Although there are several splendid values and virtues in the Japanese code of samurai, such as the self-sacrificing loyalty to the master or a concept of honor and shame, the way of samurai is not compatible to Christianity, because it does not teach the presence of the original sin of human beings before their Creator and the way of forgiveness through His unconditional love. Basically, the code of samurai is the way in which one can be a faithful servant of the ruling authority through one's moral cultivation. Therefore, if one loses face due to one's misconduct, one needs to compensate it at the sacrifice of one's life in order to restore one's honor. At this point, in the pre-modern period of Japan, a practice of seppku (a ritual suicide) was regarded as the noble and honorable conduct for showing one's loyalty to the master at the sacrifice of one's life. However, at this point, it is not the benevolence grace of Master but the loyalty of the retainers that counts. On the contrary, Christianity begins from the presence of the imperfect nature of human beings due to the Fall of Adam and Eve. However, since God Himself took a form of human being and died for our imperfect nature, no matter how much one makes mistakes, one's misconduct is forgiven through one's confession of sins in faith. At this point, even though human beings are imperfect,, it is possible for them to restore one's healthy identity through one's solid conviction that all of one's misconduct are forgiven through the grace of God.
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