"Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened" - Danger for the Mankind after the Corona-Pandemic

 

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Danger for the Mankind after the Corona-Pandemic 

According an old story related to Buddhism, complied about four centuries before the era of Christ Jesus, a field rat who was the Buddha in his previous life destroyed a wild dog that killed and ate other field rats.  

In certain woods, there was a wild dog who tried to gather field rats to eat them.  For this purpose, he pretend to be a saint.  So, he stood on his two legs instead of four.  When field rats saw the wild dog, they asked why he stood on two legs.  He answered that he was reducing the burden of the earth supporting his weight, because two legs instead of four would give less weights on the earth.

So, all the field rats thought that the wild dog was a saint and came to see him everyday.  But when they went back home in the evening, the wild dog attacked the last one of the field rats leaving for their homes and ate it.  Day after day, the number of field rats decreased.  So, the field rat who was the Buddha in his previous life suspected what had happened to those lost field rats.  

One day, he decided to leave the wild dog on his two legs as the last one.  And, the wild dog attacked the Buddha in life of a field rat.  The field rat found that the wild dog was just a pretender, so that the field rat struck back at the wild dog to bite it to death.  Although it is a little bloody, the story tells that the Buddha, as a field rat in one of his previous lives, killed an evil wild dog to save other field rats.

So, even centuries before the era of Christ Jesus in India far from Palestine, people knew that there was a false saint or Satan pretending to be a saint to gather people with a trick to kill them.

In the Bible, there is warning to a false prophet who would give false warning to people:
Matthew 24
11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.         

Although nobody seems to have predicted this occurrence of the corona-pandemic,  if there had been any pundit who had predicted this pandemic before 2020, people might have been easily handled according to his intention as such a man must have gained a reputation.

However, after this corona-pandemic, people would be more afraid of another pandemic than before.  They might be psychologically unstable and get easily duped by false prophets, evil politicians, etc. offering false solutions to people's anxieties.  And, if Christ Jesus does not come as the second time to destroy them, people might be drawn to real danger of losing their souls.

Anyway, this corona-pandemic would open a new era where the fate of the mankind should get at stake.  Even after the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, Hitler emerged, results of which people still do not forget.       

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Luke 3, King James Version
18 And many other things in his exhortation preached he unto the people.
19 But Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias his brother Philip's wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done,
20 Added yet this above all, that he shut up John in prison.
21 Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened,
22 And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased.

"For every one that doeth evil hateth the light" - Through Spiritual Training We Might be Able to See Satan and Viruses

 

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Through Spiritual Training We Might be Able to See Satan and Viruses

To die means to lose one's mind, since one's mind relies on work of the brain, namely, a part of one's body that stops biologically functioning when one dies.  

In other words, a man is not afraid of one's death if he has confidence that his mind would survive his biological death.  And every religion is based on the notion that one's mind lives after one's physical death.  Especially Christianity is based on this notion with belief in the words of Christ Jesus that those who believe in Him could live forever.

However, it seems to be apparent that when one dies, his brain as a part of his body would also die or stop functioning; therefore when one dies, his mind should also die.  But if there is the soul above the mind or above work of the mind and the soul can live, even if the body or the brain dies, leaving the brain and the mind for the spiritual world, our entity can live in the soul in the spiritual world.

It is true we cannot clearly see our own soul above our mind, but saints like Christ Jesus must be able to see souls above minds of people.  Therefore, those saints must be able to see Satan, devils, and other evil spirits that are intangible sprits but not biologically living things.

And the Gospels are reports of the battles between Christ Jesus and Satan, etc.  So, if you do not believe existence of souls, spirits, Angels, Satan, and other intangible spiritual entities, without mentioning the God, you cannot understand the Gospels and the words of Christ Jesus.

If we ask Christ Jesus whether we have souls, He would definitely say Yes.  If we ask Christ Jesus whether there is the spiritual world, He would definitely say Yes.  If we ask Christ Jesus whether there is Heaven, He would definitely say Yes.  And, if we ask Christ Jesus whether Satan exists, He would definitely say Yes.

Even wise men say that what is seen consists of what cannot be seen.  We cannot see contents of minds of other people.  But their deeds and actions are based on their minds that cannot be seen from the outside.

But, saints like Christ Jesus must be able to see contents of the minds of other men.  They must be able to see souls of other men in addition to Angels and evil spirits.  Unless we can see minds of other men in addition to spiritual entities such as Angels, devils, etc., we cannot fully understand the Bible and the Gospels.

Education, training, ascetic practices, etc. should essentially aim at increasing the ability to see what cannot be seen with physical eyes.  Indeed, as a man lives longer, he can learn various things to increase the ability to see what others think in their minds.  Academic or systematic training accelerates obtainment of this ability.  Especially through spiritual training, we might be able to see Angels and Satan. 

For example, we cannot see corona-viruses with physical eyes.  But our diseases and deaths that can be seen with physical eyes are caused by unseen viruses.  So, through spiritual training, we might be able to obtain and enhance the ability to see Satan in addition to corona-viruses. 

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John 3, King James Version
18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

"should not perish, but have everlasting life" - Win Viruses with Medication Working like Followers of Christ Jesus

 

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Win Viruses with Medication Working like Followers of Christ Jesus

How can you prove that you are followers of Christ Jesus?  Even if you are the Pope, it does not mean that you are a follower of Christ Jesus, since the Pope is enjoying richer life that Christ Jesus's.  Those who follow Christ Jesus should not have richer life than Christ Jesus's, since Christ Jesus rejected rich life Satan offered to Christ Jesus.  However, if Christ Jesus allowed the Pope to have such rich life, others should not blame the Pope.  Yet, the Pope should prove that he is a follower of Christ Jesus. 

It is very difficult for men to find and judge that any man has the biggest belief in Christ Jesus and the God and thus has the largest faith.   It is because we cannot and should not try to define the expected faith in the God, since by doing so we are defining the God who cannot be defined by men.  It is close to a blasphemy.

But, if we can prove that we have been attacked by Satan more than any body, we may be allowed to claim that we are followers of Christ Jesus.

In this context, Satan can be a measure of our faith.  The more we are attacked by Satan, the more we might be allowed to claim that we are following Christ Jesus.

The Gospels should be read as reports of the battles between Christ Jesus and Satan.  After various incidents, as is written in the Gospels, Satan could kill Christ Jesus, but finally Christ Jesus resurrected to defeat Satan.

But, Satan knew from the beginning that Christ Jesus was the Son of the God whom Satan could not destroy.  But Satan tried to kill Him when the Son of the God appeared in the human world as a mere human being.  Mad Satan tried to secure its occupancy in the human world, since Satan must have thought that the God had permitted its occupancy in the human world.  Poor Satan must have tried to tell the God to leave it alone in the human world by killing His Son who appeared in the human world as a mere man.  Foolish Satan must have thought that the God would approve its dominance in the human world since Satan could kill His Son as it got angry with the God's interference.  Probably, the God should have assured Satan that it could occupy the human world if men chose to follow Satan, since the human world was so small compared with the spiritual world and Heaven.  

However, the God should get angrier than Satan, since Satan must have done something the God could not tolerate, so that He decided to send His Son to the human world to defeat Satan.  It must be God's love to men.  

In this context, the key factor in the human world is Satan.  Therefore, how much a man has been hated, attacked, harassed, and afflicted by Satan can be a proof that he is a follower of Christ Jesus.

When those brainwashed by Satan see a man following Christ Jesus, they would think that how evil and bad the man is, since he is against Satan who is sacred to them.    

When corona-viruses see human cells not contaminated by viruses, they should think how evil and bad those cells are, since those cells do not accept viruses.  Therefore, corona-viruses would attack those sound cells as if exercising their own justice.

With medication that can act act like followers of Christ Jesus against Satan in the human body, we must be saved from corona-viruses. 


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John 3, King James Version
15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

"Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now" - Suppress Corona-viruses by Reading the Bible as It has a Soul

 

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Suppress Corona-viruses by Reading the Bible as It has a Soul

On  a TV display or screen, we can see everything that can be displayed as we see real things.  But, it disappears when we cut off the power supply.  The TV set functions based on electricity, decoding electric signals to restore original images carried by electric signals.  Our brain works as if it were a kind of TV set.

No chemical compounds, molecules, atoms and any other substances making our brains include our mind.  So, our mind is not material.  It is an electromagnetic phenomenon generated by those substances or materials such as nerves, cells, chemical compounds, molecules, atoms, etc.

Therefore, our mind disappears when our body made of nerves, cells, chemical compounds, etc. stops biologically functioning and working as we die.  It is just like a TV set is turned off.  Like nothing is displayed on a TV screen when powered off, nothing works as our mind in the brain when we die.  So, some people say that there is nothing for us when we die.

However, the people of the past found something called souls in men through their observation of living and dead men.  Our minds disappear as our bodies die, but our souls survive.  Every human religion is based on this notion.

And, some people think that not only human beings but also every living thing has its mind and soul:

Animism is the belief that objects, places, and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence. Potentially, animism perceives all things—animals, plants, rocks, rivers, weather systems, human handiwork, and perhaps even words—as animated and alive. Animism is used in the anthropology of religion as a term for the belief system of many indigenous peoples, especially in contrast to the relatively more recent development of organised religions.　(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animism)

Even some Japanese of the past found a spirit in a human action.  This notion led to various cultural trainings and arts such as Japanese art of self-defense (Judo), Japanese art of fencing (Kendo),  the tea ceremony (Sado), the art of flower arrangement (Kado), etc.

This material world or universe must be connected to other worlds or universes, which is out of the scope of human science, although some scientists claim that our material universe is actually linked with other material universes through gravity or electromagnetic forces. 

Therefore every living thing in our material world must have a soul that is connected to another world that should be called the spiritual world, although the mankind has its own spiritual world and every other living thing has its own spiritual world. In other words, the God gives a human soul to a human being and other types of souls to other living things.

Our mind is an electromagnetic phenomenon generated in our brain, which disappears as our body dies and our brain dies. But, our mind has a soul. And the God is spirit:
John 4
24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

The God is not a biologically living thing, but the God exists and lives as a spirit.  Therefore we can live as a spirit but not only as a biologically living thing.  When our mind dies as our body dies, our soul should take over our self consciousness from our dying mind.  And our soul should enter the spiritual world where the God and other various spirits live.  But, our soul might die even in the spiritual world if the God does not give eternal life.  Christianity is concerned with this fate of souls.

A man has a soul, a dog has a soul, a flower has a soul, and even a virus might has a soul.  However, we cannot know what the souls of corona-viruses are.

But as long as a corona-virus is a living thing, at least when it is in our body, it must be controlled by the God or by our faith in the God who is a spirit.  Therefore, to suppress corona-viruses, we have to pray and ask the God to exterminate it.  Put simply, we can suppress it by reading the Bible.     

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Matthew 3, King James Version
13 Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him.
14 But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?
15 And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.
16 And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:

"And he goeth up into a mountain" - Why We Have to Have Faith in the God despite Pandemics and other Tragedies

 

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Why We Have to Have Faith in the God despite Pandemics and other Tragedies

Some people think that there cannot be the God, since there is Satan and every evil thing, in addition to unhappiness, in this world.

However, the God needs Satan to be perfect.  Something that does not include incompleteness cannot be complete.  So, for the God to be complete, He needs something called Satan as something that denies Him.  Even, for a man to understand happiness, he has to know unhappiness.  

However, it does not mean that Satan being incomplete has a chance to defeat the God.  Satan's role is to challenge the God to be defeated, thus helping the God enjoy the status of completeness.

What is complete should include incompleteness as its element.  Otherwise, it cannot be complete.

Therefore the God should allow Satan to exist as an element in its complete domain. 

What is complete should not lack incompleteness to be complete and perfect.  Otherwise, it cannot understand what is incomplete.

Therefore the God should allow men and Satan to exist as elements in its complete domain. 

However, the contents of God's completeness are boundless and limitless.  Satan and all evil things occupy a minimum portion of the domain of God's completeness.  The God can neglect Satan as Satan is almost nothing for the God.  But for men, Satan is a great threat, since Satan's only reason for existence is to prevent men from having faith in the God.  So, to save men from Satan, the God sent His Son, Christ Jesus, to the human world.  This is the basic condition for these 2000 years. 

Therefore, from this point of view, we have to endure our unhappiness caused by Satan for the God.  But what would the God do to men who have sold their souls to Satan for provisional happiness?  As such men are regarded as joining Satan trying to harm completeness of the God, the God should punish them in addition to Satan.

From the beginning, the God created this material world and men for exercising and proving His power, so that the mankind should always glorify the God even if some of their members are unhappy.  A man should glorify the God even if he is unhappy.  The protagonist in this world is not the mankind but the God.  The God did not create men to make them happy but to exercise and prove His power.  Therefore, there is no discrepancy in the facts that there is the God and that men can be unhappy sometimes despite existence of the God.  And Satan abuses these facts.

That is why Jewish people do not deny the God despite having experienced such past tragedies as the tribe, though, chosen by the God.  And, past European Christians did not deny the God despite having experienced so many plagues.  Even Muslims have not denied the God despite having experienced so many tragedies.     

This corona-pandemic should not lessen faith in the God among believers.  The corona-pandemic has never harmed the God.  And how much the God would save men from viruses depends on the God, taking into account the state of men's faith in the God and men's acceptance of Satan.

Without viruses bringing some useful elements into men's DNAs and genes, the mankind could not have been established through evolution.  And without unhappiness and tragedies Satan has brought into men's livings, the mankind cannot contribute to completeness of the God.  So, we should not blame the God for our unhappiness and tragedies.  What is complete should include what is incomplete.  Even for us to be completely happy, we have to know unhappiness.

But what would happen if the God stops being complete?  Even if the God retreats from the domain of completeness and incompleteness, the God must be still more than being complete; there are no problems for the God.  But in that case, how poor the mankind should be, without mentioning Satan?  In this context, unhappiness and tragedies are part of God's love to exist in the domain of completeness and incompleteness.  Indeed, if the God closed the domain of completeness/incompleteness, both men and Satan should not be able to exist or should lose the ground for existence; they are of no use for the God.  

And, if we die in the corona-pandemic, we can be given eternal life by Christ Jesus as long as we have faith in the God.     

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Mark 3, King James Version
11 And unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, saying, Thou art the Son of God.
12 And he straitly charged them that they should not make him known.
13 And he goeth up into a mountain, and calleth unto him whom he would: and they came unto him.
14 And he ordained twelve, that they should be with him, and that he might send them forth to preach,
15 And to have power to heal sicknesses, and to cast out devils:

"For he had healed many" - Satan's Influence like Corona-Viruses

 

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Satan's Influence like Corona-Viruses

The Gospels are reports on the battle between Christ Jesus and Satan, since the battle against Satan and its demons is the most important thing for the mankind. 

As Satan was against the God, when it found that the God was going to send His Son to the human world, Satan immediately decided to destroy the God's plan.  So, a Gospel told that a Jewish king tried to kill the baby Jesus, probably, as the king was influenced by Satan.

Satan waited for Jesus to grow.  But it must have made various tricks to impede sound growth of Jesus, which are not written in the Gospels.  And, in the process of Satan's interference on Jesus's life, the biological father Joseph must have been lost, probably, in fierce battles, which are not also written in the Gospels.

And finally, when Christ Jesus decided to save the world, get prepared for the mission, and go to the wilderness of the desert for purifying Himself, Satan came to destroy Christ Jesus with temptations:

Matthew 4
2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
3 And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.
4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
5 Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple,
6 And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
7 Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
8 Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;
9 And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.
10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
11 Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.

First of all, Satan and the devils were liars, which Christ Jesus knew well, so that He must have been laughing at them in His mind.  Christ Jesus knew that the God was the creator of the universe and the world.  The God could give all the kingdoms of the world to Christ Jesus at any time.  But, for some profound or sacred reasons, the God had not set Christ Jesus as the emperor of the kingdoms of the world.

But, Christ Jesus had to learn a man's desire to be a king.  As Christ Jesus knew that the God would set Him as a king any time soon only if He asked so, He must have not known or understood such a desire.  Christ Jesus was a hidden king.  Therefore, it is indeed laughable that the devil offered the status of king to Christ Jesus who was a potential king.  But, with the devil's world, Christ Jesus must have learned that a man would fall down and worship even Satan if he could be a king. 

Through this communication with the devil, Christ Jesus must have learnt man's desires and how Satan used these desires to make men its slaves.

On Satan's side, it must have not expected that Christ Jesus would accept his foolish temptations and stupid offer.  But Satan must have thought that it could hurt Christ Jesus' pride as such an act of temptation by the devil meant that the devil saw human desires in Christ Jesus or Christ Jesus having human desires.  If Christ Jesus had been psychologically hurt as He had looked like an ordinary mean man to the devil, Satan should have been glad.

In other words, Satan must have known from the beginning that it would fail to tempt Christ Jesus, but it must have thought that it could hurt Christ Jesus's pride by offering such foolish proposals.  Satan must have wanted to tell Christ Jesus that now that He was a mere man, he should want to be a king.  And, Satan must have wanted to see what the God would do if Christ Jesus asked the status of a king from the God.  Would the God recall Christ Jesus from the world?

However, Christ Jesus decided to live as a mere man, which must have alarmed Satan.  The God had allowed men to have a desire to be a king.  But, the God seemed to expect His Son to live as a mere man.  It was against the paradigm of Satan who expected to fight Christ Jesus as a king.  Satan wanted at least to behave like a god who had authority to set a man as a king.  But its poor show was simply broken by Christ Jesus.  Satan was not only making fun of Christ Jesus but also of the God.  Therefore, Christ Jesus got angry, and the devil disappeared.          　

In this way, the Gospels tell how Satan tried to make fun of the God through attacking His Son Christ Jesus.  But, Satan's battle against the God is still going on after 2000 years since the first mission of Christ Jesus.

Satan's devils are everywhere even today.  They must be more widespread than corona-viruses.  It is as if the God had sent the Angel of Death with corona-viruses to the human world to have the mankind realize how widespread Satan's influence is.  

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Mark 3, King James Version
8 And from Jerusalem, and from Idumaea, and from beyond Jordan; and they about Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, when they had heard what great things he did, came unto him.
9 And he spake to his disciples, that a small ship should wait on him because of the multitude, lest they should throng him.
10 For he had healed many; insomuch that they pressed upon him for to touch him, as many as had plagues.
11 And unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, saying, Thou art the Son of God.

"who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?" - Worldly Wise and Strong but Foolish and Weak in the Spiritual World

 

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Worldly Wise and Strong but Foolish and Weak in the Spiritual World

There is an impressive teaching in the Bible:
1 Corinthians 1
25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

People following Satan, pursuing wealth and money and wishing for worldly success, cannot understand the need to accept the teaching of the God and live in poverty, humbleness, and self-sacrifice.  Therefore, they have more worldly wisdom, power, and influence than those following the God and Christ Jesus.  So, to such worldly people, followers of Christ Jesus look foolish.

Those worldly people think that those followers of Christ Jesus are wrong and evil as they do not follow teachings of Satan.  Those worldly people are brainwashed by Satan to respect and trust teachings of Satan, so that to their eyes follows of Christ Jesus look bad and evil as they are against Satan.  This is a completely crazy world where followers of the God are regarded as being evil, since they do not respect and follow Satan.

The world today is close to this crazy world, since almost everybody wishes for money with which Satan controls people.       

However, the God is the lord of the mankind and the king over this world and the spiritual world, thus He can defeat Satan at any time.  Therefore, those followers of Satan who became rich and powerful would finally die and go to the hell.  Even in their life in this world, they could be abandoned even by Satan who should laugh at them losing everything in this world or in life after death.

Indeed, those following Satan and pursuing money think that those following the God and Christ Jesus and accepting poverty are foolish.  But finally, Satan followers would be rejected at Heaven, but followers of the God and Christ Jesus would be accepted in Heaven. 

And any weak men admitted into Heaven should turn to be stronger than any worldly strong men falling into the hell.

In this context, kings, presidents, billionaires, pundits, notable and successful men, etc. in this world would be foolish and weak in the spiritual world, while homeless, low-income people, people without academic backgrounds and social status, etc. would be wise and strong in Heaven. 

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Luke 3, King James Version
6 And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.
7 Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
8 Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin 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.

"Prepare ye the way of the Lord" - A Rich Man Shall Hardly Enter into the Kingdom of Heaven

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A Rich Man Shall Hardly Enter into the Kingdom of Heaven

The most important teaching of Christ Jesus is of course:

Mark 12
29 And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
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.
31 And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

And the most unique teaching of Christ Jesus in all the human religions is:

Matthew 19
23 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven.
24 And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

People wish and ask happiness and wealth when following a religion, but Christ Jesus clearly said that rich men cannot most probably enter into Heaven.  It means that you have to be poor to be admitted into Heaven. 

In other words, Christianity is a religion encouraging people to be poor.  Buddhism also encourages people to abandon their desires, but it does not emphasis especially on a need to be poor, although the Buddha lived and preached, begging people for foods.

When Christ Jesus went out to the desert to allow Satan to attempt Him, Satan used worldly wealth, success,  honor, etc. as traps for making Him stumble over human desire.  However, Christ Jesus said, "Go away, Satan!," rejecting all the offering of Satan.  And later, He preached to people to love the God but hate money.

In this context, the core of the teachings of Christ Jesus is that a man should be materially and economically poor if he is rich in faith.  In deed, for a man to earn even a dollar, he has to sell any part of his soul to Satan.  Money brings everything evil to the man.  Satan uses money as a tool to make men become its followers and betray the God.      

Indeed, it is said in the Bible that Judas Iscariot betrayed Christ Jesus for 30 silver coins.  Therefore, true followers of Christ Jesus, even if such a man calls himself the Pope, should not have money equivalent to 30 silver coins or more.  But the palace of the Vatican costs more than that.

Poverty and Christianity must be the critical issue to be addressed.   Because, rich men can hardly enter Heaven, according to the teaching of Christ Jesus. 

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Luke 3, King James Version
3 And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins;
4 As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
5 Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth;
6 And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.

"whether he would heal him on the sabbath day" - The Conditions to be Certified as a Follower of Christ Jesus

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The Conditions to be Certified as a Follower of Christ Jesus

What should be the conditions to be certified and admitted as followers of Christ Jesus?

1. First, you have to admit that Christ Jesus came from the God, although you might not be able to judge on whether He is the God, the Son of the God, an embodied angel, or other deity.

2. Second, you have to accept His teachings, although you might not be able to understand the true meaning of all His teachings.

3. Thirdly, you have to perform His teachings and live in accordance with them, although it must be difficult to do it 100% in your everyday living.  So, you have to make full efforts to do it as much as possible.

However, you have to believe that the God exists as basic condition like Jewish people, Muslims, conventional Christians, etc.

Put simply. believing in Christ Jesus is believing his words that He came from the God; He lived in the God; and the God lived in Him.  Therefore, those who believe in Christ Jesus believe in the existence of the spiritual world including Heaven and the hell.

But how can we believe in Christ Jesus?  Ironically, if we find evil influence of Satan around us, we may find divinity or divine nature of Christ Jesus.  The Bible clearly shows the state of Christ Jesus being attacked by Satan.

Or we had better think what state the present world would be in without Christ Jesus.  We own most of the culture, science, technology, and the way of thinking of today to Christ Jesus and Christianity through 2000 year history.  Even those who deny divinity of Christ Jesus today are living and thinking in environments established or influenced by Christianity.

Lastly, the most impressive teaching of Christ Jesus is that rich men cannot enter into Heaven but poor men can.  Therefore to be a follower of Christ Jesus, you have to be poor.  In this context, every rich leader of organizations related to Christianity cannot be regarded as a follower of Christ Jesus and thus cannot enter into Heaven.

In this context, even the Pope who is apparently richer than homeless Americans might not be able to enter into Heaven.  This is the most important issue for billions of Christians in the world. 

Indeed, Christ Jesus said that none was good except the God.         

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Mark 3, King James Version

And he entered again into the synagogue; and there was a man there which had a withered hand.
2 And they watched him, whether he would heal him on the sabbath day; that they might accuse him.
3 And he saith unto the man which had the withered hand, Stand forth.
4 And he saith unto them, Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? to save life, or to kill? But they held their peace.

"the Holy Ghost was upon him" - Be Poor as Much as Possible before Contracted by Corona-Viruses

Mt. Fuji from around Tokyo, 100 Km Far

Be Poor as Much as Possible before Contracted by Corona-Viruses 

Everybody dies someday 100%, within 130 years at most, so that the most important thing in this world is whether there is life after death.

The answer is yes; because Christ Jesus talked about life after death.

But could we trust in Christ Jesus?  

The answer is yes; because He has proved that He came from the God even with the simple fact that the history in these 2000 years has developed on His teaching and mission.  Without the power from the God, Christ Jesus could not have achieved so many things in this world, conquering the world by his teaching spreading all over the world. 

But can the God exist?

The answer is yes; because even we, humble and tiny creatures with limited capacity, exist.  And, the reason for existence of everything in this world must be that somebody gave the possibility of existence and that somebody must be the God.  So, the God who could give existence to everything must exist for Himself.

What will happen when we die?

Indeed, our physical or biological bodies die; our minds die; but our souls would survive and move to the spiritual world to have life after death.

What are our souls?  How different are they from our minds?

The soul came from the spiritual world to our minds in our bodies.  The souls were not born in this world, but they came from the spiritual world, so that when our bodies and minds die, they return to the spiritual world to have life after death.    

The soul control our mind, although it is not clearly felt by the mind.  And, Christ Jesus took it as a matter of course that everyone has his own soul which would go into the spiritual world after our death.

Could we enter into Heaven?

Christ Jesus said that usually rich men could not enter into Heaven.  So, if you want to enter into Heaven, you have to be poor.

But some rich men think that there is no Heaven or the hell.  If they die, thy think, there will be nothing.  Their death means the end of everything for them.  So, they would concentrate on worldly matters to enjoy riches as much as possible. 

  

However, if death brings nothingness to a man, he might be nothing from the beginning.  He might not exist from the beginning.  Then, he might be part of nothingness from the beginning.  In this context, he would go mad if he thinks seriously what he is, since what comes back to nothingness is part of nothingness.  All he thinks and feel are nothing essentially.  But, our souls should tell that it is not right.

And Christ Jesus tells that one's soul should go to Heaven or the hell after life in this world.  Judaism is not complete in this point.  Judaism respects the God, but it does not teach that we can come closer to the God in the spiritual world.  However, Christ Jesus taught that we could live in the Kingdom of God even we were living in this world before our death, and we should be surely able to live the Kingdom of God after our death in this world, which is called Heaven in the spiritual world.

So, indeed, if we get trillion dollars in this world but if our souls are not allowed to enter Heave, it is absurd.  Rather, we have to be poor as much as possible to be allowed to enter Heaven.

On the other hand, their souls that move to the hell after their death in this world should perish or vanish to nothingness.  Indeed, those who believe that everything after their death is nothing should fall into the hell and turn to nothing. 

Finally, it is recommended for you to become poor as much as possible before you are contracted by corona-viruses, so that you can go into Heaven, in case.         

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Luke 2, King James Version
24 And to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.
25 And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him.
26 And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ.

"why do they on the sabbath day that which is not lawful?" - Natural that the Corona-Pandemic has Attacked the World Trying to be Rich

 

Around Tokyo

Natural that the Corona-Pandemic has Attacked the World Trying to be Rich

There are millions of books and billions of utterances about Christianity and Christ Jesus.  And it is required to learn and understand thousands of issues and discussions related to Christianity and Christ Jesus to be certified as believers or professionals of the religion.  But, there is no assurance that your are saved even if you fulfil these requirements.

Christ Jesus told only simple truth by which anybody, including those without academic knowledge, can be saved.

First, Christ Jesus said that one should go to Heaven or the hell after one's death.  So, it is not that there is nothing after one's death, but there is Heaven and the hell.  And He also taught that one could not be admitted to Heaven if one was rich in this world.  Only poor men could be allowed to Heaven.  This is the core of the teaching of Christ Jesus.

Therefore, one has to be as poor as he can be while living in this world, for his soul to be admitted into Heaven after his death.  There must be competition for poverty but not for wealth among Christians, if they follow Christ Jesus to be allowed into enter Heaven.      

Indeed, without selling any part of one's soul to Satan, one cannot earn even one dollar.  To earn money, one would do anything wrong and evil.  Without this teaching, Christianity would lose its power.

Material wealth is an enemy of the God, so that one should stop pursuing wealth.  Truth is in poverty.  To protect one's faith, one has to be poor.  The God loves the poor, and He may be seen in poverty.  This must be the core of the religion.  Christianity should be unique in that it recommends poverty among many religions in this world.

So, Christ Jesus preached to poor people that the God loved them, so that they had to love the God.

Indeed, no matter how much rich the mankind have become to develop science and technology, there is no possibility that their souls can be saved by the God.  But those who are poor because they cannot accept any attempts of Satan, like Christ Jesus in the desert, should be saved in their souls.

What is written in the Gospels is how one's soul can be saved by the God and admitted into Heaven.  For this purpose, one has to be poor as much as possible.

From this point of view, it is thought natural that the corona-pandemic has attacked the world where everyone has been striving to be rich.  In other words, if everyone makes efforts to be poor, the pandemic should vanish. 

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Mark 2  King James Version
23 And it came to pass, that he went through the corn fields on the sabbath day; and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of corn.
24 And the Pharisees said unto him, Behold, why do they on the sabbath day that which is not lawful?
25 And he said unto them, Have ye never read what David did, when he had need, and was an hungred, he, and they that were with him?

"his name was called Jesus, which was so named of the angel" - Money-Loving People or God-Loving People

 

Around Tokyo

Money-Loving People or God-Loving People

Calling a name of a god or a deity in Buddhism is recommended in Chinse Taoism to avoid tribulation and calamity.  And, some schools of Japanese Buddhism also put it in the core of their teachings almost 800 yeas ago. 

It was impossible for farmers and ordinary people to learn and understand sophisticated teaching of Buddhism.  But people needed help in their difficult life.  So, some leading monks launched their schools based on the principle that every body could be saved by simply calling the name of the Buddha or other prominent deity in Buddhism.  "You only have to call the name of the Buddha or the holy title of a deity with full belief in him." they taught.  This teaching prevailed since then to date.

Nianfo (pinyin: niànfó, Japanese:  nenbutsu,...Vietnamese: niệm Phật) is a term commonly seen in Pure Land Buddhism. In the context of Pure Land practice, it generally refers to the repetition of the name of Amitābha. It is a translation of Sanskrit buddhānusmṛti (or, "recollection of the Buddha")...

In the Jodo Shinshu tradition in Japan, variant forms of the nianfo have been used since its inception. The founder, Shinran, used a nine-character Kujimyōgō in the Shoshinge and the Sanamidabutsuge hymns...

The term nembutsu-ban is applied to the event in Kyoto, Japan in 1207 where Hōnen and his followers were banned from the city and forced into exile. This occurred when the leaders of older schools of Buddhism persuaded the civil authorities to prohibit the newer practices including the recitation of Namu Amida Butsu. The ban was lifted in 1211.(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nianfo) 

When Christ Jesus started His mission 2000 years ago, He mostly faced and preached poor people who could not read and write.  And what He taught them was not sophisticated theories of Judaism or Christianity or theological issues, although it was not recommendation to call the names of the God, holy prophets, and other angels.

Teaching a simple method for practicing religion to poor and simple people is a basic for missionary work.  So, Japanese monks who became the founders of some schools of Japanese Buddhism told people to just call the names of the Buddha and other deities or recite holy short words such as Namu Amida Butsu.

However, Christ Jesus did not even teach so.  He taught simple truth any one could not forget such as ”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.”

If you are taught to love the God and hate money, you would surely not forget it, even though you might deny it.

Even evil ones would call the name of the God, if not Satan, when they are in a critical situation.  Some schools of Japanese Buddhism taught that such an evil one could be saved only if he called the name of the Buddha or cited Buddhist invocation.  But Christ Jesus taught to remember His teaching and act accordingly, since His teaching was so simple that anyone could remember.  

In this context, to defeat corona-viruses, evil ones for men, we have to simply invoke power of immunity the God provided in human bodies for survival of the mankind.

Or, we may call the names of the Buddha and other deities or cite holy phrases to defeat viruses in our bodies.  But, even the modern medical science focuses to develop vaccines to suppress viruses by activating the immunity system in the human body.  While remembering simple teachings of Christ Jesus, we must be able to reinforce the sophisticated immunity system in our bodies.

The corona-viruses must love money-loving people more than God-loving people.   

   

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Luke 2, King James Version
20 And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them.
21 And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, his name was called Jesus, which was so named of the angel before he was conceived in the womb.
22 And when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord;
23 (As it is written in the law of the Lord, Every male that openeth the womb shall be called holy to the Lord;)

"Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up" - Money is More Dangerous than Corona-Viruses

A Park around Tokyo

Money is More Dangerous than Corona-Viruses

The brain part shares only 2% of the whole body in terms of weight, but it consumes 20% of all the amount of oxygen consumed in the whole body.

If the bloodstream in the brain is stopped for 10 seconds or more, a man would lose one's senses, falling unconscious.  And, if the blood flow in the brain is stopped for more than 3 minutes, one dies; even if one survives such a fatal state, he would have to suffer the severe aftereffects.  This symptomatic state is called brain damage due to hypoxia (hypoxia is defined by reduced level of tissue oxygenation).  The corona-viruses are said to cause hypoxia.

If the bloodstream is accelerated in the body due to development of fever, blood passing the lungs is also accelerated so that sufficient oxygen cannot be taken into blood through capillary vessel in the lungs. 

Even without water, one can live 4 to 5 days.  Without foods, one can survive for 2 to 3 weeks with water and sleep.  But without oxygen, one lives only 3 to 4 minutes.  And the corona-viruses pose a critical danger to men in terms of survival conditions related to oxygen.

In other words, the brain dies due to a lack of oxygen even if other parts of the body are alive and functioning well.  And when the brain dies, a man dies, since autonomous nerves are controlled by the brain and control work of the body. 

However, what if the soul of a man dies due to a lack of something like oxygen, water, and foods?  That something for the soul must be love of the God.  Without love of the God, the soul should die instantaneously, and then the mind dies subsequently if the brain continues to function.

Even a human baby grows, receiving love from its mother.  A man to whom provision of love from the God is stopped cannot live.  His soul should die, and then his mind dies, resulting in meaningless living.

Oxygen must be provided to the brain within an interval of 3 minutes for the mind to live and continue functioning.  But love from the God must be provided to one's soul without cease for his mind to live and continue functioning well although his mind might not realize it. 

Satan and devils try to suffocate one's spirit by cutting this flow of love from the God.  Under influence of Satan and devils, men's souls stop functioning well and become dark; their minds would lose control, pursuing satisfaction of their desire; and finally men would be brainwashed by Satan that uses money to brainwash the men.

In this context, there is something more dangerous than corona-viruses around us: money.  It is so, since money hinders the flow of love from the God to our soul, mind, and body.  And, if we cannot get rid of this brainwashing by Satan with money, our soul would die and our hope to enter into Heaven should disappear. 

If you die due to infection by viruses, you may still enter into Heaven, provided that you are poor and pious.  But if your soul die due to your desire for money behind which Satan is, you should not be allowed to enter Heaven.  Money is more dangerous than corona-viruses. 

So, Christ Jesus said to love the God more than money, without mentioning corona-viruses.

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John 2, King James Version
18 Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things?
19 Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
20 Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?
21 But he spake of the temple of his body.

"found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger" - The Crucial Way to be Free from Corona-Viruses

 

North of Tokyo

The Crucial Way to be Free from Corona-Viruses

One day, I read the Bible and went out to a city.  Then I felt that someone looking like infected with viruses walking toward me as if he had been evilly disposed.  So, I kept socially distance cautiously to pass by him.

Reading the Bible would enhance the ability to avoid infection.  And, as the state of the mind or the soul has an influence on the body, if one has faith, his physical conditions, including immunity against viruses, should be strengthened. 

Indeed, since the era of Columbus, many Christian missionaries went out to various regions in the world where hidden agents of the disease were waiting for them.  But, most of them were not taken with illness.  If Christian missionaries had easily succumbed to illness, local people would not have trusted in them and believed in what they preached.

The Bible reads, as follows, on Christ Jesus sending His disciples to the world:

Luke 9:
Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases.
And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick.

It is also said that such disciples would not be harmed if they took in poisons.

Put simply, to defeat the corona-pandemic, everybody should be disciples and followers of Christ Jesus to enhance the level of its soul and mind work and thus improve physical conditions.

Reading the Bible with the intention to save the world, one's community, one's family and friends, and oneself in a manner as if one became a faithful follower of Christ Jesus should be useful, effective and crucial for one to be free from the corona-viruses.

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Luke 2  King James Version
14 Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
15 And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us.
16 And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger.
17 And when they had seen it, they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning this child.
18 And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds.
19 But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart.