Die Christology

 

 

翻訳結果

(4) It may seem powerless and pitiful to hand over yourself as if you were robbed. But Christ went on his path of suffering not because he gave up. In this regard as well, St. Thomas teaches: "It is the strength of the heart, or the living power, that endures what is no longer possible. This strong power stays still in the path of good that I have been called, where I can do nothing anymore. , I will not take a step from there. Even if it is damaged both physically and mentally and eventually dies, it will grow to a power that is absolutely unflinching. " (Summa Theologica 2/2/123/6/2). What can't be done anymore is a painful deadlock. It is not because they are cowardly and weak that those who are called there still stay. That is the work of living love. But behind this, there is one more thing. When people are cornered in something that is nothing more, they usually get used to it. So he doesn't do anything. It's a dead end anyway, and I feel like I can't help doing anything. Wherever I hang my hat is home, I just manage to eat and settle down. But St. Thomas says that's not enough. He says he can't love God and love his neighbors with the feeling that he only has to eat. On the contrary, no matter how much he gets stuck, if there is still something he can do, he will not let it go. It's only a little, so if you can't help it, you won't throw it out. I will fulfill only the little that I have left on the spot. This tenacity is absolutely necessary to live in love for God and his neighbors. In this world, there are unexpectedly many people who give up the path they started and go outside unless they go the way they want. If this is for life, or just for work or business, it may not be bad either. Rather, it may be better. But when it comes to neighbors who finally hand over themselves to God, the problem is different. That is the important brink of living or dying, whether or not a person's life succeeds. Still, I can't stop someone who leaves because they say it's stupid. But both the Gospels and Paul's letters call for them to stay on Christ's cross, which is completely unincorporated by the general public. From this point of view, loving God in our neighbors is a great thing that requires all the heart and power of a person. You can't do a lot of things you like and then think a little about God.

Jesus Christ, the only salvation

Jesus Christ, the only salvation

The first thing I would like to clarify here is a human without God. Or it is a pointless thing in life that does not share in God's promise. Of course, humans are the most wonderful creatures in the world.

However, it is just a mammal that finally emerged while tracing the path of evolution from the nature. This human race must first reach the area as a living thing. This is not so different from other creatures. Moreover, whether it is human reason or intention, is it not a simple function of the brain or hormones? Certainly, only humans began to live a cultural life. But isn't that one of the lifestyles of higher organisms that has emerged as a result of the great evolution of the brain? Moreover, human beings as mere creatures are the path through which materials are evolving, and they have appeared almost like a coincidence. If the circumstances of the earth change eventually, humankind will eventually perish and others will prosper.
I don't think it makes a lot of sense to make one of these people a friend of mine and make a living for that friend.
Human beings are also members of living things. Rather, it may be better to survive, even if you push away the person next to you.

Surviving the fittest. In the end, if you die to save your neighbors, or if you kill yourself and survive, you're not so different. Humans without gods are just animals, and if either of the two dies, whether they die or the other die, one survives. Either way, one will continue to live. In this way, the human race will continue to live, and it will not be inconvenient as it appears and disappears. There are still many species of creatures that have disappeared from the earth.
No matter how advanced such human beings have evolved, it is almost unthinkable that each person has an irreplaceable personality. They are all connected by their instinct. People with blood connections are holding hands and trying to survive on their own. Neighbor love is nothing more than a dream story. Of course, this is about a human without God. At that time, the meaning of salvation becomes meaningless. Furthermore, it is a complete stupid thing to give up your life for your neighbor.

We are human beings. If either one survives, then one should survive. It is a survival race. It's not a time of virtue. But here, the story changes a lot.
It is said that the love with the heart of God depends on each person. This God's love is not like gathering all humankind and loving the whole thing as a whole. Rather, they stare at each one and put their hearts and lives there. Here is Christ's gaze.
Then, the human being loved in this way and born to answer this love is also a persona who is irreplaceable in the love of God being cast. Neighbor love is meaningful because God's love depends on everyone. The love of God cast on humans finally appears in Flesh and God's profound dogma, which results in the Passion of Christ and death on the cross. Therefore, to Jesus Christ and his dogma of the cross, without a church centered around the mass festival
It is very unlikely that there will be human last salvation.

Let's turn this over again and think about it. Humans are not just living things. In fact, God's love is endlessly applied to each of them. And without exception, God's love extends to everyone. So to love a neighbor also means to love God. It even depends on Christ's promise. "It was I who made these the smallest," (Matthew 25;40). Even if this is done by someone who doesn't know about Christ or the Church, and doesn't recognize God and the Church, the result is the same. If you really value your neighbors as much as you do, and do good for the smallest, it's for Christ. However, the person himself does not notice it. But being unaware doesn't change what Christ did. Neighbors, the smallest, have God's promise. From this kind of place, the church
It teaches that many people belong to Christ's church without knowing it. Of course, this is with Christ and the church.
It's not just that you have love for neighbors, without Christ and the church.

Beyond drinking and eating (2)

It only feels to the silence of the darkness. But in fact, people are embraced from the darkness around them as if they were wrapped in. It's unconsent to it, really absurd, and definitely want to escape from it, the bottomless darkness abyss. That is why people are being saved, also. Believing in God is believing in Jesus Christ. Other than that, there is no real faith. But at the heart of this faith is the darkness of Christ's suffering and death. Therefore, faith without suffering and death on the cross is unthinkable. However, this darkness is the Afflatus of God. It is an extremely deep mystery of the god, and it is just eerily felt by the human beings who live in our daily lives, as if it were a deep ocean that is dark and silent. This eerie darkness and then the very small place where I eat and live every day, Beyond drinking and eating (2)
It only feels to the silence of the darkness. But in fact, people are embraced from the darkness around them as if they were wrapped in.　It's unconsent to it, really absurd, and definitely want to escape from it, the bottomless darkness abyss. That is why people are being saved, also. Believing in God is believing in Jesus Christ. Other than that, there is no real faith. But at the heart of this faith is the darkness of Christ's suffering and death. Therefore, faith without suffering and death on the cross is unthinkable. However, this darkness is the Afflatus of God. It is an extremely deep mystery of the god, and it is just eerily felt by the human beings who live in our daily lives, as if it were a deep ocean that is dark and silent. This eerie darkness and then the very small place where I eat and live every day, Moreover, as a person's humanity, I cling to that little place, which one should I trust? Or is it not a god, but one can only believe in feelings that one can convince himself? This is a matter of faith. As faith deepens, people take their crosses and follow the Lord. If you do not believe in God, the world beyond human understanding is a contradiction. There is no choice but to cling to where you live. "If we don't revive the dead, let's eat and drink. It's a life that we don't know tomorrow," (1 Corinthians 15; 32). There is no way to live other than cling to a drink. Even if you find something you don't understand, don't think too much at first. Still, one cannot get rid of that darkness.

Beyond drinking and eating

3. Beyond drinking and eating

Here again, I would like to think about "understanding."
It's really hard for people to get out of the narrowness of their lives. Most of the time, I use it as a measure of my "understanding" while focusing on what I feel everyday. But is "understanding" that much? Rather, the tranquility of existence that spreads infinitely around it and deepens an extreme. Can't we say that this is the real existence and the real meaning? Based on what one eats, a little pleasure felt there, that is, a feeling of happiness that the function of the person works well physiologically and psychologically, and that it works well both personally and socially. Something like this, which is not yet the last thing for humans. The fact that humans, which seem to be complicated and simple, are functionally and smoothly moving in relation to themselves and their surroundings is something else. You can only find meaning from there. A person is like a well-maintained car as it is, and it is just fine. It's beautiful and works well. But who will ride? Where are you going? you can't decide any how.

Health, status, property, etc. are all things like maintenance of machines, and they just work well without any trouble. There must be a destination where you can run as hard as you can, run to the end, and go no further. Without it, and because it is completely maintained, it doesn't make sense to keep it shining beautifully. I didn't run, so you didn't try to run. It might had been easier. But it doesn't make sense. This is the so-called stingy in life, the misuse of life.What you "understand" is based on a very simple life, as you can eat and live. What you can understand and convince is limited to the extent that your body and mind are healthy and you can live comfortably. But if life has meaning and purpose, it is limited to eating and living comfortably. But if life has meaning and purpose, it has to be sought out of something other than eating and living comfortably. However, it is already off the axis of understanding to "eat". So, as long as you live by using "eating" as a guide, it's hard to think up to that point. However, if you think about it carefully, the meaning of life is only in the world where it is difficult for people to understand, not support with it. This may be weird. But in reality, the only thing that one can see is the fleeting, survival of life from today to tomorrow. Around it
Endless darkness spreads like a clear blue sky.

God is the Afflatus

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God is the Afflatus
God is the Afflatus for this world. To explain this, we must first consider two things.
(1) That people can understand something.
(2) I don't know. Man receives existence from God and lives to be saved from God. This is because I want to think about exactly what this means.

1 to understand
It is halfway for a person to know something. What we understand is just a matter of organizing what seemed complicated at first, from the relationship with what is simpler and clearer, to a little organizing.
I will explain a, which I do not understand, from the relationship with b, which I know a little. Explanation Then, on the other hand, is he familiar with b? In this way, b will be described from c and c will be described from d. But this can't last forever. When the last z comes, there is nothing to explain z itself. z itself is clearer than anything else, so I could explain them and make them easier to understand.

But who is z himself? An easier and clearer way to explain it is not found in this world. As such z, there are two kinds of things. One is a fact that appears directly in a person's life, and it is understood if it confirms it. The other is self-evident, which is clear in itself, like the formula of mathematics and the principle of philosophy. The first is a direct fact, such as having a desk here and writing what you have a pen. The second one is like the framework or structure of the existence that assembles this world as a principle or an official. When it is said that something is understood to the person, it is brought to the place where it is clear of these two, and one understanding is made up on it. However, this last thing itself is clear and self-evident, but it is not understood any more. There is no explanation why it is so.

Freedom to choose the god as Afflatus

2. Freedom to choose the god as Afflatus

・Regarding the freedom to choose God as a revelation of God in a broad sense in Jesus Christ, I would like to first think concretely about what freedom and love from human beings toward God are.

・If God were one of many things, you could take God from it and throw away the others. But the Absolute God is not the one who is in line with the others. Then, what kind of person is God? Here comes the figure of God as Afflatus.

・In theology, the word Afflatus is used for God. Afflatus refers to the whole of God's revelation in Jesus Christ. Especially the passion at the heart of Christ, death and resurrection on the cross, are the center of Afflatus.

・There is a foolish and dirty cross that goes to the bottom of the world, and the glow of God's glory of resurrection. This mysterious fact, the church calls Afflatus. There are two ways of thinking about this God's Afflatus.

(1) The reason why Afflatus does not understand is that people's understanding is insufficient on this ground. If you receive the grace of God and enter heaven, you will be able to understand anything at that time. The mystery of God's Afflatus disappears when you go to heaven.

(2) Human beings have only limited abilities. Only God is the absolute, infinite. Even if we go to heaven, we cannot understand all of god's infiniteness with our infinite abilities.

It is then impossible to determine which of these two ideas is right and which is wrong. Both have a real point. But of these two, the second one more generally and more certainly shows human well-being in heaven than the first. Then, the difference in "understanding in the present world" of how a person receives his or her life in this world appears depending on which one is considered. From the first way of thinking, if people go to heaven, all will be solved and all mysteries will disappear. However, for the person who thinks in this way, the world where there are many contradictions and it is hard to be convinced is only an unpleasant place with only suffering and little joy.
On the contrary, when viewed from the second side, the contradiction and suffering of this world cannot be said to be boring.

No, on the contrary, in this contradiction, the world is a forerunner of heaven. There is no contradiction by the providence of God. No coincidence. One cannot overlook God or know to be exhausted. No matter how deeply a person captures God with his limited power, God is beyond that limitlessly. You can defeat yourself to that god. This is the joy of salvation. Moreover, God has already given people unconvincing contradictions from this world. God has already given to people from the world an endless amount of human understanding. This depends on how the suffering and contradictions of this world are matched with the providence of the loving God. The Bible teaches God's absolute providence for this world. You can't doubt this.

"Two sparrows are sold for one ass. And without your father's permission, none of them will fall to the ground. And even your head hair, everyone is counted." (Matthew10;29-30) Then, there is no chance in the world that happens by chance or by humans. There is a causal relationship with the movement of the world. But that is not all in the world. Both the suffering and the contradiction of this world approach people through various causal relationships. But at the end, deep inside every causal relationship in the world, there is a providence in which God, who is the love, gradually gives oneself a person that far exceeds the human understanding. Of course, there are many unfavorable things on earth, such as bad faith, bad luck, stupidity, lies, and lust. Needless to say, there are many unfavorable things on the ground, such as human malice, ingenuity, stupidity, lies, and lust.

But they are not the last explanation of the course of the world. How can God forgive if the world can be managed only by malice and ingenuity? Are you trying to torment people? Is God doing nothing and laughing when people are stupid and bad? Or is it punishing people? But looking at Jesus Christ, the Son of God, it doesn't seem like that. It is God's true feeling that if he suffers, he will suffer instead. As he felt, Christ died on the cross to save others. God doesn't look at people but thinks that bad people should be punished and suffer. People to those whom believing in Jesus Christ thus is in a place of the light and hope which seems to be nothing but contradiction, darkness, and despair and have not yet believed.

And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy. Then saith he unto them, my soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me. And he went a little farther, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: Nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt. Nevertheless”　(Matthew3;16-17)

When a person who believes in Christ desires God and asks more, he bears his cross and tries to follow the way of the cross of the Lord until the end. The key to such faith, hope, and love lies in the fact that God is an absolute person who has infinitely exceeded the human understanding. There is a limit to human power. No matter how hard you try, you know very little about God. God is so numerous that no one can understand it. It is an afflatus or Afflatus itself, which is unknown to people, completely unknown to them, incomprehensible and unconvincing. This person, almost unknown to each person, is directly seen in heaven. In the mysterious and incomprehensible darkness, can one still beat all of himself? Or do you refuse the contradiction just because you are not satisfied? Heaven and hell are separated here. Indeed, that God is Afflatus for this world is too important for understanding life in this world and thinking about His love.

Human Nature and Freedom

Chapter 10
Human nature and freedom

One of the central problems of Christ theory is the self-reliance of God. The Son of God took his human nature and made it his own. Then, in order to understand Jesus of Nazareth, you must know three things. The three Persona of God, the nature of God, the nature of man. Of these three, I think that human nature is best understood. Moreover, if you go one step further and think about what you are as a human being, almost nothing is clear. However, in order to understand Jesus Christ, I would like to clarify a little about the true nature of a person, that is, what it means to be a person. If it's not clear, I don't know much about the god who became a person. Of course, The Incarnation is God's Mysterium. It's never completely understood. However, because it is a genius, it does not mean that you don't have to understand anything.

So from now on, I would like to think a little about the natural nature of humans. First of all, it is necessary to abandon the feeling that I know what a human being is because I am also a human being. Microcosm, a thinking reed, After all human being is only a social animal originally ,and it consents in its own way. However, this alone explains the person when God becomes a person. It is useless to do. It is free to be a clue to explain the natural nature of human beings. However, it seems that this person also knows without having to worry. Freedom is a choice, and I think I should decide for myself. But the truth is that the relationship between this choice and freedom is less clear than you might think. Real freedom cannot be understood only by observing humans from inside and outside. In fact, Jesus Christ's way of being as a person was shown in the Bible and in the flow of the church, so that it was only when he could think of true freedom.

Without the divine revelation in Jesus Christ, the true freedom of human beings may end, or even be unknown. Christ's personal freedom, then, is not about choosing things as you like. It is the relationship of love in the Holy Spirit between the Father and the Son. Christ's character as a person is drawn into the relationship of love, and God's self-reliance lies in living the life together. Where that life is fully manifested in Christ's human nature, it is the death on the cross and the resurrection of the third day. This has nothing to do with choosing. From now on, I would like to examine this true freedom in a little more detail.