Monday, July 6, 2015
Francis Xavier Anecdote
Question from the Japanese who was troubled with Xavier
Francis Xavier propagated it in each place of Japan, but many Japanese have asked him.
"Why did the teaching that was hard to be like it not come to Japan so far?"
And "how is the ancestor of us who did not hear the teaching that I am thankful for now where?"
In other words what happens to the dead ancestors though oneself are baptized and may be saved without being baptized?
After all do you fall into the hell?
The then Japanese asked Xavier such a question.
In Christianity, Xavier answered so originally because all the people who were not baptized were hell.
Then a Japanese pursues it.
"God whom you believe in is very merciless, and are you not incompetent?"
If it is the Almighty God, you may save my ancestors
Xavier was troubled and wrote it in the letter as follows.
When "a Japanese has high culture standard and is not a very excellent propagator, the propagation of Japan will have a hard time"
There did not seem to be the human being who asked then China and Korea and Indochina such a question.
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