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Jesus heals a man who was blind from birth

  Jesus heals a man who was blind from birth   John 9:1-3 『 And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him. 』 In this question, the disciples asked Jesus, "Is it because of sin that a person was born blind?" In other words, is it because of the sin of his parents or his own sin? The body of sin is passed down from the parents. However, this does not mean that sin is passed down, but that the body containing sin is passed down from the first man, Adam. "His own sin" means that there was already some sin before birth. It refers to the original sin committed in the kingdom of God. It is the crime of evil angels who did not keep their position. Therefore, God confined the spirits that committed sin in the body. The spirits t...

God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.

  God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.   Mark 12:26-27 『 And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err. 』 This article is a quote from Exodus 3:15,  “ And God said moreover to Moses, thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, the LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations. 』 The people of Israel cried out to God in Egypt. So the Lord God said that He heard their cry. When God made a covenant with Abraham, He promised land and descendants, and He continued this covenant with Isaac and Jacob. The Lord God shows that He is not someone who forgets a covenant after making it, but someone who f...

The Image of God and Our Own Image

  The Image of God and Our Own Image   Colossians 1:15 says, "Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:" 2 Corinthians 4:4 also speaks of the image of God: "In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them." God created the first man to reveal himself in the form (image) of a sinner. The first man is the image of God. God has no form. The form means the body, like clothing. Saying that God took on a body means that God came in a fleshly body. The first man was God Himself who went into the dust and became a man in order to give man a body of sin. The first man was created in the image of God. However, he had a body of sin. Therefore, the one who came in the flesh to break the chains of the body of sin was Jesus. The first man and Jesus were God who came in the form of a sinner.   Jesus Christ is referred to in ...