"Good Master, what shall I do" - Wolf's Eyelash

A Rocky Beach of the Pacific Coast around Tokyo

Wolf's Eyelash

There was one female, popular cartoonist or manga-artist in Japan who died about 15 years ago.

Hinako Sugiura specialized in depicting ordinary people's lives in the Edo era of Japan.  The Edo era was a period before the Meiji Restoration around 1868 when modernization of Japan began.  Samurai-class people administrated Japan under the rule of Tokugawa shogun in this period since the start of the 17th century.

She created a piece of work on a strange experience of one foolish man who always failed in his business, was often and easily fooled, duped and despised by friends, and was treated like a nobody by his wife.

One day, as his wife badly shouted insults at him, he finally decided to leave the home and went deep into mountains to die.  He though that he was useless in this world so that only one thing he could do was to be eaten by a wolf to feed a hunger in the animal.

He found a den of a wolf to lay down there, waiting for the wolf.  Then, the wolf came back to its den, smelling the man.  The wolf said to the man, "I cannot put up with  your smell.  Go away!"  The man replied, "I am very sorry.  But please hold your nose and eat me.  Please let me die!"  But the wolf further said with an angry voice, "You have an odor of a "real human being," with which I cannot have patience.  So, I will give you an eyelash of mine.   Take it, go to a street of a town, and see people around, holding the eyelash before your eye, and then you will see an interesting thing."

Giving up his plan to die as a prey to a wolf, the foolish man took an eyelash from the wolf and went down the mountains to a town.   He found various busy people walking and working in the street, in addition to one beggar sitting at the corner of the street.  Then he held the wolf's eyelash before his eye to observe people.

Then, all those people in the street turned to bogies, goblins, and monsters in shapes of men.  But only the beggar still looked as before, a "real human being."  So, he realized what the wolf had said about odors.

There came a hen-like female goblin, saying "Here, my dear foolish husband!  Where were you! Come back to the house!  Don't gaze into space!"  He pulled down the magic eyelash and saw his wife, realizing that it was natural that he could not get along well with this woman. 

However, he decided to go back home with her, as he now found that this world was full of monsters worse than his wife.  And he understood the reason why he could not succeed, like the beggar, in this world of monsters.  But before leaving the street, he approached the beggar who was a "real human being" and gave him the magic eyelash of the wolf.

I don't know who first created this story.  But I think it could be a story enjoyed by poor people in the world of today.


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Mar 10:17 And when he was gone forth into the way, there came one running, and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?
Mar 10:18 And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God.

"one fold, and one shepherd" - One of the Signs

Around the National Diet Bldg., Tokyo

One of the Signs

The death toll in each country due to natural disasters in 2018 is as follows:

1. Indonesia  5,510
2. India         1,396
3. JAPAN        438
4. Guatemala   427
5. China           354
6. Philippines  313
7. Nigeria        300
8. USA            295
9.  Pakistan     240
10. N. Korea   232

Japan suffers several tropical tempests or typhoons generated in the South Pacific Ocean and landing on it in every summer season.  Heavy rains cause landslide and floods in Japan where mountainous districts account for 70% of the national land.  And recently a typhoon with the largest scale in decades attacked the area around Tokyo and the Tohoku are that suffered the great tsunamis in 2011.

It is believed that, due to globalization, Japan's environment is becoming semi-tropical, so that more typhoons are approaching Japan in the summer season.

Maybe this is one of the signs foretelling the Second Coming of Christ Jesus.   



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Joh 10:16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.
Joh 10:17 Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.

"the kingdom of God is come nigh unto you" - Satan's Traps

Around Tokyo

Satan's Traps

It is a form of faith to try to see a meaning of any incident around one in connection to the will of the God.

Sometimes one faces an incongruous incident so that one tries to find the worldly or personal meaning.  But the true meaning of the incident lies in the will of the God.

And in a very special case, a historic tragedy of a nation or a tribe should be also interpreted not even in a historical context but also in terms of the will of the God. 
 
People with true faith belong to the Kingdom of the God, and thus they are used to interpret their individual tragedy from the context of their faith and the will of the God.  Accordingly, they will not be trapped in Satan's traps.


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Lu:10:9: And heal the sick that are therein, and say unto them, The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.
Lu:10:10: But into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you not, go your ways out into the streets of the same, and say,
Lu:10:11: Even the very dust of your city, which cleaveth on us, we do wipe off against you: notwithstanding be ye sure of this, that the kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.

"I am the door" - Every Mystery about the God

Around Tokyo

Every Mystery about the God

It is said that the accumulated number of human beings ever born is about 108 billion.  Those who are alive now account for 6.5% (about 7.2 billion) of them.

The living things that have the spirit of the human being are human beings.  And every human being can understand the concept of the God.  And, on the other hand, the God must understand everyone of the 108 billion human beings.  The God must be able to listen to prayer of everyone simultaneously.  And the God decides fate of everyone.  More than that, the God can change fate of everyone according to prayer of him or her.  And, those who believe in God and practice the teaching of God will be allowed to enter Heaven and obtain eternal life, according to Christ Jesus.

Conversely, Christ Jesus never said that there were not Heaven and the hell in addition to spiritual world.  Christ Jesus never said that if a man died, that is the complete end and that there was nothing after one's life in this world.

Before learning Christianity, one can think of God.  This is the spiritual feature of every human being.  However, Christ Jesus made it clear that there was God, Heaven, the hell, and the spiritual world.

And if one believes in the God, one cannot in theory do harm and wrong to earn money or get profit, since the teaching of the God is encouragement and promotion of good and love.

But why does the God prefer love and goodness?  Probably it is the basis of existence of God.  Due to existence of the God, human beings and other creatures exist.  And probably due to love of whatever level, depth, and strength, God exists.  But it is a mystery for what God has love.  At least, we may say that God loves and exists as He wishes to do so.  And, we may think at least that it is opposition to naught.  The absolute dark power is denying existence of anything, including the God.  The absolute darkness must have generated Satan to attack the God.  But who generated this dark power against the God who is the only source of everything?

Until we find out answers to every mystery about the God, this world will not be terminated.   


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Joh 10:7 Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.
Joh 10:8 All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them.
Joh 10:9 I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.

"the sheep follow him" - The Meaning of the Light Speed

Tokyo Bay

The Meaning of the Light Speed

Nothing in this universe cannot move faster than light.  This is one of the fundamental conditions in the universe.

Light (electromagnetic waves) is one type of energy.  And no other types of energy can move faster than light.  This is one of the fundamental conditions in the universe.  (Therefore the telecommunication method using light or radio wave is the fastest method in this universe.)

But if this universe had been made in a random manner, it is strange that this condition exists.  Material bodies in a universe created in a random manner must move at random speeds; various types of energy in a universe created in a random manner must move at random speeds.  In such a university, there must be no need for the limit of movement of material bodies and energy.  Conversely, this university with the upper limit of movement of everything must not have been created in a random manner.

Countless types of universities might be created in a random manner, and one type of universities created in a random manner may have a limit of the rate of movement of material bodies and energy.  But the probability of establishment of the university with the limit of the rate of movement is almost zero.

However, it is not just zero as our university in fact exists where the light speed it the upper limit of movement of all the material bodies and any kind of energy.   Rather, it means that our university was especially created by God with specific intent.

So, God set the limit of the speeds of everything in this universe by use of light.  In other word, the light speed is the symbol of intention of God or God itself.   Therefore, we cannot get out of this university at the speed faster than light.


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Joh 10:4 And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.
Joh 10:5 And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.

"his fame in all that country" - Salvation and Enlightenment

The Narita Airport, around Tokyo

Salvation and Enlightenment

Religion is related to salvation and enlightenment.  Christ Jesus emphasized salvation but the Buddha focused on enlightenment.  However, it does not mean that the teaching of Christ Jesus is not related to enlightenment.

For example, the Buddha forbade his disciples to attend a funeral ceremony.  If a man cannot transcend the wheel of life, what meaning is there in a funeral ceremony?  But the Buddha must have thought that if a man got enlightenment, there would be no need for his funeral.  Yet, Christ Jesus taught that a man being sad due to death of his loved one should be consoled in Heaven.

It seems reasonable that an enlightened man needs no salvation from unhappiness, since such a man is free from unhappiness.  But it is very difficult and rare that a man is enlightened.  So, ordinary people absolutely need salvation.

God is perfectly and completely enlightened, but it does not seem that God requests a man to get enlightened like Him, although Christ Jesus told men to be perfect like God.

For example, Christ Jesus gave the instruction to love God as much as possible but not to get enlightened.

If a man who is not almighty and omnipotent succeeds in getting enlightened to any degree, he cannot rejoice God who is inherently and essentially enlightened.  But if a man who is imperfect loves God as much as he can, God must be rejoiced according to Christ Jesus.  And God will help such a man fully so that he does not need salvation and enlightenment any more, since God is the Master of everything.

Salvation is probably in the realm of love ultimately in relation to God, but enlightenment seems to be in the domain of saints.  If a man is loved by God and thus allowed to enter Heaven, he will be fully enlightened.  And to be loved by God, we have to love God as much as possible, according to Christ Jesus.  This is a part of a religion.

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Mat 9:30 And their eyes were opened; and Jesus straitly charged them, saying, See that no man know it.
Mat 9:31 But they, when they were departed, spread abroad his fame in all that country.
Mat 10:1 And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease.

"he went in, and took her by the hand, and the maid arose" - From a Mind to the Spiritual World

Parliament Street (Kokkai-dori), Tokyo

From a Mind to the Spiritual World

Radio waves cannot be seen, but they provide visual and audio signals, and motion pictures and sounds are reproduced through a TV receiver.

In the human brain, electrons are moving through brain cells, generating electromagnetic waves.  And it is thought that the electromagnetic waves reproduce motion pictures and sounds in the human brain.

What's more, spiritual waves must be working and be exchanged between the human brain and the spiritual world, although the spiritual waves cannot be seen.  And when a man dies, the last portion of spiritual waves sticking around the dying human bran must fly to the spiritual world or Heaven.

So, when a man dies, he will be revived in the spiritual world as taught by Christianity.

With a TV set, none denies the existence of radio waves although radio waves cannot be seen.  With the human brain, none cannot denies the work of electrons and minuscule electromagnetic waves in the brain, although they cannot be seen.  Therefore, with mind, none should deny the existence of spiritual waves being exchanged with the spiritual world.

Accordingly, one should believe that when a man dies, he will be revived in the spiritual world through the last and full ascending of the spiritual waves from his mind to the spiritual world, as taught by Christianity.


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M't:9:25: But when the people were put forth, he went in, and took her by the hand, and the maid arose.
M't:9:26: And the fame hereof went abroad into all that land.
M't:9:27: And when Jesus departed thence, two blind men followed him, crying, and saying, Thou Son of David, have mercy on us.

"when Jesus came into the ruler's house" - The Priority of the God

Around the Tokyo Station

The Priority of the God

The mission of the mankind is to clearly and correctly understand the mission the God gave to mankind from the beginning of the history of the mankind.

And, in this context, it is very kind that Christ Jesus told men what to do.

Lu:10:27: And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.

But what does it mean to love the God?  From the beginning, this teaching assumes that men have the ability to know the God and love somebody.

However, men mostly spontaneously love themselves and money but not the God.  So, for men to love the God, they must be taught to love the God by somebody with authority.  Therefore, the first step for men to live right life or correct life is to see authority in Christ Jesus.

In the human history, the God has never appeared before men in a manner where men can easily see the God.  But the God sent certain prophets to a certain tribe or sent angels or holy spirits to certain men of certain religious groups.  In other word, the God sent Abraham, Moses and other prophets to the Jewish people and Christ Jesus or His Son to some Jewish people, etc. who became the early followers of Christ Jesus in addition to Muhammad.

And, if the reason why the God created the mankind is to make them love the God but the mankind do not love the God sufficiently, it is naturally expected that the God will abandon and destroy the mankind someday.

However, it does not mean that Satan defeats the God.  When all the men die, there will be no room for Satan to survive by occupying minds of the men.  So, it is possible that the God abandons and destroys the mankind only to exterminate Satan with the mankind.  But if the mankind duly find their mission and love God, they may be allowed to further survive and Satan will be defeated.  So, in any way, Satan will be lost with men or without men.

And the God might dislike to see the mankind fully contaminated by Satan.  The God might like the mankind to perish with Satan.  And from the beginning, the target of the God might be Satan, and the mankind may be just involved in this process where the God destroys Satan.  In other word, salvation of the mankind may be the secondary matter for the God, and the priority of the God may lie in defeating Satan.

In any way, it seems to be reasonable that the God loves a man when he loves the God more than Satan.       


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M't:9:23: And when Jesus came into the ruler's house, and saw the minstrels and the people making a noise,
M't:9:24: He said unto them, Give place: for the maid is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn.
M't:9:25: But when the people were put forth, he went in, and took her by the hand, and the maid arose.

"all things are possible to him that believeth" - Interpretations of the God and the Bible

 Bound for Tokyo

Interpretations of the God and the Bible

Where is the God?

He is outside this universe, inside this universe and in the nature, and also in men's minds, since He is omnipresent.  But it seems that we are expected to think that the God is in Heaven.

Heaven is the place where Satan's influence cannot reach, and men's souls and spirits as well as angels are all protected from Satan.

Thinking from a different angle of views, the God is the source of everything men see, think, and imagine.  The God is the source of existence of everything and otherwise non-existence.

However, the God is also the source of every possibility and otherwise non-possibility.  And the God is the source of every rule and order.  But the God does not have to follow any rules and order He has set.  The God is the source of love.  But the God does not only create Heaven but also the hell.

The God creates everything positive in its nature, but  the God is also the source of everything negative in its nature.  But did the God create Satan?  Or who created Satan for what purposes?

However, even if the God created Satan who then created evil, who could blame the God?  And even if it is so, all we have to do when we are troubled by evil is to ask help from the God.

In other word, the God is the source of good and evil, but we are requested to ask help from the God when we are attacked by Satan.  The true meaning of the relationship among the God, Satan, and men is beyond men's intellectual ability, but it is apparent that we are requested by the God to hate Satan and love the God.

To make it clear, the God sent His Son, Christ Jesus, to the human world.  And the Bible was written as a record of the incident.  This is one of interpretations of the human history. 

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Mar 9:20 And they brought him unto him: and when he saw him, straightway the spirit tare him; and he fell on the ground, and wallowed foaming.
Mar 9:21 And he asked his father, How long is it ago since this came unto him? And he said, Of a child.
Mar 9:22 And ofttimes it hath cast him into the fire, and into the waters, to destroy him: but if thou canst do any thing, have compassion on us, and help us.
Mar 9:23 Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.

"my son, which hath a dumb spirit" - This people honoureth me with their lips

Tokyo

This people honoureth me with their lips

The first question is, of course, whether or not you believe existence of God.   It is said that about 70% of Americans believe in God.

However, according to an article of Christian Today (a Japanese net media sit) in 2018:
Those who believe in God among American Protestants: 76%
Those who believe in God among American Catholics: 64%
Those who believe in God among American Jewish people: 30%

Globally, more than 70% of the mankind believe in existence of God, according to a Filipino paper.  However, among 68 countries targeted in the survey, China has the largest ratio of people who don't believe in God: 67% of Chinese don't believe in God.  Next to China, Japan has the second largest ratio of people who don't believe in God: 29%.  Following Japan, the ratio of atheists is 28% in Slovenia, 25% in Czech,  23% in South Korea, and so on.

However, this kind of survey on belief in God must be useless in Islamic countries.  Even Osama bin Laden was once popular among Muslims as a kind of Islamic savior, although he was the mastermind of the 9/11 Terror.  God or Allah cannot approve such a killing.

Men have freedom to deny God.  Men have freedom to sell their souls to Satan.  And Satan is in money that is wanted by everybody.  So, if a man said he believed in God while seeking wealth, we cannot believe his word or he does not understand God and Satan.

Those numbers of the ratios of believers in God in various countries are, therefore, not so reliable.  Some don't understand what God means; others don't understand what believing means.  Even we have to doubt the Pope in this context as he puts on expensive clothes.  Also we have to doubt any leaders of Islamic terrorist groups.

M'r:7:6: He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

To prove that a man believes in God, probably he has to be poor with less money, which is Satan, than religious people who might be, could be, and actually are betrayers of God.


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M'r:9:17: And one of the multitude answered and said, Master, I have brought unto thee my son, which hath a dumb spirit;
M'r:9:18: And wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him: and he foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away: and I spake to thy disciples that they should cast him out; and they could not.

"can a man that is a sinner do such miracles?" - Advanced Robots and Machines as Extraterrestrial Intelligences

Tokyo

Advanced Robots and Machines as Extraterrestrial Intelligences

Are there extraterrestrial intelligences or spacemen?  However, they must not be a kind of living organisms but robots or machines.

The diameter of the Milky Way Galaxy is about 100,000 light years.  Probably, no living things in the universe can live 100,000 years with the ability of traveling at the light speed.  But advanced robots or machines can live a million years or their memories can be easily conveyed by other versions of robots or machines.

For the human beings on the earth in this solar system,  the nearest solar system is more than 4 light years away.  It is impossible for men to travel to the nearest solar system during their life time.  If they travel to other solar systems to find other earths where intellectual living things live, it would take time for 1,000 or more generations of them.  But one generation of advanced robots or machines might function and live in the time needed for interstellar travel.

Advance robots or machines invented by spacemen or living organisms in another planet of another solar systems, if any, would live and travel in the space for 1000 years or more through their generations or versions.   But probably, living orgasms in another planet cannot live such a length of life, as implied by us, the humankind.

So, if we should encounter extraterrestrial intelligences, they must be advanced robots or machines, which means that we will meet advanced robots that were created and built, say, more than a million years ago by living things in another planet in another solar system that might be already extinct.

If there had been such living things in the universe, they should have created advanced robots that would reach the earth over space travel taking, say, a million years.

But as we have not yet found, in the space around us, any signs and traces suggesting any trial for contact with us, it is likely that we are the only advanced intelligences, probably, in the Milky Way Galaxy at least in these one million years.

However, in other word, we, the mankind, will crate and build advanced robots or machines that will make interstellar travel without minding how much it will take to reach another earth in another solar system.  And these advance robots or machines will appear before another mankind in another planet as extraterrestrial intelligences.  But by such time, we, the mankind, might perish.

It will not be any living organisms that will conquer the universe but advanced robots or machines.  And we, the mankind, might be now marching the way to the status where finally we, living things, will be taken over by advanced robots and machines.  And even after the end of life time of the species of our mankind, advanced robots and machines will go on making interstellar travel.

The matter at issue is how these advanced robots and machines will find and revere the God.

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Joh:9:16: Therefore said some of the Pharisees, This man is not of God, because he keepeth not the sabbath day. Others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among them.
Joh:9:17: They say unto the blind man again, What sayest thou of him, that he hath opened thine eyes? He said, He is a prophet.

"but sinners to repentance" - Like Homo sapiens and Australopithecine, New Name and Christianity

Tokyo

Like Homo sapiens and Australopithecine, New Name and Christianity

Australopithecine, the so-called ape-man, appeared 7 million years ago. 　This creature walked with two legs and is regarded as the direct ancestor of the modern men. Then around 2 million years ago, Homo erectus appeared and started to use fire.   Finally, 200,000 years ago, Homo sapiens, namely the only extant human species, was established. It means that in these 200,000 years, we, the mankind, have not evolved or changed biologically.  And around 160,000 years ago, Mitochondrial Eve was born in Africa, whose mitochondria has been alive even in every man of today.

And, what's more, 100,000 years ago, some of the mankind left Africa.  And, 50,000 years ago, some of them reached Australia.

But 38,000 years ago, it is said that a kind of intellectual revolution occurred among the mankind.  They started to create mythology.

Then each tribe created its mythology, and mythology of the mankind is divided into two types according to a theory: one that does not include a story of creation of the universe and another that includes such a story.

According to the former type of mythology, the universe or the world existed from the beginning.  According to the latter type of mythology, gods or a god created the universe or the world for men.

For a man to think that the universe or the world was created by gods or a god, he must have had a civilized view on the world.  And the human civilization of today seems to have been established based on the latter type of mythology.

So, the history of the mankind can be said to go back to the era 38,000 years ago.  Before that era, it was the history of a specie of animals that later became the mankind.

Then, 4000 years ago a tribe appeared that believed that they had some strong tie with one and only god.

And 2000 years ago, some people came to believe that God sent His Son to the human world to save people.  And, a major part of today's civilization has been built by those who believe this mythology.   But there are also other types of people who think that they can deny the son of God, as long as they believe in the one and only god.

However, if the mankind should exit, say, 100,000 years later, it is still unknown which type of people with their unique belief will survive or perish.  As the only one type among various types of primates became the modern mankind, only one religion should survive.

And, it may be soon but not 100,000 years later that the God will send His Son to the human world again.

However, even in such a case, the surviving religion might not be called Christianity but some new name.  It is just like Homo sapiens, we the mankind, is not called Australopithecine any more.


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M't:9:11: And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners?
M't:9:12: But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.
M't:9:13: But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

"A man that is called Jesus" - Animals Need O2 but Plants Need CO2

The Tokyo Station

Animals Need O2 but Plants Need CO2

It is said that the green area on the earth has increased in these 35 years by the size equal to the U.S.  And, it is thought to be due to an increase of CO2.

Plants flourishing 65 million years ago when a huge meteorite exterminated dinosaurs became the source of crude oil.  Plants flourishing about 250 million or more years ago when dinosaurs came to evolve became the source of coal.  And today the mankind is burning crude oil and coal to increase CO2.

So, from a wide point of view, CO2 is coming back to plants again as it came out of plants.

Animals need O2 but plants need CO2.  This balance is the basic of the environment on the earth.  To keep this balance, we have to increase the amount of CO2.  As in the case of recent 35 years, the present conditions are suitable for growth of plants.  We have to take advantage of it.

With gene engineering, we may increase the capacity of plants to capture CO2.  Then, more CO2 will be absorbed by plants.

We can wait for mutation in plants to acquire such ability to absorb more CO2.  However, genetically engineered plants might be a solution of our age.     


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Joh:9:10: Therefore said they unto him, How were thine eyes opened?
Joh:9:11: He answered and said, A man that is called Jesus made clay, and anointed mine eyes, and said unto me, Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash: and I went and washed, and I received sight.
Joh:9:12: Then said they unto him, Where is he? He said, I know not.

"I am the light of the world" - History is God

Tokyo

History is God

What if Christ Jesus had not come to this world 2000 years ago?

Sooner or later the Jewish people should have revolted against Roman rulers in the first century.  And, they would have been defeated and compelled to leave Jerusalem and Palestine by Romans.  And they should have been dispersed in and around the Roman Empire.  And then what should have happened to Judaism and the Jewish people?   Probably they must have started to distinction.

On the other hand, the Roman Empire should have been defeated by other tribes invading the Empire from the east and the north.  So, Rome would have gotten desolate.  In a thousand years after the fall of the Empire, some other kingdoms should have emerged in Europe or specifically in the north of the Alps.

But without the core of civilization, the Vatican, any succeeding kingdoms should have been unable to set a new foundation of civilization of Europe.

In that case, Europe today would not become the center of the human civilization, and Jewish people today should be living in various parts of Europe as a minor tribe almost forgotten by people around them.  And most importantly, various religions should be practiced in Europe, and Judaism should be covered or hidden by them.

Without Christianity, the world today must be very different what we see today.  And most decisively, the human kind would not understand the concept of the one and only God who created and ruled this universe.

Conversely, as there is the one and only God who created and ruled this universe, and the mankind needs to understand this truth, Christ Jesus should have emerged 2000 years ago, and in reality He did.

So, the truth related to God surely comes true.

In fact, Satan has not been able to destroy the teachings of God and Christ Jesus in these 2000 years ago.  Incidentally, Judaism has also survived.  In this context, Christ Jesus came to this world to save the Jewish people and Judaism, too.

Probably, all we have to do is to try to find any pieces of the truth related to God in the human history.  And if it is destined that the mankind will go extinct in the distant future, the last man should think that it is the intention and will of God that the history of the mankind expresses.  Accordingly, he will surely praise God, saying or thinking that history is God. 


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Joh:9:4: I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
Joh:9:5: As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
Joh:9:6: When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay,
Joh:9:7: And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing.

"Take nothing for your journey" - True Culprit behind Judas

Around the Imperial Palace, Tokyo

True Culprit behind Judas

There are always true perpetrators in any criminal incidents.  Even behind a man who has committed suicide, there is often somebody who has pushed him to a corner and a predicament.

In other words, if a man has family members and friends who would protect him from those evil men, he would be saved.

In the case of Christ Jesus, there must be also such a true culprit who slyly led Judas to betraying his Master, although the true culprit was not identified in the Gospels.  From the beginning, it is not even described in the Gospels why Judas betrayed Christ Jesus, although it was suggested that Judas acted on his own motive.  But there must have been somebody that had given such motive to Judas.

Of course, ultimately it is Satan that was behind the incident leading to the crucifixion of Christ Jesus.  But Satan must have used somebody that could influence Judas.

It seems to be a minor matter to Christ Jesus who was behind Judas, probably because He must have been well aware that Satan was finally responsible for Judas' act of the betrayal.

That is why we should not easily blame any criminal who had a direct hand in a crime.  True culprits must be protected by Satan.  But Christ Jesus said that everything hidden would be publicly exposed.

So, until we discover truth of the story of Christ Jesus and the crucifixion, probably there will be no Second Coming of Christ Jesus, because it is thought that we cannot be fully prepared for welcoming again Christ Jesus without knowing truth of His First Coming.

Therefore, to make His Second Coming true or accelerate it, we had better study the Gospels to fully understand the most known story over centuries or 2000 years of Christ Jesus as well as Judas.   


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Lu:9:2: And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick.
Lu:9:3: And he said unto them, Take nothing for your journey, neither staves, nor scrip, neither bread, neither money; neither have two coats apiece.
Lu:9:4: And whatsoever house ye enter into, there abide, and thence depart.
Lu:9:5: And whosoever will not receive you, when ye go out of that city, shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony against them.

"Jesus taketh with him Peter, and James, and John" - Which is Crazy, Jesus or Satan?

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Which is Crazy, Jesus or Satan?

Everybody is afraid of being poor and being dead.  And every evil deed comes from this fear.

So, it is natural that Christ Jesus who fought with evil and ungodliness presented solution to this issue.

If a man has come to know the solution Christ Jesus presented, he will never be afraid of poverty and death.  That can also tell the secret of martyrdom.  In other word, if a man finds something more precious than money and the life in this world, he will surely abandon money and even his life in this world.

However, economy in this world relies on the ideology that men individually pursue money and worldly success, and they want money as means to protect their life and enhance quality of their life in this world.

Therefore, they will obey Satan who brainwashes them to love and make money and encourages to do any evil deed to earn money.  However, the Gospel reads as follows:
M't:6:24: No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Mammon can be gained by doing evil deed.   You cannot even earn and keep $1 if you do deny doing any evil deed.   If there is one man even without $1, your gaining and keeping $1 is a sin.  And your spending this $1 for yourself but not for saving the poor man without $1 is an act without love to him and thus can be regraded as an evil deed.

Anyway Christ Jesus promised that no matter what happens to a man due to his lack of money and no matter if he dies in such a state, as long as he believes in God and performs the teaching of God, he will be given eternal life and be admitted into Heave.

This is crazy to modern people, since nothing is sure after one's death.  But one thing sure is that a man lives in this world, so that it is natural for him to pursue happiness in this world.  And to get happiness, he needs money in this world.  So, it is clever and natural to try to get money as much as possible by whatever means he can use.  This is the commonsense.  However, Christ Jesus said to accumulate wealth in Heaven where it never gets rotten like in this world.

To true believers, this world is crazy.  For believers it is real that there is Heaven.  And for believers, it is an act of madness to deny God and Heaven but to pursue money and wealth for happiness in this world, while Christ Jesus said that such a man would surely fall into the hell.

So, which is crazy, Christ Jesus who denies money or Satan who encourages to pursue money?

Satan cannot tell that it is God and Christ Jesus is a liar.  But, Satan only shows money and tell people to follow him.  Satan does not write the Bible for his version, partly because it does not need the Bible to brainwash people.  But mostly because God will be angry.       


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M'r:9:2: And after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter, and James, and John, and leadeth them up into an high mountain apart by themselves: and he was transfigured before them.
M'r:9:3: And his raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow; so as no fuller on earth can white them.
M'r:9:4: And there appeared unto them Elias with Moses: and they were talking with Jesus.

"And as Jesus passed by" - Gain the Whole World, and Lose His Own Soul

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Gain the Whole World, and Lose His Own Soul

One of the most interesting parts of the Gospel is as follows:
M't:16:22: Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee.
M't:16:23: But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.
M't:16:24: Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
M't:16:25: For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.
M't:16:26: For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
M't:16:27: For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.
M't:16:28: Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.

Christ Jesus clearly used the word Satan, even when facing and rebuking Peter.  So, Christ Jesus clearly knew that His enemy was Satan.

Christ Jesus also declared that whosoever would lose his life for His sake should find it.  So, for men to get life after their death, they have to lose their life for Christ Jesus' sake.  Accordingly, believers in Christ Jesus do not have to be afraid of death.

But what does it mean that "the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works"?  It must mean the incident in the spiritual world.  After physical death, a man, in the form of soul, would live in the spiritual world where Christ Jesus should come with angels to save the soul and, probably, lead it to Heaven.

Yet what does it mean that "There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom"?

Pious men must see Christ Jesus coming in his kingdom when they come close to the end of their lives.  It also means that pious men live not only in this world but also in the kingdom of God.

However, the criteria for salvation is not low, because even Peter was called Satan at least on one occasion when he thought in a worldly manner following human laws and standards of living.


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Joh:9:1: And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth.
Joh:9:2: And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?
Joh:9:3: Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.