power despotically since noblemen had already taken real political power from successive emperors for centuries.

But the core of the mind set of the samurais is loyalty to their masters and faith in power of sword.  It had a great influence on the Japanese society even after the Meiji Restoration when Japan started modernization, Westernization, and industrialization.  And, there is still some remnant of this samurai tradition after the end of WWII.

Today, the Japanese Constitution does not recognize the imperial court and the noble class, needless to say the samurai class, but recognize people as the sole sovereign of Japan.  However, the emperor is positioned by the Constitution as the symbol of the nation.

This is a basic matter of Japan.




Hogen War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C5%8Dgen_Rebellion


Hogen War
http://indoor-mama.cocolog-nifty.com/turedure/2016/07/711-4adf.html

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Joh 10:24 Then came the Jews round about him, and said unto him, How long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly.
Joh 10:25 Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me.

"How hardly shall they that have riches enter" - Not Charity but Change in Systems

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Not Charity but Change in Systems

There are the two factors: wish to enjoy riches and wish to show some moral characters.

Almost all the humanitarian advocates in the world are rich.  They never become poor due to their activities to promote humanitarianism.

For example, UN officials who are in charge of promoting welfare in the poorest countries work in those countries helping poor people there, but they usually live in rich hotels of the countries.  Or, wealthy people  donate money to charity to save poor people such as the homeless.  But they will spend more money to secure their wealth.

So, true charity or humanitarian work should be based on belief that being rich is a crime and helping the poor is a duty of every rich man.  And this belief should be based on the teaching of Christ Jesus.

But the world is presented a very bad example to.  Even the Pope lives a very rich life while he is expressing his love to the poor.

The social and economic systems of this world should be changed to save the poor and victims of every evil such as terror, civil wars, etc.  But for a man to be rich, he has to first accept these systems and win competition in the systems.  He cannot deny the systems.

So, the teaching of Christ Jesus requests drastic change in human thoughts.  If a rich man is allowed to enter Heaven, he has to deny wealth he has obtained in the social and economic systems in this world and furthermore he has to deny such systems.

A nation can be rich through industrialization and further development and success in economy.   And many citizens might be richer.  But evil will surely give more damage to the society than when the nation was still poor.  It is because old systems remain, and they always succeed in finding new types of victims.



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Mar 10:23 And Jesus looked round about, and saith unto his disciples, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!

"thou shalt have treasure in heaven" - Worldly Riches and Heavenly Wealth

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Worldly Riches and Heavenly Wealth

One's life is directed to either this world or Heaven.

To live a rich life is the most commonly observed goal of life for people.  But there are a few people who put the highest priority on living life for the purpose of entering Heaven.

For many people, to do anything including evil things so as to be rich is a matter of course.  But there are a few people who are determined to do anything good and avoid evil things so as to enter Heaven.

But most of people feel something bad when they have done something evil as to be rich.  People have to choose how much they will accept evil things or how much they will conduct evil things to earn money or secure their status in society.  It depends on how much they can neglect their conscience that tells them doing evil things is so horrible as it denies a possibility to be allowed to enter Heaven.

To our astonishment, there are even Christian priests who cannot understand what Heaven is but know how advantageous to live and work as Christian priests.  Some of them have conscience as little as common criminals.

If there is no such thing as Heaven, all the people will concentrate on efforts to live rich lives in this world, since there is nothing better than rich lives in this world.  And, all the people would do any evil things to earn money and big money.  And they will lose conscience because it is of no use for becoming rich, so that there will be no restriction on human behaviors in the end.  Those who have lost hope of becoming rich would attack, harm, and kill rich people.

But if you believe the words of Christ Jesus, you will believe that there is Heaven, and your souls will be allowed to enter Heaven when your souls depart this world after your physical bodies die.

And, Christ Jesus said that we can accumulate and have treasure in Heaven, which means we can be rich in Heaven.  But to be rich in Heave, we are not allowed accumulate wealth in this world, since such an act would invoke evil and wickedness that condition us to going to the hell.

Now the world is full of riches, products, and services.  The material civilization has reached to a very high level of success.  The world consists of various economic, political, and social systems where the notion that people should try to be rich as much as possible is taken as a matter of course.  However, there are influences from Heaven.  These systems have been built and operated so as not to pose serious challenges to human conscience.  Accordingly, there is a kind of balance between good and evil in this world.  However riches in this world can be easily seen, while treasure in Heaven cannot be seen.  People are mostly engaged in the worldly activities though their actions are somehow limited by influences of Heaven.

Put simply, you have to clearly see these two directions to live life expected by God: to worldly riches and to Heavenly wealth.



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Mar 10:21 Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the cross, and follow me.

"the devils are subject unto us through thy name" - As God Wishes

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As God Wishes

Allah expelled Saddam Hussein in 2003, using US President Bush and US troops.

Subsequently, Allah also expelled Gaddafi, using insurgents of Libya.  Allah also expelled Mubarak, using citizens of Egypt.

But how will Allah expel Sadat from Syria?  Or is Allah using Sadat to have Muslims immigrate into Western Europe for a special purpose?  Or is God securing Israel by preventing Islamic terrorists from occupying Syria and thus threatening security of Israel?

Indeed, what God performs looks so mysterious to our eyes.

Even, God might have used Hitler to bring complete peace in Europe through sacrifice of millions of Judaists in WWII, for otherwise tens of millions of Europeans must have been killed in another war or the Third World War.

And what does God intend to allow co-existence of Christianity and Islam, in addition to Judaism?

All we can say is just "As God wishes."


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Luk 10:17 And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name.

"they shall hear my voice" - Democracy for Wealth or Justice

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Democracy for Wealth or Justice

There is a story about a Catholic priest and Native Americans in the 18th century.

The Catholic  priest lived among and preached in a tribe of Native Americans for 30 years.  But finally, the Native Americans decided to kill the priest in their process to fighting British settlers, and actually they killed the priest and many British settlers.  But eventually, the tribe was defeated and dispersed by British settlers or the US troops and finally forgotten to disappear from the history.  Only some records about the Catholic priest were left behind.

So, Catholicism cannot save Native Americans and other people in Africa, Asia, and Americas who have faced invasion by Europeans.  But due to activities of Catholic priests, some real states of events that happened in the process of expansion of European civilization to the world, sometimes through colonization, have been known today.

Today, there are only little colonies of Europeans in the world.  Human, social, and political rights of all the races and tribes are recognized by almost every country in the world.  In a sense, a kind of justice  has been prevailing outwardly in the world as symbolized by US President Barack Obama.

With progress of democracy, the mankind has obtained more wealth than what had been thought possible.  Even the U.S. got richer along with expansion of its democratic system covering Minorities.  Japan also drastically increased its wealth after WWII by adopting the American-style democracy.  Though China is not yet a democratic nation, it adopted market-based economy, highly influences by concepts of democracy, which has resulted in big economic growth.  Prosperous Western Europe has also put its base on democratic political systems 100% since Nazi Germany that hated Judaists collapsed in WWII.

So, the mankind has learnt that democracy is a key to expanding economy and crating huge wealth.

But democracy is also a tool to realize justice.

If the final goal of people is economic weal and they use democracy as a tool to realize the final goal, democracy cannot solve some critical problems in the human society.  If the final goal of people is justice, they will rather sacrifice economic wealth in their endeavor for justice by manipulating democracy.

However, like some tribe of Native Americans in the 18th century, some people today look like launching a tragic war against something they cannot never win, though they are given wisdom of democracy.

And it may be because they are not fully taught about the teaching of God.



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Joh 10:16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.

"in the day of judgment" - God Created the Sun, the Earth and the Moon

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God Created the Sun, the Earth and the Moon

God created this universe, the Milky Way, the solar system, and the earth where He created the mankind.

Accordingly God must have set some hint or evidence to the mankind so that they could discover that God created the earth and the universe.

One of such pieces of evidence is in the sky where the sun and the moon look the same in their sizes to the eyes of the mankind on the earth.  But the diameter of the sun is 100 times larger than earth's while the diameter of the moon is 4 times smaller than earth's.

The fact that the sun and the earth look having the same size gave great influences to the mankind.  Human religions and philosophy, since ancient or much older days, were all influenced by this outwardly balance between the moon and the sun.

However, it is thought that such a planet as the earth is rare in the universe, where its satellite and its fixed star look the same in the size.

In addition, the distance between the earth and the moons is a distance over which light travels almost in 1 second.

From the beginning, if God did not give special features to hydrogen and oxygen so that they can form water molecules, no water and no life could have been produced in this universe.

These facts all strongly suggest that this universe, the sun, the earth, and the moon were all created according to the design of God for the mankind.




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Mat 10:15 Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.

"let your peace come upon it" - Simulation for Understanding the Bible

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Simulation for Understanding the Bible

Suppose that an earth is a button with the diameter of 1 cm (a little less than a half inch) or half the diameter of a US five-cent coin.

Put the button on the home base of a ball park.  Then put a tire of a truck with the diameter of 1 meter (or 3 feet) on the wall behind the center field 118 meters (350 feet) far from the home base.

In this configuration, the half-inch button on the home base is the earth, and the 3-foot truck tire on the center-field wall is the sun.

Can you believe the button will go around the sun by power of gravitation if the mass of the tire is 330,000 times larger than that of the button.  (If the tire is made of concrete while the button weighs 1 gram, it might satisfy this condition.)

If you simply put the button and the concrete tire in the space in this configuration, the button will not circulate around the tire like the sun circulating around the sun.  As time goes by, the button will simply move to the tire and stick to it due to gravity.

For the earth to go around the sun, there must be specific past conditions where components of the earth were created while they were from the beginning going around the sun.

So, if you only read the Bible, you cannot attain real understanding of the religion and salvation of your souls.  You have to simulate how the Bible was created.




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Mat 10:13 And if the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it: but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you.

"they brought young children to him"

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Mar 10:13 And they brought young children to him, that he should touch them: and his disciples rebuked those that brought them.
Mar 10:14 But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.

"there abide till ye go thence" - Glory of God and Prime Numbers

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Glory of God and Prime Numbers

There are many prime numbers till 10: (1), 2, 3, 5, and 7.  Almost 40 to 50% of integers till the number 10 are prime numbers.

But there are only 25 or 26 primary numbers till 100: (1), 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47, 53, 59, 61, 67, 71, 73, 79, 83, 89, and 97.  Almost 25% of integers till 100 are prime numbers.

However the number of prime numbers till 1000 is 168 (169), about 17%.

It is like growth of human beings.  When they are young children, they can only understand numbers till 10, so that they think 40 to 50% of the world consists of prime numbers or glory of God.

But as they grow up, they can see prime numbers only 25% or 17% in all the numbers they encounter or all the events they encounter.   The ratio becomes smaller and smaller when they live as adults.

So, adults forget how the world looked filled with glory of God when they were small children.

However, Christ Jesus said that men had to be like small children to enter the Heaven.

Incidentally, the number of prime numbers included from 2 to 100 million is 5,761,455, meaning 5.8%.  If you have an asset of $100 million, you can see only 10% of glory of God compared with very poor men or young children who have just 10 dollars.


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Mat 10:11 And into whatsoever city or town ye shall enter, enquire who in it is worthy; and there abide till ye go thence.
Mat 10:12 And when ye come into an house, salute it.

"Whosoever shall put away his wife" - Presidential Candidate Debate Last Morning

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Presidential Candidate Debate Last Morning

The important part of the debate between Hillary Clinton and Trump broadcast yesterday's morning in Japan:

CLINTON: He never apologized to Mr. and Mrs. Khan, the Gold Star family whose son, Captain Khan, died in the line of duty in Iraq. And Donald insulted and attacked them for weeks over their religion. 

He never apologized to the distinguished federal judge who was born in Indiana, but Donald said he couldn’t be trusted to be a judge because his parents were, quote, “Mexican.” 

He never apologized to the reporter that he mimicked and mocked on national television and our children were watching. And he never apologized for the racist lie that President Obama was not born in the United States of America. He owes the president an apology, he owes our country an apology, and he needs to take responsibility for his actions and his words. 

TRUMP: Well, you owe the president an apology, because as you know very well, your campaign, Sidney Blumenthal — he’s another real winner that you have — and he’s the one that got this started, along with your campaign manager, and they were on television just two weeks ago, she was, saying exactly that. So you really owe him an apology. You’re the one that sent the pictures around your campaign, sent the pictures around with President Obama in a certain garb. That was long before I was ever involved, so you actually owe an apology. 

Number two, Michelle Obama. I’ve gotten to see the commercials that they did on you. And I’ve gotten to see some of the most vicious commercials I’ve ever seen of Michelle Obama talking about you, Hillary. 

So, you talk about friend? Go back and take a look at those commercials, a race where you lost fair and square, unlike the Bernie Sanders race, where you won, but not fair and square, in my opinion. And all you have to do is take a look at WikiLeaks and just see what they say about Bernie Sanders and see what Deborah Wasserman Schultz had in mind, because Bernie Sanders, between super-delegates and Deborah Wasserman Schultz, he never had a chance. And I was so surprised to see him sign on with the devil. 

But when you talk about apology, I think the one that you should really be apologizing for and the thing that you should be apologizing for are the 33,000 e-mails that you deleted, and that you acid washed, and then the two boxes of e-mails and other things last week that were taken from an office and are now missing. 

And I’ll tell you what. I didn’t think I’d say this, but I’m going to say it, and I hate to say it. But if I win, I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation, because there has never been so many lies, so much deception. There has never been anything like it, and we’re going to have a special prosecutor. 

When I speak, I go out and speak, the people of this country are furious. In my opinion, the people that have been long-term workers at the FBI are furious. There has never been anything like this, where e-mails — and you get a subpoena, you get a subpoena, and after getting the subpoena, you delete 33,000 e-mails, and then you acid wash them or bleach them, as you would say, very expensive process. 

So we’re going to get a special prosecutor, and we’re going to look into it, because you know what? People have been — their lives have been destroyed for doing one-fifth of what you’ve done. And it’s a disgrace. And honestly, you ought to be ashamed of yourself. 

RADDATZ: Secretary Clinton, I want to follow up on that.

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RADDATZ: And really, the audience needs to calm down here. 

CLINTON: … I told people that it would be impossible to be fact-checking Donald all the time. I’d never get to talk about anything I want to do and how we’re going to really make lives better for people. 

So, once again, go to HillaryClinton.com. We have literally Trump — you can fact check him in real time. Last time at the first debate, we had millions of people fact checking, so I expect we’ll have millions more fact checking, because, you know, it is — it’s just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country. 

TRUMP: Because you’d be in jail. 

http://fortune.com/2016/10/09/presidential-debate-read-transcript-donald-trump-hillary-clinton/


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Mar 10:11 And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.

"shall a man leave his father and mother" - A Lesson of Prime Numbers

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　　　A Lesson of Prime Numbers

There is something that cannot be foreseen but will surely happen in this world.

From a classical point of view, if one can get all the past information related to a system, he can predict future states of the system.  However, in modern physics, this belief is not sustained.  There is the law of probability in deciding occurrence of events.  So, we can only predict the future under conditions based on probability.

However, there is another way of denying determinism.

It is related to prime numbers.  When and what prime number will appear in the series of numbers (integers) cannot be predicted based on information of all the numbers preceding to the prime number.  To check if a new number is a prime number, you have to make some calculation; you cannot identify a prime number just by referring to all the numbers that precede it.

For example, if you know all the numbers from 1 to 10, such information cannot predict that 11 is a prime number.  If you know all the numbers from 1 to 100, such knowledge does not help you predict that 101 is a prime number.

In the series of integers, prime numbers suddenly appear without an omen; there are no formulas and rules that tell how prime numbers are distributed in the series of integers.

So, life may be liken to the series of integers.  People live every day, while accumulating past knowledge.  But suddenly one day they meet a situation where past knowledge is not useful to understand it.  It is a primary-number situation.

But as God created this universe and world, He also created the infinite sequence of integers.  God knows where and what prime numbers are situated in the sequence.  Accordingly, God only knows what events will appear in life of people.

In this context the mankind cannot be a ruler of the universe.  We have to be humble, because we are subject to God's wisdom that created all the prime numbers we cannot know in principle and in a practical sense.




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Mar 10:7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;

"Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement" - In Hopes for Three Years

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In Hopes for Three Years

Suppose that there are particles of the same type in a limited space.  They freely move around, so that two particles collide with each other sometimes.  But there is also a chance that three particles collide simultaneously.  

In a certain condition, according to an analysis, the probability of three particle collision is one thousandth of that of two particle collision.

For a man to behave good as taught by God, three conditions must be met: recognition of value of behaving good in principle, personal conditions for behaving good, and the will to behave good.  If any two of the three factors are realized simultaneously every day, it is only once in 1,000 days or almost three years that all these conditions are met.

So, we can only expect an ordinary man to behave good as taught by God once in three years.

Conversely, something very bad might happen once in three years in the human world due to accumulation of evil actions of people.

For example, Christ Jesus is said to have preached in almost only three years.  The worst conditions must have met at the third year of His preaching.  However, on the third day from His crucifixion, Christ Jesus resurrected.

In Japan, there is a saying that if you live even on a rock for three years, you can achieve something.

So, entertain hopes for at least three years if you are in a difficult situation.


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Mar 10:3 And he answered and said unto them, What did Moses command you?
Mar 10:4 And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away.
Mar 10:5 And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.

"he gave them power against unclean spirits" - Faith in God, Fear of God

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Faith in God, Fear of God

Christ Jesus said that people with faith in God were like lams in a pack of wolves.

Conversely, people without faith in God would try to abuse and harm others to satisfy their desire, which believers would never do.  And, how badly they abuse and harm others is unpredictable and limitless.  There are many hidden atrocities conducted by citizens onto others.  The human world is full of danger.

The issue is that wolves do not realize how cruel they are, so that those without faith do not realize how cruel they are to others as well as to themselves.

But God did not give intellectual and spiritual ability to the mankind so that they become intellectual and spiritual wolves.  There is a purpose for God's creating the mankind with higher ability.  But if the mankind abuses it, they must be destroyed by God.

Maybe what we need is the fear of God in this regard as well as faith in God.

Indeed, who can stand before anger of God that the mankind is incurring due to their betrayal of God in this context?


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Mat 10:1 And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease.
Mat 10:2 Now the names of the twelve apostles are these; The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother;
Mat 10:3 Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the publican; James the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddaeus;
Mat 10:4 Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.

"but by prayer and fasting" - Prayer to God to be Free From Ill Spirits

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Prayer to God to be Free From Ill Spirits

If nobody wants to be richer than others, there will be no crimes.

But there is another factor for evil deeds and crimes, ill spirits or Satan.  In the era when Christ Jesus was living, people believed existence of ill spirits and Satan.  They thought that if a person was haunted by an ill spirit or Satan, he or she would have acted like a mad or evil man or woman.

To cope with ill spirits or Satan, people have to always try to follow teaching of God, according to Christ Jesus.  Without receiving a decisive influence from an external world, minds of people can be captured by an ill spirit.  Bur today, commercialism is sending messages and images via TV broadcasting and the Internet that are intended to invoke and amplify material desire among the audience and consumers who will consequently have less resistance to influences of ill spirits and Satan.

Today, there must be more people, than we suppose, who are under influence of ill spirits and Satan.  Accordingly, tens of millions of people are neglected while they are suffering hardships and tragic fates, and news about such people in Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, etc. are reaching all over the world.   So, in this modern era, people who are controlled by ill spirits are not simply acting like mad men, but working coolly and rationally in Wall Street businesses, companies in the financial sectors in advanced countries, and big businesses all over the world.  However, on the other hand, tens of millions of people in some parts of the world are living very dangerous life.

So, people under control of ill spirits and Satan must look just ordinary people with some wealth.  They may not be violent at all in their behaviors.  They may look like observing laws and rules.  They must be living like normal citizens.   But they neglect tens of millions of poor people in the world while they know the fact.

We had better doubt common sense.  The society in which we live must be controlled by wealthy people, politicians, other elite members of the society who behave like honest men but actually whose minds are controlled by ill spirits and Satan.

Even Islam teaches that for Muslims to get free from ill spirits, they have to pray to Allah at least five times a day.

We need incessant prayer to Christ Jesus and God to be completely free from ill spirits and Satan.  



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Mar 9:29 And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.

"he took Peter and John and James" - Christ Jesus and the Gospels

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Christ Jesus and the Gospels

Christ Jesus did not order His disciples to write down His words and His actions for future generations.

Christ Jesus sometimes referred to the Old Testament, which means that He might think about a possibility that His words and deeds would be someday compiled in another Testament.  But He never made any efforts to keep His life in record.

It is in clear distinction from the case of Islam where the Koran has played an essential role.

So, it is enigma about Christianity: How Christ Jesus regards the New Testament, and especially the Gospels.

So, we have to judge whether or not the Gospels were written through guidance of the spirit of Christ Jesus.

  

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Luk 9:28 And it came to pass about an eight days after these sayings, he took Peter and John and James, and went up into a mountain to pray.
Luk 9:29 And as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was altered, and his raiment was white and glistering.

"Thou son of David" - Meaning of Believing in Christ Jesus

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Meaning of Believing in Christ Jesus

Christ Jesus apparently thought that life after death was real.  So, believing in Christ Jesus means believing in life after death.

But life after death is either in Heaven or the hell according to Christ Jesus.  So, believing in Christ Jesus means understanding how to be allowed to enter the Heaven.

Accordingly, if you truly believe in Christ Jesus, you will have no fear for death, at least, in principle.

But what is the spiritual world that must exist above this material world?  Probably to make us concentrate on life in this world, Christ Jesus did not reveal specifically the real state of the spiritual world.

What is more important is believing in Christ Jesus means believing existence of God.

So, believing in Christ Jesus itself is salvation of our souls.


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Mat 9:27 And when Jesus departed thence, two blind men followed him, crying, and saying, Thou son of David, have mercy on us.
Mat 9:28 And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him: and Jesus saith unto them, Believe ye that I am able to do this? They said unto him, Yea, Lord.

"And the spirit cried" - Descendants of Abraham from a Stone

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Descendants of Abraham from a Stone

Christ Jesus said that God can even make descendants of Abraham from a stone.

Due to this word, Judaists have lost their special positions, though they have been still descendants of Abraham.  And, indeed, Arabs have claimed that they are also descendants of Abraham.

God also made Obama the first African American.  He could make a US President from a son of a modern African.

Then he must be able to make a US President from a woman, if He so wishes.  Or will He make a US President from an indecent billionaire?

Whichever, if God intervenes in the 2026 US Presidential election, people must learn a holy lesson.





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Mar 9:26 And the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him: and he was as one dead; insomuch that many said, He is dead.
Mar 9:27 But Jesus took him by the hand, and lifted him up; and he arose.

"Give God the praise" - Ultimate Precedence

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Ultimate Precedence

It is not because there is zero that 1, 2, 3. and other numbers exit.

It is because there is the concept of the infinity that zero, 1, 2, 3. and other numbers exit.

It is not because men can think about God that God exists.
But God exists so that men can think of God.


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Joh 9:24 Then again called they the man that was blind, and said unto him, Give God the praise: we know that this man is a sinner.
Joh 9:25 He answered and said, Whether he be a sinner or no, I know not: one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see.