Significance of Creation Theology for Contemporary Missions in Japan
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This paper explores how the lack of Creation Theology in Japanese worldview influences their difficulty in receiving the Gospel among Japanese people. The pantheistic Shinto cosmology that leads to the pluralism; the human profit oriented religious views; understanding human sin as spiritual dirt or the lack of strength; the tight group-orientation which limits individual decision making; the difficulty in understanding Jesus’ divinity and humanity and His salvific work; the ambiguous eschatology in Buddhistic belief of reincarnation seem to be the primary causes for the resistance in the worldviews among Japanese. Thus, presenting the Creator as the Absolute God, who Himself became the Messiah as the God Incarnated, who will also consummate the whole world is the most significant step for Japanese to understand the inconsistency of their worldviews and the comprehensiveness of the Gospel in the Scripture.
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This paper explores how the lack of Creation Theology in Japanese worldview influences their difficulty in receiving the Gospel among Japanese people. The pantheistic Shinto cosmology that leads to the pluralism; the human profit oriented religious views; understanding human sin as spiritual dirt or the lack of strength; the tight group-orientation which limits individual decision making; the difficulty in understanding Jesus’ divinity and humanity and His salvific work; the ambiguous eschatology in Buddhistic belief of reincarnation seem to be the primary causes for the resistance in the worldviews among Japanese. Thus, presenting the Creator as the Absolute God, who Himself became the Messiah as the God Incarnated, who will also consummate the whole world is the most significant step for Japanese to understand the inconsistency of their worldviews and the comprehensiveness of the Gospel in the Scripture.
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