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The Gospel is the Holy Covenant with God which Jesus Christ told us. Evangelology shows that the Gospel is a logical system consistent and complete. Expounding the Gospel correctly will contribute great to development of Christianity. However, without understand Evangelology, you might be able to receive Jesus Christ's Grace. If you believe that the Gospel is perfect truth, you will have no problems.

MARK 1:3
The voice of one crying in the wilderness,
Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.

MARK 1:14-15
Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God,
And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.

LUKE 21:15
I will give you a mouth and wisdom,
which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.

Realize the Glory of Jesus Christ. This be commanded, acted, atoned. The day is breaking soon. All on the Book of Life shall see the dawn.

Faith Gospel Bible

1 Faith Is An Act Not Knowledge

Surely I come quickly.(REV 22:20)

Christianity is accepting Jesus Christ. It is not understanding but practice. It is an act. Advanced Intellect and comprehension does not make you a Christian. You need only an act in which you accept Jesus Christ with a God, i.e., the Lord. Faith is intuitive and is not mastered by study. If it is work or an examination, industrious persons will make good results. But even if you read the Bible much and memorize a lot, there is no guarantee of becoming a better Christian.

Study does not make a Christian. You know Faust's story. His soul was sold to the devil, although he was an excellent scientist. A study lover has much Satan's temptation. If you read out the Bible and are satisfied of your knowledge, your name on The Book of Life, its ink getting thin, will be growing dim. All you need is just to accept all about Jesus Christ, so as children receive everything they see and hear as it is.

the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.(JOH 10:11)

For Jesus Christ, human is human, no more, no less, an innocent existence like the sheep. Jesus Christ does not ask you to be as wise as God. Such a thing keeps in awe and should be nothing wishable. Like the sheep, you had best follow the shepherd. But what is accepting Jesus Christ?

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.
And the second is like, namely this,
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
There is none other commandment greater than these.(MAR 12:30,31)

In a word, it is loving Jesus Christ and not suspecting Jesus Christ's love. There is nothing more difficult, though it seems so easy. Even if between human beings, keeping love is not easy. The lovers or husband and wife who have loved each other better than anyone, their loves getting cool, will lose the relations. Furthermore, why should it be capable to keep loving the man of 2000 years before? Why should it be easy to continue waiting for him who does not turn out when he will come? For Christians faith is a trial. The gate of the Paradise is narrow.

2 Evangelology Covers Evangel For Faith

Evangel is the Teachings of Jesus Christ. It is not to be known. It is to be believed. Therefore, setting it as the object of study directly has been avoided. Though there is a field called Theology, there is no Evangelology. It is called the Covenant, the promise that God shows specially in the human languages to human beings who can not make out the words of God originally.

The Covenant which is presented in a form of Jesus Christ by God is Evangel. You know, it is Revelation that God show the Covenant to mankind. The religion on "Revelation of the Covenant" is called the revealed religion. Although Evangel does not take the appearance of articles, it is the articles which God showed to mankind. It is the promise that when you keep it well, you will be allowed to be given the grace and risen up to Heaven. So what is said Evangel is written in the language which men can read. Therefore, the interpretation becomes a problem like a contract.

And in Christianity, on the interpretation of Evangel, some ecumenical councils are held, where some problems are argued and some are condemned for heresy. Those who distort the meaning of Evangel are still emerging. For Christianity, heresy spoils its body like the incurable illness and ruins its health. Evangel is the core of the doctrine. Therefore, it should be investigated more strictly.

Nevertheless, Christians has evaded intellectual approach to a God and Evangel. The reason is the strongest heresy Gnosticism. Gnosis means "to know", i.e., "wisdom", or "knowledge". When Christianity was spreading exactly in the Roman Empire, about Jesus Christ, the gnostic interpretation was done and supported. Gnosticism exerted dualism of the good and the wrong even on the domain of God.

Surely, the good and the wrong exist. But the vicious existence is not the responsibility for God. God is the Creator, and the creatures created by Him who is complete goodness, are also completely good at the beginning of the Creation. Since God is good, it produces only the good. But the creatures with will gradually degenerate and worsen because of createdness. Satan and human also degenerated, and were banished out of the Paradise to be worsened. Do you blame the appletree just because the apple rotted? However, the gnostic groups tried to understand Christianity by the confrontation of Father, the Evil and Son, Jesus Christ (Light = Child of Light), the Good. Such perversion should not be accepted for all the Christians. Father and Son are equal.

Moreover, the gnostic groups were eager for investigating the aporia, "What is God". The dualistc interpretation about God is also a result of the spirit of inquiry. The Church Fathers regarded such a intellectualism as the source neglecting faith.

Therefore, in Christianity, is deep-rooted the worrying that intellectualism finally makes faith facing a crisis. The gnostic dualism was taken over to the Paulicians, the Bogomils, and the Cathars via Manichaeism. It was giving a big threat to Christianity. And, the character of "unknowable knowledge" or the pursuit of "the hidden wisdoms = arcana" is connected with occultism or cabalism. Such thoughts continues up till the present day. Christians ought to overcome temptation of gnosis.

In addition, gnosticism has indication of resembling Buddhism. Truly, on the point of setting deliverance through spiritual enlightenment on the core of faith, Buddhism is similar to gnosticism. But, on the point whether it is premised on God or not, they are different fundamentally.

In Buddhism, unique and absolute Godhead is not accepted primarily. Human becomes the Buddha to the last. The Buddha is a delivered person and is not a deity. That is, the Buddha is an existence which must be reached certainly and an object which must be realized perfectly some day. So the dispute is only in a problem of the dimension in the methodology whether they have to forsake the world or not.

In Buddhism, the final goal Buddha can certainly be attained. So, Buddhism is a dualistic system which be closed by itself. But Most gnostic is Mahayana Buddhism (esoteric Buddhism) of the latter period, when the Cosmic Buddha was turned into the Absolute. Though the gnostic thought was banished as heretic in the Roman-Byzantine period, it seems that it got across to Buddhism by the medium of Manichaeism or Zoroastrianiam.

On the other hand, the gnostic heresy of Christianity is premised on the One. But created human beings are unable to understand the Creator, Lord, God completely. So then, the gnosticism must be an attempt to approach to the object which cannot be reached. It investigates the object which cannot be understood however hard it may be tried. This is the reasons why gnosticism is compared to a tree without a crop. In Christianity, Such an attempt to know Deity Itself is impossible and useless primarily. You should not carry out such an effort.

3 Evangel Is The Covenant of Jesus Christ

To Christians, faith is not understanding but being accepted by God. It is Christianity that accepted as a pious person by God, the Grace or the Blessing can be given and you can go to Heaven. And the essence of Christianity is in that it is the proof of piety to love God and to be loved by God only through Jesus Christ. Is required of Christians the undaunted belief that the love to the neighbors and the human beings reaches the love to God. In this way, thinking frankly, it will be said that theology or study of Evangel is an act contrary to faith.

However, does studying bring us a perfect mistake? Does Jesus Christ forbid us to inquire Evangel logically after understanding that study of Evangel itself is not faith. Study has a research of the essence of the substance and a pursuit of the relation of the phenomena. Although not the essence of God, it is allowed to study the relations between God and human, among Father, Holy Spirit and man, isn't it? Isn't theology or evangelology materialized as the latter, either?

For example, in Catholicism, the Grace of God can come out to be received only through the Church. This is because the fact that Jesus Christ ordered "Build the House of God, i.e., the Church" is thought as important.

On the other hand, although the Protestant does not necessarily make light of the Church, on faith it thinks the side of the contract of God and the individual as important. The difference in these positions caused the serious situations and sacrificed many victims. Not all occurred from the problem of the interpretation of Evangel, and many confrontations occured after the frictions of economy and politics. That is, there was the color of the class struggle, the challenge of the burgeoning industry class to the Catholicism which was grasping wealth and power in cooperation with the royal and noble rulers.

However, if there be no confrontations in the interpretation of Evangel, its developing into the religious strife must have been avoided. Probably, the stain did not need to be left on the history of Christianity.

In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God.(JOH 1:1)

The Word is Logos, that is, logic. Jesus Christ has the side of the logic itself of God. But logic is not an empty theory. Logic determines reality, i.e., substance. First of all, Evangel is the logic itself. Supposing the Gospels are the words of God, isn't study required to understand Evangel correctly? Since language is what is studied. Language could be contributed to love, though it is not needed for love. Jesus gave the Apostles the logic of Evangel. If you read the Gospels carefully, you can find all of it written in. From such a thought, the logic in New Testament should be explored focusing on the Gospels.

I will give you a mouth and wisdom,
which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist. (Luk 21:15)

Accepting Jesus Christ is believing Evangel, i.e., spiritual Evangelization. And it is also contracting with God. In this meaning, Christians is "the People of the Covenant". It might be the reason that Christianity does not have popularity in Japan, that Japan is not a society of contract. When you deal with the Euro-American enterprises, you will be surprised at the volume of the contract. In the Christian societies, the contracts is just everything to be believed.

There is no room for obligations and emotions to enter in the contract. In Europe, even democracy which looks like natural was understood as a "social contract", and was established at last. Making it misfortune, Japan keeps away from Evangel. The persecution and suppression over 3 centuries is the fountain of misunderstanding and prejudice to Christianity. It may be because Americans were the Christians, or even after the postwar period comes, the antipathy to Christianity continues.

But all the people have held the right to receive Evangel regardless of the race or the nationality since they were born as human. If those who face to Jesus Christ and Evangel frankly might increase in number, there are no other joys than this.

And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying,
All power is given unto Me in heaven and in earth.
Go ye therefore, and teach all nations,
baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you:
and, lo, I am with you alway,
even unto the end of the world.(MAT 28:18,19)

4 The Bible Was Written Holily To Be Read

You have to read the Bible, if you got interested in Christianity. First of all, for more 1,000 years since the Bible is materialized, only the elite was able to read the Canons. They are the cleric and the power. Ordinary believers did not know a letter. It became impossible to touch the Bible only through the homily by the priests.

In Europe, the relays of the mass are on TV on Sunday. We can see the Bible (Gospel) in the gorgeous book jacket hung up thankfully in the ceremony. It is shown that the Gospel, i.e., the Covenant of God, are here. Until Gutenberg made letterpress printing possible and Luther and so on translated into the native language from Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, common people did not have reading the Bible.

But they were clearly Christians. Evangel is not necessarily obtained by reading the Bible. It is enough from the talk of a priest or a minister. However, since now a large majority can read the Bible in Japanese, it is wonderful. Should you miss this chance? So, let's read the Bible.

How should the Bible be chosen? As for the Bible, New Testament is written in Koine Greek and Old One in Hebrew. And in Catholic, the Vulgate, the colloquial translation (St. Jerome translation) is the canon. That is, if you can read Greek, Hebrew and Latin, you can read the original Bible. But you do not have to read the Bible by the original text. The essence of Evangel does not necessarily change by translation. It is because It is a logic. The content does not change by the difference in tongue.

However, translation goes better or worse. It is said that there are ten kinds of numbers at least as for English translation of the Bible. Most spread is the King James Vversion (KJV), but some specialists criticize its translation. It seems that there are also some Japanese translations. Since I cannot read the original texts, I have no idea which translation is really the best. But you shall not become so much nervous. Generally sold one must have no fatal mistranslations.

5 The Gopels Are Not Histories

Then, although you take the Bible in the hand at full strain, the Bible has remarkable volume with Old Testament and New One united. Patience will be required if you are going to read it through from the beginning to the last. And for beginners, unlike the novel or the essay, it is not interesting. Your will get confused with the names of the men and the places which you do not understand.

Many people will be tired before arriving to the Gospel in which Jesus Christ appears from the Book of Genesis. And they may be convinced that they will not get Christians. That is regrettable. Therefore, let's read from the Gospel suddenly. Rather than, you should read from the Gospel first. For Christians, the Bible starts in the Gospel and finishes with the Gospel. It is because the Gospel has all of "the Wills of the blood of Jesus". Without The Gospel there cannot be no Christianity.

It turns out clear automatically after you read the Gospel, which positions the other canons take. Then, which Gospel should you read among the four Ones? You had just better start with Matthew's obediently and read Marco's, Luke's and John's in turns. Probably, the Gospels might have been arranged so that they could be read most easily, when the Bible were edited.

But probably, there is no necessity of keeping this turn absolutely. Since Matthew's is a little furious, to the beginners, it may be hard to read. Luke's may be better. In order that the people from Greece may read it clearly, Luke's is summarized in the style of a biography and its description is also objective.

However, John's might be the best for the last. Probably it must be the latest writing and it is better to be read with understanding John's theology. Moreover, although the genealogy of Jesus is described in Matthew's and Luke's, you can skip it at first. You shall never memorize it. It is because the essence of Jesus Christ is not in His bloodtree.

The importance is that you must not read the Gospel as a biography or a history book in reading it. "Testamnt" of New and Old One means "Witness" or "will", and the Gospels are the testimonies of the four Apostles. That is, they are not the text which describes the facts objectively. they are the manifestation of the individual faith of the authors . So to speak, the Evangelists swore and testified in court. They say, "Upon my honor, this is what I experienced with Jesus Christ, and it is all".

God exists all the time before the Universe started and after the Universe will finish. Therefore, there cannot be no history about God primarily. The Historical object is only the world of the creatures. So, you should not complain that the descriptions of the Gospels are not consistent as compared mutually. It is meaningless. For it is not a record. Since it is an individual testimony, there is some inconsistency naturally.

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6 Christ The Savior Blessed The Virgin

If you open Matthew's Gospel to read, you see the genealogy of Jesus Christ suddenly. Setting this aeside for a while, next you read the episode of pregnancy of Virgin Mary. Archangel Gabriel appears before Mary, Joseph's fiance, saying "congratulations, Mary (Ave Maria)" to tell her having conceived a child of God. This is Annunciation. Mary was embarrassed lovely. If you are said that you are having a baby innocently, you will get the jitters wholly.

Then, Gabriel appears also in Joseph's dream. When Joseph got to know that Mary became pregnant freely, he worried how he could cancel the engagement for her appearance. We would question closely and severely, but He has got man. Gabriel tells joseph that Mary has conceived not by human but by the Holy Spirit and the boy is in the destiny that he should be the Savior. Joseph believes the divine message and receives Mary to a wife.

If you cannot believe this Virgin Birth, you will not be a Christian. The period of the Roman Empire, there were criticisms and slanders that Virgin Mary's pregnancy was nonsense. That she would have had a love affair or would have been raped. By common sense, it is hard to think indeed. But pregnancy is possible even if there is no intercourse. Artificial insemination is performed frequently.

But a sperm is required for insemination. No sperms are used in Virgin Birth. It is pregnancy without a sperm. This is Incarnation. Hereditarily, Jesus is the clone which inherited only Mary's genes.

It is considered that it is determined in a fixed period after fertilization whether an embryo becomes a male or a female. It is unknown how the Y chromosomes were generated from Mary with only X chromosomes. However, Ffather is able of the stones to raise up children unto Abraham immediately, so that Jesus Christ may say himself. There shall be nothing impossible with God. In addition, Jesus Christ must not be under such an illusion of as He was a daughter. The child of God is Son. Jesus Christ call himself "Son of Father".

Some want to laugh this away, "It is not anything actual at all". That is, this is the first test of for accepting Jesus Christ. You have to know the following thing, in order to solve this problem. It shall be impossible for human to save itself. The Savior (Messiah) must be given from outside the humans. So there may be the opinion that the Savior will be an alien sufficiently.

But for the aliens it shall be impossible. It is because they are also created. Only the Creator Lord is to be the Messiah completely. It is the conclusion that the Salvation is nothing but the Atonement from the Sin, the imperfectness of the createdness. Some people believe in the savior of man or alien apart from Jesus Christ. However, supposing there is none who can save the world other than the Creator God, it is clear that there is no necessity of accepting the messiah of creature. Such a roundabout faith complicates your life in vain, and only keeps you away from the Kingdom of God.

...they were exceedingly amazed,
saying, who then can be saved?
But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them,
with men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible. (Mat 19:25,26)

The Universe of the creatures will be complete only after the Creator Lord is added. The more inferior world has a meaning with the more superior world. This incomplete Universe shall be accomplishable only with Jesus Christ.

I am the way, the truth, and the life:
no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also:
and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him...
he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; (JOH 14:6,7,9)

In this way, even though you accept the Virgin Birth, how Mary is positioned in Evangel differs greatly between Catholicism and Protestantism. The tendency that Mary was regarded as sacred has already come out in the 2nd century. They say that Jesus Christ raised up Mary to the Heaven when Mary died. In Heaven, coronated by Jesus Christ, she is the excellence next to Jesus Christ. This is the Assumption.

Jesus Christ is God, enough to ascend to Heaven by himself actively, but Mary was raised by Jesus Christ. This episode is not in the Bible. However, Beside the Canons, there are some documents called "the Apocryphas" in Christianity, and there are many revelatory documents further. The guess is that the consecration of Mary increased in public faith and involved the Church. Such Mary veneration, in the 16th century, was recognized as the formal doctrine in the form of Mary's being free from all Original Sin. If human carries Original Sin on the back, Mary will be the existence transcending human.

On the other hand, although Protestantism accepts the Virgin Birth, it thinks that Mary was not transcending by herself but blessed by Jesus Christ. If Mary has a virtue, she was blessed as the matrix by Jesus Christ. Why Mary was chosen is just "God knows". There might have been no other lady of the age in the blood of David. Anyway, Mary did not have any options. Mary gestated virginally not by her supernatural strength, but by the work, i.e., the miracle of God.

What role did Mary play in Evangel? You can hardly find out Mary's activities. Although she was blessed as Jesus' mother, ascertained the Crucifixion and the Resurrection and got filled with Holy Spirit, at these points, the Apostles are in the same rank. Any special work is not mentioned about Mary. Therefore, Protestant does not regard Mary as sacred. This serves as a big ditch between Catholicism and Protestantism.

From the first, Mary's freedom from Original Sin is the dogma materialized in the period when the confrontations of the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation intensified. It comes out from strong hostility and sense of crisis. Moreover, faith of Jesus Christ may grow week if Virgin Mary veneration escalates too much. Truly Christ was born from Mary, so it is not wrong to call Virgin Mary "Theotokos". But Mary is blessed because she was selected by Jesus Christ. Christ rases Mary, and she does not rase Him.

7 Christians Shall Never Doubt Christ's Being

Here let's describe the meaning of the Jesus' genealogy which Matthew and Luke described. As mentioned above, for ordinary believers, there is no necessity of going deep about what personalites of the ancestors are. These show that Jesus is the blood of David, i.e., Abraham's descendant. Why should Jesus be descended from David? It is the prophesy of Isaiah in Old Testament.

there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse,
and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:
And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, (ISA 11:1,2)

Jesse is David's father. In Evangel, Old One is the prophesy of Evangel. On the male line according to Matthew's genealogy, Jesus Christ can be descended from David and also Abraham. But this genealogy is just one on the formal family register of Jesus Christ. Because Joseph's blood is not flowing in Jesus Christ through one drop. Since it is the Virgin Birth.

So, there may be a criticism that Jesus Christ is not a descendant of David if it is the fact. But Luke covers that splendidly. Luke follows the female line of Jesus Christ and indicates that Mary is a descendant of David and Abraham. Jesus Christ is a offspring of David substantially since Mary's blood is flowing in Him. Luke was a doctor, truly.

But Jesus Christ did not think blood as important. He denied the reputation that he was a offspring of David.

David therefore calleth him Lord,
how is he then his son? (LUK 20:44)

He says the pupils are His true family rather than His parents, brothers and sisters.

whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven,
the same is my brother, and sister, and mother. (MAT 12:50)

Rather than anything, He told His pupils to teach all the nations not only the Jews. The blood which Jesus Christ shed in Golgotha was the colorlessness blood of God. This is the reason that Christianity is the universal religion. It is also from the same reason that Christians should be world citizens (Cosmopolitans) and brethren on the name of Jesus Christ.

Lots of people claim that Jesus Christ did not exist really in this world. First, they ground that there are no records and no archaeological proofs. But with no official or regular records, won't you believe in the actual existence? There must certainly have been your far ancestors, even if the family register does not remain. It cannot be convinced that there was not Jesus Christ, although billions of Christian are in the world.

Furthermore, some claim that Jesus Christ was a vision. They claim that all are dreams and phantasms from the Birth, Crucifixion and Revival. They trust such Jesus Christ. It is the thought leading to Unitarianism which accepts only createdness in Jesus Christ. After gnosticism, though there were lots of heresies in medieval times, the mightiest heretic groups, Paulicians, Bogomils and Cathari were negative to the reality of Jesus Christ.

The Crucifixion of Jesus is presupposed a hallucination in Islam. However, such an opinion does not belong to Christians any longer. It will become self-contradiction if a relativist declares that there is no absolute truth. It is what is called "liar's paradox". If a liar tells the truth "I am a liar", what will happen? Since his remark must be a lie, he will be an honest person. This is contrary to the premise that he is a liar. He has to keep telling a lie to the last. He must not tell the truth. As long as you do not accept absoluteness, you shall not declare that it is absolute. On the contrary, if you accept absoluteness, you have to accept absoluteness to the last. Those who accept Jesus Christ have to accept Jesus Christ thoroughly.

If you question whether God exists or not, and get the answer that He exists 70% and not 30%, can you be satisfied? God must be, or must not be. Nothing but them is not the answer. And God exists 100%, if He exists.

8 Created Is Destined To Be Judged At The End

Supposing the absolute Creator Lord is accepted uniquely and this world of the soul and fresh are created, the End must be in all the creatures. It is because the nature to be eternal should be the privilege of only God which is the Creator Lord and should not be allowed for the creatures. In all meanings, the created are limited and must not be infinite.

But probably, there might be some who think that semipermanence may be allowed even if permanence is impossible. However, to Christianity, the End is a judgment as well as a final. It is the Last Judgment. It is not only the last moment, and the evil is dropped on hell what is called, although the good and wrong are classified and the good is allowed to go into the Heaven. Why is such a judgement required? That is because God loves humans.

Although God loved Adam and Eve from the first, two was banished from Eden, because of disobedience to God. This is Original Sin. Human is an ex-convict.

But the God did not forsake men. He consider so that human might return to the same dimension as God someday. First, He chose the People of Jacob, Abraham's descendant, i.e., the Israeli, and made them covenanted with Him. This is Moses's Ten Commandments.

However, the Israelis were not able to meet the expectation of God. The prophets, such as Isaiah, were disappointed at the Israelis and anxious for arrival of the savior's, i.e., the Messiah. They had still connected hope with the glory of the People of Jacob-Israel.

But God did not presuppose any longer that the privilege will be granted only to the Jews. When God descended in the form of Jesus Christ itself, He blamed that the Jews betrayed the expectation of Father and presented the scheme which relieves all mankind this time. This is the Evangel.

How is the relation of New Testament shown to all mankind and Old Testament shown to the Israelis? There are four passages. The first, each of New Testament and Old Testament is repealed. The second, Old One is effective and New One invalid. The third, each of Old One and New One is validated. The fourth, Old One is invalid and New One effective.

Since New One is invalid, the first and the second cannot be adopted to Christianity. The first is of Islam and the second Judaism. In Islam, since Muhammad the Last Prophet revealed the third Covenant (Koran), the Bible has only the meaning as prophesy. In Judaism, Jesus Christ is the atrocious fiend who called Himself Son of God and the sinner who profaned God of Judea, so Evangel cannot be the Covenant. Therefore, the third or the fourth either will be adopted to Christians. Which will really be the right interpretation?

About this point, Christians have taken the fourth view. That is, first, supposing Old Testamen is still effective as the Covenant, the content that only the Jews are the People of God and the content that all mankind can become the People of God will collide. Furthermore, the meaning of New Testamen is weaken relatively. Since it is in New Testament that Jesus Christ appears, it is natural to think that New One is the only effective Covenant and Old One is just secondary. To this view, Some criticize as follows, the meaning of the fact that the People of Israel were the first chosen by God has not been lost yet, and also in Evangel, the Jews are in the position of leading the Christians. However, to be a Jew is a sin from Jesus Christ's speech and conduct in the Gospels.

And Jesus said unto them,
Verily I say unto you,
That ye which have followed me,
in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory
ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones,
judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
(MAT 19:28)

First of all, if the Jews had not disobeyed God, Jesus Christ would not have needed to come down on the ground and to bring about new language. In Evangel, the Jews must be survived to the End and be convicted in the End.

It is determined that the Salvation will be given to 144,000, every 12,000 by the Twelve Tribes of the Jews. Only they are becoming Christians and escape guilt. Christ came as a Jew to switch to the old Covenant to the new Covenant. The cult, Messianic Jew claims the third view. This is not Christianity but Messianism (Messiahism or Messianicism). They accept Jesus Christ only as the Messiah of Judea.

Surely Jesus Christ is the Savior, but he does not necessarily save only a certain specific race or group. The End is not invited only to the humans. It comes to all the Universe. That is, Jesus Christ will judge and relieve the whole creation. In the End of the world, excluding the souls of the Christians who can celebrate the new Passover, all the created beings shall be extinguished. And, the Universe is recreated and the world is completed by Christ. Christians are those who accept only New Testament to be the Covenant. One God, one Covenant, and one Covenant, one God. There is only one top in the mountain. They are other mountains if there are some peaks. Logically a Christian cannot be neither a Judaist nor a Muslim simultaneously. Old Testament was canceled.

Thus, although Evangel was shown as only one Covenant, There are those who accept it and those who do not accept it in this world. Those who did not accept it are the pagans except for the Judaists and the Muslims. What Judaism and Islam teach, I am not concerned. The pagans merely return to nothing. Moreover, even in Christians who accept Evangel, there are also those who break the promise.

If those who did not protect Evangel as well as those who were faithful to it are to be saved, that will be unfair. To those who broke the contract, a penalty must be given. That is, the Last Judgment is judging whether christians kept the Covenant or not, and an Glory will be given to those protect and a Punishment to those who do not protect.

In Heaven, Metatron, the clerk is recording all that Christians speak, conduct, think and feel. By him, all the names of the Selectee's allowed to go into Heaven are described in "The Book of Life of the Lamb Slain" from the start of a world. That is, God knows who is becoming a Christian and passing the exam. This is the Predestination.

However, if all is predestinated, might it not contribute nothing to go to church eagerly and donate much, mightn't it? But Christians cannot but act, believing to be saved. Since the Salvation is Jesus Christ's own discretion, humans have no qualification for complaining about the exclusive right of God. Destiny just rules all. But the hope of those who believe Evangel certainly will come true. Jesus Christ keeps the promise.

If things become like this, it is worrisome when the End will come. But Jesus Christ has pretended ignorance, "only Father knows". If the last time turns out, there is no feeling of tension. Without anxieties like "When may the End come, even by the end of tomorrow?", people will be inattentive in it being still OK. Since ordinary people are an idler, they do not move to action, unless it becomes just before.

After knowing the time of the End, people will neglect God, so Jesus Christ did not dare have taught it. Incidentally, there are two persons who told about the End in the Bible. Daniel and John. But John is not telling about the time of the End. He told what finally will occur. But Daniel had been taught from Gabriel about the time.

And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away,
and the abomination that maketh desolate set up,
there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.
Blessed is he that waiteth,
and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days. (DAN 12:11,12��

It seems that some fearful situations will happen on 1,290 days from the insolence called the execution of Jesus Christ. And for as long as it, more terrible times will pass by. It seems that and some glad results will appear in 45 days. Incidentally, terrestrial 1,000 years are one day for God. If it is so, time will still become a certain thing.

But it cannot be guaranteed whether it is as Daniel's prophesy. God knows the humans idle much. He may change His mind. Since in Christian life the chance is once, you have to pass through the gateway to Heaven as anything.

9 Christ Is The Only Way To Redemption

let's make it exact the meaning of Mankind having been atoned by the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ. All the humans have Original Sin. This is the previous offense that Adam and Eve disobeyed God and banished from Eden. You may doubt that Original Sin was cleansed by Jesus Christ having been charged with the crime and executed at the sacrifice of Himself. Indeed, Jesus Christ purified Original Sin of human beings.

But correctly, it did not necessarily disappear. Let's suppose that the offender was convicted and condemned to a penal servitude. Even if he served the prison term and leave jail, his offender's record does not cleared. The fact of having committed the crime cannot be erased. The Atonement of Jesus Christ is like an amnesty. But the criminal history does not become zero, even though there is an amnesty. In the meaning, there is still Original Sin.

But the meaning of Original Sin is not the same between before Jesus Christ and After Jesus Christ. Although Original Sin before Jesus Christ, i.e., the crime of Old Testament, was the crime of Adam and Eve, it was inherited by the genetic traits. It is the inevitable crime when a human was born as a human. Catholicism adheres to Mary's freedom of Original Sin, for supposing Mary was dirty with Original Sin, it means that Jesus Christ who inherited Mary's blood also was soiled by Original Sin. How can someone crrupted with Original Sin redeem others from Original Sin. The premise that Original Sin is inherited by heredity, i.e., the blood makes us think so.

But if Jesus Christ had not been inherited Original Sin, Human Nature of Jesus Christ would be weakened. That is, since Jesus Christ is perfect the neither more nor less as God and as man, unless He is charged with Original Sin as a man, it means that he is not perfect in the human nature. Therefore, if you admit that Jesus Christ is human completely, it will be natural for you to suppose that He has Original Sin. It will be satisfactory to comfirm that Jesus Christ wiped away His Original Sin with His having died and resurrected. So how did Original Sin before Jesus Christ changed, after redeemed by Jesus Christ?

At a word, Original Sin changed from the corporal thing to the mental thing. That is, Jesus Christ did not redeemed our Original Sin unconditionally. As collateral of accepting Jesus Christ and Evangel, He promised the Atonement. That is, for the mankind After Jesus Christ, Original Sin is not the Gilty of the flesh, inbred sin but the Gilty of the soul, acquired sin. Just Evangelization of the mental will be required of the humans after Jesus Christ.

If we do not accept the Covenant, Original Sin remains as spiritual impurity in us. The stain increases like cancer. Our mind will be spoiled and diabolized. You will be with Satan if you refuse Jesus Christ. Therefore, the Church gives a baptism to cleanse the sin in the soul. However, all of pagans will not participate in the Antichrist necessarily. Some pagans will be reborn in a Christian family so that they may get Christians, if they pay respect to Jesus Christ. In this way, many pagans are by the Recycling stepping toward Jesus Christ's way.

But a chance does not rotate to those who hate Jesus Christ. Rather, they are keeping away from Jesus Christ increasingly. Such sorting (Selection) is repeated in the Universe. And Christians and non-Christians, for generations, become a far existence mutually. Such selection is repeated till the lasttime which should come soon, and mankind is sifted and classified.

In addition, you must distinguish the Rebirth at the time of the Judgement when Jesus Christ advents from the Circulation of the soul by usual Recycling. Those who fulfilled life as Christian and got the ticket to the Paradise safely will not experience pain of the Circulation. If your name is described on the Book of Life, your soul will stand by in Heaven to the End of the World and prepare for the Judgement as the Celestial with Jesus Christ. Only people who do not have his name on the Book repeat birth and death, and continue beeing disturbed with joy and anger, humor and pathos. If it is disagreeable, let's accept Jesus Christ early and knock the door of the church. It is yourself who chooses.

10 God Descended To Love Humans

Now, the actual existence of Jesus Christ was affirmed, and when you read the Gospel, a question will boil. Jesus Christ calls out or prays Father-God. If Father (Abba) is Son and Son is Father, why does Jesus Christ need to address toward the heaven?

But in this point it can be grasped that Jesus Christ has tried people. He feigns as if Father-God were not Son Jesus Christ. And finally He revives and proves that they are equa. His body dimmed, the clouds broke, the sky opened like a rose flower and the Lord rose with dazzle and gleam.

while they beheld, he was taken up;
and a cloud received him out of their sight.(ACT 1:9)

However, the opinions which suspect the identity of Father and Son do not stop. There are made many opinions, such as "Father precedes Son", "Son obeys Father" and "Jesus was adopted to God". Or there were also made some more opinions, such as "Son is his Father's shadow", and "Jesus Christ has been a Vision". Such heresies is making us sick. As for misunderstanding about Christianity, especially among the Japanese, it is the opinion that Christianity is a loose monotheism compared with Judaism or Islam.

They say that that is, Christianity is an imperfect monotheism. They say that the Madonna veneration and the Sainthood system might be reasonable, because it can not be a strict monotheism. However, it is logically obvious that God is one and absolute primarily. A problem is how to explain the relation between God and the humans rather. Accepting that God is only one is a mere monotheism like Neo-Platonism.

But it is is the most important point in Christianity, Judaism and Islam how God has a relation with the humans, the monotheism beeing the natural premise. It is the key point how God presents human beings the Covenant and asks for faith although He is unique, absolute and supernatural. And here, Christianity, Judaism and Islam differ from each other.

The pagan insist often as follows: Because Judaists, Christians and Muslims believe in the only one deity. they believe in the same God after all; Yahwe, Christ and Allah is the same except the names; This shows that the pagan do not understand importance of the Covenant. The deity differs according to the Covenant. It is not a difference of the name. And, different Covenants are inconsistent logically. The same man cannot keep some Covenants. Anyone should choose one Covenant. It is a impoliteness and a blasphemy for anyone to keep some Covenants. Of course, it is possible for the peoples of different Covenants to hold in high esteem each other and to coexist peacefully actually.

First considered as the way how God shows the Covenant to human beings is choosing the representative from men and making him the Revelation described and told. It is Judaism. Yahweh found out Moses, taught him the Covenant and ordered him to tell the instruction to the people. That is, Moses is the messenger chosen by God.

In Ten Commandments, Moses himself has expressed none of his thoughts. He brought home the tablets which God wrote by Himself, showed them to everybody and appealed for the faith to Yahveh. After that, Moses transmitted from right to left always what God ordered him to perform to the People of Israel.

Moreover, as the second way, God dispatches to the humans the most trustable creature in Heaven, and shows the Covenant. It is Islam. Allah sent Muhammad His confidant as the deputy on the ground. The prophetic authority for describing and telling the Revelation of God was granted to Muhammad.

He asked the people to embrace God through him as the deputy of God. The terrestrials cannot conclude a promise with God directly, but accepts Allah for Muhammad as the only window to the last. Muhammad is the agent. Thus, either in Judaism or in Islam, the Covenant was revealed through the creature called a human being or a servant of God.

So, How is it in Christianity? In Christianity, Father descended on the ground for himself and showed the Covenant to the people directly. That is, the Creator Lord God got down to the human world. What a aweful and wonderful event it is. God came and told by Himself for the mankind who He loves, through neither a messenger nor a deputy. This is just the difference that Christianity differs from the other monotheisms. This is the basis that Evangel is the promise concluded directly between God and the humans. This shows that Evangel is the love of God, i.e., the Agape.

The Judaists and the Muslims blame that it cannot happen that God comes to this world directly. To this, a counterargument is brought forth as follows. If God does not appear on the ground and denies the relation with this world, why shall it be necessary for Him to require faith of the human being who will be ruined? He should just let the humans go, shouldn't He? Why does He has to contract the Covenant, and promise the Grace and the Salvation to this foolish creature? The earth is a dust compared with the whole Universe.

Probably, there is wealth of such extraordinary quantity as beyond imagination in this Universe. They all are belonging to God. And God can make it nothing and increase it also what 1,000 times in an instant. Therefore, God shall care about nothing of the mankind who lives in this small planet of the corner of the Universe.

Nevertheless He is taking care of human beings, that must be just so that He loves them. It is the same as A foolish child is darling for the parents. Although God loves the humans, therefore, He came as Jesus Christ, i.e., Son of man. It be thought in this way, it has no unreasonableness that Jesus Christ is a perfect human being and a perfect God. The views, such as "Son is His Father's temporary figure" or "Father advances Son" should not be realized.

Father is Son and Son is Father. Son is deduced from Father and Father from Son completely. Father and Son are completely equal. Even if Jesus Christ prays or listen to Father who is present in Heaven, seeming so to the bystanders, in fact, He are doing just a soliloquy or a persuasion. It is because there is none of slight distance between Jesus Christ and God, and there cannot be a dialog.

11 God The Almighty Concludes Trinity

Even if it is admited that there is the Deity and Humanity in Jesus Christ, there is an argument further about the way of its existing. That is, it is a talk about what has happened to these two natures in Jesus Christ. The explanation of Orthodox and Catholicism is that the two natures are completely compatible without conflicting. Another is the explanation, influenced by the Nestorians, that two natures are united indivisible. The former is Dualphysitism, the latter Miaphysitism. This confrontation is not essential and is a trivial argument for ordinary Christians. Incidentally, any opinion has overlooked the point that there is also spirituality in Jesus Christ in addition to deity and humanity.

it came to pass,
that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened,
And the Holy Ghost descended
in a bodily shape like a dove upon him,(LUK 3:21)

This must be pointed out although it seems out of consciousness. That is, in Jesus Christ, i.e., "Son", in uniquely indivisible "Unity", i.e.,"Trinity" completed fully all of "Deity", "Spirituality" and "Humanity". This is "the Completeness" of Jesus Christ. In Jesus Christ, everything is equipped completely and infinitely, without anything being missing. If even the equivalence of Father and Son is accepted, it is not difficult to accept Trinity. Since the three personas are not distinguished at all as "Father, Son, and Holy Ghost" in also Jesus Christ.

"Trinity" is translated into the "Three in One" in Japanese. You should keep in mind that it will be misunderstanding if it be read as "The three are in the one (1+1+1=3)". You have to read it as "The three are the one (1+1+1=1)". "Three" is the translation of "Persona" in Latin and "Hypostasis" in Greek. "One" is the translation of "Substance" and "ousia" similarly.

Trinity is explained with the concepts which seems to be difficult somehow in the Church. Although these are the terms of Greek philosophy, there is no necessity that ordinary Christians should adhere to such concepts. Since "Persona" and "substance" are the concepts for explanation. Even if you cannot understand such technical terms, you can go to Heaven perfectly. The logical content is more important than anything. Then, the equation "1+1+1=1" is not realized, you may consider. Truly it is not realized with "1". But with "�� (infinity)", it is realized as "��+��+��=��", so you shall feel easy. But infinity is only one of the attributes of God. "God = infinity" is not true. Please do not jump to the conclusion.

Thus, the translation of "Trinity" is well-kneaded. However, it is the comment of the content rather than the translation of "Trinity" itself, and there is no reality which is the most important. Moreover, in the world, it has already been understood as "The Three Things is in One". So, it will be better not to use in Christianity.

About Trinity, the truth is left away and the arguments are blowing off only from the nuance of the mere word. It is because there is "tri" meaning "3". The sensuous opinions have been overflowing that Christianity must take not "Trinity" but "Unity" in order to be a monotheism purely. What is called Unitarianism is the first roll of them. The Unitarians say deadly and blasphemingly that Unity is the most excellent on the premise that Trinity and Unity are incompatible. They are dragged by the words to be missing the truth. They can not understand that Trinity is Unity. Trinity is Unity, even if there is the element "3".

This is not the difficult talk. Although it is an allegory, nobody says that there are three triangles since a triangle has three sides. Rather, it is truth that it is not a triangle if it does not have three sides. Moreover, although a dice has six spots from one to six, nobody says that there are six dice. On the contrary, it should never be a dice without six spots. Therefore, it is childish of you to claim that He is the three gods since He is the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

In addition, also about the state of the 3 Personas in Trinity, there is a difference between Catholicism and Orthodoxy. The integration of the Personas is thought as important in Catholicism. The independency of the Personas is thought as important in Orthodox. As long as Trinity is thought the only Substance, this argument does not also bring so decisive a difference. In practice, it is because they are working sometimes integrally and sometimes fractionally.

In addition, in Hinduism, some explain that the three Gods, Brahma (Creation), Vishnu (Prosperity) and Siva (Destruction) are one in Brahman and this is "Hindu Trinity". But this is "Trimurti", a kind of modalism. "Father", "Son" and "Holy Spirit" are not either the parts, the actions or the aspects of God. They are not also the states like ice, water and steam. They are perfectly God, and each is equal and the same. The perfect Deity, the perfect Humanity and the perfect Spirituality are compatible in Jesus Christ. Because "Nature" of "Divine Nature (Deity)", "Spiritual Nature (Spirituality)" and "Human Nature (Humanity)" means "world" instead of "attribute". Since this world of Deity includes the world of spiritulity and the world of humanity community completely, it is possible for God to be Spirit and Man, though He is He.

Nevertheless, in the heresy and the paganism, many opinions are skeptical to Trinity. It seems that it is a touchstone of whether you can accept Christianity whether you can accept Trinity as it is. Muhammad blamed Trinity violently. There are not few who slander Trinity as a three-Gods theory even now. Since we are unable to understand God completely, when telling God, we should be careful to prevent fundamental mistakes at least. If you stand on the position of Jesus Christ's being God as a Christian, you have to accept Trinity as a logical conclusion. Those who cannot accept Trinity will not receive the Grace of Jesus Christ.

12 Love Is Valued By The Object

Why is it love, although Evangel is said the Covenant of Love? Why must the core of the promise with God be love? Accepting the Covenant is believing the Covenant. First of all, Faith is believing. Believing is an act. The value of an act is decided by the purpose. Although acts such as asking for evil and wanting a crime are the worst, asking itself and wanting itself is not a bad thing. The purpose is vicious and evil is a sinful. Since asking for justice or wanting good behaviors is good.

As for the negative acts such as avoiding or hating, It will be good, so that it aims reversely at vicious and evil things. It is not righteous to hate justice or to avoid good behaviors. On the contrary, it is good to hate injustice and to avoid wrong behaviors. Thus, although there are other various verbs showing an act, every act is evaluated in what it purposes. Then, the positive acts should become the highest, when the aim is the best. The negative acts should become the highest, when the aim is the worst.

So how is the value of the targets decided? There are countless purposes in the world, and people's sense of values is various. Some say that the family is important, and some the work is prior. Some presuppose that money is the treasure, and some gourmet is the life. The mainstay fathers work overtime till late on weekdays, and on holidays they take their wife and children to an amusement park. Anyone wants to feel relieved in an open-air onsen of a gorgeous cottage, or go to a first-class sushi-ya eating fatty tuna and sea urchin heartily.

The problem is not which is right and which is wrong. By the grown-up environments and the cherished views of life, the purposes of people's act are various and reasonable. At most 120 years, we can not do such a great thing. In the extent of the limited time, people only have living for oneself. Is it meaningless to take the purpose and value of life to task uniquely? If the matter comes out so, it will be suspected whether there is neither the highest nor the worst in the purpose. It is likely to be that we do so as we may want to do respectively.

However, we shall not do so. The humans have morals and ethics. There is what we shall do as s human and we shall not. There is what is better to do and is not. If the rank of the values is not accepted, a human will be no longer a human. The human atmosphere and the public air will be stagnating gradually. Although someone of intuition can notice slightly that there is something a little wrong, he does not understand clearly what is wrong, so he will neglect the matter.

In the meantime, the situations will be difficult to recover. And the catastrophe is coming. Like Sodom and Gomorrah, we will be burned to nothing finally. You can say, "Such a talk is a legend, and it should be the result of a natural disaster, even if the fact, not Heaven's Vengeance". But many states and cities were born and extinguished.

On the other hand, there are states and cities which remain for a long time. In Italy is San Marino. Although it is almost a city rather than a country, for 1,700 years, it has maintained independence. The dictators like Napoleon or Hitler were not able to interfere it. It has no strong army, no much population. When San Marino was founded, there was the Roman Empire. As that time, the empire was the strongest and the richest superpower in the world.

But the image of it can be seen only in ruins. Future 1,000 years after, nobody can expect what kind of countries and towns are on earth. We believe somehow that the towns and countries where we were born and grew up will continue all the time, but there cannot be found such a guarantee anywhere. There is no insurance to insure a state and a nation.

San Marino continues, because the consciousness for keeping the freedom of faith was so much stronger than the consciousness for protecting the state and the city itself. For St. Marino based the city in order to defend the Christian faith from the violent persecution by the emperor Diocletian at that time. The Church of Rome, Constantinople, Jerusalem, Antioch and Alexandria also remain in because of faith, being put into the ethnic rules, the pagan attacks and the antichristian misprisions. Even if it is created, the mental things are more permanent and more suitable for the object to protect than for the material things.

About all the positive acts, the same thing is applied. In order for an act to continue, the feeling of tension is required. When the purposes are material, the tension will be lost and lazy. However delicious potato you may eat day by day, you will be getting bored somehow. However beautiful lady you may meet day by day, you will be losing excitement somehow. It is just because a sympathy is owned mutually that the husband and wife last long. It will be disgusting to see a face, if the consideration is lost. The humans cannot live only with bread. It is created such. It cannot make a living, without choosing, asking, liking, believing and loving something. And there must be ranking also in the purposes.

13 Love Is Ordered By Faith

But the mental values are various. Plato thought beauty is the highest. Aristotle goodness. But otherwise, there are countless spiritual values, such as justice, righteousness, virtue, loyalty, happiness and sincerity. It is not generally determinable how they should be discriminated between them. Then, the ancient Greeck proposed "Natural Law". Although the actual law control only one country and organization, they thought that there was the law which governs the whole universe exceeding such the framework. And the Roman considered that the law of nature was justice. This way of thinking is inherited also in the present age.

The similar thought was also in the East. The ancient Chinese assumed "the Providence". Although the terrestrial ruler sovereign was the basis for governing the people, they thought that such majestiy could not opposed the heavenly command. And the thinkers of Confucianism or Taoism also considered that this Providence was justice. In this way, they thought if the ruler disobeyed the law of nature and Providence, a violent revolution should be unavoidable to overthrow the regime.

However, what is justice or not is on the humane judgment. Even if 99 of 100 judge that it is right and 1 of 100 judges that it is wrong, there is no guarantee that judgment of the majority is right. When there is a quarrel, everybody concerned actually believe that it has justice. For if it accepts its fault, it will apologize. Wars are justified by good reasons. Mutually they insist that they are righter. Therefore, they are warring. The same thing is applied to other concepts. For human beings, the answer of which is right or wrong and beautiful or ugly does not become settled in one. Humane judgment of the values diverges.

How is the rank of values converged? Faiths, morals and ethics offer the standard. That is, religion is "the Measure". The measure which measures the countless values in this world is offered. We can say, with no faith, the countless values are not arranged confusedly. With a faith, all the values will be arranged and come to stand in a line finely. When acting, we can judge what we have to do first. There will be cosmos with a measure, though chaos wthout a measure.

In monotheism, the highest value is God who is the Creator Lord. When setting God as the purpose of the acts, the acts become the best so-calledly. What God reveals makes the absolute and ultimate value. All the concepts are created, and will be put in sequence according to the distance from God. The Covenant is the measure of the values. It will be most valuable to choose, ask, like, believe and love God. On the contrary, the worst thing is Satan. It will be most valuable to hate and avoid the Satan. In Evangel, Jesus Christ teaches the love is the highest instruction.

At last it is because Jesus Christ who is God teaches so why the core of Evangel is the Love. Although "we reply to the question with the question", God is the answer by Himself and no others. Monotheism, i.e., the revealed religion, is such a thing. There is no only answer in the human world, and only God is the absolute respondent. It is a tautology about such systems. Usually, it is used by bad nuance that it is not explained.

But that the system is a tautology is that the system is not contradictory. The non-tautology is the self-contradiction, although those who blame the tautology must be based on the non-tautology. The tautology is equivalent logically to the consistency. If the answer corresponds to all the questions by 1 to 1 certainly, the question and the answer will be equivalent. That is, the system which can prepare the answer to all the questions is a tautology. Those who blame it cannot but commit contradiction somewhere. The non-tautology has logical breakdowns. By the contradictory logic, even if you can overcome an individual argument, you will be unable to reach the truth.

14 Love Is The Most Popular Act of Man

Explaining for those who can never be convinced, the love is the foundation of all the acts. The memory of the extreme happiness in Eden where we existed with God is inputted to us primitively. We cannot efface this memory, however we may do. As long as we are human, we cannot escape from yearning to the highest happiness. It serves as the volition and wish of loving, asking or wanting, and stabs and moves us.

The Love is the starting point. It is because the humans act focusing on the love. Love overcomes the gaps of everything, as race, nation, faith, creed. Love conquers everything. What is aimed changes with people in life. The objects of desire are various. But a human being is the living thing which is trying to love something. Therefore, Jesus Christ taught us to love from familiar existences.

First ourselves. It is loving yourself. For those who cannot love themselves shall not love the others. Why can a chef who cannot make his meal satisfyingly manage a restaurant satisfyingly? Next, it is families and relatives, such as parents, brothers, and spouses. Furthermore, the object is extended and it is neighbors. It is friends, people who live in the same community, citizens and nation. Neighbor love. It is not so difficult even here.

However, Jesus Christ requires that the object of love should be extended more. It is enemies. Since yesterday's friend is today's enemy and today's enemy are tomorrow's friends, so enemies and friends need to be loved equally. Enemy love. It is quite a difficult problem to love hateful persons. Probably, there are few people who can turn the left cheek when the right cheek is struck.

Ye have heard that it hath been said,
An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:
But I say unto you,
That ye resist not evil:
but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek,
turn to him the other also.(MATT 5:38,39)

In either Old Testament or Koran, it teaches, "Ruin the enemies", but it does not teach, "Love the enemies." Although Genocide is a modern word, in Old Testament, it is "hrm (herem)". Eradication of God, by God, for God. The enemies had to be made into the extermination.

Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to fight at Jahaz.
And the LORD our God delivered him before us;
and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people.
And we took all his cities at that time,
and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city,
we left none to remain: (DEU 2:32-34)

The other tribes cannot but be rooted out totally for survival in the ancient Orient. Under the severe natural environment, the intense struggle for existence was inescapable. It was the violent world for them to eat or to be eaten. Jesus Christ has taught that it is time to end such a thing. When the object extent of love is expanded, it is love for humanity. Human Love (philanthropy).

15 Love Gets Ultimate For God

In this way, as love is raised, it will result in ultimate love. Devine Love, that is, agape. Jesus Christ is teaching that loving is a continuous act, i.e., a convergence act. Uncountable are the objects of love, and by people they are various, but the limit does exist at one. And He tells, "The limit of love is love of agape, Love of CHRIST".

He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me:
and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father,
and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.(JOH 14:21)

Loving God is choosing God, asking for God, and believing in God. When the object is God, faith and love is completely coincident. Therefore, Jesus Christ taughtlove. Even if quarrels are caused by justice, not by love. 10 People have 10 justices. So, from justice, it is no wonder that justice goes to violence with the wars.

But it would be falsehood, if Christians claim that they fight for love. Only peace is born from love. There is no non-sum in love. If Jesus Christ is the highest purpose of love, it is only peace that can be drawn from Him. Hypocrisy soils love. It will disgrace the Honour of God that the wars are justified in the name of Jesus Christ. Although God also fights in Judaism and Islam, Jesus Christ does not affirm violence once.

But there is no signs that the humans will stop the conflicts, as well as the Christians. Is it the fate of the creatures which left the hand of the God? The created fall like the apple which left the branch. Probably, justifying the wars in the name of Jesus Christ at least should not only be carried out. When Constantine the Great won by Christ's mark at the Milvian bridge, he was not a Christian.

The wars for rights or resources will not disappear from this. In the past, we has performed almost all wars as business, and will do so from now on. But only Christians should avoid putting the responsibility for wars on God. The humans err, but must not make it caused by God. Also for you not to be censured with a hypocrite, there must not be any distortion as if Jesus Christ approved of war. If you surely fight, you should be aware of fighting against Jesus Christ. However foolish the humans may be, it is the reason of createdness, not Jesus Christ.

Although the celestial shepherd gave his life to the terrestrial sheep, he cannot save the sheep which refused the life. Fighting is contrary to the commandment of the love of Jesus Christ, whatever circumstances there may be. There is only confessing and repenting that. Because it is less sinful for the creatures to shoot at the creatures, than to spit at the Creator Lord.

Church Test Life

16 Only Good Churches Baptize Man

If you accept Evangel as the Covenant, Virgin Birth, Original Sin, the Atonement, Trinity of Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and Jesus Christ's Agape, the Evangelization of your soul will be attained mostly. You should receive baptism to be a Christian in the name and reality before putting faith into practice. For that purpose, you must knock the gate of the church and get baptism by the cleric.

This is a surely required initiation. It is because Jesus Christ ordered the Apostles baptizing all the nations. The Apostolic role has been covered and inherited by the cleric for 2,000 years. What will remain at the End is only the house of God. While you are straying, you are dying. But once you start staying and praying, you will never be dying. For your life will be got something new with Jesus Christ. This is Regeneration.

First of all, you better look for a church at your familiar places. Although only the telephone book was usefull once, the internet makes it more convenient now. You can find many churches. But since there are various groups, you will waver. First of all, you waver by the Catholic and the Protestant. Because in Japan you can seldom find the Orthodox churches.

The Roman Catholic Church has the basically common doctrine and ceremony all over the world. Since "Catholic" means "universal", the management of the church is the same in spite of the difference of states and nations. It is the hierarchy which has the Pope as the top leader, and the biggest group which holds 1 billion believers in the world. The doctrine is also refined, and the churches are also beautiful and splendid. If you expect the stable organization and backbone, you had better choose the Catholic Church.

There are variations in the Protestant Churches. First, there are many groups. Methodists, Baptists, Anglicans and Evangelicals are big, and furthermore many various and independent groups. I went to the church of Methodism which was in the neighborhood, and accepted Evangel. And I was baptized at another independent church, because I changed my address. Both have a good minister.

But the independent churches are strongly characteristic of being managed by the minister's personality. Although there cannot be no defferences in the orthodoxy, some ministers may give the sermons filled with prejudice or dogma. If you knock the gate of such churches, you might be unable to recover. Some who abuse the position as a cleric may be also in the church. Also in order to support the view of looking for a good church, you need to accept Evangel also individually. Since Jesus Christ returned to Heaven, Satan has utilized the evil churches. John reproached the churches.

He that saith, I know him,
and keepeth not his commandments,
is a liar,
and the truth is not in him.(JO1 2:4)

The Christians are required of the eye for recognizing a pure church. A dupe is a devilish victim. He will be Satan's duck. You must discern those who deify Satan though hanging up the signboard of the house of God. It depends on teaching the orthodoxy exactly whether it is a good church or not.

Especially in the case of an individual church, since there is no means to check how to teach for no problem, special attention is required. But what is the orthodoxy? It is the right interpretation of Evangel. It was established over long time by the effort of the blood of the Apostles and the Church Fathers who accepted Jesus Christ. It is collected in the form of the Creeds in the ecumenical councils held several times in the past.

Let's keep in mind that some Protestant churches are not necessarily faithful to the orthodoxy. It will be denying the history of Christianity to neglect the results of the great leaders who yielded to neither the persecutions nor the suppressions. It is wiser not to become a church member immediately before discerning the services and the sermons. Irrespective of the Catholic, the Protestant, the Orthodox and others, the church is the cleric. It is the most essential point of all whether they become kind to the believers.

Usual heretic groups have a founder, who says, "I am a revival of Jesus Christ." But Christianity has no other founder but the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And Christ is God, so He never revives. He is immortal and unchangeable eternally. As in the Gospel, it is the blasphemy against jesus Christ, the worst crime for everyone to claim that he is the revival of Jesus Christ. Once you take part in these kinds of heresies, you will never be redeemed. Your name on the Book of Life will be blacked off. You will be a member of the Satanic race, and be cursed to anathema till the Last Judgement. You should be careful enough.

Although the believers are the lambs, all the clerics are as good shepherds as Jesus Christ was. The evaluation of the cleric is decided with whether they are making effort to lead the believers to the right faith. Even if the believers are foolish sheep, they can take in perfectly whether the church is the good leader. Although they follow an eager shepherd gently, if he is idle, they will move about just as they like.

17 Church shall be Kept With Donation

There is a contributory problem in the church. It seems that there are some churches forcing contribution. If it is forced, it is not donation but collection. It is the same as tax. In Judaism there is "tithe", which is obligatory. But although Jesus Christ did not necessarily deny tithe, he did not take it as duty. Rather, He regarded as hypocrisy the attitude that it is good enough if only the tax is paid.

In Judaism, although the cleric can also do business, Jesus Christ forbade that the cleric did business. Throwing all away, the family, the relative and the property, the cleric is determined to follow Jesus Christ. Therefore, management of the church must be provided with the donation from the believers. The house of God is "Everybody's House".

But to the last, the donation must be optional. The church is not able to make commerce, though it can do self-supporting. The seculars have to support the church. The feeling to back the church all together supports the finance of the church. The believers should determine the time and the mount of contribution by himself. Although I have hardly contributed until now, when I die, I am going to contribute all the property for the church. I want me to be buried in the graveyard of a chapel, that will be realized in a foreign country since I do not like cremation. Although I am undecided in which country I will be buried, I am planning to make contribution into the fund for it.

Although you are also splendid to donate every week, you should not be self-conceited by contribution. Neither the amount of money nor the volume of value to contribute is the standard of the gravity of faith or salvation. Indeed, Jesus Christ admired those who contributed all the living expenses. Simultaneously He blamed rich men for going into Heaven difficultly.

But He compared their faith to the last, and did not make an issue of the amount of money. It will be just economy if there is no backing of faith, however the donation may be a large sum. On the contrary, even if the contribution is a small sum, with strong faith, it has high value. To Christianity, property has meaning only after there is backing of faith. A heart incurred with money is a cheap one. Probably, Jesus Christ did not blame rich men, if they had sufficient faith. The Church ought to make the use of the contribution from the believers for Evangelization, not for luxury.

That is, all the wealth of the universe is possession of God, and human beings have only borrowed the small part of it. Anywhere on the earth or in the universe, there are no and no places which do not belong to the territory of God. Even if you pay the tax to Caesar, at the last, it is the same as you return it to God. And the humans have to return all the property to Jesus Christ someday at the Last Time of the Universe. It is also the mental property as well as the material property. Therefore, Jesus Christ admonished that the Jews also needed to pay the taxes to Rome.

After another 1 millennium passes away, nobody can tell exactly which nations and enterprises will be in this world. But there is only one positive thing. It is that the Church will remain till the End of the world. The company will do nothing, if you resign. The state will do nothing, if you die. If you have some money to be paid to the nation, you should contribute for the Church. The Church proves that you was a Christian from death to the End of this world.

18 Marriage Blessed, Abortion Cursed

And let's talk about marriage, for Christians the marriage is not just a registration. You must keep in mind that a legal problem and a religious problem are completely different. That is, it does not mean having got married as Christians only to submit a marriage registration to the public office.

If husband and wife do not promise their love in front of Jesus Christ at the church, it is not a marriage. Even if they are recognized as husband and wife socially, if not by the church, they shall not get married. On the contrary, if they hold the wedding at the church and promise love in front of God, they will accomplish marriage as Christians. Even if they do not had their name entered in the family register, they are husband and wife whom Jesus Christ recognizes.

That is, 3 methods are in marriage. Ecclesiastical marriage which God blesses, legal marriage (registration) which the public office attests and de-facto marriage (common-law marriage) which the world recognizes. Ecclesiastical marriage is sacred marriage or blessed marriage, but legal marriage and de-facto marriage is secular one. They can say that they get married truly as Christians, only when they hold ecclesiastical marriage.

The condition of ecclesiastical marriage is that it is done by the couple of legitimate Christian man and woman and with the blessing of Jesus Christ. For example, in case of a homogeneous couple, even if they get married formally at a regular church, it will not become ecclesiastical marriage but de-facto marriage. To shut out Homosexuality which is not for fulfilling bestial sexual desire of the Church completely is contrary to the mind of Jesus Christ who healed the sick. The Church ought to heal the sick.

In homosexuality some are the sick cases which are based on the hereditary or mental causes. Therefore, a homosexual is also able to be a Christian. This is same as other physical and mental diseases. But hopelessly ecclesiastical marriage, i.e., marriage in the Name of Jesus Christ must not have been materialized in a homosexual. Jesus Christ does not borne in mind marriage by the homosexuals.

Also in the couple whose both or each are non-Christian, it is the same. Moreover, the Christians, if their both or each were divorced by their infidelity, will not be able to accomplish ecclesiastical marriage, since they does not deserve receiving Jesus Christ's blessing. Supposing those who were not Christians became Christians, how many times they may have been married in the past, they can receive ecclesiastical marriage. It is because the past marriages were not ecclesiastical marriages. If the man and woman whose both or each are non-Christians convert to Christians baptized exactly, they have to hold wedding anew at the church for ecclesiastical marriage.

At this point there shall be some differences by the church, so please consult with a minister or a priest for details. In addition, marriage is not an indispensable condition for Christians. Keeping single, of course, does not make it impossible for you to be a Christian. But if you will not keep virginity, you should get married and have children.

Now, to Christianity, you have to understand that marriage is a sacred act, i.e., the faith itself. It is not a mere documents procedure.

And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him,
Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife?
tempting him.
And he answered and said unto them,
What did Moses command you?
And they said,
Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away.
And Jesus answered and said unto them,
For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.
But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;
And they twain shall be one flesh:
so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.
What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
And in the house his disciples asked him again of the same matter.
And he saith unto them,
Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another,
committeth adultery against her.
And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another,
she committeth adultery.(MAR 10:2-12)

This is a severe comandment. If Christians get married in front of God, they will not be allowed in principle to be divorced. Please do not get married in a random feeling. Because ecclesiastical marriage is not a fleshly intersection but a spiritual combination.

However, if your partner has already been adultery, since sacredness of the marriage will be lost, you can be divorced. Moreover, when your companion converts or apostatizes to non-Christianity, since there is no reason why the marriage with a non-Christian should be maintained, you can be divorced. Moreover, if you have not yet held the ceremony at the church and only kept a mere legal marriage or a de-facto marriage, since you were not connected before God, you can be divorced. Since you are divorced guiltlessly in these cases, you can be remarried at the church.

Moreover, when you are divorced unilaterally by your spouse with no faults, since you are also guiltless by yourself, you can be remarried at the church. On the other hand, those who were divorced owing to their fickle or extramarital affairs cannot be remarried in principle at the church. You might suppose changing your church would allow you to be remarried, but the redenomination for the second marriage is a law evasion. Registration and common-law marriage are no problems in Japan. It is because these are unrelated to faith. However, in some countries marriage registration does not be received with no proof of the church, so be carefull in the case of an international marriage. Although marriage means being involved in the partner's society and culture, you must not forget that the marriage with a Christian is the relation with God.

Internationalization progresses and the foreigners have become less unusual also in Japan. Once there was a time of the prejudice that the foreigners are all American. Now, people come from all over the world. It is less special that Japanese people also work or live in foreign countries. It is in the condition of getting used to foreign culture.

But let's be cautious also of unexpected traps. In particular, it is a religious problem. Japan imported the framework of fundamental civilization from Euro-America. But the essence is "wa (compromise)". In religious matters this can be seen most strongly. Most Japanese people are "pagans" in the world.

The word Paganism means more than the level of being faithless, irreligious and atheistic. This sounds including more disgusting feelings, insult and dislike. When the Japanese who do not believe in revalatory religion have certain relations with foreigners privately and officially, they better keep this in mind. Religious prejudice is more fearful than racial or national one. This is not recommended in Christianity. Because Christians should touch with the pagans in principle with tolerance and affection.

But this cannot be erased so easily, so it is actual hopelessly. In foreign countries they have the absolute standard, "a believer or a non-believer", as a measure which measures other people. Believers are those who believe in unique and absolute God, and non-believers are those who are not so. Although this measure is not so much conspicuous, it comes out to the surface by chance nowadays.

For example, it has been well-known common sense in Japan that monotheism is exclusive and intolerant. But this is surprising nonsense in the world. Not better have such a discussion intelligently and carelessly with the faithfull Christians or Muslims to keep yourself safe. It is common sense in the world that no existence is so much filled with affection as God with faith.

When you deny this, you might be considered as a profaner and should be killed many times. It is a common view extralegally that blasphemy is more felonious than any crime. This is a problem precedent to the laws and the morals. If you want to associate with the world safely regardless of faith, you should stop showing off knowledge imprudently. If you want to argue so, do at the risk of desperate. It is a very delicate domain. In short do not speak ill of God carelessly.

For Christian women, abortion is a big problem. It is not allowed evangelically. First, although it becomes conroversial whether an embryo is human or not, if it is human, of course, abortion is homicide. Even though it is an organism which is not human, it is a special life object which is potential to be human. If it is such a special life object, you should secure human character equivalent to a human.

And even though not desired to be born by a certain reason, all the embryos have the right to be born as a man. All the embryos have the right to receive Evangel. Directly, the embryos can be said that it is a human evangelically. Because it has already been created as a human, and the problem is only whether it is in its mother or not. It is felony that the parents take an opportunity for the children to receive Evangel unilaterally. In Christianity, there is a right to produce, but there is no right not to produce. It is because the right not to produce is the same as the right to kill. If you are a Christian, you need to bear a baby as it being another whether you raise or not.

However, in pregnancy by vile crimes, such as rape, women are burdened too large. Moreover, the babies are pitiful, if they are not brought up carefully in case of economical difficulty or contraceptive nonfeasance. In these cases, welfare backup is required. For example, it is made to submit notice to the organization before birth. The organization should be managed by the private enterprise of Christianity, if it is possible, the church.

On condition of ultimate abandonment of the child-parent relationship, the organization takes over the children. In Christianity, the blood relative is not essential to the humans. It is not neglecting the family relations of parents, children, brothers, etc. But the principia which controls the human relations is love. The children can undergo evangelic education as Christians. If hopeful, foster parents are also available. However, probably, the organization has to participate in adoption, since there is also a possibility of prostitution, internal-organs dealing, etc. The social position and the economical backbone of the applicants should also be investigated. It stands to reason that they are Christians. A severe penalty should be imposed when adoption fails.

19 God Does Not Touch The Human World Till The End

If you become a Christian in Japan, many frictions with the surroundings will occur. For an atheist, since God is a hallucination or delusion, religion is the same as a mental disease. And since Christians are a minority in Japan, their inconvenience is also particular. Christmas and Easter are not Hollidays.

But freedom of faith is secured. There are not so severe harassments or persecutions as in some Islamic countries. In either Egypt or Indonesia, even if the case which aimed at the Christians occurs, criminal investigation is not carried out directly.

But it cannot be declared that in the future such a situation may not occur in Japan. Those who committed a mistake once may commit a mistake again. Such a state as forbade Christianity openly and officially and oppressed the Christians over 3 centuries is only Japan in the world. Japan suffered for this in the 20th century, but it is still inadequate. Even if the law allows, God does not allow. If man does not judge, God does.

Although priority to any human rights is given to the freedom of thought, faith, which is inviolable absolutely, is the base of all the thought. First of all, the freedom of religion is the origin of the human rights, what is said. The freedom of faith is supreme as a human right. If there is no freedom of faith, no human rights will be realized. Faith is the basis of the right and freedom of humanity.

Those who do not confess the freedom of faith should be identified with the devils rather than those who do not confess faith. The separation of religion and politics is also a system for securing the freedom of faith. Under any organizations, the people have the right to determine the basic point of the country. Therefore, the people are able to determine the state religion.

Religion is also culture. At least, once such a decision is made in the regular procedure, it must be recognized. Establishment of a specific religion and separation of religion and politics may be compatible. However, sufficient allowance will be required for securing the minorities the freedom of religion, if a state religion is decided.

Although democracy determines things by majority, it is not a system where the minorities may be disregarded. It is because it will become totalitarianism if all the minorities are eliminated. Totalitarianism is a result of majority changing into unanimity. Democracy is democracy just because it esteems minority. There are some small Christian groups also in the Islamic areas. They are overwhelmed minorities and most Islamic nations are not democratic, so it is not easy for them to keep faith. The effort just deserves praise of praise. Naturally their names are in the top of the Book of Life.

In Japan there is a de facto state religion, mixed syncretisticly, of which substance is not well known whether it is Shintoism or Buddhism. Moreover, in Europe and America, although Christianity is the de facto state religion, but most countries have not adopted the state religion system legally. The actual establishment of religion and the separation of religion and politics are not necessarily exclusive.

However, special consideration is required for securing the freedom of religion. Oppressing and persecuting faith of other religions like Christianity must be avoided. Required is effort to secure the freedom of religion for the faith which is not the state religion.

However, individually this system of the de facto state religion is like an escape from an important problem. Religion is also culture. The people have the right to determine themselves what kind of religion is set as the core of the national thought like the problem of the history or the tradition.

But once a state religion is accepted as the establishment, the world tends to be unfair at the non-state religion faith. Discrimination and suppression surely takes place to the non-state religions. Actually, probably, such ways might also be unavoidable. And establishing a state religion is a state intervention in the metaphysical problem? It is not always so. It is possible for religion to keep autonomy under the state religion system. That is, it is enough to respect the religious aoutonomy. The state should esteem the religion which the people chose.

For Christians, what is necessary to just be concerned with politics or economy induces conflicts frequently. There was the same worry also for the Apostles who accompanied Jesus Christ. While Jesus Christ was teaching, it was enough to be faithful to Him. After succeeding the authority which commands the Christians from Jesus Christ, it became serious how to cope with the actual problems. Saying the conclusion, we can only act according to belief.

Jesus Christ is not in politics nor economy. It is because all belongs to Jesus Christ. Whom they choose the king or what they make profit from Jesus Christ has left to the people till the next time He will come back. If it is not the Establishment which forbids God worship, it cannot be said anti-Evangelical. Peter has also recommended following the present regime first. He has admonished, "Honor the king."

20 Man And Woman Is One In Evangel

However, in democracy the people should oppose the regime by revolution, i.e., violence, which takes away the human rights especially the freedom of faith. Is this contrary to the instruction of Peter? Do the people have to live like a slave? I consider that Peter taught that we should follow the king or the regime as long as it was faithful to Evangel strictly. And when the organization is anti-Evangelical, we should get martyred rather than take the solution by violence.

However, probably, establishing a new regime which suits Evangel by oneself might not be denied. Since the justice or the power cannot be absolute in this world, it is just to be decided with the people's intention what kind of system they choose. Lincoln defined the sovereignty of the people as "The Government, of the people, by the people, for the people". This means that the terrestrial supremacy, which is left to the people instead of God, should be used by the people's hand and for the people's happiness. I also approve of this.

Moreover, Peter is teaching that a wife needs to follow a husband. Paul is explaining that women should follow men. Does this suit Evangel? In today's advanced nations, since sexual equality is basic, in actual life, it becomes a problem. Also about this point, we should act according to belief. It is not what Jesus Christ decides what kind of role a man and a woman can be given in home or society.

In the era of Peter and Paul, predominance of men over women was natural. Probably almost all the people of the world thought that it was natural. Therefore, probably, Peter and Paul also recommended so. I do not think that it is a mistake to put one side on a higher rank from another side. Because such a period was also long and even now the male preference may be more common in the world. What is necessary is to discuss and decide all together.

To this, Eve has made of Adam's rib, so some may bring forth a counterargument that the woman is more inferior than the man. And some say, if Eve, tempted by the Serpent, did not eat the fruit of wisdom, humans did not need to be banished from Eden.

But, even if Eve is made of Adam's bone, the materials do not differ in Adam and Eve. If Eve lost Satan's temptation because of herself, why didn't God banish only Eve? Why didn't Adam refuse the fruit? That is, Adam and Eve are in complicity and equally guilty. If a man and a woman are not a pair, they are not humane. Jesus Christ does not discriminate a man and a woman. He contacted the men and the women and cured their sickness equally. It will not be Evangelic to force all the crimes on women. Those who are to be saved will be saved and those who are not to be saved will not be saved, whether male or female.

21 Evangel Deny Every Evil

Probably Christian's ethical consciousness must be higher than ordinary people. The gnostic dualism does not always deny Evil. Because denying Evil is losing the significance of Good. Heros of justice are free without bad lots. Clerk Kent has no chances to be the Superman, so he remains just a common reporter, whom the beautiful woman does not have anything to do with. In Christianity, Evil is lacking of Good and is minus Good, so it should be denied in all meanings.

Nietzsche was an typical Antichrist in the 19th century. His philosophy Nihilism is Buddhism. And it is also gnosticism and relativism. It denies the absolute and unique existence, and claims that everything is vain (naught) in nature. Nietzsche uses concepts of Buddhism like karma(Eternal Cycle) and Buddha(Superman) as the essential dogma. His philosophy is not new to the Japanese.

Nietzsche was generous for Evil. For in gnosticism Good and Evil is relative as well as big and small. Good is something less evil and Evil is something worse. And in Evangel Good and Evil is different logically. Good is good and Evil is evil like plus and minus. Evil must be denied.

22 Passion And Will Promises Salvation

Civilization has various temptations. Human is human even if it becomes a Christian. It is not necessarily wide released from greed, appetite, sex and other various desires. A large majority of Christians leads life commonly, straying, suffering and joying.

At this point, it does not differ from pagans. Occasionally, there are some persons who run to a crime or antisocial action. Losing a desire, they may do anti-Evangelic acts. Probably at such a time, they becomes disagreeable by himself. But it is wrong to blame oneselves.

Shakyamuni made the desires wrong and taught conquering them. In Buddhism, they say that humans can obtain spiritual enlightenment and be delivered, with all the value denied and all the desires extinguished. This is a kind of invalidationism or nihilism. Originally nothing is worthless.

But when they claim that nothing is valuable, they shall surely claim that there is something good also in wrong. Because the logic is the same. Therefore, a nihilist certainly turns into a devil worshiper. But Jesus Christ has not necessarily denied the desires. Rather He teaches that we should convert the desires into the energy for God.

However we can control the desires by practice, we cannot find happiness where God is not. Trying to dismiss avarice in the fields and mountains is just self-satisfiction, not uselessness. Also in Christianity, there are some denominations like religious orders, which think abstinence as important.

But they respect quality matter, in order to concentrate love on God. It is not abstinence for abstinence. Agape cannot be reached with mere stoicism. First of all, as long as humans have instinct and sense, they cannot make the desires into naught. Because all the desires are the work of instinct and sense, and the function of life. The desire is a proof of life. Instinct and intention are the vestiges of Original Sin.

When Adam and Eve had been in Eden, they were free from all the desires and intentions. They were just able to live a happy and peaceful life semipermanently. No hunger and nakedness could not be shameful. They could be unconscious that they were a man and a woman, that is, without being caught by Eros. But two expelled from the Paradise, and as the compensation, it became impossible for humans to ignore the instincts and the desires. The needle of the time cannot be returned by the creatures. That is, desire and intention is the proof of humanity.

however we may conquer our desires, it is impossible for us to drink and eat nothing for life. Probably, it will also be impossible to put up with pisses and feces. Teaching "The world is transitory" and receiving offering, teaching "Deny the desires" and building the temples, isn't it self-contradiction? Saying that life is pain and trying to live just is surely inconsistent. The world shall be empty, however you may be training, if the world is empty. In fact, nothing is wanted, saying "deny avarice", isn't it?

It is hypocrisy to ask for the Paradise with ordering to be disinterested. When the desires are subtracted from humanity, what will remain? Those who claim that nothing is something are the Satanists claiming that wrong is good. It is denial of humanity to deny the desires and wishes. Faith is sake for being human for humans. Faith for humans to become inhuman is self-contradictory. Faith must fruit humans, not kill them.

Faith of Christianity is trying to approach the act of asking for the love to the highest value of Jesus Christ and the love of God after affirming life and avarice. Gentle is will to be rich, big and successful in life. What is wrong of desire to live in a large house, to eat a delicious thing and to wear beautiful clothes?

Neither Evangel nor Salvation is given to those who do not ask from the bottom of their heart. And those who ask from the bottom of their heart are certainly given. Since asking is suffering, passion is enthusiasm. Love is wanting hotly and believing thickly. And as long as the compass of love and will continues being turned to Jesus Christ, the ship of life will not miss the heavenly port.

If ye abide in me,
and my words abide in you,
ye shall ask what ye will,
and it shall be done unto you.(JOH 15:7)

Christians can do anything which is in the extent of the laws, morals and ethics. That is, volition itself is not wrong.

But the values of volition are decided by the purposes. Even if you run to wrong as a result of desire, it is not the result of the desire itself. It is because you are contrary to the law or Evangel. If you are a Christian, don't attach rank to every act and always don't forget Jesus Christ and Evangel.

Important is not giving up the Salvation to the last. You shall not becoming desperate. When you give up, the stairs to Heaven will be disrupted. Even Peter also disregarded the Lord threetimes. Dismas who went into Heaven first was a sinner. Although he was crucified with Jesus Christ as an offender, since he accepted Him, he was promised Heaven on the cross. Everyone does not necessarily be given this grace.

But Christians shall only confess and believe. Wrongness is lacking something righteous. Jesus Christ has all and does not miss anything at all. "Perfect and complete" is the description for Jesus Christ You cannot reach Heaven with suicide. It is because suicide is abandonment of Evangel. It is as guilty as apostasy. It will be bad to try to patch up poorly. Jesus Christ hated hypocrisy.

The worst is that a bad man makes a good man of himself. You shall accept that you committed a crime obediently. God cannot be deceived not like man. By the immigration of Heavenly Jerusalem, let's pray and wait for the angel to push a stamp on your passport. In others, there are many scenes where Christians should worry in actual life. Please consult with a priest or a minister, and discuss by the believers, and get over. Even if you do not work by the world, you shall not hate it. If you are Christians, even if you separate in this world, you can meet immediately in Heaven. "I'm waiting for you in Heaven" is Christian's watchword.

23 Faith Gets Stronger By Confession

Words are lacking if we mere the creature want to try to tell about our Creator Lord Jesus Christ, i.e., God. About the interpretation of Evangel, the quarrels and the arguments may arise and the confrontations and the divisions may be caused.

But even so, if we become negative to tell about Jesus Christ and coward at faith of Him, that is not what He will desire. Based on the direct Covenant with Jesus Christ, Every Christian has the right and obligation to believe and tell about Jesus Christ. If you do not agree with others and may be contrary to the authorities, Christians must not give up Jesus Christ. Because the Creator Lord Jesus Christ finally determines whether you can go to Heaven or not.

You can not but believe that the door of Paradise will be opened. Once, many rose in the Heaven perfectly, while they were pushed a heretical brand. For example, do not forget Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc), Galileo, Descartes, etc. Among the brethren, even if there is discord of opinions, be strong, and strive for mutual understanding and respect. Life is short and faith is long. You should not hurry things too much. If Jesus Christ does not change His mind, there is still plenty of time.

I keenly realize my weakness and unripeness thoroughly. But as a Christian, I have qualification for confessing faith, desiring salvation, repenting crime, and testifying for truth. Faith is the fulfillment responsibility for the Covenant. The responsibility for faith is just to God. Therefore, if I have incurred Jesus' anger with this, I ask compassion and permission from the bottom of heart.

24 Life is Pilgrimage

Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. ( MATT 24:35, MARK 13:31, Luke 21:33 )

The End of the world shall come at the last of long passion. When every thing shall be judged and heven and earth shall be extinguished, the world is recreated and completed by Jesus Christ. And, in New Passover celebrated with Christ, the Love of God is reached. All shall be given and none shall be lost any longer. Thus Evangel is accomplished and the Covenant is fulfilled.

Life, short or long, is pilgrimage for those who receive Evangel and hold the Covenant with Jesus Christ. Once life is regenerated, the Universe too. Once you meet Jesus, you take something anothor of this world. Walk with Him, and you will return your lost days and memories. Christians are born, kept and gone in the journey. This world just passes over.

Life is an act, and its value is determined by its purpose. Only Evangel can light on the way. The destination is far, but must be reached. Though we get apart, we can meet again in Heaven. Grief for now, joy for ever. So, bon voyage.

GOD and MAN:
LORD and SERVANT:
FATHER and SON:
HOLY GHOST and HUMAN SOUL;
Come true in us all
the love and grace of our Lord JESUS CHRIST.
AMEN. +++

(Note) The Biblical quotations are from King James Version (KJV).

tTt. K.

Supplement

And with many such parables spake he the word unto them,
as they were able to hear it.
But without a parable spake he not unto them:
and when they were alone, he expounded all things to his deciples. ( Mark 4:33-34 )

I will give you a mouth and wisdom,
which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist. ( Luke 21:15 )

Now it is twenty years after I was blessed, I can describe the truth at last. Although the devils tried to obstruct me by using every possible means, I arrived somehow by the Lord's guidance. In facing the dawn of the new Millennium, I want to write it down as plainly as possible, so that many people can stand up for the right faith. However, there is nothing new. All things were told by the Lord Jesus. His words were conveyed by the apostles without omission. There is no room to add something to the God's spells. Supposing we add something to the Word of God, we shall be cursed eternally. Those who remove something from the Word of God also shall be so. All things are filled necessarily and sufficiently. Hail Jesus Christ. Amen.

Specifically, the following things are verified without contradiction.
1. From the eternal past to the eternal future, God, who is unique and absolute, exists, and He is the Creator, who created all the existence except Himself.
2. God the Creator is also God the Savior, and the Trinity of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit is realized, for God realizes Himself both spiritually and physicially.
3. Although God has neither the beginning nor the end in nature, all created beings have the beginning, and unless they get immortality ( endless existence ) by the blessing of God, they come to the end.
4. It is exactly the salvation to be eternalized (pulled up on the Heaven) by God, and for that purpose, there is no way besides accepting the Evangel, which is the Love and Word of Jesus Christ.
That's all.

The Lord Jesus' word and wisdom. Word of word. Wisdom of wisdom.
Those who take shall be taken, and those who do not take shall be naughted.
The Lord Jesus' light and grace. Light of light. Grace of grace.
Those who kneel down shall be embraced, and those who do not kneel down shall be disgraced.
The Lord Jesus' blessing and love. Blessing of blessing. Love of love.
Those who accept shall be accepted, and those who do not accept shall be abandoned.

The time is filled, and the day is ripened.
The night is finishing, and the rooster is crying.
The sins on the earth will be atoned on the earth, but the sins in the heaven cannot be atoned.
The sins in the heaven shall be atoned only in the heaven.
So we all have to go for the heaven.
God loves us and show us the way by Himself.

The sun will not shine on doubters, and the morning will not come to hesitaters.
Go on the shadowless way without fear.
Be a master of desires, not a slave of desires.
Be a boss of senses, not a lover of senses.
Be a owner of pleasures, not a pet of pleasures.
Be a gard of morals, not a prisoner of morals.

1 Existence and Substance
The atheists who claim that God does not exist do not understand well what is "to be". The conclusion, if you claim God is not, you have to claim that you are not yourself. Hereafter, that is shown.

There are the 3 axioms before any logic. That is, Axiom of Being, Axiom of Ordering and Axiom of Bounding.

(1) Axiom of Being or Axiom of Belonging : (A)a(E)a(a[a)

Existence is self-belongingness. Supposing a exists, a belongs to itself. And if a belongs to itself, a exists. For no matter it may not belong to anything else, it belongs to itself.All things that belong to themselves exist. Anything that does not belong to itself does not exist at all. Supposing you claim that a does not belong to itself, you have to claim that a is not a. This is a self-breakdown (Russell's paradox). And there is nothing that does not belong to itself. Therefore, all exist.
(A)a(E)a(-(a[a)) <=> (A)a(-(E)a(a[a)) <=> -((A)a(E)a(a[a))
As a corollary of this axiom, what is called the "emptiness" and "nothing" exists.
(A)a(E)0((0[0)+0[a))

God creates everything without completely. There is nothing in this world that has not been made by God, and there will not be nothing from now on that will not be made by God. All are preset beforehand. Something that is not has not yet only appeared.

And God saw every thing that he had made,...(Gen 1:31)

Thou art worthy, O Lord to receive glory and honour and power:
for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.(Rev 4:11)

(2)Axiom of Ordering or Axiom of Comparing : (A)a,b((a{b)v(b{a))

Any elements are ordered.

But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first.(Matt 19:30)

he that is greatest among you shall be your servant.
and whoever shall exalt himself shall be abased:
and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.(Matt 23:11,12)

(3) Axiom of Bounding or Axiom of Completing: (A)a(E)X((1/X)={a={X)

Any elements have the upper bound and the lower bound.

Distance can be defined as existence. That is, existence constitutes metric space. Therefore, existence is compact if existence is all-bounded and complete. Since God exists, existence is a all-bounded. Moreover, spirit is complete, although substance is not complete. For metaphysical existence is uncountably infinite, otherwise physical existence is countably infinite.

Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things,
that bringeth out their host by number:
he calleth them all by names...
not one faileth.(Isa 40:26)

That which is born of the fresh is fresh;
and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.(John 3:6)

2 The Holy Trinity
Hereafter, that is shown.

And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter,
that he may abide with you for ever;
Even the Spirit of truth;... (Joh 14:16-17)

That they all may be one; as thou,
Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us:
that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them;
that they may be one, even as we are one: (Joh 17:21-22)

3 The End of the World and The Regeneration
Hereafter, that is shown.

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