"Jesus sat at meat in his house" - Trump's Bold Checking of Reckless Chinese Ambitions

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Trump's Bold Checking of Reckless Chinese Ambitions

In September 11, 2001, the 9.11 terror occurred in the U.S.  With the collapse of the World Trade Center towers in New York, many Americas thought their view of the world changed forever.  And subsequently the War on Terror was launched.  Americans thought they were threaten by Islamic terrorists.  But around 2001, another threat to the US was progressing with China starting ever growing export to the US as the following figure shows.     

This trend did not stop even after the 2008 Financial Crisis.  Or, behind the Financial Crisis, that another threat to the US was further growing.  Chinese exports to the US were US$102.28 billions in 2001, US$337.77 billions in 2008, and US$505.6 billions in 2017.  While the US was fighting Islamic terrorists and fixing the Financial Crisis in these 18 years, China has almost constantly increased its exports to the US.  It is as if the largest beneficiary of the American crises in these 18 years were China but not Islamic terrorists.

The aspect of trade relationship between the US and China since 1985 can be seen in the following figure:

 
Since the Start of the War on Terror in 2001 through the Financial Crisis in 2008, Americans have been importing goods from China in ever increasing scales.

In comparison, Japan's imports from China are shown in the red line and its exports to China are shown in the blue line in the following figure:

Chinese exports to the Japan were the 600 billion yen (about US$6 billion) level in 2001, the 1,400 billion yen (about US$ 140 billion) level immediate before the 2008 Financial Crisis, and over the 1,600 billion yen (about US$ 160 billion) level in 2013.  Japan has been also imported Chinese goods in ever increasing scales although the imports from China drastically dropped in and after the 2008 Financial Crisis period.  In these years, Japan has been in deflation economy, which seems to be mostly ascribed to huge import of cheap Chinese goods.  Deflation is the most significant issue for Japan since 1990s.  But without stopping cheap Chinese goods, it was impossible to change the Japanese economic situation.  However, for Japanese companies to maintain profits, it is inevitable to import cheap Chinese goods and sold them to consumers in Japan to address competition in the Japanese market.

So, both the US and Japan, No.1 and No.2 economies in the world, have imported Chinese goods in the last 20 years in ever growing scales.   So, it is no wonder that Chinese GDP surpassed Japan's GDP in 2010.

But what does the US import from China?

Telephone sets and data processing machines are two major types of Chinese exports to the US.  They are not cheap commodities and sundry goods.  They represent strong needs for them in the US in the period of the Internet or Information Technologies.  But more than that, Chinese economy growth was made possible in the period of the Internet or Information Technologies.  Without use of personal computers, the Internet, mobile phones, and advanced software, China could not achieve such efficiency in developing its industries.

All through the 9/11 Terror in 2001 and the Financial Crisis in 2008, the IT technologies and the Internet have been growing not only in the US but also in China and other countries.  And the most beneficiary in this trend is China.

It is not in the world where industries before the era of the Internet and smart phones played major roles that China could develop and expand its economy.  The world in ever increasing needs for IT technologies, the Internet, smart phones, and advanced software such as AI, through the War on Terror and the Financial Crisis, has made it possible for China to achieve such economic success to the degree that China threatens the US.

However, basically,  IT technologies, the Internet, smart phones, and advanced software such as AI were first invented in the US.  And political, economic, and social situations of the US and Japan allowed to China to exponentially increase its exports.

So, it would cause a fundamental crisis for China, if it deviated from the global order and structure that have been established by the US after WWII, since China has not become a big economic power by its own capacity and unique merits.

The justification of Trump's being US President might only lie in his bold checking of reckless Chinese ambitions to pursue expansion of its influence based on huge trade surplus.


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Mar 2:15 And it came to pass, that, as Jesus sat at meat in his house, many publicans and sinners sat also together with Jesus and his disciples: for there were many, and they followed him.
Mar 2:16 And when the scribes and Pharisees saw him eat with publicans and sinners, they said unto his disciples, How is it that he eateth and drinketh with publicans and sinners?
Mar 2:17 When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

"the Son of man hath power" - Against Rotten Church Systems and Satan of Materialism

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Against Rotten Church Systems and Satan of Materialism

Almost 2000 years ago, Jewish people had the concept of God, no matter how simple it was, to the right direction of cogitation and belief. 

Egyptians, Greeks and Romans had also their concepts on gods, which were however not toward the right path to the true and only God.

And, when some of Jewish people was confident that they had seen, met, walked and talked together with the Son of God, they must have a great shock and wonder as well as joy and pride.  And as the Son of God told them to go and preach the gospel to poor people of the Roman Empire, they would surely gladly go and preach the gospel driven by the shock and wonder.

In this way, Paul and other Disciples of Christ Jesus went out and preached the gospel to poor people, which however was regraded as deviation from orthodox Judaism and an act to be suppressed.   Nonetheless, their conviction that they were following the Son of God and thus God was so strong that they despised religious leaders who were against them.  In this way, early Christianity started with great energy or passion of followers of the spirit of Christ Jesus.

One of the major factors for early Christianity to prevail in the Roman Empire was this passion and energy.

In other words, the extreme strength of the shock and wonder such Jewish people felt when they discovered holy nature or divinity in  Christ Jesus was reflected in the success of Christianity in the Roman Empire.

But today, we cannot clearly and vividly feel this strength of the shock and wonder in Christian churches including the Vatican.  The Pope is reading ambiguous sentences in the Bible, wearing stupidly rich ancient clothes, and being surrounded by similarly stupidly rich cardinals and  bishops, while American Protestant priests were revering false gods or Satan of materialism.

So, God eventually punished and destroyed the Roman Empire.  Will not He do the same thing to the current human world?

Anyway, the only way for us to be forgiven by God is to take a clear stance against rotten church systems and false gods or Satan of materialism. 



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Mar 2:9 Whether is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk?
Mar 2:10 But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (he saith to the sick of the palsy,)
Mar 2:11 I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way into thine house.

"when Jesus perceived in his spirit" - Against Those in Tropical Regions and Warm Climate

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Against Those in Tropical Regions and Warm Climate

No great religion emerged in Africa except Egypt.

No great religions also emerged in tropical areas including the Central and South America, and Pacific Regions.  However, people in those tropical areas must have enjoyed great nature without scarcity of foods.  Those tropical people must have had easier lives than those in Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia.

In India including bases of the Himalayan region, Buddha appeared, but his teaching was concentrated on basic problems even to happy tropical people: birth, sickness, ageing, and death.   In North, Central and South Americas, progress of civilization (introduction of agriculture) was slow, and people must have lived in environments rich in nature.  Their religious sense was overwhelmed by rich nature where human beings looked only part of nature but not as independent entities which could pursue God.

In China suitable for agriculture, religious activities were integrated into ritual of tribes and control of the society.  As a result, Confucianism emerged with focus on quality of humanity including respect for ancestors, which was a core of integrity of each family, each tribe, and each kingdom.  They did not develop the concept of God as the creator of the universe.  Or they did not see God that generated and governed the universe and the human world and could save people even if they admitted that there were gods with super power.

In Egypt also suitable for agriculture, a religion linked with Egyptian imagination about the universe was developed.  Thus pyramids were built as symbols of their imagination.  However, people did not need God that would save them from every pain and trouble in lives.       

Finally, when one tribe left Mesopotamia, suitable for agriculture, and went into deserts, they started to develop the concept of God who created human beings and had power to save people.

Their religion developed in Christianity to be accepted by Europeans living in relatively meager nature.  Their ancestors did not enjoy easy living like that seen in tropical regions or regions surrounded by rich nature.

Material civilization was mostly developed through human efforts to establish human living in severe nature.  Severe natural conditions fostered a tendency of accepting a non-nonsense religion.

Tens of thousands years ago, people living in tropical areas enjoyed easy lives; thousands years ago, people living in regions suitable for agriculture also enjoyed their lives.  However, powerful civilization was developed with a specific religion by people whose ancestor were living in meager natural environments.     

Therefore, since Columbus, the Western civilization and Christianity have made a conquest of the world.  Descendants of people having lived relatively easy lives in tropical regions or in warm climate suitable for primitive agriculture could not cope with the power of Europe.

So, God has saved people living in, otherwise, meager natural environments.  However, they might become too arrogant with power of material civilization and with pride of cultivating spiritual world based on their religion.

If this material civilization should collapse and the religion should get helplessly rotten, modern people in developed countries would envy those living in tropical areas, again.

So, modern people living in developed countries should appreciate God because due to God they could develop material civilization and spiritual culture so that they don't have to envy those living in tropical regions and rich natural environments.   

Mat 20:16 So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.


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Mar 2:8 And immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, he said unto them, Why reason ye these things in your hearts?
Mar 2:9 Whether is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk?

”they uncovered the roof where he was” - Revere God with Spirit but not with Money

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Revere God with Spirit but not with Money

The concept of God that cannot be expressed in any material forms but governs the universe and the human world was introduced into the Roman Empire by Christianity supported by Judaism.

And more importantly this God could send his Son or Spirit to the human world to show His love to the poor, the sick, and the suppressed, which was the key to appealing to poor and lower people or slaves, etc. in the Empire.  And the teaching of Christianity that if a man believes God, he can enter the Heaven and get eternal life must be also appealing to poor people in the Empire.

This teaching is still effective today, although Satan has been trying to brainwash people with material power of money and wealth.

Poor people can see how bad one can be if he or she wants to get money and big money to be rich and richer.  Poor people cannot express this truth of the human world, but they understand love of God and Christ Jesus to them as God and Christ Jesus hate money, wealth, and Satan.

Even today, most of people would sell their souls to Satan if Satan makes them rich.  And, poor people who are even neglected by Satan could see this truth about evil, and thus they can understand the teaching of Christ Jesus.

So, the conviction of poor people about truth of Christianity made the religion spread through the Empire.

However, rich scholars and priests, high-ranking leaders of the society, and elite people cannot understand this truth at the bottom of their heart, unless they abandon wealth, money, and their special privilege.  The poorer a man is, the more accurately he can understand truth of the human world and teaching of Christ Jesus and God.

So, some religious people go to monasteries to live poor to understand the truth. 

However, this tradition has nothing to do with Judaism.  Jewish people believe that God would save them to live materially rich lives.  They seem to have no custom to see truth of this world and the teaching of God through poverty.

In Christianity,  money, wealth, and riches belong to Satan.  But in Judaism and even in Islam, money, wealth, and riches are symbols of mercy given to men by God and thus they belong to God.

However, it seems to be true in any human society that the richer a man is, the less sincerely he asks help from God.  Indeed, Christ Jesus said that God was spirit and thus people had to revere God with spirit but not with money.



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Mar 2:4 And when they could not come nigh unto him for the press, they uncovered the roof where he was: and when they had broken it up, they let down the bed wherein the sick of the palsy lay.
Mar 2:5 When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee.

"Where is he that is born King of the Jews?" - Judaism, Christianity, and What Next (?)

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Judaism, Christianity, and What Next (?)

Although the Temple of Jerusalem was destroyed through the Jewish-Roman wars around A.D. 70, Jewish people did not abandon their religion.  Likewise, although the Western Roman Empire fell before the sixth century, its state religion Christianity was not abandoned and forgotten.

So, if the modern civilization, initially built by Europeans and Americans before the 20th century, should fall due to its excessive materialism sooner or later probably in next 1000 years, the core religion in this modern civilization should survive.  But, what is the core religion?

In my estimate, if science, technology, and market-based or commercialism-based  economy continue to develop in the current trend for next 1,000 years, robots equipped with super AI might take over power of domination from the mankind, since robots don't die or are not afraid of death.

So, can future advanced robots believe in God or be afraid of God?  If so, what religion will they have?

Maybe the great power of God should appear truly in the era of robots that must start 1,000 later, which however may have nothing to do with the mankind of today.  But, it is very difficult to imagine that robots live in the Kingdom of God, which the mankind look like failing in so far as now.

Judaism, Christianity, and what next (?) must be the most important issue for the mankind, including Muslims who are also participating in the modern material civilization based on the traditions of Judaism and Christianity. 



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Mat 2:2 Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.
Mat 2:3 When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.

"when they were come out of the synagogue" - Christianity as a Religion of Miracles

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Christianity as a Religion of Miracles

It is still a target of study how Christianity spread in the Roman Empire after the death of Christ Jesus and the Jewish-Roman War.

It should be first based on understanding that it was a miracle that Christianity spread in the Empire to be the state religion of the Empire in 300 years.  From the beginning, it is unthinkable that citizens of the Empire would and could understand and accept a religion that had been launched in a remote region that had come under the yoke of the Empire through wars by a nameless person who had been crucified by Roman soldiers.

How could Romans understand the meaning of the end of the world and the one and sole God of the mankind who had been in advance God of Jewish people?  How could citizens of the Roman Empire believe miracles performed by Christ Jesus in Palestine, a very remote place from Rome?  And, how could other tribes and gentiles other than Judaists come to accept traditions of Judaism?

Even the Gospels and other documents of the New Testament depict Paul, Peter, and some few names as the major followers of Christ Jesus who made critical efforts to spread Christianity in the Empire.  So, it was a miracle itself that Christianity conquered the Roman Empire.

So, for non-Western people of even today, this fact or miracle can be a great reason for respecting or believing Christianity as a religion of miracles.   




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Mar 1:29 And forthwith, when they were come out of the synagogue, they entered into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John.
Mar 1:30 But Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever, and anon they tell him of her.
Mar 1:31 And he came and took her by the hand, and lifted her up; and immediately the fever left her, and she ministered unto them.

" the angel of the Lord" - No Prophets in these 2000 Years?

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No Prophets in these 2000 Years?

One of mysteries of Judaism is that there appeared no prophets like Daniel or Isaiah since the emergence of Christ Jesus and the fall of the Temple in Jerusalem in the Jewish-Roman War.

It seems that Jewish have people accepted this fact in these 2000 years.  But it is strange.

The last nevi'im ("spokespersons", "prophets") mentioned in the Jewish Bible are Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi, all of whom lived at the end of the 70-year Babylonian exile. The Talmud (Sanhedrin 11a) states that Haggai, Zachariah, and Malachi were the last prophets, and nowadays only the "Bath Kol" (בת קול, lit. daughter of a voice, "voice of God") exists.  (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophet#Judaism) 

If it is true, it means that Judaism changed decisively or gravely since  the emergence of Christ Jesus and the fall of the Temple in Jerusalem in the Jewish-Roman War.   It might also mean that Christ Jesus and Christianity were from ancient Judaism different from the present Judaism.

At least, Jewish people must feel anxious about why God has stopped sending prophets to them since  the emergence of Christ Jesus and the fall of the Temple in Jerusalem in the Jewish-Roman War or in these 2000 years if they don't even admit Muhammad, the Koran, and Islam.   


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Mat 1:24 Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife:
Mat 1:25 And knew her not till she had brought forth her firstborn son: and he called his name JESUS.

"his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph" - The Poor in the Old and New Testaments

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The Poor in the Old and New Testaments

One of the major points Christ Jesus preached was His love to the poor.  How is the word "poor" used in the Gospels?

Matthew 5:3 Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 11:5 The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.  

Matthew 19:21 Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.  

Matthew 26:9 For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.  

Matthew 26:11 For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.  

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

Mark 12:42 And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing.  

Mark 12:43 And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury:  

Mark 14:5 For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.  

Mark 14:7 For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.  

Luke 4:18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,  

Luke 6:20 And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed be ye poor: for yours is the kingdom of God.  

Luke 7:22 Then Jesus answering said unto them, Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached.  

Luke 14:13 But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:  

Luke 14:21 So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.  

Luke 18:22 Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet lackest thou one thing: sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.  

Luke 19:8 And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord: Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.  

Luke 21:2 And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites.  

Luke 21:3 And he said, Of a truth I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast in more than they all:  

John 12:5 Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?  

John 12:6 This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.  

John 12:8 For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.  

John 13:29 For some of them thought, because Judas had the bag, that Jesus had said unto him, Buy those things that we have need of against the feast; or, that he should give something to the poor. 

There are not so many sentences related to the word "poor" in the four gospels, but they clearly show the essence of teaching of Christ Jesus.

In the Old Testaments, there are also many sentences including the word of poor.  For example, in Psalms:

Psalms 9:18 For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.
Psalms 10:2 The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
Psalms 10:8 He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.
Psalms 10:9 He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.
Psalms 10:10 He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.
Psalms 10:14 Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.
Psalms 12:5 For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
Psalms 14:6 Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.
Psalms 34:6 This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
Psalms 35:10 All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?
Psalms 37:14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation.
Psalms 40:17 But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.
Psalms 41:1 Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.
Psalms 49:2 Both low and high, rich and poor, together.
Psalms 68:10 Thy congregation hath dwelt therein: thou, O God, hast prepared of thy goodness for the poor.
Psalms 69:29 But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.
Psalms 69:33 For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.
Psalms 70:5 But I am poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: thou art my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying.
Psalms 72:2 He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.
Psalms 72:4 He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.
Psalms 72:12 For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper.
Psalms 72:13 He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy.
Psalms 74:19 O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.
Psalms 74:21 O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.
Psalms 82:3 Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
Psalms 82:4 Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.
Psalms 86:1 Bow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor and needy.
Psalms 107:41 Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock.
Psalms 109:16 Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.
Psalms 109:22 For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
Psalms 109:31 For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.
Psalms 112:9 He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor; his righteousness endureth for ever; his horn shall be exalted with honour.
Psalms 113:7 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill;
Psalms 132:15 I will abundantly bless her provision: I will satisfy her poor with bread.
Psalms 140:12 I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.

So, Christ Jesus observed the tradition of Judaism practiced in the era of the Old Testament.  The old Judaism was based on ethics and compassion upon the poor.  This feature must be rare to be found in ancient religions most of which simply glorified greatness and praised glory of gods and kings.

In other words, God chose old Judaism for this reason and sent His Son, Christ Jesus, to Jewish people.  Love to the poor must have been a measure of God's judgement when He chose a tribe as His own people.  But when Jewish people lost this love, God sent His Son, Christ Jesus, to the Jewish community to make them restore this love to the poor.
 
Social injustice and evil are concentrated in poor people.  The reason for Christ Jesus to have appeared among Jewish people must have been to restore love to the poor rather than for any other religious reasons.


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Mat 1:18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
Mat 1:19 Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away privily.

"he walked by the sea of Galilee" - Christianity Launched at the End of the 4th Century?

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Christianity Launched at the End of the 4th Century?

The ideology of Christianity that Christ Jesus was God and that "God is one God, but three coeternal consubstantial persons or hypostases—the Father, the Son (Jesus Christ), and the Holy Spirit—as 'one God in three Divine Persons'" was not established immediately after the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ Jesus.

By the end of the 4th century, under the leadership of Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa, and Gregory of Nazianzus (the Cappadocian Fathers), the doctrine had reached substantially its current form.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity#History

So, it took  400 years after the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ Jesus that the Christian churches came to conclusion of the Trinity.  But this ideology is not easy to understand and not plain to ordinary people.  However, the Vatican requested people to confess that they believed this theory if they wanted to be Christians or members of the Christian churches.  This tradition has continued to date.  Most of Christians cannot understand the theory of the Trinity but are requested to believe it.

From the beginning, Christ Jesus did not come to this world to make people believe the Trinity.  Christ Jesus came to save poor people who could not even read and write.  He did not come to request them to understand a theory only well learnt people and scholars could consider.

The Vatican and the Christian churches, however, as a matter of fact, have come to accept people who cannot understand the theory in their churches, though, not as Christians but as future Christians.

How may percentages of Christians in the world can pass the test on understanding of the Trinity and related theories?  Maybe one percent!  But, the Vatican and the Christian churches still stick to the Trinity and related theories.  If you believe in God but do not believe that Jesus is God, or are unsure whether Jesus is God, you cannot be regraded as Christians.     

This is absurd.  It is as if Christianity had been launched at the end of the 4th century when the Trinity theory was fixed.  The Vatican and the Christian churches put the highest priority and importance on this ideology.  They should neglect or forget this issue before the teaching of God and Christ Jesus.


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Mar 1:16 Now as he walked by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers.
Mar 1:17 And Jesus said unto them, Come ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men.

"for he was before me" - The Battle between God and Satan over Religions

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The Battle between God and Satan over Religions

Christianity didn't start by just preaching that there was only one and single God in this world whom we had to revere.

But it started by preaching that God sent His Son or Jesus who was more than His Son to show His love to us, so that we had to believe God and Jesus.

In Christianity, they have respect Christ Jesus as much as they respect God.  But this cannot be accepted by Jewish people and Muslims, because they think that people have to believe God even without the mediator Jesus.

In other word, for Christians, the words and teachings by Christ Jesus are as important as those of God; however, for Jewish people and Muslims, it is impossible for anybody to have such authority as God.  Jewish people and Muslims can say that they have words of God and they don't need words of Christ Jesus; and it is a grave blasphemy for anybody to position Himself as high as God.  Put extremely, for Jewish people and Muslims, Christ Jesus has become a sinner due to Christians who set Christ Jesus as high as God or regard Christ Jesus as God.

From this point of view, the fact that God has not destroyed Judaism and Islam seems to tell the mind of God.  To revere and believe God, people don't need to revere and believe Christ Jesus.  However, yet the fact that the Western civilization based on, or supported or helped by, Christianity has become the main stream of the mankind seems to tell that Christianity has satisfied God to a large extent.

Anyway, whichever a man believes or does not believe the Christian ideology that Christ Jesus is God, the center and core of any religions is God.  The battle between God and Satan must be more critical than battles between Christians, Judaists, and Muslims.     




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Joh 1:15 John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.

"Fear not, Zacharias" - A Saint on the Cross

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A Saint on the Cross

It is interesting that Christians have used a special sign, figure, or symbol for more than 1400 years in a period almost similar to that of deployment of Islam.

However, the cross symbol was already associated with Christians in the 2nd century...
The crucifix, a cross upon which an image of Christ is present, is not known to have been used until the 6th century AD. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_cross#Early_Christian_usage

It could be accepted to use the cross sign as a symbol of Christianity as the death of Christ Jesus on the cross was the critical element for the religion.  However, from the common sense, it cannot be accepted as a symbol of a religion to present a suffering saint on the cross.  Use of such a symbol for a religion should raise a doubt whether the religion is supported by sane people.   

As Christian churches started to use the image of Christ Jesus on the cross in the 6th century, God felt discomfort, and thus He gave Islam to Arabs and others, in my view, in the 7th century.


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Luk 1:13 But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John.

"the time they were carried away to Babylon" - Not Material Civilization but Mercy of God

Tokyo

Not Material Civilization but Mercy of God

The trend of the human civilization can be first observed from the trend of energy use, because human civilization depends on energy.


https://ourfiniteworld.com/2012/03/12/world-energy-consumption-since-1820-in-charts/

Civilization destroys, changes, and utilizes the nature, although it has not yet ability to modify natural environment according to its will; for example, the mankind cannot change the climate or increase/decrease ambient temperature as it wants.  Destroying power of civilization against the nature can be seen in trend of deforestration.

Longer term, the outlook is even worse. If humanity continues its pattern of endless consumption, their research indicates that less than one-fifth of Asia and Latin America's forest cover may remain by 2200.

https://www.thecoli.com/threads/studies-highlight-deforestation-risk-in-the-21st-century-and-beyond.351057/ 

It is well worried that temperature increase in the global ambient air might cause grave damage on peoples.  However, use of energy in whatever form would discharge used energy into the air, thus increasing temperature.  CO2 emission cannot be the only cause of temperature increase.  However, if forest areas in the world dwindle, a less amount of CO2 is absorbed and a less amount of O2 is discharged into the air.

It is also important how much development of civilization has contributed to increase of global human  population.

Then, what about production of cereal crops in the world?


http://www.jiid.or.jp/ardec/ardec46/ard46_food.html
(The upper dark-green broken line is the total amount (in million tons) of cereal crops produced globally; the lower light-green broken line shows the yield amount per unit area of farm land (tons/ha).)

So, population is rapidly increasing; accordingly energy use and food production are also increasing while the natural environment is globally being destroyed.  Future of the mankind or civilization cannot be rosy.

However, the leading country, the US, still has plenty of lands for agriculture and residence as well as natural resources.  No Americans are afraid that their civilization will face a catastrophic crisis in decades or during this century if outer world should suffer any.

However, this global civilization is based on economy supported by high technology and financial systems.  It cannot be thought that catastrophic change will never occur in or will never be generated by high technology and financial systems even in the US.

  https://ourworldindata.org/technological-progress

The functional chips, that is the microprocessors,  used at the core of high-tech products have been ever increasing its density or complexity.  This trend is not expected to cease soon.  More products, including cars and phones, will be equipped with AI.  And power of computation and communications will go on expanding in various sectors of human lives.  And even financial transactions will be further upgraded along with this technical trend.

 

 In January 1900 the DJIA had a value of 66 points, and in December 2017 (the time of writing) a value of 24,651.
http://stockmarketalmanac.co.uk/2017/12/long-term-trend-of-the-dow-jones-industrial-average/

Generally speaking, as seen in the above figure of Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), the US is getting richer, over some economic crises, all through the 20th century onward although the gap between the poor and the rich is expanding.

If advanced technologies continue to solve problems related to food production, disaster prevention, human health, social safety and security, expansion of trade and economy and so on, the earth is finite.  And the mankind cannot control the natural environment 100%, for example, such as prevention of dangerous global warming and occurrence of other great natural disasters.  And development of technologies itself is based on commercialism-based economy.  In other words, human desire-driven economy supports development of technologies.  It is not respect or good-will for humanity that is driving civilization but desire of people.  There is no assurance that this civilization will never encounter catastrophic events of any kind to the degree so that existence of the mankind will be at risk.

This material civilization might continue further for a few centuries without decisive catastrophes.  However, it is difficult that the mankind will survive and prosper further for 1000 years in the increasing trends of those various factors of the civilization.  For example, robots with super AI might take over.  And there will be nobody who will remember the mankind.

So it is said that everything goes by but the word of God is forever.

For the mankind to have true civilization that can continue for 2000 years or more, from now on, we have to set our civilization on true religion, specifically true Judaism, true Christianity, true Islam, etc. since salvation of minds and spirits of people should not come from development of material civilization but realized by mercy of God. 



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Mat 1:11 And Josias begat Jechonias and his brethren, about the time they were carried away to Babylon:
Mat 1:12 And after they were brought to Babylon, Jechonias begat Salathiel; and Salathiel begat Zorobabel;

"the Spirit like a dove descending upon him" - God is Spirit, though, Creating the Material Universe

Asuka Area, the Original Place of Yamato Imperial Regime in the 4th Century or Before, Japan

God is Spirit, though, Creating the Material Universe

It is said that God is spirit; accordingly we have to show our respect to God with our spirit.

No matter how much we study the world and the universe, we cannot find material God, or we cannot see God in the form we can understand.  However, we can feel interference with the nature around human beings by God.  As an example, the sun and the moon look in a similar size to each one from the earth.  There is no scientific reason for this phenomenon, but due to this configuration in the sky with the similar sizes of the sun and the moon, human cultures and religions have been influenced.

The universe is based on a theory that the absolute magnitude of charge of an electron is equal to that of a proton, thus assuring formation of an electrically neutral atom.  It is unknown why this theory is possible in the universe, whereas without it or with a different theory, no substances are possible in this universe.  In other words, if another theory is true in this universe, no atoms, molecules, and matter can be possible.   

What we have to think is only that God made this universe based on arbitrary physical theories to make the universe constituted in a way suitable for emergence and development of human beings.  The more scientists learn, the more they should find traces of interference by or influence of God.

However, in most the periods in these 2000 years ago, people had no such knowledge of modern science, but many people came to believe God through religious traditions of Judaism, through Christ Jesus, or through Quran.   It is because God is spirit, and men had spirits in any old time.

Our spirits and minds interact with matter and with natural, social, and human phenomena.  However, we feel, think, and make decisions following work of our own spirits and minds.  And, in freedom of our minds, we can accept or deny God.  And, as the world and the universe are designed and built according to God's will, it seems natural that men living in this world and universe perceive, realize, find and accept God.

However, to accept God in our spirits, our minds should be cultivated suitably.  As Judaism 2000 years ago lost effect of this cultivation of minds, God sent His Son Christ Jesus for right cultivation of spirits and minds of Jewish people and others.  But as Christianity lost its power of right cultivation of minds of Arabs, God gave Quran to Arabs, etc.

This is one theory, although it is unknown why this theory is possible.   



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Mar 1:10 And straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him:
Mar 1:11 And there came a voice from heaven, saying, Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

"Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee" - Christ Jesus and the Temple of Jerusalem

Japan's ancient capital area older than Kyoto

Christ Jesus and the Temple of Jerusalem

According to the Gospels, Christ Jesus did not neglect the Temple in Jerusalem.

However, it is strange that if Christ Jesus had been God as claimed by the Christian churches, God to be enshrined in the Temple was outside the Temple as Christ Jesus.  Then the Temple was empty as Christ Jesus was outside the Temple.     

But Christ Jesus got angry at merchants in the Temple and violently acted to drive them out of the Temple, overturning the desk of a money changer.  If Christ Jesus had been God and not enshrined in the Temple, why did He have to mind those activities by merchants?

Even when Christ Jesus was a Child, He showed respect to the Temple of Jerusalem by calling it "my father's business":

Luk 2:45 And when they found him not, they turned back again to Jerusalem, seeking him.
Luk 2:46 And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions.
Luk 2:47 And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers.
Luk 2:48 And when they saw him, they were amazed: and his mother said unto him, Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? behold, thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing.
Luk 2:49 And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?

So, it is apparent that Christ Jesus was not God of Judaists who lived in the Temple of Jerusalem.  If Christ Jesus had been God, the Temple should have been empty while Christ Jesus was preaching outside the Temple.  It meant that Jewish people showed their respect to the empty Temple, but Christ Jesus did not tell them to stop praying in the Temple, since God, who was Christ Jesus, was out of the Temple.

Anyway, it was after the Jewish-Roman War when the Temple of Jerusalem was burnt and destroyed that the Christian churches started to define Christ Jesus as God.  As there was no Temple of Jerusalem, the discrepancy between God in the Temple and the man Christ Jesus could be avoided, which is however a kind of trick.

It is impossible that God was in the Temple of Jerusalem and simultaneously God was outside the Temple as the man Christ Jesus. 

It is extremely difficult to regard Christ Jesus as God who should be enshrined in the Temple in Jerusalem, while Christ Jesus, who was God, was preaching outside the Temple.


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Mar 1:9 And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of John in Jordan.

"And Jesse begat David the king" - Avoid Thinking that Christ Jesus is God

A Holy Mountain in Nara, Japan

Avoid Thinking that Christ Jesus is God

No matter how much people are taught teachings by God, they cannot necessarily live up to these teachings.

Such a situation is depicted in the story about Moses in the Old Testament.  And another one is seen in the Gospels depicting religious circumstances around Christ Jesus.  In addition, Jewish people have said, in these 2000 years, that most of major teachings by Christ Jesus are written in the Old Testament; Nothing new was especially preached by Christ Jesus, they argue, although Christ Jesus delivered some unique teachings.

There have been crimes and villains among Jewish people as many as those among Christians, Muslims, and pagans.  It does not necessarily mean that a person lives up to teachings by God if the person is a member of a religious community that admits existence of God.

So, it is in such a situation that Christ Jesus appeared among Jewish people.  Jewish people knew, read, and heard about the teaching by God through the Hebrew Bible.   However, their minds were far from God.  Christ Jesus, in a sense, repeated well known teachings by God, but with renewed spirit and in true but forgotten meaning.  In other words, Christ Jesus tried to make Jewish people rediscover the Hebrew Bible.  Or He presented true Judaism while Jewish people at the time forgot the true meaning of Judaism.

However, as the Jewish-Roman War fought, all the Jewish people were driven out of Jerusalem.  They lost the Temple in Jerusalem that was respected by early Christians or Christian Jewish, too.  So, Judaism itself was forced to change, while early Christianity or the Christian faction among Jewish people was also compelled to further change.

But, early Christianity was not accepted by all the Jewish people in diaspora.  Nonetheless, Judaism after the Jewish-Roman War changed.  Jewish people must have been influenced by Christianity.  At least, they could not close their eyes to Christianity.  They must have admitted that the teachings by Christ Jesus came from old Judaism.  If Christian churches did not request followers to accept the ideology that Christ Jesus was God, more Jewish people should have converted to Christianity.

So, the key to understanding and criticizing Christianity is the Christian ideology that Christ Jesus is God, which was however not claimed by Christ Jesus Himself.

To be true to Christian churches, you have to believe that Christ Jesus is God, but to be true to Christ Jesus Himself, you should avoid thinking that Christ Jesus is God.         



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Mat 1:5 And Salmon begat Booz of Rachab; and Booz begat Obed of Ruth; and Obed begat Jesse;
Mat 1:6 And Jesse begat David the king; and David the king begat Solomon of her that had been the wife of Urias;
Mat 1:7 And Solomon begat Roboam; and Roboam begat Abia; and Abia begat Asa;

"John did baptize in the wilderness" - Not Christianity but Godism

South of Kyoto, Japan

Not Christianity but Godism

Christ Jesus did not claim that He was God so that everybody (meaning all the Jewish people) should revere Him as God.

However, centuries later a Roman emperor and the Vatican decided that Christ Jesus was God so that everybody should revere Him as God. 

What a blasphemy it was for mere men to decide that someone was God!  But, Christianity today is based on this blasphemy.

The most important effect of Christianity on the Roman Empire and other European people was that the religion introduced the idea of the only and one God who had personality and ethical good.  What early Christians in Europe learnt in Christianity was that there was only and one God who requested good.  And it was the teaching Christ Jesus taught.

From the beginning, how stupid it was to think that God appeared among people as a mere parson!  There was no reason for God to show such goodwill toward faithless human beings.  There was no reason for God to love faithless human beings.  Even to Moses who fully obeyed the word of God, God had not shown Himself fully.  Even to Abraham who fully obeyed the word of God, God had given only His words.  There was no reason for God to show Himself as a human being in goodwill toward faithless human beings.

As 2000 years have passed, people have come to realize that God did not come to the human world as a mere human being.  So, nobody today believes that Christ Jesus was God and uses the name Jesus to call God.  God is God.  Jesus is Jesus.  This is commonsense of today, although Christian churches still stick to the ideology that Christ Jesus was God if not God was Christ Jesus.

The Gospels tell that Christ Jesus came to teach teachings by God.  For Jewish people, such teachings were well known, although they did not observe them.  But for gentiles and Roman citizens, it was a big discovery that there was only and one God in this universe who had protected Jewish people and who could protect any body, if not Jewish, only if he or she believed Him.

Put simply, what Christ Jesus taught was one and only God but not Christ Jesus Himself.  So, Christianity should call Godism.  It is not Christ Jesus that matters in Christianity but God.  In this context, followers of Christ Jesus should accept Judaism and Islam, since they also revers the same only and one God.


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Mar 1:4 John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.
Mar 1:5 And there went out unto him all the land of Judaea, and they of Jerusalem, and were all baptized of him in the river of Jordan, confessing their sins.

"the life was the light of men" - Where Did Christ Jesus Go after the Resurrection

North of Kyoto, Japan

Where Did Christ Jesus Go after the Resurrection

There is one mystery in the story about Christ Jesus in the Gospels: Where did Christ Jesus go after resurrection?

It seems to be a fact that Christ Jesus resurrected after the execution on the cross by Roman soldiers.  It seems to have given His followers courage to further live as followers to Him, sticking to faith in Christ Jesus.  So, the Gospel authors wrote how Christ Jesus appeared to His followers after He had disappeared from the tomb.  Those descriptions cannot be a fiction.  But the Gospels read that Christ Jesus ascended to the heaven 40 days after the resurrection, while His followers were watching Him.  This part must be a kind of metaphor, since it is clearly against a natural law.  But, there must have been something that made His followers believe that Christ Jesus ascended to the heaven.  Then, what was it?

The fact was that Christ Jesus disappeared from His followers; He never repeated His mission in the way He had done before the execution on the cross and the resurrection; and He never appeared to them after a certain time point except His spirit talked to Paul months or years later.  From the modern sense, it is thought that he went to some place, not probably the heaven, to hide.  And probably, Christ Jesus lived there in the rest of His life.  But how could people around Him fail to recognize Him?  Or did people around Him in His hiding place cooperate with Him to hide Him, knowing that the person was Christ Jesus?  And why did Christ Jesus hide in the special place?  Could not He secretly hide Himself among His followers, although the Jewish authority was eager and active to suppress the movement He had launched? 

From a religious point of view, it can be thought that God hid Christ Jesus 40 days after His resurrection.  And the way God hid Christ Jesus must have looked like Christ Jesus was ascending to the heaven to the eyes of His followers.  In this case, as we cannot understand the mind of God fully, we only have to accept the act by God as it is.  And, indeed, without Christ Jesus further repeating His mission, Christianity prevailed and widely accepted by Roman citizens. 

Nonetheless, we may wonder what became of Him when He disappeared from His followers after the resurrection.

And we may estimate that Christ Jesus went back to the place from which He had come.  It was not Nazareth, a village where He was born and raised.  From the beginning, He had appeared on a bank of the River Jordan, where John the Baptist was administering baptism, from nowhere.  The Gospels do not describe how and why Christ Jesus left Nazareth to come to the River Jordan.  And it cannot be thought that Christ Jesus had learnt Judaism in Nazareth.

So, it is natural to think that Christ Jesus had come from a special place where Judaism could be studied like the Temple in Jerusalem, although it is unthinkable that Christ Jesus learnt Judaism from Jewish priests in the Temple of Jerusalem.  But, there is one place suitable for study of Judaism independently from the Temple in Jerusalem.  It is Qumran.  Then if so, Christ Jesus came to the River Jordan from Qumran, and He must have returned to Qumran after the resurrection.

And Paul after encountering with the spirit of Christ Jesus on his way to Damascus must have traveled to Qumran, too, to learn the teaching of Christ Jesus.

Qumran is the base and facilities of a school or a faction of Judaists called the Essenes.  The notable Jewish author in the first century Flavius Josephus described in his book about the Jewish people that there were three major factions among Jewish people at the time: Sadducees, Pharisees, and Essenes.  The Gospels mention Sadducees and Pharisees, but strangely or interestingly there are no references to the Essenes.  The authors of the Gospels must have avoided mentioning Essenes, since they wanted to keep secret the tie between Christ Jesus and Qumran (or Paul and Qumran).  It must be because Qumran was the place where Christ Jesus went after the resurrection.

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Joh 1:4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
Joh 1:5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

"write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus" - Core of the Faith of Early Christians

North of Kyoto, Japan

Core of the Faith of Early Christians

Why did the disciples and followers of Christ Jesus forsook Him and ran away when Christ Jesus was arrested by the Jewish authority and Roman soldiers?

Didn't Christ Jesus beforehand educate and train them so that they could cope with such an incident?  Didn't Christ Jesus enhance their spirits so that they could have faced such an incident calmly?  But they fled Gethsemane and the site of arrest of Christ Jesus with horror and fear.  So why?

The disciples and followers of Christ Jesus at the time were all Jewish people.  They knew how revolutionary the teachings by Christ Jesus were.  They must have known that the Jewish authority should be offended at His teachings and take their revenge on Christ Jesus.  But they must have believed that God or angels were protecting Christ Jesus from those authorities.  So, no matter how dangerous the teachings and movements of Christ Jesus were to Him and them, they thought that Christ Jesus and they were safe.  But, as the authorities and Jewish priests actually launched an attack and could arrest Him without interference from God, their belief and confidence in God and Christ Jesus faltered and crumbled.  Because the disciples, including Peter, and followers thought that Satan defeated God, they were afraid so much, fleeing Gethsemane and the site of arrest of Christ Jesus.   

The teachings of Christ Jesus were related to salvation of souls of the disciples and followers.  They were not directly related to the battle between God and Satan.  So, the disciples, including Peter, and followers were not well prepared for crude attacks by Satan on Christ Jesus coming real.  It was the matter at a different phase.  If Satan and its soldiers, namely Jewish authorities and Roman soldiers, could directly attack Christ Jesus, the disciples and followers, they thought, could not be also safe; they could be also victims like Christ Jesus.  How terrible it was, they thought, to be arrested and judged by those authorities, as they would be stoned to death!  All they had to do was run away!

It was the degree of fear and horror they felt that should be understood.  In other words, they knew how much the teachings of Christ Jesus had offended Jewish priests and the Jewish authorities.  They knew that the teachings of Christ Jesus were revolutionary enough to challenge Jewish priests and the Jewish authorities.  And, they must have also realized that Satan would use Jewish priests and the Jewish authorities as its soldiers in the battle between Christ Jesus and Satan.  And, they really saw Satan actually succeeding in capturing and persecuting Christ Jesus.  Next, they must face Satan without protection by Christ Jesus and God.  So, they lost their nerve and broke away.

In other words, the great tension and pressure of the battle between God and Satan fell on the disciples and followers without any protection.  If we cannot understand these tension and pressure, we cannot truly understand the Gospels.

So, they hid until Christ Jesus resurrected after execution.  But, the fact that Christ Jesus resurrected made them regain the confidence in Christ Jesus and God they had had once.  Satan could not destroy Christ Jesus!  So, they realized that they should not be afraid of Satan and its soldiers, the Jewish and Roman authorities.  This conviction became the core of the faith of Early Christians. 



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Luk 1:3 It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus,
Luk 1:4 That thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed.

"messenger before thy face" - If Christ Jesus Had Not been Executed

A Shinto Shrine around Tokyo with New Year's Visitors

If Christ Jesus Had Not been Executed

Why was Christ Jesus killed by the Jewish authority and the Roman Governor?  Did He do anything very bad?  Why would not His followers try to fight and save Him?

Many and various explanations have been made by Christian churches, scholars, and knowledgeable persons, but it seems that none has been satisfied by their explanations in these 2000 years.

Put simply, it was a result of the fight between angels and Satan.  From the beginning, Satan tried to destroy Christ Jesus.  However, angels protected Christ Jesus at every time Satan tried to kill Christ Jesus.  But, finally angels found that Satan would do more harm to human beings if they continued to protect the human life of Christ Jesus.  So, God intervened and let Satan do what it wanted, since He could restore life of Christ Jesus at His will as God is almighty.  But, whatever the reason was, Satan was glad to be given a chance to fulfill his wish to kill Christ Jesus, and Satan used the Jewish authority and the Roman Governor to execute Christ Jesus.

It is not a matter that can be explained in the domain of the human world, human interests, and human senses, since Christ Jesus was the Son of God or somebody like that.

The mistake of those Christian churches, scholars, and knowledgeable persons who tried to explain the death of Christ Jesus is that they handled the matter in the human phase while the matter was more related to the spiritual world and the domain of angels, Satan, and human souls.

The lesson we should learn from the death of Christ Jesus is that Satan is real and realistic while it is crazy enough to kill the Son of God or somebody like that.

So, it is not good for Christians today, including Christian churches, to only praise and appreciate the death of Christ Jesus (for the reason that He died for them) but not blame Satan.

And, we should think what had happened if Christ Jesus had not been killed by Satan.  It is the very reason that God approved Satan's plan to kill Christ Jesus.  At least, it looks likely that Judas should have been killed as a betrayer by the Jewish authority and the Roman Governor.  And in the worst case, all the Jewish people were destroyed in the coming Jewish-Roman War and Judaism should have been exterminated.   



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Mar 1:2 As it is written in the prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.
Mar 1:3 The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.