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I read a wonderful novel by shūsaku Endō and it was a very hard read for me but in the end after I read the novel on publisher note it saids this
"Silence is the story of two men who risked their lives in order to follow the command of Christ during this period of brutal persecution. In the face of such devotion,shouldn't God bless them or at least protect them? Jesus says He would be present with them but where was He when the Japanese Christians were killed? Jesus said the Holy Spirit would give them power. Why didn't the power of God deliver them? And how would He judge the Japanese who verbally rejected their faith when faced with torture or death?" How do you respond to these questions? Also one more near the end of the novel the former teacher of the priest said "Certainly Christ would have apostatized for them(Japanese Christians)" In the novel the Japanese officials want the clergy members to apostatized so the Japanese Christians can lose hope and the former teacher said to the priest that the only way he could save these Christians was to renounce the Faith and the Christians would be free. Sorry for the long post.
"Silence is the story of two men who risked their lives in order to follow the command of Christ during this period of brutal persecution. In the face of such devotion,shouldn't God bless them or at least protect them? Jesus says He would be present with them but where was He when the Japanese Christians were killed? Jesus said the Holy Spirit would give them power. Why didn't the power of God deliver them? And how would He judge the Japanese who verbally rejected their faith when faced with torture or death?" How do you respond to these questions? Also one more near the end of the novel the former teacher of the priest said "Certainly Christ would have apostatized for them(Japanese Christians)" In the novel the Japanese officials want the clergy members to apostatized so the Japanese Christians can lose hope and the former teacher said to the priest that the only way he could save these Christians was to renounce the Faith and the Christians would be free. Sorry for the long post.