読んでなかったら必ず最初にこっちを読んでね。
If you haven't read this, please read it first.
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・神はなんで昔はよく人に現れてたのに今は現れないの？
Though God used to show himself often, why doesn't He do so now?
考えてみたら、イエスの時代にはすでにそういう事はほとんど無くなってたんだよね。
聖書を読むと分かるのは、初めの頃は神が人間に直接的に関わってたのが、少しすると人間(王様)に任せてみたり、それが今度は預言者(神の言葉を預かって人々に伝える人)に取って代わって、そして一時的だけどイエスが来て、イエスがいなくなった後は、イエスの言うように、クリスチャンそれぞれの心だか魂だかに神が宿らせる何か、みたいなもの(よく分かんないけどとにかくイエスがそう言ってるんだよ！笑)に落ち着いてる。
Come to think about it, at the time of Jesus, that kind of thing already used not to happen almost at all.
If you read the Bible, you'd notice that at first God related with humans directly, but some while later He started to leave it to the kings, and next He replaced it with prophets, and shortly Jesus came to the earth, and after that, as Jesus said, the holy spirit, which God send christians's hearts or soul or...I don't know but anyway Jesus said so, has been replaced with the former ones.
それで面白い事に、聖書の中に出てくる神と直接関わってた人たちは神に背いて、預言者が現れても人々は堕落して、奇跡を起こしまくったイエスも十字架に付けられたけど、今、神も預言者も現れない時代のクリスチャンたちはというと、神に対しての気持ちが最も深いって言えそう。
常に神をリアルに感じてた昔の人たちの多くは神を裏切ってきたのに、心で信じるしかないクリスチャンたちの中には殉教した人たちが沢山いる。
And it's interesting that many of the people in the Bible who directly related with God went against Him, and also when He sent the prophets they went wrong, and they got Jesus crucified, but it seems that the christians who live and have lived in these times when neither God nor prophets haven't appeared can be the strongest about their faith.
While many of the people who would've been able to feel God really close have betrayed Him, in christians who can hardly do it but just believe in it, there have been many many people who got martyred.
フィリップ・ヤンシーってオジサンが書いた「神に失望したとき」っていう本を読んでハッとしたのは、神は人との信頼関係を望んでるって事と、人が愛されたいように神も人に愛されたいんじゃないかって事、そして、そのために神がしてきた実験、計画、苦悩、神が間近にいると人はどうなるのかって実証が、聖書が描く歴史の中には描かれてるじゃないかって事。
神にとって人の心を変えるのは屁でも無い事だろうけど、そうやって人の心を操らずに人との愛情関係を築くには長い年月を要すだろうなってのは何となく分かる。
奥さんを亡くした医者の日野原重明さんは、生前よりもその後の方が奥さんへの気持ちが強くなったと自著で書いてた。
神は死んだ訳じゃ無いけど、あまり身近にいすぎるより、少し離れた時の方が気持ちっていうのは強くなるもんなのかもね。
When I read the book that I've mentioned before ''Disappointment with God'' by Philip Yancey, I realized this: God probably hopes to have relation of trust with humans, and as humans want to be loved God also wants it too, and there are the description about His suffering and experiments or His plans and the proofs of what happens if God exists close to humans.
For God, it would be a piece of cake to change humans' minds, but He didn't choose to do so, so, it's imaginable that it would take a long time to build a good relation with humans.
A Japanese doctor Shigeaki Hinohara said in his book, ''After loosing my wife, my love for her has been stronger.''.
Though God hasn't die, maybe or probably it's that we have stronger love when we are away from it than when we are close to it.
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