Christianity
To Grace;
Thank you soooo much for your comment! It's been quite a long time since I've talked with you!!!
My English is still a mess and there are a lot of parts that I translated directory from what I wrote (direct translations are always no good....), so you might not understand what exactly what I meant but I'm gonna try.
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Christianity.
It always keeps staying in one part of my mind and I can't say "you are completely wrong!" so far.
I don’t have particular religion, but I think that is because I was raised in Japanese culture that has respects for multitude spirits in it.
After I got more chances to go to U.S. and I've got into Vet school and became more close to science, it become more frequently for me to think about Christianity.
For me, what the Bible tries to say is full of common senses to me. When I read about Buddhism and Shinto, they’re all telling us about “what is right things to do”, for example, “If you give something good to others, you will take good things back from others.”
My huge question is why do we need God to do the right things.
We have been living for over thousands of years after the Bible had written. We can learn what is morally right from proverbs or instructions of our ancestors without reading religious doctrine or the Bible. I haven't needed religion to execute right thing in my life so far.
But, after I came back from a church meeting a lot of people who still believe what happened in thousands of years ago, blessing the God and each other, sing holy songs and pray for the God, it came in my mind, what is the difference between me and them? What is the gap that makes me and them different?
I have to say, I love to go to Church. I don't even know why. The chorus makes me cry most of the time when I go to church. Well, I used to cry for 3 hours at my friend's concert, so I am definitely easy to be touched... But at the same time, I think singing in front of people requires strong determination to do, and is based on their strong beliefs. It's not like little kids made to sing in front of their parents. Probably I was moved by their unpredictable strong beliefs...
This looks pretty much like the Japanese situation right now. About nuclear weapon and Self Defense Force. We can interpret a lot of different things from one article of one constitution, but a lot of Japanese, including me want to keep not to have nuclear weapon and be unarmed.
I want to ask a lot of people about their Christianity and/or their faiths, and want to have opinion from them. Japanese, American even from other people who believe in different religion.
Thank you soooo much for your comment! It's been quite a long time since I've talked with you!!!
My English is still a mess and there are a lot of parts that I translated directory from what I wrote (direct translations are always no good....), so you might not understand what exactly what I meant but I'm gonna try.
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Christianity.
It always keeps staying in one part of my mind and I can't say "you are completely wrong!" so far.
I don’t have particular religion, but I think that is because I was raised in Japanese culture that has respects for multitude spirits in it.
After I got more chances to go to U.S. and I've got into Vet school and became more close to science, it become more frequently for me to think about Christianity.
For me, what the Bible tries to say is full of common senses to me. When I read about Buddhism and Shinto, they’re all telling us about “what is right things to do”, for example, “If you give something good to others, you will take good things back from others.”
My huge question is why do we need God to do the right things.
We have been living for over thousands of years after the Bible had written. We can learn what is morally right from proverbs or instructions of our ancestors without reading religious doctrine or the Bible. I haven't needed religion to execute right thing in my life so far.
But, after I came back from a church meeting a lot of people who still believe what happened in thousands of years ago, blessing the God and each other, sing holy songs and pray for the God, it came in my mind, what is the difference between me and them? What is the gap that makes me and them different?
I have to say, I love to go to Church. I don't even know why. The chorus makes me cry most of the time when I go to church. Well, I used to cry for 3 hours at my friend's concert, so I am definitely easy to be touched... But at the same time, I think singing in front of people requires strong determination to do, and is based on their strong beliefs. It's not like little kids made to sing in front of their parents. Probably I was moved by their unpredictable strong beliefs...
This looks pretty much like the Japanese situation right now. About nuclear weapon and Self Defense Force. We can interpret a lot of different things from one article of one constitution, but a lot of Japanese, including me want to keep not to have nuclear weapon and be unarmed.
I want to ask a lot of people about their Christianity and/or their faiths, and want to have opinion from them. Japanese, American even from other people who believe in different religion.
posted by yoko at
8:53 PM
1 Comments:
thanks so much for your translation! it was excellent, i understood it perfectly. i'm so glad to hear about your positive experiences with your christian friends. i was brought up in a christian family but never really believed any of it. i just went to church because it was a routine. i stayed away from church and anything chrisitan while i was in california but i've rediscovered christianity and my faith and what it really means to believe and have a purpose to my life and living on this earth. with all the killing and destruction going on in the world right now, alot of people are thinking about death and their own mortality. for me, i can say that after rediscovering my faith in God, i have no fear of death because there's much more after death. as well, i feel a sense of purpose to life. if one doesn't believe in God and something more beyond this life then what is the purpose of living of working hard? we will all die sooner or later. but with God, it means that death is not the end of it all. it's just a transition and that what we do on earth does matter because we will have to face God one day. don't get me wrong, i know there are alot of bad christians, bad churchs etc. but the core beliefs is what sets christianity apart from all the other religions. i don't want to get into all the details about the beliefs because the amount of information would probably crash your blog...hehe. i don't want to sound like i'm trying to sell you christianity either but if you're interested in finding more about it, there are some books that really helped me rediscover my faith. i'm reading this one by a journalist who was once an ardent atheist but turned to christianity after doing research into science and religion. the author is Lee Strobel. the books i recommend are "the case for a creator" "the case for faith" "the case for christ". there another good one by Philip Yancey called "what's so amazing about grace". it talks about how the act of grace is what sets christians apart from all other religions. anyway, i better stop or this is going to turn into a 5 page essay. thanks so much once again for translating and i hope you have more positive experiences. if you have questions for me you are welcome to email me. fumiko and gavin has my email address. take care!
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