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Chapter 303: Heaven said, the teaching case has begun! (Please subscribe, please vote)

Of course, Mai Du Sibianjing was no match for Hong Xiuquan!
The two men are completely not at the same level. Hong Xiuquan is a great charlatan who was able to compile the "True Testament", while Medhurst at best translated the English version of the "New Testament" into Chinese. He can be considered a translator!

Moreover, the New Testament of Christianity is more than a thousand years old, and many of its contents are from the oral statements of Jesus' disciples and disciples, so there are bound to be many loopholes. Although it has been patched up for many years, the "source code" is still the same. It is normal for a great charlatan like Hong Xiuquan to find loopholes!
But Medhurst also has a trick up his sleeve, which is to create lesson plans!
The first religious incident in Chinese history, the "Qingpu Incident", was created by him and his colleagues from the London Missionary Society, Jia Weilin and Mu Weilian.

If Christianity could be spread through debate, then Li Shimin should have worshipped God.
Thinking of this, he snorted coldly, and then said harshly: "Mr. Hong, you will pay the price for your blasphemy against Christianity!"

After saying this, he turned around and left, and discussed with several colleagues from the London Missionary Society how to create a lesson plan!

After Medhurst retreated, Zhao Fangji, who was trembling and needed help to walk, stood up to challenge Hong Xiuquan's verbal attack.

Zhao Fangji squinted his cloudy old eyes, stared at Hong Xiuquan carefully, and then introduced himself: "I am Zhao Fangji, the bishop of the Nanjing Diocese of the Catholic Church!"

"Mr. Zhao, what do you want to ask?"

Of course, Hong Xiuquan would not take the Bishop of Nanjing Diocese who could not even go to Nanjing seriously, so he just asked casually.

"Mr. Hong, your king claims to be the second son of God and once lived in heaven." Zhao Fangji asked, "So, has he ever told anyone what life in heaven is like?"

"I have said," Hong Xiuquan said, "In heaven, everyone has food to eat, clothes to wear, and a house to live in. Everyone enjoys peace and prosperity. There is an abundance of all kinds of wealth and you can take whatever you need.

In heaven, no one has to worry about three meals a day, and no one will be troubled by birth, old age, sickness and death. Everyone is healthy and immortal, and can use their infinite life to explore the infinite void, or use their long years to seek the endless way according to their interests.

In heaven, there is something called a spaceship. By riding on it, you can travel through the starry sky and wander among the countless worlds. People can ride on it to explore the endless void.

In heaven, there is an object called a calculating machine, which has infinite intelligence. When used by people, it can increase people's wisdom and knowledge a thousand times or a hundred times, and help people who use it to explore the endless avenue.

Of course, Hong Xiuquan's "paradise theory" was wholesaled from Luo Yaoguo. As the "chief lecturer", in addition to talking about how to divide the land, he also had to talk a little about life in heaven, so as to give the Taiping Army soldiers something to look forward to.

Not only does he talk, he also likes to write. He has written many "Heaven Essays", which are small articles, including those about exploring the universe, artificial intelligence, and daily life. Of course, they all show the beautiful side of the future, and some are quite sci-fi.

These "essays on heaven", combined with Hong Xiuquan's own imagination, created a heavenly world with extremely rich material wealth.

"No!" Zhao Fangji shouted, "Heaven is not like this. The Bible, Hebrews, describes it this way: You have come to Mount Zion, the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. There are tens of millions of angels, and the general assembly of the firstborn sons of heaven.
The Bible. Revelation says: People from every nation, tribe, people, and language stand before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands
The Bible, Revelation, says: I was carried away by the Holy Spirit to a great and high mountain, and was shown the holy city, Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from God. The glory of God is in the city, and the light of the city is like a very precious gem, like jasper, clear as crystal.

It has to be said that the people who wrote the Bible had never been to any good places, let alone Rome and Athens, and probably had never been to Damascus, so they could only imagine a Jerusalem in heaven. But the Jerusalem on earth was just a remote town in Rome at that time, so the heaven imagined based on it was nothing special, probably just a neon-lit city that never sleeps, right?

After listening to Zhao Fangji's talk about heaven in the Bible, Hong Xiuquan knew that he had won again. He smiled embarrassedly: "Old Bishop, since there are all countries, tribes, peoples, parties and millions of angels in heaven, what is everyone's daily life like? Where do they live? How do they eat and use? What entertainment do they have? What books do they read? What do they think, want and desire? In addition to Jerusalem in heaven, are there other cities? For example, Shanghai in heaven, Paris in heaven, Rome in heaven. How dazzling are these cities in heaven? Don't you want to know? The True Testament records some of them. Seventh sister, give him a copy of The True Testament." "Yes."

Hong Xuanjiao responded in a low voice, and immediately took out a copy of The True Covenant and walked up to Zhao Fangji, who was already a little stunned, and handed it to him with both hands: "Old man, take it."

Zhao Fangji was a little confused by Hong Xiuquan's series of questions. He took the True Testament handed over by Hong Xiuquan and was about to open it to take a look, but he immediately realized something was wrong. He was the bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Nanjing. How could he take the True Testament of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in public and want to read it?
Thinking of this, Zhao Fangji quickly threw the "True Contract" in his hand to the ground!
However, Hong Xiuquan was not angry at all when he saw Zhao Fangji throwing the scriptures, because Zhao Fangji first caught the scriptures and then threw them away, which meant he lost both the battle and his reputation, a double loss.

And it's a lose-lose situation in public!

Thinking of this, Hong Xiuquan showed a rare moment of humility. He stood up, walked to Zhao Fangji, bent down, picked up the True Testament on the ground, and handed it to Bishop Zhao again: "Bishop, you are also a servant of God. You will go to the heavenly Jerusalem in the future. You should learn about the things in heaven first. The chapter "On Heaven" in the True Testament was written by an angel himself, so it is highly credible. Although the angel who descended to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom did not live in the heavenly Jerusalem, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen in heaven are probably similar to the heavenly Jerusalem, right?"

Zhao Fangji was frozen in place by Hong Xiuquan's well-intentioned gesture and extremely tempting words. He was about to go to heaven, and he had been highly respected for so many years, so he had to have some dignity. He was too embarrassed to say bad things to Hong Xiuquan, and he really wanted to know what the heavenly Jerusalem looked like now.

After a moment of silence, he took the "True Covenant" from Hong Xiuquan's hand, turned around and left without saying a word.

As he left, many foreigners who were watching the scene came forward to ask Hong Xiuquan and Hong Xuanjiao for the "True Covenant". Many of them knew some Chinese, so they were naturally interested in "The True Covenant: On Heaven". Even those who did not know Chinese saw Zhao Fangji walking away with a copy of "The True Covenant".

This shows that "True Covenant" is very likely to be true!
Holding a copy of The True Testament, Zhao Fangji walked out of the crowd somewhat lonely and headed towards the Dongjiadu Church where he was in charge. Only a few Chinese believers followed him. After walking for a while, he suddenly saw a few Chinese people with red cloth wrapped around their heads walking towards him.

"A few more members of the God Worshipping Society"

Zhao Fangji subconsciously wanted to avoid them, but when he turned around and wanted to walk away, he suddenly heard one of his followers shouting behind his ear: "Those people have knives!"

"There are knives? Are they here to kill me? But why?"

Old man Zhao was puzzled for a moment. He raised his old eyes and saw that the Chinese people with red cloth wrapped their heads pulled out a foot-long dagger from their arms, then shouted "Kill the demons and go to heaven", and rushed towards him.

Zhao Fangji cried out in his heart that something was wrong and wanted to escape immediately, but he couldn't take a step at the critical moment. He could only watch a few guys with red cloth wraps on their heads rushing up, and then a sharp knife stabbed at him, and Zhao Fangji felt a sharp pain in his chest.

He looked down and saw that half of the dagger was stuck in his chest.

"It's over."

Zhao Fangji's eyes went dark, and he suddenly lost all his strength. He collapsed, with only one last thought in his mind: "Jerusalem, I want to go to the heavenly city of Jerusalem!"

(End of this chapter)