"Hail, thou that art highly favoured" - Revere the God with Spirit

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Revere the God with Spirit

It is well known that our bodies, including brains, are made of cells, molecules, atoms, and other elemental particles such as electron.

In other words, our bodies are composed of atoms  like every material in this world.  There are only 118 or so types of atoms in this universe, including hydrogen and oxygen that constitute water if chemically combined.  But electrons work to combine and bond atoms to one another to make molecules, cells, and materials.

These physical entities have no minds.  Carbon and oxygen have no minds, and carbon dioxide (CO2) has also no mind.  Hydrogen and oxygen have no minds, and thus water (H2O) has no minds.  Most importantly electrons, flux of which is an electric current, have no minds.

But each of our brain is made of 15 billion cells, each of which is made of one 1000 trillion atoms.  But they all have no minds.  Yet, our brains have minds.  The most significant physical work of our brains is based on electrons and thus electric currents, although these currents are very weak such as 100 nano-ampere, while charging to an ordinary smart phone uses 2 A.  (Nano means one billionth or 10^-9.)  And this energy of electric currents has no minds.

While being made of all these materials and energy without minds, our brains have minds or generate minds.  If any parts or components of an entity have no minds, the the entity should have no minds.  Therefore, an artificial robot, even equipped with AI software, cannot have a mind, if the God does not give it to the robot.  It means that there is something that generates a mind in each of our brains.  And that something cannot be seen.  Or that something is not a worldly matter.

We have to admit that there is the God, Heaven, and the hell.  Logically we have to admit existence of the spiritual world that is superior to the material world.  Then, it is not difficult to think that something from the spiritual world enters our brains to generate minds.  This something may be a soul or a spirit.

In this context, it is thought that when we die, our spirits leave our brains with our minds and get into the spiritual world.  And as Christ Jesus said, if we have faith in God and Christ Jesus, our minds will live forever in the spiritual world with our spirits.  But if the God does not accept our minds, what will happen to our minds?

The God created this material universe not from nothing but from vacuum energy.  So, it is thought that the God created our minds in our material brains from not cells, molecules, atoms, and other elementary particles but from spirits coming from the spiritual world.         

 Christ Jesus really said that the God was spirit and people had to revere the God with their spirits.

(In addition, there is a possibility that a robot might be given a mind if the God wishes, when its brain meets certain physical conditions.)

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Luk 1:27 To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary.
Luk 1:28 And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.
Luk 1:29 And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be.

"when the unclean spirit had torn him" - A Spirit Linked to a Mind

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A Spirit Linked to a Mind

It is said the length of the human life is getting longer.

Even in Japan before WWII, it was widely accepted that natural life of a man was 50 or 60.  But today, people think that they could live around 80 or more.  And it is not rare that we hear a news report that a certain famous man has died at 100 or more.

However it is still globally rare to hear that someone has died at 115 or more.  The upper limit of length of life of men seems to be around 115.  There must be some spiritual reason for this limit in addition to physical conditions.

If a man has done good things until he becomes 115, it must be enough for him to be qualified to enter Heave.  And if a man has done evil things until he becomes 115, it must be enough for him to be condemned to the hell.

Good men must be allowed to enter Heaven as soon as possible, while evil men should not be allowed to accumulate his evil in this world over his age of 115.

So, it must be the God who sends the Angel of Death to every man but not Satan.  And every death must be spiritually meaningful.

If it is spiritually meaningful for a man to live longer, Christ Jesus must have lived longer.  Yet it is sad to see young men die at their youth in wars, disasters, accidents, illness, etc.

In the future, human bodies will be replaced by artificial bodies.  And human brains must be transformed in new artificial brains.  Men might acquire semi-permanent life.  But can the new artificial brains they will get in exchange of old natural brains generate spirits like the old natural brains?

They may transfer memory, intellectual functions, etc. of old natural brains to new artificial brains, but it must be impossible for an artificial brain to have an spirit.  In other words, a brain may be copied but a spirit cannot.   

When our natural brains stop functioning, our spirits must be detached from the brains.  While we are living, our minds and spirits must be overlapped, so that we cannot clearly see spirits alone.

Anyway, if the God exists, the spiritual world must also exist, and thus our spirits exist linked to our minds.  Or our minds must be part of our spirits.


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M'r:1:25: And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him.
M'r:1:26: And when the unclean spirit had torn him, and cried with a loud voice, he came out of him.
M'r:1:27: And they were all amazed, insomuch that they questioned among themselves, saying, What thing is this? what new doctrine is this? for with authority commandeth he even the unclean spirits, and they do obey him.

"he had seen a vision in the temple" - Longer than 10^34 Years

Mt. Fuji viewed from around Tokyo

Longer than 10^34 Years

Modern physics explains that this whole universe will come to naught or will be completely dead in distant future such as trillion years multiplied by trillion times trillion or more than 10^33 years.

It is also notable that a proton, the major component of any atoms, is expected to collapse in 10^34 years.  It means that there will be no elements and no non-dark materials or no ordinary substances, not to speak of molecules, chemicals, cells, and living things after 10^34 years.

So, in the excessive amount of time, the universe will be completely empty and void while it continues to expand to infinity.  And at the end of time, the universe might finally disappear.   

So, we live just in a very small time frame of the universe.  Everything our ancestors and we have created and our descendants will create will come to nothing.

Indeed, Christ Jesus said: Lu:21:6: As for these things which ye behold, the days will come, in the which there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.

So, basically, our life-time is limited.  Even this universe has its own finite life-span.  Our pride and satisfaction acquired in life based on wealth and success will be meaningless.  Even our love and hatred to others will be meaningless.  But our faith and love in God will be meaningful if this universe disappears, since the God is above the material universe.

Yet our history is meaningful that the God sent Christ Jesus in it, specifically 2000 years ago.

The mankind might be extinct in the next 2000 years far before this universe collapses.  But this history of the mankind is meaningful due to its connection with the God.

And after the collapse of this world and universe, the spiritual world should continue to exist, and thus Heaven continues to exist in addition to the hell.  So life of our spirits will be longer than this universe.

Therefore, we should not think that happiness in this world is the most important thing, since it is truly nothing, compared with happiness in Heaven.   

Life in Heaven or the hell will be longer than 10^34 years and more.

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Lu:1:19: And the angel answering said unto him, I am Gabriel, that stand in the presence of God; and am sent to speak unto thee, and to shew thee these glad tidings.
Lu:1:20: And, behold, thou shalt be dumb, and not able to speak, until the day that these things shall be performed, because thou believest not my words, which shall be fulfilled in their season.
Lu:1:21: And the people waited for Zacharias, and marvelled that he tarried so long in the temple.
Lu:1:22: And when he came out, he could not speak unto them: and they perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple: for he beckoned unto them, and remained speechless.

"Art thou that prophet?" - Christ Jesus might Come with Anger

Mt. Fuji from around Tokyo

Christ Jesus might Come with Anger

No prophets equivalent to Christ Jesus have appeared in these 2000 years.  And, new religion except Christianity has appeared directly from Jewish people in these 2000 years.

If the God had really wanted to save the mankind and the Jewish people, He should have sent other Christ Jesuses and helped other religions equivalent to Christianity stem from Judaism, although the God gave Islam to some people 1400 years ago.

But if the God had become angry as the mankind killed Christ Jesus, it might have been understood.  If the God was gravely disappointed at the mankind as they could not develop Christianity in a manner and to the degree the God wished, it could be understood.

Some people still think that the God loves them.  Or, others are indifferent with the God's feeling about the mankind.  But the truth may be that good wishes of the God toward the mankind may have been greatly lessened through these 2000 years since the first coming of Christ Jesus to the human world.

Christ Jesus told the mankind to love the God as much as possible.  But Christ Jesus did not assure that the God would continue to love the mankind, no matter what they might do against the will of the God.  Then, our love to the God must be also accompanied by our fear of the God.

Put extremely, if the robots with super-artificial intelligence could be more faithful to the God than the mankind, the God might replace the mankind with robots.  In this context, 1000 years later, robots with super-artificial intelligence might occupy and govern the earth.

Some people still honestly asked the God to help them; however the God might have gotten angry at the mankind long time ago.  Yet, if the God had really promised that Christ Jesus would come to the human world in the second time, He should come.   

But Christ Jesus might come with any anger in the future.

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Joh:1:19: And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou?
Joh:1:20: And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ.
Joh:1:21: And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No.

"make you to become fishers of men" - The Hell Must be Full of Money

The Tama-gawa River Flowing around Tokyo

The Hell Must be Full of Money

Christ Jesus said that he showed truth to infants but not to scholars.

This teaching can be interpreted as the God shows more truth to the poor than the rich, since infants are, anyway, materially poor.

A man having $100 despises material knowledge of another having only $1.
A man having $100,000 despises material knowledge of another having only $100.
A man having $1 million despises material knowledge of another having only $100,000.
A man having $100 million despises material knowledge of another having only $1 million.
And a man having $1 billion despises material knowledge of another having only $100 million.

But, a man having only $100 million may have more spiritual knowledge than another having as much as $1 billion.
Yet, a man having only $1 million may have more spiritual knowledge than another having as much as $100 million.
Yet, a man having only $100,000 may have more spiritual knowledge than another having as much as $1 million.
Yet, again, a man having only $100 may have more spiritual knowledge than another having as much as $100,000.
And finally, a man having only $1 may have more spiritual knowledge than another having as much as $100.

The more a man has money, the more he may have material knowledge than those who have less money.  But, the less a man has money, the more he must have spiritual knowledge than those who have more money.

Put simply, money makes a man blind to spiritual truth to any degree.  And, put extremely, huge money beyond a certain threshold level must make a man completely blind to spiritual truth.

Children can see what adults cannot see, in terms of truth of men.  The poor can see what the rich cannot see, in terms of truth of the human world.

That is why there are no descriptions in the Gospel that Christ Jesus had, kept, and used money.

In this context, we may be allowed to think that Judas had been so poor that only 30 silver coins could make him completely blind to the spiritual power Christ Jesus had.   Judas with 30 silver coins must have been rejoiced so much materially and became completely blind spiritually.

Anyway, living without money is a kind of great spiritual training.  And, it is unthinkable that any money is going on circulation in Heaven.  On the other hand, the hell must be full of money, so that spiritual truth must be completely hidden there.

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Mar 1:17 And Jesus said unto them, Come ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men.
Mar 1:18 And straightway they forsook their nets, and followed him.
Mar 1:19 And when he had gone a little farther thence, he saw James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who also were in the ship mending their nets.

"nor of the will of man, but of God" - God Loves the Poor and Rejects the Rich

One of the Oldest Shinto Shrines around Tokyo

God Loves the Poor and Rejects the Rich

There are two types of people.  Those who believe in the God and those who do not.

If one believes in the God, one has to believe in existence of Heaven and the hell or the spiritual world.  The Bible was written by those who believed in the existence of the God.

And the main stream of this civilization of the mankind has been built, developed, and deployed by those who read the Bible.  It proves that the Bible has power to create civilization.  None can deny this power of Christianity.  But, how much one loves the God is another matter.

Christ Jesus even pointed out defects in faith among the Jewish people who never denied the existence of the God.

Mat 3:7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
Mat 3:8 Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:
Mat 3:9 And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.

As these words imply, one may believe in existence of the God; one may even accept the concepts of Heaven and the hell; but one may still choose money over the God.

Satan of course knows that God exists and there are Heaven and the hell.  But Satan is determined to fight against the God.  Therefore, those who follow Satan know that God exists and there are Heaven and the hell.  But they love to follow Satan, get rich and happy, and fight against the God.

Put simply, according to Christ Jesus and the Bible, God is telling people to get poor, while Satan is telling people to get rich.  And most of people would accept the temptation by Satan and try to be rich and happy as much as possible.

However, the more one becomes rich, the less one respects the God, which rejoices Satan.

The God should get angry at people who follow Satan to be rich.  So, the God would neglect them and make stones that do not read the Bible but follow Him the successors of the great ancestor of the Jewish people Abraham, since the stones are poor forever.

The issue between rich and poor is more profound than people think.  It leads to Heaven and the hell.  It symbolizes hatred of the God or Satan.

In this context, the final object of civilization is not to make the mankind rich and happy but make them love the God more.

So, it is thought that it is the poorest man in the world that understands the truth and the reason why the God loves the poor and rejects the rich, even if the rich believe in the God.


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Joh 1:12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
Joh 1:13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
Joh 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

"when he went into the temple of the Lord" - After Knowing the Truth

Japanese imperial burial site around Tokyo

After Knowing the Truth

Christ Jesus said: "There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known. What you have said in the dark will be heard in the daylight, and what you have whispered in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed from the roofs."

So, people should be afraid that their wrong deeds and crimes would be exposed to the public sooner or later.  But people could also expect that their good conducts and kindness would be appreciated by the public someday. 

Through the history, past mysteries have been studied, revealed, and explained one after another.  Past conspiracies have been broken.  And real aspects of past incidents have been exposed.

But, still there are many mysteries in the history, and scholars, professors, and researchers in addition to organizations publicly or privately established for quests of truth have been working to unravel riddles in the history.

The largest mystery must be the fact that the God once appeared among people or the Son of the God or a saint from the God once appeared among people as a physically ordinary man to be killed by men.

How could the Son of the God who is almighty be killed by men?  And how could Son of the God be put to death, while He was almighty?  This is the largest mystery in this world.

We have not yet been able to present the clear answer.  But due to this incident of the killing of the Son of the God by men, the mankind has obtained the clear concept of the God.  Today, the concept or the image of the God has prevailed in the world due to development of Christianity, being accompanied by Judaism and Islam.

Any secrets will be revealed, which is said in the Bible.  And the biggest secret is what Christ Jesus was.  So, the history of the mankind will at least continue till people come to understand what He was.   

But what will happen or what we should do if a mystery is revealed is not clearly stated in the Bible. Following the relevant phrases in the Gospel, there are words as follows:
“I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that can do no more.   But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear him who, after your body has been killed, has authority to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him."

We will know that we should be afraid of the God at last after knowing the truth.


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Luk 1:7 And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years.
Luk 1:8 And it came to pass, that while he executed the priest's office before God in the order of his course,
Luk 1:9 According to the custom of the priest's office, his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord.
Luk 1:10 And the whole multitude of the people were praying without at the time of incense.
Luk 1:11 And there appeared unto him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense.

"And Solomon begat Roboam" - If his Faith is Not Complete

Tokyo

If his Faith is Not Complete

There are many poor and unhappy people even today.  But there are also many rich and happy people.

When Christ Jesus came to this world, He focused on poor and unhappy people.  He never visited rich and happy people, although He did not reject rich people coming to Him for any spiritual salvation and from any religious motives.

People live and die as poor and unhappy men or as rich and happy men.  And it is often said that poor men tend to become poorer and rich men tend to be richer.

However, if rich and happy men love poor and unhappy men subject to the teaching of Christ Jesus, the former would give any part of their riches and happiness to the latter.  Then, these righteous rich and happy men would become less rich and happy.  Finally, a faithful man with 2 dollars would give 1 dollar to a poorer man with no dollars.  Then, there would be no rich and happy men who have faith in the God and Christ Jesus.

But this world is full of those who do not honestly follow the teaching of Christ Jesus.  Rather, rich and happy men tend to try to be richer and happier by sacrificing poor and unhappy people.  And everybody wants to be rich and happy, thus neglecting poor and unhappy people.  But this attitude is clearly against the teaching of Christ Jesus.

However, Christ Jesus said that poor and unhappy people in this world could enter Heaven after their physical death in this world.  And in Heave, they would be no more poor and unhappy.

The key to this teaching is not whether or not a man has a soul that will survive his or her death.  But it is whether a poor man can really enter Heaven even he does not faith in the God and Christ Jesus while he lives in this world.   How would the God and Christ Jesus treat a poor and unhappy man who had no faith in the God and Christ Jesus while he lived in this world?

In the line of the teaching of Christ Jesus in terms of love to poor neighbors, such a poor and unhappy man without faith in the God and Christ Jesus during his lifetime should be also able to enter Heaven despite his lack of love to the God and Christ Jesus.

The meaning of being poor and unhappy during one's lifetime in this world must be more profound than we usually assume.  Similarly, the meaning of being rich and happy during one's lifetime in this world must be more profound than we usually assume.

Anyway, Satan would be glad to see a poor and unhappy man cannot enter Heaven unless he has enough faith in the God and Christ Jesus while those who become rich and happy due to support by Satan are rejected from Heaven.

To defeat Satan who hates Heaven and wants everybody to fall down to the hell, the God and Christ Jesus must allow a poor and unhappy man to enter Heaven if his faith is not complete.

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M't:1:6: And Jesse begat David the king; and David the king begat Solomon of her that had been the wife of Urias;
M't:1:7: And Solomon begat Roboam; and Roboam begat Abia; and Abia begat Asa;
M't:1:8: And Asa begat Josaphat; and Josaphat begat Joram; and Joram begat Ozias;

M't:1:16: And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.
M't:1:17: So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations.

"wait for the promise of the Father" - Love the God without Conditions

Tokyo

Love the God without Conditions

What Christ Jesus said is put simply to love our God.

Based on this teaching, the religion Christianity was established.  It is, however, reasonable for the mankind to love their God, if the God had created this world and the mankind even without the teaching of Christ Jesus.

But if the mankind could not believe that the God exited or if the mankind thought that there was nothing good or meaningful to them even if the God existed, the teaching of Christ Jesus would lose meaning.

A majority of the mankind seem to believe that the God exists.  But even the majority seem to be not sure about whether the God would make them happy in this world even if they believed existence of the God.  In other world, what is good in believing in the God if the God would not make us happy in this world seems to be what the majority think.

People tend to think that what makes them rich and happy in this world should be respected.  But if the God would not make them rich and happy in this world, why should they respect the God?

This wrong attitude and thinking stem from our misunderstanding that what is the most important thing for us is for us to be rich and happy in this world.

Christ Jesus did not put any conditions to his teaching to love the God.  If we were not rich and happy and if the God would not make us rich and happy, we should love the God.

It is the God that is important but not human beings.  This is the essence in the teaching of Christ Jesus to love the God.  But how can we love the God who would not make us rich and happy while He must have such ability?  The God seems to be indifferent about our worldly state of being rich and happy.  Then, human beings who want to be rich and happy above anything would not in real respect and love the God.

But, nonetheless Christ Jesus told to love the God.  And Christianity has developed in these 2000 years to be the major religion of the mankind.

The answer to this question must be that there is a right and legitimate reason for Christ Jesus told us to love the God without conditions, that is, if the God would not immediately make us rich and happy.  And many people in the history have had admitted that Christ Jess is right, so that they have thought we have to love the God without conditions.
       
Perhaps everybody must feel it right what Christ Jesus told, but nobody could clearly explain why.  So, Christianity was established, survived, and developed.

It is a mystery from a rational point of view that Christianity has succeeded while Christ Jesus told to love the God without conditions, but if the God created the mankind so as to make them love Him, the mankind must love the God without conditions. 

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Ac:1:3: To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:
Ac:1:4: And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me.
Ac:1:5: For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.

"All things were made by him" - Before a Fatal Scheme Starts to Work

North of Kyoto

Before a Fatal Scheme Starts to Work

In Japan 12 years after WWII, a young woman who could not leave her bed due to vertebra carious had a big hit in the category of mystery novels.  And she became one of leading authors in mystery novels in Japan after WWII, although she is not so popular nowadays.

She wrote one story where a country wife long abused by her husband, who was a big drinker, set a trick to cause an accident in their house where a part of the roof over the veranda-like porch would collapse while her husband was sleeping there and she was working in the garden.  The trick was to make grains naturally fall from the kitchen into a bag hanging from a half-broken beam supporting the roof.  As time went by, grains would fall into the bag through a bamboo pipe and accumulate in the bag to pull down the half broken beam with the roof.  Then her husband who used to have a nap on the veranda-like porch would be killed as there happened to be big stones placed on the roof as weights against strong winds.

But, while grains were being accumulated in the bag, she shouted at her husband, saying, "Look at our baby crawling to the open hearth in the living room.  Please save him so that he would not fall into the hearth!"  But her husband replied indifferently: "Leave me alone! I am drunken and sleepy."

So she let her deadly scheme go on while she went into the house to rescue the baby.  The bag soon became full of grains and its weight became heavy enough to pull down the beam and the roof with the big stones on.  Then the roof collapsed and the big stones hit her husband.  After the death of her husband, she lived rather happily with her children.

The author wrote that the wife later made an excuse that if her husband had showed love to their baby and rescued him, he would not have been hit by the big stones on the roof as he should have been in the living room.

Before a deadly scheme worked, the wife gave a chance to her husband where if he had showed love to their baby, he could have avoided the deadly fate.   

Indeed, the God must give us a chance to avoid a tragedy before it starts to work.  But we must be required to show love to those who are little, weak, and poor.  Even if we defeated those who were big, strong, and rich, the God might not be impressed.   

Anyway, one of the best selling mysteries, which was not one here introduced, in Japan after WWII was written by a young woman who could not leave her bed or her wheel chair due to serious illness.

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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.
Joh:1:5: And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

"The book of the generation of Jesus Christ" - Everything of Everybody

A Shinto Shrine around Tokyo

Everything of Everybody

None can see electromagnetic waves flying in the space around us transmitted by TV stations, telephone stations, computers, cell phones, etc.  But everybody knows that electromagnetic waves contain signals that can be converted to images, sounds, etc. by TV sets, computers, cell phones, etc.  Nonetheless no human beings, without special electronic devices, can see images or hear sounds in electromagnetic waves flying around us.

Our minds might be converted to spiritual waves through our brains, which can be received and converted to images and sounds in the spiritual world.  And the God must be checking contents of our spiritual waves.

In other words, as we don't have apparatuses that can capture and convert spiritual waves into images and sounds, we cannot see what others are thinking and how they are feeling.  But the God must have the ability to see contents of our spiritual waves.

Therefore, the God must be able to see through our minds.  In deed, Christ Jesus said that the God knew even the number of hairs of the head of each of us.

Even churches encourage us to pray to the God so that the God will hear our wish or praise to the God.  It indicates that churches believe that our spiritual waves can carry our prayers to the God who can hear our prayers through spiritual waves.

Even human beings use unseen electromagnetic waves to send or receive images and sounds, the God, who is far advanced than  human beings, must be using more sophisticated means to see contents of our minds.

In the space around us,  electromagnetic waves with various wave lengths and frequencies are flying while our physical brains cannot capture and demodulate the waves and take out or reproduce images and sounds from the waves.  Like these electromagnetic waves, in the spiritual space around us, spiritual waves with various wave lengths, frequencies, and identification signals must be flying.

Therefore God must know everything of everybody.

Christ Jesus must have had this ability to receive and demodulate spiritual waves emitted by everybody through his or he brain.  But it is also thought that Satan has this ability.  So, Satan is dangerous to human beings even only for this reason.

We are so defenseless before Satan.  But the God can send His angels to block Satan in its tapping.  Anyway we have to believe and rely on Christ Jesus and the God to defense ourselves from Satan, since we, human beings, are so powerless in the spiritual world while our minds are read by Satan.   

Finally, it is impossible to succeed in telling a lie to the God.   　　


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Mat 1:1 The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
Mat 1:2 Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren;
Mat 1:3 And Judas begat Phares and Zara of Thamar; and Phares begat Esrom; and Esrom begat Aram;

Mat 1:16 And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.

"which from the beginning were eyewitnesses" - The God more than our Death

Shinto Shrine in North East of Tokyo

The God more than our Death

According to Christ Jesus, we have to fear the God more than our death.

It means that our death is not the end of our existence.  After our death, the God can allow our souls to enter Heaven or put them into the hell.  To take serious this word of Christ Jesus is the first step in our faith in Christ Jesus.

Christ Jesus also said that those who were rejected to enter Heaven would gnash and roar, trying to enter Heaven with violence.

To believe Christ Jesus is to take this word of Christ Jesus.  And, those who are not admitted into Heaven must repent so gravely.  It is as if a man who has lost a big chance to make his fortune, accumulate big wealth or achieve big success due to his carelessness should regret his mistakes so violently.

So, we had better fear the God more than our death in this world, since the God has power to allow us to get into Heaven or send us down into the hell after our death.

However there is no scientific proof that Heaven and the hell exist.  Even we cannot explain how our minds are generated in our brains and what our souls are in terms of science.  Not only that, we cannot tell sufficiently and scientifically what the God is.  But one thing sure is that each of us has a mind and can think and feel.  Or more fundamentally, no one doubts that he or she really lives now.  So, we have to admit that the God exits and believe the words of Christ Jesus, since even we, far little existence compared to the God and Christ Jesus, are now living with a mind and a heart.  What great power and mind the God and Christ Jesus have!

The God is the source of everything that exists.  Conversely, as we exist, the God must exist.  And, there is no wonder that Heaven and the hell exist, since Christ Jesus said so while Christ Jesus is apparently far closer to the God than us.

And Christ Jesus said to fear the God more than our death.

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Lu: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,
Lu:1:2: Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word;
Lu:1:3: It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus,
Lu:1:4: That thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed.

"Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight" - Ability to See Good and Evil

Around Tokyo

Ability to See Good and Evil

Osamu Tezuka created, several years after WWII, a hero of Japanese comic who became very popular in Japan.  It was a robot boy called Atom.  The animation featuring Atom was also televised in the U.S. as Astro Boy.  Tezuka led the Japanese comic/animation world until his death in 1989.

Tezuka gave several special features to Atom to act as a hero in his work of the Testuwan (mighty or iron arm) Atom series.  One of the characteristics he gave to his robot Atom was the ability to find evil in a human being.  Atom could see evil in a man who pretended to be good.  Atom could judge whether a man was good or bad.  And Atom was a good robot loving justice and having compassion to the weak.

Tezuka set the situation that robot Atom was created in 2013.  But even today the mankind cannot create such a robot as Atom.  Even it is dubious that AI can find evil in a man.  However, it is expected that the mankind will develop AI or artificial intelligence that can detect a lie in human speech.  But will the mankind develop a robot that can see whether a certain man is bad or good?

Tezuka must have thought that a robot needs the ability to judge evil and good to serve human beings.  And Japanese readers, who were mostly children, of the Atom series loved the justice-loving Atom.  Then Tezuka became the top manga artist in Japan after WWII.

On the other hand, how can we, human beings, enhance the ability to see through other men and find evil in them, while there are many con men or swindlers or bad guys with crooked hearts? 

If the God programmed us so as to have such ability, it would be easy for us to avoid encounter or communications with bad guys who hide their evil minds.  But first of all, we have to love justice and have compassion to the weak like Atom.

Christ Jesus said that there was none who was good except the God.  But by reading the Bible and learning the words of the God and Christ Jesus we must be able to live as good men.  And we will be able to acquire the ability to see evil or malicious intentions in other men.

And can the mankind come to love justice to the degree where we will create robots equipped with AI who can see good and evil and act to protect good from evil?  At least, Satan will hate such robots and try to destroy them.  Will we protect such robots from Satan?

Anyway, if the God had created the mankind with the programmed ability to love justice more than anything, the human world should have been better than it is now.  So, it is a mystery that the God gave the human being only the weak or limited ability to love justice while He sent Christ Jesus to the human world to teach love for justice and the poor and weak.  And we have to continually read the Bible to keep the necessary level of our love to justice.

And we have to teach children, at least, that God is good and Satan is evil in case, like the robot boy Atom was programmed to love justice.
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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.
Mar 1:3 The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.

"Hear, O Israel" - Not as Rich and Successful Men

North of Tokyo

Not as Rich and Successful Men

Men are usually afraid of their own death, no matter how much they are enjoying their lives.

Once, one notable Japanese actor who had never been supposed to be anxious about or afraid of his death got fatally ill due to cancer.  It seems that he suddenly felt fear of death in his bed in a hospital.  He had been indifferent about religion.  He did not sincerely respect Buddhist monks or shinto priests.  It could be easily imagined that he had delivered jokes about Christian priests, too.  He was really a person of the world with deep understanding of human empathy and human activities based on desire.  But when he found that he could not be cured at his late 60s, he suddenly became afraid of his death.

He was a successful actor and rich and famous.  If he had died in the hospital, many Japanese fans would have been really sorry for losing the comedian.  But, such a thought never gave consolation to him.

However, his young wife happened to a Christian.  So, he decided to get baptized in his dying bed.  Only in the last several days of his life, he lived or lay on the bed as a Christian.

Anyway, he must have been cured from his fear of death.

But if he had not been a successful actor being rich and famous, he should have felt fear of his own death earlier than his 60s.  So then, he should have been able to prepare himself for his death.  But the worldly matters must have captured his mind for decades so that he could easily avoid thinking about death.

Christ Jesus said that we should not bother about worldly maters and even life of ourselves.  It means that we should not get anxious about or afraid of death.  The essence of religion is, in deed, to liberate people from fear of death.

But, Christ Jesus said that evil men should go to the hell and only poor and pious men could be allowed to enter the Heave.  So it is natural that evil and rich people don't show respect to such religion.  However, they might come to themselves to recall what they were when they were young, poor, and compassionate to others.  And, they might come to ask salvation from the God not as rich and successful men but as poor and young men who they were long time ago. 

 
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M'r:12:29: And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
M'r:12:30: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.
M'r:12:31: And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

"Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die" - The Best Christmas Present

North of Tokyo 

The Best Christmas Present

If the God is almighty but He is indifferent with human beings or He does not care about any human being, who would pray to the God asking any help from Him?

But if the God is almighty; has power over fates of every human being; and has any concern about every human being, who would not pray to Him asking any help from Him?

If the God never cared for Jewish people, no Jewish people would show belief and respect to the God.

But if a man was in a predicament, he would most probably ask help from the God even if he is not sure about whether or not He would help him, since it is most likely that there is the God who has power to save any human being.

So, first of all, a man has to believe that there is the God, He is almighty, He could save any man, and He might hear him asking help from the God, and secondly the man has to actually ask the God to help him.

Ro:10:13: For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.   

However, it is unlikely that the God would save a man who does not completely or mostly follow the words of the God.  However, it is not clear how much one must follow the words of the God to be saved by the God.  Ideally, one must follow 100% the words of the God, but benevolent God might overlook some failures of a man in complying with the words of the God, especially, if one regrets.

In reality, there are not many reports that one was saved in any ways by the God through his or her prayers to the God; however there are some.

In this context, the fact that Christ Jesus came to this world to save poor people while they were not asking so crucially the God to send His Son to them and save them is a proof that the God cared for men or loved men.

No matter how much rich and happy one is, he or she must have something to ask from the God.  Then, all the more, poor people must have more to ask from the God.  And from the words of Christ Jesus, the God seems to love poor people more than rich and happy people.  However, it does not mean that the God would make the poor materially richer than the rich in this world.   The God does not either make the poor materially happier than the rich in this world.  Nonetheless, it is said that the God would help and save poor men who pray to the God asking help.

There must be various ways of saving a poor man in a predicament.  Ultimately, the God should save a poor man by allowing him to enter Heaven and obtain eternal life, which would make him spiritually richer and happier than any rich man in this world.

Conversely, Satan may give money to those who sell their souls to him and betray the God, making them materially rich and happy in this world.  But those bad, rich, and happy people are condemned to the hell.  So, it is no wonder that some believers of the God try to be poorer and unhappier materially than anybody in this world to show their hate to Satan and reverence to the God or Christ Jesus.

And for such devout believers, poverty and unhappiness in this world may be the best present from the God, since they will be promised to be accepted in Heaven by the God since they are free from Satan as they are poor and unhappy.  So, for some stern Christians or followers of Christ Jesus, poverty and unhappiness must be the best Christmas present.     

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Joh:12:24: Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
Joh:12:25: He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.
Joh:12:26: If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.

"he that layeth up treasure for himself" - Belief or Proof that Christ Jesus is the God

The Tokaido Shinkansen Line, West of Tokyo

Belief or Proof that Christ Jesus is the God

It cannot be denied that the God may appear before men as one of them, since the God is almighty.

So, it is difficult to deny the belief of Christians that Christ Jesus was the God.  Christ Jesus did not say that He was not the God, although He did not claim explicitly that He was the God.  Those who believe that Christ Jesus was the God are usually called Christians.  Or at least, Jewish persons and Muslims do not have the belief that Christ Jesus was the God.

However, which is more important, the judgement on whether Christ Jesus was the God or not or the word of God?  It is possible that God requests men, above anything, to believe that Christ Jesus was the God.  However, it is also possible that God requests men, above all, to follow His words.

If a man believes that Christ Jesus was the God while following words of God, the man may please the God.  But if a man does not believe that Christ Jesus was the God while following words of God, the man may still please the God.

However, if a man believes that Christ Jesus was the God while neglecting words of God, the man probably cannot please the God.  And if a man does not believe that Christ Jesus was the God, neglecting words of God, the man probably cannot please the God.

Despite one's judgment on the identity of Christ Jesus, if the man follows words of God, the God should be probably pleased, since the God never clearly told that He was going to appear before men as Christ Jesus and nobody who did not believe that Christ Jesus was the God could enter Heaven.

In my thought, it is not wise to discuss whether Christ Jesus was the God or not.  If we have time to discuss it, we had better learn the words of the God more in addition to the teaching of Christ Jesus.

But, the questions whether Christ Jesus was God and why the God appeared as Christ Jesus if He was the God are the most important questions for the mankind in these 2000 years.  By studying these questions, Europeans and Christians seem to have well developed their intellectual capacity.  But also by negatively handling these questions, Jewish people seem to have well developed their intellectual capacity.

And, it is more drastic that the God once appeared as a simple man than that the God never appeared in the history as a man before the mankind.  Furthermore, it has never been reported that a doubtful believer of the God ever asked the God whether He was once Christ Jesus and got the answer "Yes."

In case that the God once really appeared before men as Christ Jesus (as we cannot 100% deny such a possibility, since the God is almighty), it looks better for us not to discuss whether Christ Jesus was the God, so that we would not displease the God.         

Even a quantum computer will handle this problem with both the assumptions that Christ Jesus was the God and Christ Jesus was not the God, combining both the answers and bringing forward a combined state based on the two answers.  Maybe, the will of the God or our faith makes the state converge into a fixed state.

At least, God and Christ Jesus never said that a man could not enter the Heaven unless he believed or proved that Christ Jesus was the God.

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Luk 12:16 And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully:
Luk 12:17 And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits?
Luk 12:18 And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods.
Luk 12:19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
Luk 12:20 But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?
Luk 12:21 So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
Luk 12:22 And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on.