"the inheritance shall be our's" - Christ Jesus' version of Judaism and Essenes' Judaism

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Christ Jesus' version of Judaism and Essenes' Judaism

St. Paul discussed many various teachings in various ways as seen in the Bible, although he never saw living Christ Jesus preaching.

Paul delivered those words as if he had been taught by Christ Jesus Himself in person, although he never met living Christ Jesus.  How could Paul preach so confidently?

There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.
Paul the Apostle 

God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.
Paul the Apostle 

We walk by faith, not by sight.
Paul the Apostle 

Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
Paul the Apostle 

If God is for us, who can be against us?
Paul the Apostle 

Owe nothing to anyone, except to love one another.
Paul the Apostle 

And I want women to be modest in their appearance. They should wear decent and appropriate clothing and not draw attention to themselves by the way they fix their hair or by wearing gold or pearls or expensive clothes. For women who claim to be devoted to God should make themselves attractive by the good things they do.
Paul the Apostle
https://www.azquotes.com/author/38117-Paul_the_Apostle

However, there is an impression that Paul was teaching his own thought about the relationship between God and human beings while his mind and spirit were being elevated and enlightened by Christ Jesus.  And then, how Paul was uplifted by Christ Jesus?  Paul was spoken to only once by the Spirit of Christ Jesus after His death on the cross and subsequent resurrection.  And, the Spirit only told Paul not to persecute Him but never taught any theology to Paul.

It is true that Paul had learnt Judaism before he started to persecute followers of Christ Jesus and later converted to a follower of Christ Jesus.  But teachings Paul had learnt were conventional Judaism but not revolutionary Judaism of Christ Jesus.  And, Paul did not learn teachings of Christ Jesus from any disciples and followers like Peter who had actually seen and heard Christ Jesus preaching, according to the Bible.

But, the Bible says that Paul had spent three years in Arabia or a desert area without making any movement after encountering the Spirit of Christ Jesus.  So, it is natural that Paul went to Qumran to newly learn Christ Jesus' version of Judaism, since His teachings were similar to what was taught among Essenes in Qumran.   


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Mar 12:7 But those husbandmen said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be our's.
Mar 12:8 And they took him, and killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard.
Mar 12:9 What shall therefore the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto others.

"A certain man planted a vineyard" - Critical Presumption on Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

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Critical Presumption on Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

It is sometimes said to be nonsense or meaningless to assume things that never happened in the history and imagine what otherwise should have resulted. 

However, it must not be meaningless to consider hypothetical scenarios in the case of involving God.

So, if Abraham had not followed the words of God and immigrated into Palestine, no Hebrew tribe should have been established.  However, on the contrary, the 4000-year history of the mankind came to be built on this one man's faith in God.

If Moses had not found God in a bush fire and followed His word, Jewish people must have been lost in Egypt.  However, on the contrary, formation and development of Judaism were ensured by this man's faith in God.

And, if Christ Jesus had not started His mission in Israel, Jewish people must have been simply defeated, destroyed and driven to diaspora and and oblivion by the Roman Empire.  There were many tribes and kingdoms defeated, destroyed and driven to diaspora and and oblivion by the Roman Empire.  The Jewish people who lost the core of their religion and tradition, namely Jerusalem, must have been unable to keep their identity and restore their pride.  In the case of the Babylonian captivity, they had Jerusalem where for them to return and re-establish their identity, religious pride, and ethnic survival.  However, the Roman Empire was more powerful than any other ancient empires hostile to the Jewish tribe.  The Empire actually stopped development of the Greek Civilization, although it inherited some ancient-Greek legacy, and terminated continuity of the Egyptian Civilization for ever, although Egypt had been already conquered by Alexander the Great and its partial successor.  The Roman Empire must have completely dispersed Jewish people who lost the core of their religion and tradition.  However, Judaism could survive along with Christianity.

When Christianity was spreading in the Roman Empire, Roman citizens came to realize that Jewish people were special unlike any other tribes, since  Christianity was born among Jewish people and Judaism was important to understand Christianity.  Whether or not early Christians hated Jewish people, Roman citizens observed and treated Jewish people in a special way, and  Jewish people realized that they were special in the Empire where Christianity was getting dominant.   Whether or not early Christians wanted Jewish people to disappear, the religion of Jewish people and their presence must have been admitted by Roman citizens.  In other words, early Christianity in the Roman Empire needed existence of the Jewish people to have Roman citizens understand what Christianity was.  Christianity and Judaism were the head and tail of a coin.

It is true that Christianity is believed to have been established to supersede Judaism; however, on the contrary, it helped Judaism and Jewish people survive through the Roman Empire.

But what if Muhammad had not been troubled over something and come into a cave of Mt. Hira for meditation, probably because his distress could not be solved by Judaism and Christianity at the time, where he heard words of God?


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Mar 12:1 And he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country.
Mar 12:2 And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard.
Mar 12:3 And they caught him, and beat him, and sent him away empty.

"Take my yoke upon you" - Decades Later They Found God in Jesus

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Decades Later They Found God in Jesus

How can you know that God appears before you or God is speaking to you if He should?

But Abraham immediately knew that he was hearing God's voice.  Moses almost immediately found God in a fire of a bush.  And even Muhammad believed that he heard words of Allah.  Indeed great religions were started by those who had ability to see God appearing or speaking.

However, according to the Gospels, disciples or followers of Christ Jesus who were with Him for 24 hours a day in every week for three years did not or could not recognize that they were with God, if Christ Jesus had been God.  And, as a kind of comedy, Christ Jesus  asked them who they thought He was.  Would God ask anybody who is with Him who he or she thinks He is?  When God makes contact with somebody like in the cases of Abraham and Moses, there must be a specific reason and He must make it clear that it is God that is speaking to him or her while God can use any angels for each specific purpose.

Especially Jewish people were more religion-oriented people than any other people, specifically, in the Roman Empire.  So, like Abraham or Moses, they must have been able to realize God if they had encountered God even 2000 years ago, although Abraham had heard God about 4000 years ago and Moses saw God more than about 3300 years ago.

In the case of Paul, he heard voices of Christ Jesus but he did not recognize it as voices of God.  And Paul did not write letters claiming that he heard voices of God in his way to Damascus.  Paul should have honestly told that he must have more concentrated simply on God than on Christ Jesus, in a sense.  If Paul had thought that he was spoken to by God, he must have proclaimed and advertised it more loudly and proudly.  And, in the case, Paul did not have to trouble himself so much in making people understand who and what Christ Jesus was, because Paul had to only say that he had heard such and such things from God like Muhammad.  　　

This ability to recognize God is the key to understanding the Christian Gospels.  No mater how much you have made efforts in studying and analyzing the Gospels, you cannot find who and what Christ Jesus was and why and how Christianity was established.

Only I can say is that decades after the execution of Christ Jesus, some early Christians found that Christ Jesus had been God, which established the religion called Christianity.  But why did it take decades for them to surely believe that Christ Jesus was God?  This is the true mystery of Christianity.




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Mat 11:29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
Mat 11:30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

"they come again to Jerusalem" - The Q Document Showing Cynic Christ Jesus

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The Q Document Showing Cynic Christ Jesus

What did Christ Jesus really tell?  This is one of big questions in today's study on Christianity.

So they have studied the so-called Q document:

The Lost Gospel develops the hypothesis of the "Q" source for the common material of Luke and Matthew not found in Mark. Mack develops the thesis that this was the earliest writing about Jesus, developed over decades by a community which he describes with unwavering confidence. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burton_L._Mack)

Specifically, it is argued that Christ Jesus was not a holy saint but a kind of teacher of the Cynic-type school.  Scholars of the Q document have fund that Christ Jesus talked about ethics and  justice more than theology.  The underlying document for the Gospels show, they claim, no intention of Christ Jesus to establish a new religion later called Christianity.

However, it was not to scholars and professors of the modern days that Christ Jesus preached.  Christ Jesus preached to poor men, poor farmers, poor citizens, and slaves who lived 2000 years ago in Palestine.  Therefore, Christ Jesus must not have taught any theological theories to those poor people using technical terminologies.   Christ Jesus did not even cite so much sentences, phrases, and words from the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament.   Christ Jesus referred to the Hebrew Bible only when necessary according to circumstances or contexts of His preaching.

And more than that, the reason why people believed in Christ Jesus and found divinity in Christ Jesus 200 years ago was not only His words but His ways and attitudes in delivering teaching.   If you analyzed His words and delved into the Gospels so hard to find linkage to the Q document, it does not reveal atmosphere, passion, power, dignity, or glory Christ Jesus presented while preaching to poor people, which however  became the reason for them to believe that Christ Jesus had come from God.

No matter how much scholars and professors of today who have no religious sense and sensibility and no respect for divinity argue any issues on Christ Jesus, they cannot reach the truth.  Even today, the Pope sometimes deliver mediocre and boring speeches and announcements, but if you believe in the Vatican, these meaningless words of the Pope would become holy and sacred teaching.   But if those scholars and professors analyze those words of the Pope, they cannot find the core of the secret of the Vatican as to why it has survived 2000 years and acquired billion believers.    Likewise, if scholars and professors of today examine the words of Christ Jesus and the Q document, they cannot find the core of the secret of Christ Jesus as to why He acquired so many believers among poor people in Palestine 2000 years ago.

But it is interesting who wrote the Q document.


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Mar 11:27 And they come again to Jerusalem: and as he was walking in the temple, there come to him the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders,
Mar 11:28 And say unto him, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority to do these things?

"What things soever ye desire" - Beginning without or with God's Words

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Beginning without or with God's Words

This universe was created by God under his wise plan, which should be the first sentence of the New Bible.

But what has been found about the beginning of the universe?  It is now known that the universe started from the state of a infinitesimally small size of about 10^-35 (the minus 35th power of 10) meter at the time of 10^-43 seconds after its generation while the size of one atom is abut 10^-10 m.

All the materials and all the amounts of energy we observe in today's universe were contained in this initial size.  In other words, the university of today is just extension of this infinitesimal size of  the initial energy of the universe.  It is possible since an atom of today consists of a nucleus with the size of about  10^-15 m and electrons, each with the size of about 10^-32 m or less, in a space of  10^-10 m, which means that an atom could be further compressed and a nucleus can be also further compressed to the size of an electron to  10^-32 m.  (The original energy in the original size of 10^-35 m must have exploded for part of it to be contained in a space called an electron of 10^-32 m.) And every material in this university consists of atoms.

Modern physics is a study to clarify what the real state was at the beginning of the university when every material and energy were compressed to the infinitesimally small size of about 10^-35 meter.  However, it also further delves into how the beginning started to find the so-called vacuum energy which is thought to be the source of everything in today's universe.

However, where did space and time come to allow for existence of the so-called vacuum energy?  Even the vacuum energy needs space (of whatever dimensions) and time (at whatever speed).  It is where the direct intervention of God was needed.  In other words, it should be written in the New Bile that God created space and time for the generation of the vacuum energy which turned into materials and energy in this universe where the mankind was born in a planet of one of 300 billion suns in a galaxy among  300 billion galaxies.

So, now it can be understood that space and time are basic key factors to our universe.  So, every mystery of this universe should be solved by focusing on just space and time.  At last, we have come to a position where we can handle dark material and dark energy.  In other words, dark material is one special form of space and time and dark energy is one of special applications of space and time.  They are more fundamental than solved by trying to find special material or energy in this universe at a normal level of appearance and observation of the universe.  They are more closely linked with wisdom, words, and plan of God.

If space is originally distorted, gravity is generated from the beginning before formation of material, hydrogen atoms, and a galaxy, allowing for discovery dark material by the mankind.  If time is generated as long as material and energy exist, it should move to its end driving material and energy to the state where their density becomes zero or they disappear, allowing for discovery of dark energy by the mankind.

In deed, God is all wise and everything began with His plan without or with His words.


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Mar 11:24 Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.

"when a stronger than he shall come upon him" - Qumran as a Miracle

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Qumran as a Miracle

Christ Jesus suddenly appeared in a sense nowhere to preach, teach, and guide people with full confidence in terms of Judaism, the Hebrew Bible, and the Jewish history.  Where had He learned them?

John the Baptist, before Christ Jesus, suddenly appeared in a sense nowhere to baptize, teach, and guide people with full confidence in terms of Judaism, the Hebrew Bible, and the Jewish history.  Where had he learned them?

James, a brother of Christ Jesus, suddenly appeared in a sense nowhere to lead and teach people with full confidence in terms of Judaism, the Hebrew Bible, and the Jewish history.  Where had he learned them? 

Paul suddenly appeared in a sense nowhere to preach and teach people with full confidence in terms of Judaism, the Hebrew Bible, and the Jewish history.  Where had he learned them?

The only place, so far possible enough to be a candidate, is Qumran where dead sea scrolls and other religious material were discovered in the 20th century almost 2000 years after the place had been abandoned.

Indeed it looks natural to assume that John the Baptist had left Qumran to baptize people, Christ Jesus left Qumran to preach among people, James visited Qumran after resurrection of Christ Jesus to succeed Him after coming back to Jerusalem, and Paul came to Qumran to learn the origin of the teaching of Christ Jesus and get determined to follow Him.

To give us this notion, God must have allowed the discovery of the dead sea scrolls in Qumran in the 20th century as if it had been a miracle, as stated "Luk 12:2 For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known." 

The issue is why did God do this miracle?  Because the end is near for Christians?



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Luk 11:22 But when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils.

Luk 12:3 Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.

"knowing their thoughts" - Was Christ Jesus God?

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Was Christ Jesus God?

If early Christians had not declared that Christ Jesus was God, there would have been no split between Christianity and Judaism.

If Christians in the Roman Empire had not reinforced their claim that Christ Jesus was God and had not adopted the Trinity theory, there would have been no need for Islam.

Every problem that has ever happened up to today between Jewish people, Christians and Muslims can be ascribed to those stupid attitudes of Christians till the 7th century when Islam was given to Arabs.

How can you believe a religion that declared their guru was God decades after his death or reinforced the theory that  their guru was God centuries after his death.  But one of such religions is Christianity!

It also means that early Christians believed, revered, and followed Christ Jesus while they did not know who or what Christ Jesus was!  How can you trust and believe a religion established by such early Christians?

It is also stupid that early Christians, Christian leaders in the Roman Empire, and even some emperors of the Roman Empires discussed and argued the status of Christ Jesus to finally decide that Christ Jesus was God and God was three.  It was done centuries after the death of Christ Jesus!  How can you believe sanity of these early Christians.  Therefore God decided to protect Judaism and give Islam to Arabs.

It is time for the Pope, the Vatican, and other Christians leaders to start to sincerely discuss and argue what Christ Jesus was.


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Luk 11:17 But he, knowing their thoughts, said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and a house divided against a house falleth.
Luk 11:18 If Satan also be divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand? because ye say that I cast out devils through Beelzebub.

"when the devil was gone out" - The Gospels & the Acts written in Presence of Hidden Peter

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The Gospels & the Acts written in Presence of Hidden Peter

The beginning of each Gospel is as follows:
Mark: Mar 1:1 The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God;

Matthew: Mat 1:1 The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

Luk 1:1 Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us,
Luk 1:2 Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word;

Joh 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

So, it is apparent that Mark is based on the recognition that Christ Jesus was the Son of God; Matthew is intended to emphasize the linkage between Christ Jesus and Judaism; Luke aims at appealing to Romans and other people than Jewish ones; and John declares establishment of the new religion of Christianity apart from Judaism.

And, in reference to the history of early Christianity, it should be thought that Mark was written in Rome according to testimonies by Peter; Matthew was written in the middle of persecution on early Christians in Rome to convince Romans that early Christianity was part of Judaism while Paul was under arrest; Luke was written that early Christianity could be a universal teaching even to Romans even if it was part of Judaism as the Jewish-Roman war was approaching; and John was finally written to declare the independent religion of Christianity now that the Jerusalem Temple fell in the war.   And they must have been written in the sequence of Mark, Matthew, Luke and then John.

However, there is one question: Did Peter really go to Rome?   Even in the Acts, descriptions about Peter cannot be found after the release of Peter from a prison with help from angels (the Acts 12).  But there are some books and reports, written around the 2nd century or so, that testified that Peter died in Rome as with Paul.

The key to solving this questions must be that Peter fled the prison under control of Herod, a king of Jewish people.  So Peter was a person wanted by the Jewish authority.  As Herod belonged to the Roman Empire, Peter must have been wanted by the Roman authority, too.  So, the Gospels and the Acts did not reveal whereabouts of Peter.   The Acts ends by describing Paul as follows:
Acts 28:31 Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him.

The Acts reads that Paul continued to live in Rome without seeing Peter.  However, it is strongly thought that Paul met Peter in Rome while Peter was wanted by the Roman authority.  So, the author of Luke must have hidden the fact that Peter was in Rome.  It suggests that Mark, Matthew, Luke and the Acts were all written while Paul and Peter were alive or before execution of them.

And from strong linkage among Mark, Matthew, and Luke, it is assumed that they were all written in Rome with presence of Peter still alive.   Therefore they must have been written before or around 64 when Paul and Peter were executed by Nero.


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Luk 11:14 And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb. And it came to pass, when the devil was gone out, the dumb spake; and the people wondered.
Luk 11:15 But some of them said, He casteth out devils through Beelzebub the chief of the devils.

"seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves" - The Jewish-Roman War and the Four Gospels

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The Jewish-Roman War and the Four Gospels

It is said the first Gospel was written by Mark around 66 to 70 AD when the Jewish-Roman war broke out.

However, it is said that Paul and Peter were executed in Rome around 64, which means that Paul and Peter preached Christian Gospels without the Gospel by Mark or any other authors.  So, it is a mystery how they could preach Gospels to non-Jewish people who did not know Judaism and Christ Jesus without the Christian Bible.   For almost 30 years since the execution of Christ Jesus, Paul, Peter, and other leaders of early Christianity were trying to make the teaching of Christ Jesus prevail without the Gospels by Mark, Matthew, Luke and John.

But if Paul, Peter, and other leaders of early Christianity had believed that they belonged to Judaism, it could be understood, since they had already the Judaism Bible.  So, not only Christ Jesus but also Paul and Peter thought they belonged to Judaism but not another religion.  And the first Gospel according to Mark does not declare that God sent Christ Jesus to the world to create a new religion called Christianity.

The Gospel according to Mark stared:

Mar 1:1 The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God;
Mar 1:2 As it is written in the prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.

It is apparent that the gospel by Christ Jesus was meant to be extension of prophecies in Judaism.  But when the Jewish-Roman war was going to break out, would Mark write his Gospel to emphasize the tie between the teaching of Christ Jesus and Judaism?

And the Gospels according to Mathew and Luke were based on Mark, while it is said that they were written  between 70 and  90 AD after the Jewish-Roman war.  If so, it is strange that the graveness of effect of the war is not reflected in these Gospels.

However, the Gospel according to John clearly shows the impact of the war and the consequential fall of the Jerusalem Temple:

Joh 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Joh 1:2 The same was in the beginning with God.
Joh 1:3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
Joh 1:4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

This Gospel was written clearly with intention to establish a new religion apart from Judaism, which should reflect the graveness of effect of the Jewish-Roman war.   Compared with John, Mark, Matthew, and Luke were written within the paradigm of Judaism, although they seem to make some distinction between followers of the teaching of Christ Jesus outside Jerusalem and those in Jerusalem. 

The most important incident in the 1st century for Judaists was the fall of the Jerusalem Temple in the Jewish-Roman war.  It must have had serious effects on early Christians.  And the seriousness is reflected in John but not in Mark, Matthew, and Luke.  Therefore, Mark, Matthew, and Luke must have been written before the Jewish-Roman war.

Another question is whether Mark, Matthew, and Luke were written while Paul or Peter was alive, whereas it is said that the two leading figures of early Christianity outside Jerusalem were executed by Roman Emperor Nero in Rome around 64 AD, four years before the  Jewish-Roman war.



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Mar 11:13 And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet.
Mar 11:14 And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever. And his disciples heard it.

"he went out unto Bethany with the twelve" - Theory on Pantera as Jesus's Father

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Theory on Pantera as Jesus's Father

There is a theory that the true father of Christ Jesus was a Roman soldier called  Pantera:

Tiberius Julius Abdes Pantera (c. 22 BC – AD 40) was a Roman soldier whose tombstone was found in Bingerbrück, Germany, in 1859. A historical connection from this soldier to Jesus has long been hypothesized by numerous scholars....Both the ancient Talmud and medieval Jewish writings and sayings reinforced this notion, referring to Jesus as "Yeshu ben Pantera" (Jesus, son of Pantera).
The hypothesis is considered unlikely by mainstream scholars given that there is little other evidence to support the Pantera paternity outside of the Jewish texts
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiberius_Julius_Abdes_Pantera)

The Gospels of Mathew and Luke both described genealogies of Christ Jesus up to Abraham and Adam, respectively.  However, descriptions about Jesus's father Joseph are mysteriously scare in any Gospels according to Mark, Mathew, Luke and John.  And the theory on Pantera as the true father of Christ Jesus may be said to be as vague as the descriptions on Joseph in the Gospels.

Tabor tells us the following. Eliezer ben Hyrcanus who lived at the end of the first century AD spoke of what he learned from a man who followed Jesus. The man was Jacob of Sikhnin from Sepphoris. Jacob passed on Jesus' teaching in the name of Jesus the son of Panteri. There was a dispute mentioned among rabbis if it was allowed to try and miraculously heal snake bites in the name of Jesus the son of Panter. They don't say why Jesus was called the Son of Panteri. It is clear then that the Jews were not using this designation in a nasty way. Tabor says Panteri is not a play on the Greek word for virgin which is parthenos for the words are too different. Adolf Deissmanns research in 1906 verified that the name was used at the alleged time of Jesus and was favoured by Roman soldiers . . .

In Germany, there is a tombstone of a Roman soldier who went to Germany from Palestine. It goes Tiberius Julius Abdes Pantera of Sidon aged 62 - a soldier of 60 years service of the first cohort of archers lies here. This man died in the middle of the first century AD and could well have been Jesus' father.

Tabor states that Abdes is a given name. It was given in honour. It is a latinized version of ebed an Aramaic word meaning servant of God. Thus Pantera could have been a Jew by religion and race.   (http://www.miraclesceptic.com/pantera.html)

If you cannot deny 100% the theory on Pantera as the true father of Christ Jesus as you cannot prove anything about Joseph from the Gospels, you should consider what it means if the theory should be true.

In the case, it means that we have the tomb of Jesus's father while we don't have Jesus's. In deed, ”So the last will be first, and the first last."  And further, "For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open."

And it might be natural that Christ Jesus seemed to expect that His teaching would prevail to the Roman Empire as He so implied to Paul, etc.


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Mar 11:11 And Jesus entered into Jerusalem, and into the temple: and when he had looked round about upon all things, and now the eventide was come, he went out unto Bethany with the twelve.

"if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth" - Mark, Peter, James and the Young Man

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Mark, Peter, James and the Young Man

The Gospel of Mark has some interesting description:

Mar 14:48 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Are ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and with staves to take me?Mar 14:49 I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and ye took me not: but the scriptures must be fulfilled.Mar 14:50 And they all forsook him, and fled.Mar 14:51 And there followed him a certain young man, having a linen cloth cast about his naked body; and the young men laid hold on him:Mar 14:52 And he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked.Mar 14:53 And they led Jesus away to the high priest: and with him were assembled all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes.

Who was this "certain young man"?

One could answer that Mark recorded it because it happened, which is certainly true, but it doesn’t explain why he chose to include this detail and leave out dozens of others. 

Another possible answer is that the “young man” was John Mark himself, and because it was personal he wished to include it in the Gospel. This is possible, but not very likely since the early Church fathers understood the young man to be either John the Apostle (Ambrose, Chrysostom) or James (Epiphanius). But even if the young man was John Mark, there must be more to the story than John Mark including a personal anecdote. Running off naked must have meant something more to his original audience. (http://www.themichigancatholic.org/2015/01/the-naked-truth-about-the-young-man-in-mark/)

The Gospel according to Mark contains various criticism against Peter and other disciples who followed Christ Jesus but could not fully understand the word of Christ Jesus.  When this Gospel was written 30 years after the execution of Christ Jesus, early Christians were split roughly into a group around the Temple of Jerusalem, consisting of Jewish people, and another group in Rome and other cities in the Roman Empire, consisting of non-Jewish people in addition to Jewish Christians.  Mark is said to have been working with Peter who had fled Jerusalem and Palestine to avoid arrest by leaders and authorities of Judaism and finally came to Rome, probably, to help Paul.

However, James,  a brother of Christ Jesus, stayed in Jerusalem and became the head of early Christians, eventually succeeding Christ Jesus and taking over the No.1 disciple Peter.  But, there arose friction, controversies, and rivalry between the two groups of the early Christians, although they both were facing antagonism from Jewish authorities.  So, it looks natural that Mark who followed Peter leaving Jerusalem and coming to Rome had no intimate ties with the Jerusalem group.  So it is no wonder that Mark put criticism on the disciples of Christ Jesus most of whom continued to stay in Jerusalem into his Gospel, even including some criticism on Peter (probably for the purpose of showing humbleness of Peter).  And the leader of the Jerusalem group was James, a brother of Christ Jesus.

Put simply, the young man who fled the scene of the arrest of Christ Jesus leaving his linen clothes must be James, a brother of Christ Jesus.  James must be also the mysterious young man depicted as a "young disciple Christ Jesus loved most" in other parts of Mark and other Gospels.     

Mark and Peter must have expected that James in Jerusalem would read the Gospel and would be ashamed of the scene as Peter would be when recalling the incident where he left Christ Jesus with other disciples as they were afraid of being killed by Jewish authorities and Roman soldiers.

The description of the young man in the scene of the arrest must be a message to James, a brother of Christ Jesus, who was leading the Jerusalem group.  But true intention and meaning of the description are still mystery.

Incidentally, it also tells that the Gospel by Mark was written while James and Peter were alive, earlier than conventionally believed by the Vatican, scholars, and experts. 


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Joh 11:10 But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.

"but for the glory of God" - God is God; Christ Jesus is Christ Jesus!

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God is God; Christ Jesus is Christ Jesus!

It is now understood that Christianity today is different from real and true teaching of Christ Jesus.

The teaching of Christ Jesus is within the scope of Judaism.  But Peter failed to completely and perfectly carry the teaching to Jewish people and other peoples.  Paul deviated from His teaching.  The early Christian leaders modified His teaching by introducing the doctrine that Christ Jesus was God.  And finally, the Church leaders in the Roman Empire changed the spirit of His teaching by adopting the Trinity theory.

Then God destructed the Roman Empire to give warning to Christians in the Empire.  But they stuck to those teachings they formulated.

So, God gave Islam to Arabs or peoples living in the east of the Roman Empire.  But, Christian leaders and the Vatican would not change the contents of their teaching. 

By allowing existence and expansion of Judaism and Christianity for more than 1000 years, God patiently waited for Christians to realize their mistakes.  This is the trend of the history of the mankind in these 2000 years.

Especially, while there are three major monotheistic religions originated by Abraham and two of them deny that Christ Jesus was God, how could Christianity only continue to hoist the theory that Christ Jesus was God?

God is God; Christ Jesus is Christ Jesus!  The sun ins the sun; the moon is the moon!  The Vatican once made a big mistake to deny the heliocentric theory!  It proved that the Vatican could make any serious mistakes. 

So, Satan has partly succeeded in reducing holy effect of Christianity.  But, it should be stopped as it has past 2000 years since the birth of Christ Jesus.



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Joh 11:4 When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.

"I give unto them eternal life" - Christianity and Islam

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Christianity and Islam

It is very significant that Islam was given to the mankind after Christianity.

Christ Jesus did not say that Islam would be given to the mankind, while Christian leaders have claimed that the coming of Christ Jesus was predicted or prophesied in the Old Testament or Judaism.  As a matter of fact, Islam got billion or more followers today, which could not be possible without the religion being authentic.

One of the critical things to Christianity is the emergence of Islam where the same God as that of Judaism and Christianity is revered.  If Christianity had been perfect and complete, there could not have been Islam or there should not have been a need for any new religions including Islam.

However, Christians and Muslims have not discussed this issue or why God gave Islam over Christianity to show their respect for God.

Did God make a mistake?  Or, either of Christianity or Islam is a kind of error?  What does it mean if God never makes a mistake while He gave Christianity and Islam?  The mankind should find an answer to this question in this century so as to please the God. 


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Joh 10:28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.

"the works that I do in my Father's name" - Why Christianity Spread so Rapidly and Widely

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Why Christianity Spread so Rapidly and Widely

It is still a mystery why Christianity spread so rapidly and widely across the Roman Empire.

No Bible books give a clear answer to the question.  So, the Vatican ascribes the wonder to St. Peter and St. Paul.  However, there are no clear gospels or records about their deeds except the Act, etc.  Even it is not clear when the Act was written.

However, it is said to be true that first Paul was executed in Rome, and then brother of Christ Jesus James was killed in Jerusalem,  and finally Peter was killed by Nero in Rome around 67 AD before the Jewish-Roman War.

So, it is apparent that early followers of Christ Jesus were not afraid of death.  If 10 men are engaged in any enterprise without being afraid of death, they could make some great thing.  But, if 10,000 men are engaged in any enterprise without being afraid of death, they could make some greater thing.

Put simply, early Christians across the Roman Empire must have believed Christ Jesus as the son of God, which made them unafraid of death.  But what elements of early Christianity made them convinced that Christ Jesus was the son of God?

There must have been many miracles among early Christians that were not recorded or told but made them convinced that Christ Jesus was the son of God.  Only miracles people personally experienced could have such effect.  But what are those untold miracles?

Maybe, 10,000 individual miracles must have occurred to 10,000 early Christians in the Roman Empire (but no miracles might have been admitted by Jewish people).


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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.

"the children shall rise up against their parents" - Get through Different Dimensions to God

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Get through Different Dimensions to God

This universe is three-dimensional in terms of space, although it can be regarded as 4-dimensional with time and further 5-dimensional with spirit.

But God might be 4-dimensional in terms of space, or more than 4-dimensional.  So then, it is impossible for us to correctly comprehend what God is.  Or, God is perfectly safe from us, since we, three-dimensional, cannot even touch God, even if we all become servants of Satan.

Human beings must resemble to God projected to the three-dimensional world.  But human beings cannot resemble God in the 4 or more dimensional world, since we are still three-dimensional even in the 4 or more dimensional world.  The cross-section view of God of 4 or more dimensions might look a three-dimensional man, but it is like a globe looking like a circle in a cross-section view from 3-dimensions to 2-dimensions.

Furthermore, in the spiritual domain, human beings may be said to have two dimensions: goodness and badness.  But, God might have more dimensions in the spiritual domain.

It is said that God created human beings according to His image.  But correctly, it should be said that God created human beings according to His three-dimensionally projected image.

That is why God does not punish bad men immediately; God did not dispose of Hitler before his killing so many Jewish people; God allowed so many wars to be fought among human beings; and God had Christ Jesus executed in Jerusalem 2000 year ago.

So, the way to understand God is narrow.  However, the way to understand Satan is easy and wide.  The way to God must get through different dimensions, which could be realized only with help from Christ Jesus.  This must be what is meant in the teaching of Christ Jesus.

(In addition, it is no wonder that Gnosticism failed to try to comprehend God in different dimensions by regrading Him being three dimensional.)


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Mat 10:21 And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
Mat 10:22 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.

"take no thought how or what" - Jesus must have been directly killed by Romans

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Jesus must have been directly killed by Romans

Jewish authority killed many Jewish enemies  without committing their execution to Roman troops that occupied Palestine 2000 yeas ago.

Before the execution of Christ Jesus the Temple authority of Jerusalem and Jewish kings killed John the Baptist and other Jewish enemies for religious and political reasons.  After the execution of Christ Jesus the Temple authority of Jerusalem and Jewish kings killed Saint Stephen and other Jewish enemies for religious and political reasons.  But they committed the execution of Christ Jesus to a Roman governor in Jerusalem.

It tells other truth of relationship between Christ Jesus and Jewish authority 2000 years ago.

If Christ Jesus had been beheaded or stoned to death directly by Jewish authority, namely by some Jewish people, God would not have allowed continued existence of Judaism or the tribe or race of Jewish people, since Christ Jesus was His son or was regarded as such by God Himself.

However, because Jewish authority was responsible for the death of Christ Jesus, no matter how indirectly, God later destroyed Jerusalem by allowing Roman troops to attack Jerusalem and Jewish insurgents.  And, because Romans were directly responsible for the execution of Christ Jesus, God caused destruction of the Roman Empire before the fifth century.

Consequently, there happened great discontinuity in Europe in terms of succession of the Roman Civilization.  Indeed, the fall of the Roman Empire is regarded as a kind of mystery even today.  However, the Jewish people and Judaism have survived to date.  But, if Jewish authority in religion and politics had directly killed Christ Jesus, the Jewish people and Judaism must have disappeared like the Roman Empire.  And if Roman troops in Jerusalem had not directly killed Christ Jesus, the Roman Empire might exist even today with its notable features of cruelty and belligerence.

Therefore, Christ Jesus must have been directly killed by Roman troops but indirectly by Jewish authority 2000 years ago.   


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Mat 10:19 But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak.

"enquire who in it is worthy" - One of Mysteries of Early Christianity

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One of Mysteries of Early Christianity

Christ Jesus had siblings:

The Gospel of Mark 6:3 and the Gospel of Matthew 13:55–56 state that James, Joses (or Joseph), Jude and Simon were the brothers of Jesus, the son of Mary. The same verses also mention unnamed sisters of Jesus. Mark 3:31–32 tells about Jesus' mother and brothers looking for Jesus. A verse in the Epistle to the Galatians 1:19 mentions seeing James, "the Lord's brother", and none other of the apostles except Peter, when Paul went to Jerusalem after his conversion. The "brothers of the Lord" are also mentioned, alongside (but separate from) Cephas and the apostles in 1 Corinthians 9:5, in which it is mentioned that they had wives. Some scholars claim that Jesus' relatives may have held positions of authority in the Jerusalem area until Trajan excluded Jews from the new city that he built on its ruins.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothers_of_Jesus

Among them James was especially notable:

Modern interpretation
The Encyclopædia Britannica relates that "James the Lord's brother was a Christian apostle, according to St. Paul, although not one of the original Twelve Apostles."[1] According to Schaff, James seems to have taken the place of James the son of Zebedee, after his martyrdom, around 44 AD.[14] 

Modern historians of the early Christian churches tend to place James in the tradition of Jewish Christianity; whereas Paul emphasized faith over observance of Mosaic Law, James is thought to have espoused the opposite position.[clarification needed][note 6] 

According to Schaff, James was the local head of the oldest church and the leader of the most conservative portion of Jewish Christianity.[14] Scholar James D. G. Dunn has proposed that Peter was the "bridge-man" (i.e. the pontifex maximus) between the two other "prominent leading figures": Paul and James the Just.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James,_brother_of_Jesus#Modern_interpretation

But James was killed by the Judaism authority in Jerusalem.

According to Josephus James was stoned to death by Ananus ben Ananus.[73]

Clement of Alexandria relates that "James was thrown from the pinnacle of the temple, and was beaten to death with a club".[68]

Hegesippus cites that "the Scribes and Pharisees placed James upon the pinnacle of the temple, and threw down the just man, and they began to stone him, for he was not killed by the fall. And one of them, who was a fuller, took the club with which he beat out clothes and struck the just man on the head".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James,_brother_of_Jesus#Death

So, first John the Baptist was killed; then Christ Jesus was killed, then James, a brother of Christ Jesus, was killed; and then Peter and Paul were killed in Rome.

Christianity was born through all these tragic deaths.  It tells how strong hatred, anger, and hostility against them were.  It also means that Christianity was established through literally deadly conflicts between the camp of Christ Jesus and that of opponents.

Judaism had also the history of deadly conflicts with other tribes and religions.  Islam was also established through wars.  The three great monotheistic religions were all launched through deadly fights between believers and opponents.  We may as well change our views on the religions.

Especially, it is grave that Christ Jesus and one of His brothers were killed by religious enemies in Jerusalem, since Christ Jesus was the Son of Gog who must have power to save his brother.  Why didn't Jesus help and save James?  It is one of mysteries of early Christianity.       

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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.

"eat such things as are set before you" - Gospel of Peter/Mark

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Gospel of Peter/Mark

It is now thought among experts that the Gospel according to Mark was actually based on a story told by St. Peter.

That must be the reason why the Gospel according to Mark was adopted for canonical books, and other Gospels according to Matthew, Luke and John followed Mark.

Indeed, in the Gospel according to Mark, other scenes and conversations between Christ Jesus and other disciples are rare, and some episodes only Peter had known were recorded.  Mark must have traveled with Peter after Peter disappeared from the Acts around 48 AD, leaving Jerusalem to run away from persecution by the Jewish authority.  But was the Gospel written during this journey?  The Acts did not say even Paul and Peter met in Rome although both were killed by Emperor Nero in Rome.

As Peter belonged to Judaism that had its own Bible, it is unthinkable that Peter presented a new holy book.  Peter must have preached by talking to people outside Palestine without distributing the Gospel based on his memory and written by Mark.  So, there must have been a strong motivation for Peter to have Mark write a story of Christ Jesus and Peter.  As finally Peter went to Rome, he must have met Paul and tried to save Paul from a Roman trial.  To save Paul, Peter must have tried to show who and what Christ Jesus was to the Roman authority.  If Roman citizens understood their religion was not a dangerous religion, Paul might be released.  So, Peter must have had Mark write the Gospel.

Accordingly, the Gospel according to Mark was regarded as authentic among early Christians since its release to the public.  Therefore, Matthew, Luke, and John who had never seen Christ Jesus living and preaching had to partly or mostly copy Mark, although they must have also heard some other facts from Peter or Mark, thus modifying the Gospel of Mark.     

But why did not Luke write the Paul and Peter met in Rome?  It is another mystery.

The Gospel of Mark or of Peter? 

There is extremely reliable evidence through church tradition and early church historians that the Gospel of Mark is actually the gospel of Peter. Peter is said to have dictated his discipleship with Jesus to John Mark, who was a companion of his for many of the later years of his life. If you read the Gospel of Mark you can see the extremely fine details of what appears to be an eyewitness from the perspective of Peter. John Mark was not ever a disciple of Jesus and he was not an apostle. There is little doubt that the work of Mark and his gospel is actually the story of Peter who retold the story and then was written down by John Mark. This is testified by the fact that Mark was not present for Jesus’ ministry and the extremely intimate details that are described in Mark. Some of the events where Peter, John, and James who were often alone with Jesus, like the Transfiguration, are like a first-person retelling of the story.

https://www.whatchristianswanttoknow.com/apostle-peter-biography-timeline-life-and-death/ 

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Luk 10:8 And into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you, eat such things as are set before you:

"What did Moses command you?" - Paul and the Gospels

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Paul and the Gospels

There is a fundamental question about early Christianity.

Did Paul have access to Four gospels?

If you mean did he have access to Mark, Luke, John and Matthew? Not exactly.
Modern analysis suggests Paul lived 5AD-67AD.
The Gospels were almost certainly written after he died.
However, it’s pretty clear the Synoptic Gospels share 1 or more common sources, which means there may have been written documents during his lifetime that he was familiar with.
https://www.quora.com/Did-Paul-have-access-to-Four-gospels

However, in most of time, it is believed, Paul preached without knowledge of actual Christ Jesus.  Paul did not see or meet living Christ Jesus.  It is said that only once Paul encountered the spirit of Christ Jesus, which turned Paul from a persecutor of early Christians to the great leader of early Christians.

If so, what could Paul preach without knowing contents of the Gospels according to Mark, Luke, and Matthew?  What did Paul tell to Jewish people and Roman citizens at the time?  Why could Paul be so sure that he was delivering the teaching of Christ Jesus written in the Gospels?  And then, how did early Christian churches established by Paul without concrete knowledge about Christ Jesus come to accept and authorize those Gospels without authorization by Paul?

Paul traveled outside Palestine, preached the teaching of Christ Jesus and God, and established early Christian churches without concrete knowledge about Christ Jesus.

Then around the time when Paul was executed by Nero in Rome, the Gospels came to appear.  And, as time went by, Christian leaders accepted these Gospels and came to regard them as holy books, which tells that they believed that what was written in these Gospels were true.

The issue is the relationship between Paul, the great founder of the Christian Church, and the Gospels by Mark, Luke and Matthew.

If Paul thought it was necessary to have a gospel depicting life and the status of preaching of Christ Jesus for his mission, he should have asked somebody who had witnessed the actual work of Christ Jesus to write a document depicting His life.  However, it is not Paul who took initiative in writing the Gospels.   

My theory is that: While Paul was forced to live in Rome till judgment by the Roman authority, Peter came to Rome.  Peter asked Marco to write a gospel to save Paul by diffusing truth of Christ Jesus among Romans and showing that Christianity was not dangerous teaching.   But due to the big fire in Rome set by Nero, Peter was also arrested as one of Christians set as scapegoat for arson by Nero.   Then to save Paul and Peter, Matthew wrote his gospel based on Marco to save Paul and Peter by showing that Christians were part of Judaism.  However, Paul and Peter were executed despite these efforts by Marco and Matthew.  So, to prevent disturbance among early Christians, Luke wrote his version of gospels based on Marco and Matthew.  Finally, after the fall of Jerusalem in the Jewish-Roman War, the necessity to establish Christianity separately from Judaism made John write his version of gospels from a different angle than Marco, Matthew, and Luke. 

Circumstances in creating the Gospels of Marco, Mathew, and Luke must have been centered around Paul.  This mus be the truth.

But still a mystery remains: How could Paul establish early Christian churches without concrete knowledge of Christ Jesus and without reading the Gospels?



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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.

"be slain, and be raised the third day" - Christians and Judaists

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Christians and Judaists

There seem to be many reasons why the Old Testament is included in Christianity.

The main reason must be that Christ Jesus relied on Judaism at the time, namely 2000 years ago, and the Old Testament.  There is no denying that Christ Jesus admitted the effect and authority of the Old Testament.

But if Christ Jesus had said that He had come from different God than God of Judaism, no people around him, namely Jewish people of 2000 years ago, would have accepted and followed Him.  What Christ Jesus respected should be respected by His followers and what Christ Jesus hated should be hated by His followers.  Therefore, early Christians, the Vatican and other Christian churches must have included the Old Testament in their holy books. 

However, it is a kind of mystery that Christians did not accept Jewish people for almost 2000 years in the history while they also handled the Old Testament as their own holy books.  Logically, part of Christianity overlaps Judaism through the Old Testament.  But Christians have not regraded Judaists as a kind of Christians, and Judaists did not claim that they were a kind of Christians.

Maybe, Jewish people rejected to be dealt with as the second class of Christians, since there were a sense of hierarchy in Christianity as well observed in the Vatican.

The solution may be to stop using the term of Christianity and Christians as well as Judaism and Jews.  They should each call themselves people under God and use the common name of their religions such as Goddism.


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Luk 9:22 Saying, The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be slain, and be raised the third day.
Luk 9:23 And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.

"fragments that remained to them twelve baskets" - Mark against Mathew and Luke

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Mark against Mathew and Luke

According to one theory about the establishment of the Gospels, Mathew and Luke were written in reference to Mark.

The authors of Mathew and Luke read the Gospel according to Mark but modified its contents according to their own interpretation of the life of Christ Jesus and added some new elements to Mark.   Therefore, the general outlines of Mathew and Luke became similar to that of Mark.  In other word, if Mark and Luke had not made out their versions of the Gospel based on Mark, the three versions could not have been akin to one another.

However, it meant that Mathew and Luke admitted authenticity of Mark.  But how could they be sure that the Gospel according to Mark was 100% true?  Or did they know who the author of Mark was?  What made Mathew and Luke believe the contents of Mark?

The most reasonable answer is that Mathew and Luke knew who Mark was and that Mark was someone close to Christ Jesus to the degree above suspicion.  In deed, Mark could be only written by someone who had directly witnessed the deeds and heard the words of Christ Jesus.

But it is more interesting that Mathew and Luke did not mention the author of Mark in their versions of the Gospel.  They did not even mention the existence of the Gospel according to Mark.  The Gospels are indeed keys to understanding early Christianity.


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Luk 9:17 And they did eat, and were all filled: and there was taken up of fragments that remained to them twelve baskets.
Luk 9:18 And it came to pass, as he was alone praying, his disciples were with him: and he asked them, saying, Whom say the people that I am?

"what the rising from the dead should mean" - Satan before the Cross

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Satan before the Cross

One hidden major player in the Gospels was Satan.

The preaching and activities of Christ Jesus were all done under monitoring by Satan as well as God.  Indeed, Satan appeared in front of Christ Jesus during his prayer in the wilderness for 40 days.  Truly, Christ Jesus sometimes drove an evil spirit out of a man.

Christ Jesus must have seen Satan's influence on the Jewish society of 2000 years ago in elite Jewish people and Judaism priests as well as in Roman rulers.  But, Christ Jesus did not come to preach the gospel to them, make them repent and forgive them.  He rather preached the gospel to poor people and ordinary people who were less occupied by Satan.

Satan was watching Christ Jesus preaching and healing poor people.  But while Christ Jesus was working in Galilee, Satan would not try to take on Christ Jesus.  But when Christ Jesus acted passionately especially in the Jerusalem Temple, Satan got a chance to push Christ Jesus into a corner.

It is not clear what Satan expected when Christ Jesus was betrayed by one of His disciples and sentenced to death by the Roman Governor.  Satan might have expected God to interfere.  Satan might have just wanted to enjoy seeing Christ Jesus get embarrassed and shamed as He could not prevent the betrayal and the arrest.

However, it seems that there is one thing sure.  Satan must have been surprised to see Christ Jesus simply and obediently die on the cross without interference of God.  Satan must have been confused and puzzled: "The Son of God should not die like that."  On the contrary, after the death of Christ Jesus on the cross, Christianity started to prevail.  The religion occupied the Roman Empire, which must have upset Satan.  Satan must have surely felt ashamed of his shallow wisdom and cheap strategy.

But, Satan did not simply give up.  He tried to confuse the Christian church.  Satan succeeded in imbuing a very stupid theory in the church that God was three and three were one God.  Satan did many stupid tricks to the church, but as the most remarkable influence of Satan, this theory still remains today in the Christian church.

We may as well start to check creeds and ideologies of the Vatican and the Protestant churches so as to remove influences of Satan.  Anyway, the Vatican and the Christian churches should admit that Satan is so strong that even the Gospels are not free from interference by Satan.  Yet, before God, Satan is nothing.  We may laugh at Satan as he must have been dismayed to see Christ Jesus simply and obediently die on the cross.

What a stupid guy Satan was before the cross!   


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Mar 9:10 And they kept that saying with themselves, questioning one with another what the rising from the dead should mean.
Mar 9:11 And they asked him, saying, Why say the scribes that Elias must first come?
Mar 9:12 And he answered and told them, Elias verily cometh first, and restoreth all things; and how it is written of the Son of man, that he must suffer many things, and be set at nought.