シャドーイング練習: The Jesus Problem - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

Jesus Christ is the son of God and God himself, say the many different Christian groups.

No wait, if you ask these Christians, who most Christians don't agree on are actually Christian, Jesus Christ is solely the son of God.

Oh actually no, that's not true either.

Because if I ask these guys, they believe Jesus Christ was a holy prophet, who basically brought the second iteration of the Quran.

No no no no no no, you guys got it all wrong.

Jesus Christ is a false prophet and, uh, by the way, was a danger to society, Say the Jewish groups.

God, you guys are stu- I mean, peer-reviewed study.

You guys are stupid.

Jesus never existed.

And you're all following some code because you can't accept you'll die one day.

May that be a reminder for everyone in the comment section

that just because you don't agree with something doesn't mean you should assault someone for it.

Each group looks at Christ differently.

But one thing is for certain.

Almost all historians, no matter what group they are from, agree Jesus did indeed exist.

The real debate, however, is not whether Jesus existed, but whether he could really perform miracles or was just an ordinary man.

And while I answer you that question, which I have to before I can tell you about his life, first, I'm going to ruin every historian's day.

Classify the debating groups in percentage of world population

and add whether they believe Jesus performed miracles or was just an ordinary man.

And we get this.

34% of our world population is Christian, so they definitely believe Christ performed miracles.

0.2% of our population is Jewish and are basically the antagonist of Christ, since historically they claim he was a false messiah or even a slick sorcerer,

so in their opinion he was just a man.

Then we have the Muslims, who make up 25% of all humans, though they don't believe Jesus was the son of Allah since Allah has no children.

They do believe he performed miracles by powers that Allah granted him.

Then we have the atheists, who make up 16% of our population and they believe Jesus was just a man.

Finally, we have the, and I am so sorry for squashing all of you together, the Others.

So the Hindus, Buddhists, folk religions and other smaller religious groups.

They make up the remaining 25% and they believe and don't believe at the same time.

Very confusing stuff, because half of them don't even know themselves what Jesus really was.

Some Buddhists would argue he could really walk on water and heal others, which is definitely a miracle, but according to them that was because he was some high level monk.

Hindus in their regard have groups that argue Jesus was an avatar of Vishnu

and that his miracles were like those of Krishna or Rama.

It's very detailed stuff that requires a big theology brain and time, which we don't have for this video.

So our grand final results?

59% of humanity believes Jesus performed miracles.

16.2% believes he didn't and 25% are in Schrodinger's miracle, both believing and not believing at once.

Split the others group in 50-50 and we get this.

71.5% of humanity believes in Jesus' miracles and roughly 28.5% thinks he was just a guy.

Simplify it even more and 3 out of 4 people believe Jesus performed miracles.

Simplify it even, even more and humanity believes Jesus performed miracles.

Don't hate me, I'm just following maths and rules here that we all taught in primary in high school.

But historically you hack!

You're a history channel, not a Sunday school.

You can't let religion stray you away from the truth and history, the truth that is written in the books.

Well, these are books too, aren't they?

I get it though.

In our current state of the world, we want science to confirm miracles.

We can't simply follow the rule of a bigger group diplomacy.

Everyone believed for a long time washing your hands before surgery was ridiculous.

And look at us now, we wash our hands daily.

Hopefully.

There is no peer reviewed study saying

that you can shout BE HEALED at a blind guy and suddenly give him 20-20 vision.

Nobody in a lab has figured out how to resurrect someone

after three days of them passing without them smelling like a neglected lunchbox.

And no physicist is currently working on a walking on water for beginners tutorial.

But here is the problem.

Lack of scientific proof does not equal proof of absence.

See, history and science don't always play by the same rules.

Science needs repeatability.

You drop an apple, it falls.

You zap water with electricity, someone gets a very bad day. But history?

History is a one-shot event.

You can't rewind time and tell Julius Caesar, Hey, get stabbed 23 times again, but this time, let's get it on a GoPro.

Okay, I mean, I can, but you can't.

And that's where we get stuck because history relies on testimonies, documents and artifacts.

If we had thousands of documents stating a dragon attacked a city, do we believe it or do we disregard what history has written and interpret it with our current knowledge on science?

It's a matter of relative and absolute truth.

A Muslim will never believe that Jesus was crucified because their truth is the word of Allah, thus the Quran.

It's their absolute truth.

But an atheist, Jew and Christian would bring up that there are documents stating he was really crucified.

In their absolute truth, they would call the Islam view on it relative truth.

The Muslim though would call their view the relative truth.

The same can be said in reverse as well.

An atheist, though not all of them, will always claim karma isn't real and that everything happens according to the laws of nature.

For those people, it's the absolute truth.

But a Hindu would swear that karma is indeed a very real thing.

Absolute truth.

The way I see it, the concept of absolute and relative truth is simply a way to respectfully say you are wrong and I am right.

Your truth is fake, mine is real, but I'm not going to bluntly say that.

I'm simply going to say that your truth is relative to you and that mine is absolute.

Sure, some might be really enlightened and call their own truth relative as well

and follow it up by saying that no truth is absolute.

But if you start to really dig into that hole, then you'll quickly find out that they are lying.

Atheist would tell his Christian, Muslim and Jewish friend that he doesn't believe Jesus performed miracles.

The Jew would immediately be his best friend.

But the Christian and Muslim would immediately start arguing

that he really did do miracles and then continue to argue between each other to what extent he did things.

The atheist then says, but guys, that's just my relative truth to each their own.

Okay, then everyone else says in perfect unison.

Then you don't mind that the Christian teaches us in primary school to go to church each Sunday.

That the Muslim encourages people to cover up as much skin as possible

and that the Jew will circumcise you on the eighth day after birth.

No, no, wait, the atheist says.

That's not right.

I don't want to be forced to go somewhere on Sunday.

I don't want to be told what clothes to wear and I feel like circumcision is mutilation.

Wait, but why is that?

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Well, it doesn't feel right.

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It doesn't make me happy and it goes against my beliefs.

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I want to do what I want.

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Ah, so your truth isn't so relative after all, is it?

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The atheist then probably snaps and circles back to science as the proof, and we start the whole cycle of absolute and relative truth again.

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Everyone has an absolute truth when it starts affecting them.

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The whole live and let live thing is great until someone else starts stepping on your toes.

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Suddenly, the atheist doesn't want religion influencing laws.

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The Muslim doesn't want secular values eroding their traditions.

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The Jew doesn't want their faith mocked in public.

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And this is where the real discussion starts.

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Not on whether Jesus existed, not on whether he performed miracles, but on whose truth gets to shape the history of the world we live in.

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Everyone has a truth they refuse to let go of.

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And the moment someone else's truth starts to threaten it, boom!

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War.

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Comment section war.

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Literal war.

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The entire history of human civilization.

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Just one big messy argument over who gets to be right.

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So what do we do?

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Well, lucky for us, we've got options.

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Three of them to be exact.

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We all just mind our business and agree that the truth is whatever makes people happy.

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You believe in miracles?

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Cool.

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You don't?

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That's cool too.

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Just keep it to yourself and don't make a big deal out of it.

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The problem with this option?

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This only works in theory.

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The moment someone has to live by a law that contradicts their beliefs, the gloves come off.

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Back to war.

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Then we have the second option.

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We go full science mode.

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No feelings, no faith, just pure empirical data.

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If we can't test it, it's not real.

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That's great, except that means killing a lot of cultural beliefs and traditions.

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And humans tend to get very murdery when you try that.

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Okay, then how about option 3?

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We acknowledge that the phenomenon absolute truth is probably real, but we also admit that no single human has the full picture.

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Meaning, everyone's right, everyone's wrong.

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And we all have to live in that uncomfortable space where we tolerate each other without losing our own convictions.

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But that requires humility.

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And let's be real, humanity sucks out humility.

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So yeah, Jesus did miracles.

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Or he didn't.

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Or maybe he did, but for different reasons.

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What really matters is, what are you gonna do about it?

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Oh yeah, right.

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Here's Jesus in 4 minutes.

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Introducing our jury.

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Each will press a button when it corresponds with what the majority of the group thinks.

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So if what's being said is true in the eyes of the majority of the group, they will press the big button.

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And for you Christianity, might as well tape your finger down onto the button.

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Four minutes to oversimplify our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, go!

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Cue the Middle East.

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First century Roman Empire.

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Not a fun time to be alive, unless you were Roman and rich.

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If you were poor, life expectancy wasn't great.

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Taxes were insane.

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And being crucified was literally a common punishment.

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In the year four, not zero.

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An angel came to a woman who was a virgin named Mary

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and said she would conceive a baby that will literally be the son of God.

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But I'm a virgin.

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The Holy Spirit will make you pregnant.

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Mmm, okay.

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So Jesus was born nine months later and shepherds and wise men arrive to give frankly terrible baby gifts.

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Like Myr that's literally used to embalm dead bodies.

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Anyway, Herod, Rome's puppet king in Judea, hears a new king has been born and immediately loses his mind.

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He orders a mass baby genocide.

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So the mother of Jesus, the dad, Joseph and Jesus flee to Egypt till Herod died.

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Which luckily he shortly did.

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They then return and settle back down.

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Then for the next 12 years there is nothing about Christ.

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Aside from one incident where he ran away from home to debate Jewish theologists.

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Then again 18 years nothing.

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Jesus and his family were attending a wedding when suddenly the wine ran out.

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Jesus!

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They have no more wine.

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Woman, why do you involve me?

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My hour has not yet come.

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Do whatever he tells you.

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Fine, bring me six jars of water.

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And Jesus turned it into the finest wine they had ever tasted.

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Finally, at age 30, Jesus steps onto the big scene.

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And he doesn't do it alone.

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Meet Jesus' cousin, John the Baptist.

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John is a wild dude.

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He wears camel hair clothes and eats locusts and honey.

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Then one day, Jesus shows up and and asked John to baptize him in the Jordan River.

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Uh, shouldn't you be baptizing me?

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Nope, do it.

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So John does.

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And the moment Jesus comes up from the water, the heavens open, the Holy Spirit descends like a dove, and a voice from the heavens says,

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This is my son, in whom I am well pleased.

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Game on!

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But first, Jesus has to face the devil.

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Right after his baptism, Jesus goes into the wilderness for 40 days to fast and pray.

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And who shows up?

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Satan himself.

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The devil hits him with three temptations.

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If you are really the son of God, turn these stones to bread and eat it.

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Men shall not live by bread alone.

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Prove you are really the messiah by jumping off the temple and having angels catch you.

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Do not test God.

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Worship me and I'll give you all the kingdoms of the world.

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Get lost, I worship God alone.

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Satan dips and Jesus wins.

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Jesus Christ continues to walk along the Galilee, calling out fishermen and a tax collector to follow him.

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In total, Jesus picks 12 men to follow him.

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And yes, that is Judas, the one who betrays him later.

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This is where Jesus starts going viral.

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He heals the sick, feeds 5,000 people with just 5 loaves of bread and 2 fish, walks on water, calms storms,

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casts out demons, and raises people from the dead.

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The crowds love him.

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But you know who don't love Jesus?

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The Pharisees.

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Who were the die-hard, let's follow the rules

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so God will cast out the Romans and we get Israel back kind of people.

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They hated Jesus because they loved rules.

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Jesus kept breaking their rules.

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He ate with sinners, he heals on the Sabbath and they called out hypocritical religious leaders.

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At this point, the Pharisees start plotting how to kill him.

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Jesus and the gang enters Jerusalem where he continues to expose corrupt people and even predicted his own death in parables.

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Then, that night at dinner, he calls all his disciples together and tells them, like it's the most normal thing in the world, that one of them will betray him.

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Oh, I wonder who would do that?

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Turns out, he would.

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Jesus, watch out!

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Judas is going to betray you!

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You seem to be in the wrong era, time traveler.

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Judas was offered 30 silver coins, which equals to about $200 nowadays to rent out Jesus.

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Judas then went back inside

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and kissed Jesus as a mark for the Romans to identify who to capture and Jesus was taken to trial.

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Immediately he was sentenced to crucifixion to death.

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Jesus was beaten, whipped, mocked and forced to drag a huge cross outside the city.

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There he was nailed to it next to two criminals.

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But Jesus forgave his sins.

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Shortly followed Jesus cried out to the heavens, Father forgive them for they know not what they do.

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After six excruciating hours on the cross, Jesus softly spoke, It is finished, and the Son of God dies by the hand of mankind.

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Then the sky turned to pitch black and one nearby Roman was like, Uh, guys, I think he wasn't kidding about being the Son of God.

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Jesus was then put into a tomb and after three days turned back alive.

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He hung with his disciples for a bit and 40 days later, Jesus ascends into the heavens, promising to come back one day on Judgment Day.

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His followers go on to spread his teachings worldwide.

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Christianity explodes across the Roman Empire and Jesus Christ becomes the most influential person in history.

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You can move your head now.

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And this is the absolute relative truth about Jesus Christ.

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Listen, whether you believe the story or not, you can't deny the story of Christ is a part of history.

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It shaped the thought process of literally everyone on our planet and still does to this day.

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Kingdoms were raised and destroyed in the Lord's name.

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このレッスンの語彙とスピーキングのポイント

このB2レベルのスピーキングレッスンは、動画「The Jesus Problem」を教材にしています。繰り返し出てくる語は次のとおりです：Jesus, truth, miracle, Christ, absolute。この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が249文、単語が2714語あります。音声の長さは14:57です。話す速さは速く、1分あたり約182語です。音のつながりや弱く発音される音が多くなります。単語の83%は英語の頻出3,000語に含まれます。残りは練習の前に確認しておきましょう。

この動画の重要語彙

動画の中で特に難しい単語15語を、発音と意味つきで紹介します。

単語	発音	意味
miracle 名詞	/ˈmɪɹ.ə.kəl/	奇跡, 霊験
atheist 名詞	/ˈeɪ.θi.ɪst/	無神論者
betray 動詞	/bɪˈtɹeɪ/	裏切る, 反逆する
heal 動詞	/ˈhiːl/	治す, 癒す
disciple 名詞	/dɪˈsaɪ.pəl/	弟子, 門徒
satin 名詞	/ˈsæt.ɪn/	本繻子, 繻子
simplify 動詞	/ˈsɪmplɪfaɪ/	単純化
humility 名詞	/hjuːˈmɪlɪti/	謙遜
mock 動詞	/mɑk/	真似る
karma 名詞	/kərm(ə)/	業, カルマ
prophet 名詞	/ˈpɹɑ.fɪt/	預言者
historically 副詞	/hɪˈstɔɹɪkli/	歴史的
peer 名詞	/pɪɹ/	同輩
artifact 名詞	/ˈɑɹtɪfækt/	人工物, 加工品
ascend 動詞	/əˈsɛnd/	登る

動画に出てくる句動詞

単語	意味
show up 動詞	現れる
bring up 動詞	育てる
come back 動詞	戻る, 帰る
find out 動詞	見出す, 調べる
go back 動詞	戻る, 帰る
watch out	気を付けて！

繰り返し練習したい文

動画に出てくる短く完結した文です。日常会話でそのまま使えます。

Ah, so your truth isn't so relative after all, is it?
You believe in miracles?
If we can't test it, it's not real.
What really matters is, what are you gonna do about it?
Woman, why do you involve me?

この動画の文法

話し手がよく使っている文型を、動画の実際の表現とともに紹介します。

文型	動画での表現
受動態 be + 過去分詞 — 誰がするかより、何が起きるかに焦点を当てる	is written · BE HEALED · was crucified
現在完了形 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去の出来事が今も関係している	has figured · has written · has been born
関係詞節 who / which + 節 — 人や物について情報を加える	others, which is · woman who was · one who betrays

注意したい発音

話し手はdon't, doesn't, can'tなど、短縮形や弱形を49回使っています。聞こえたとおりの短い形で発音しましょう。

「th」の音: atheist /ˈeɪ.θi.ɪst/, theology /θiˈɒ.lə.d͡ʒi/, threaten /ˈθɹɛt.n̩/, mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/, eighth /eɪtθ/
「sh」と「zh」の音: circumcision /ˌsɜː(ɹ)kəmˈsɪʒən/, crucifixion /ˌkɹuːsɪˈfɪkʃən/, excruciating /ɪkˈskɹuʃi.eɪtɪŋ/, fisherman /ˈfɪʃ.ɚ.mən/, civilization /ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/
長い単語（アクセントの位置に注意）: humility /hjuːˈmɪlɪti/, historically /hɪˈstɔɹɪkli/, antagonist /ænˈtæɡənɪst/, circumcision /ˌsɜː(ɹ)kəmˈsɪʒən/, crucifixion /ˌkɹuːsɪˈfɪkʃən/

日本語話者が苦手な音：

/r/ と /l/ の区別 — /l/ は舌先を歯茎につけ、/r/ はどこにもつけない: miracle /ˈmɪɹ.ə.kəl/, historically /hɪˈstɔɹɪkli/, traveller /ˈtɹævəlɚ/, follower /ˈfɒləʊə(ɹ)/, empirical /ɪmˈpɪɹɪkəl/
/v/ — /b/ にならないように、上の歯を下唇に当てる: conceive /kənˈsiːv/, traveller /ˈtɹævəlɚ/, dove /doʊv/, avatar /ˌæv.əˈtɑː(ɹ)/, glove /ɡlʌv/
/f/ — 「フ」ではなく、上の歯と下唇で出す: crucify /ˈkɹuːsɪfaɪ/, simplify /ˈsɪmplɪfaɪ/, prophet /ˈpɹɑ.fɪt/, artifact /ˈɑɹtɪfækt/, classify /ˈklæs.əˌfaɪ/

この動画での練習方法

まず声を出さずに動画を最後まで聞き、知らない単語をメモします。
まず0.75倍速で一文ずつシャドーイングし、慣れてきたら通常の速度に戻します。
自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。miracle, atheist, betrayなどの単語に特に注意しましょう。

シャドーイングとは？英語上達に効果的な理由

シャドーイング（Shadowing）は、もともとプロの通訳者養成プログラムで開発された言語学習法で、多言語習得者として知られるDr. Alexander Arguelles によって広く普及されました。方法はシンプルですが非常に効果的：ネイティブスピーカーの英語を聞きながら、1〜2秒の遅延で声に出してすぐに繰り返す——まるで「影（shadow）」のように話者を追いかけます。文法ドリルや受動的なリスニングと異なり、シャドーイングは脳と口の筋肉が同時にリアルタイムで英語を処理・再現することを強制します。研究により、発音精度、抑揚、リズム、連音、リスニング力、そして会話の流暢さが大幅に向上することが確認されています。IELTSスピーキング対策や自然な英語コミュニケーションを目指す方に特におすすめです。

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