イエスキリスト学 Christology

We have been going through the doctrines of Jesus Christ and God has been blessing as we learn together all that Jesus has accomplished for us and to us and will do in us. Keizo San has been giving a lot of heeee and the asoooka type phrases. I have been asking Mihoko translate some of the terminology also Kiyomasa helped me in the beginning to start the vocabulary list of Christology. I threw every thing into a wheel and am able to explain the doctrines of Anthropology (人類学；jinruigaku), Hamartiology (罪悪学；zaiaku gaku ), and Christology (キリスト学）. The outer most circle is "How the Bible views man" the next inner circle is "how the Bible views sin in man in relation to God", the third ring describes Christ's work to undo or change man's condition. The fourth ring is how God relates to man through Jesus' work. It is really cool. What is really cool is to look at the Kanji or pictagraphs of the word for the doctrines. The word doctrine is Shugi (主義). Within that character is the (gi) kanji for righteousness that is made up of the character for sheep over the character for self. So Sheep over self is righteous. Then Shu is the character for lord. The Lord next to the self with a sheep over it is doctrine. Cool eh? I guess you have to be Japanatized in order to geek out over things like this. A democracy is a minshu shugi 民主主義．Min represents people. This word is the people are lord and the shugi is the doctrine. So the democracy is kind of sad as the people become lord of the land and create their own righteous doctrine. The pictagraph for flood is 8 persons in a boat. Gee, I wonder where that came from? There are some books out on this stuff but it can as with anything be taken too far. We have to be careful not to spiritualize every sneeze. Here is a picture of the chart. Later.