Highlights of the Pope's new book "Jesus of Nazareth. Holy Week"

[Kannon12]

If God did not judge the Japanese for their religion, then why did he kill tens of thousands of them?

[iniraq1]

@Kannon12

If you truly wish to understand my dear friend, read back carefully my response to the initial question you proposed. But just as a reminder in respect to that side of the spectrum, to you and even to me, GOD is the omni-powerful Creator of everything that is was or will be. If He chose to create mosquitos then what is it for us to question why He did so? If God chose to wipe-out only a certain race or even a certian species of vegetation or animal, what is it for us to question

[Kannon12]

Why did Jesus Christ kill 20.000 people in Japan? What is the Catholic Churches opinion on this?

[iniraq1]

@Kannon12

Kannon12, it is very understandable that you believe it was out of spite or anger that Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ killed those people in Japan. There is what is revealed to us, in Scripture, as the Divine Law and the Natural Law. The Divine Law is what God wills to happen or by way of prayer sees fit to fulfill for us. The Natural is the fact that if a tree grows sideways it will eventually fall over or break. This occurance in Japan fulfills the Natural Law. Naturalists have

[iniraq1]

@Kannon12

studied this natural disaster and have given a complete report as to why it happened and what was the main cause of it. The cause was an underwater earthquake. Now Let's go back to the example of the sideways tree. There was nothing that tree could have done to prevent itself from falling or breaking. Why? Because the Divine Law does not interfere with the Natural Law unless the Creator sees fit to do so. Now let's go deeper. Couldn't God have prevented this disaster. We read in

[iniraq1]

@Kannon12

the Word of God that The Lord ALWAYS watches over His faithful. This is proven in the act of Moses when God interfered even with the Natural Law to split the sea. Or when, so that his people may believe, God turned a wooden staff into a living creature. Yes this is true! God ALWAYS keeps His faithful close. Now back to the nation of Japan. Can we say this nation is part of the faithful God is refering to when Japan remains one of the most secular nations in the world according to

[iniraq1]

@Kannon12

to the World Values Survey. Christianity is a minority religion in Japan, with less than one percent and possibly less than half percent of the Japanese population claiming Christian belief or affiliation. Nearly all known traditional denominations of Christianity, including Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, and Orthodox Christianity are represented in Japan today, with no restrictions on evangelism.

Now, this evidently proves that the answer to that question is no. And what

[iniraq1]

@Kannon12

does God mention about those that don't remain faithful to Him? Well, just to make it short, God says that the faitful "is like a tree planted by streams of water that yeilds it's fruit in it's season and it's leaf does not wither, in ALL that he does he prospers. The unfaithful are not so but are like dust which the wind drives away, therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous, for the Lord knows the way of the faithful but

[iniraq1]

@Kannon12

the way of the unfaithful will perish."

I hope that the Faithful Lord whom inspired me to answer your question will illuminate you to accept it. Remember that Jesus Christ always looks at us with kindness and love and he NEVER judges us according to our iniquities but according to the love we reserve for Him. God bless you!

[newtochrist]

i just order the book

i cant wait for the third one

[hymnal777]

The pope has written a detailed and personal repudiation of the idea that the Jews were collectively responsible for the death of Jesus.

In a book to be published next week, he concludes that those responsible for the crucifixion were the "Temple aristocracy" and supporters of the rebel Barabbas.