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Female Reporter: Should one love one’s enemies as it is written in the New Testament? 

Wise Man: The New Testament you mention is actually Italian and is not new, because it is anchored in the Septuagint, the Holy Book. If that were so, then the Book of Jeremiah would be a New Testament in comparison with the Book of Isaiah. Love is not a thread of thought, but requires certain relationships, therefore the commandment must be realistic, that is, a person physically cannot fulfill that commandment, to love his enemies, because the time, the day, would not be enough, it is the same as if a person worked in one hundred places. Mission is another matter, for example, a prophet is obliged to love everyone, because that is a requirement of purity in his work, just as, for example, a postman delivers letters. 

Female Reporter: Are the sins of people not forgiven through the sufferings of Christ and by faith? 

Wise Man: The blood of Christ is a sign and friendship with God. The blood of Christ is not washing powder that it should wash the bloodstained clothes of the person who killed an innocent man together with his family in order to rob his house. The forgiveness of that crime is accomplished by the mercy of God according to the course of the criminal’s later life. By the way, the sign of God is a heavy burden, but not a repeated one, for the person who brings that sign. 

Female Reporter: Can a person defeat nature? 

Wise Man: The strongest element of nature is fire, which melts iron, while turning a person into ashes. But God differs from fire as butter differs from the cold spring water flowing down from a mountain. Here, the water is fire. Fire is cold water before God, while water is spirit/soul, and a person is mostly composed of water. God is harder than nature, not a stronger nature, not like two lions against one lion, but like a lion and a lily flower, not even a rose, because a rose has thorns for protection. 

Female Reporter: Is the history that has come through the centuries part of the truth? 

Wise Man: From the history that has come through the centuries, only the good things should be taken, just as dried fruits are made from choice fruits, which, as a sign, heal blindness. The truth is connected with salvation and with the new king, not with collecting taxes. God does not say, "The slave must remain a slave, and the captive a captive," but just as He sent a person to Egypt for salvation. 

Female Reporter: Why does the New Testament attract people? 

Wise Man: The New Testament is a sacrificial book, just as a fearless person is sent into a forest full of bears and wolves so that the bears and wolves will eat that fearless believing person and will not come down to the city. However, the true Christ, one of those fearless believers, also goes into that same forest, but remains alive and returns to the city with a rope full of the skins of bears and wolves, of course, also with some wounds. 

Female Reporter: And who was Judith’s chief maidservant from the Book of Judith, who accompanied Judith to cut off Holofernes’s head? 

Wise Man: Allegorically, that chief maidservant was King Nebuchadnezzar in women’s clothing, like in the movie Tootsie, who is mentioned in the Book of Judith as the king of Assyria, rather than of Babylon. Here, King Nebuchadnezzar was Judith’s lover (in a secret bond), just as Judith blesses King Nebuchadnezzar through hints and riddles while standing before Holofernes, and King Nebuchadnezzar is a pagan image of Christ. One could say that Nebuchadnezzar repented of his wicked command and secretly, with Judith and with God’s help, corrected his mistake. 

Female Reporter: Should salvation be instantaneous, or should it be like in earthly wars, like the speed of a land turtle? 

Wise Man: I think salvation should be instantaneous, like a person waking up from sleep, from a bad or colorful dream, because God’s speed unimaginably exceeds the speed of light, and the 4,000-year allegorical historiography of the Holy Book (including the Book of Revelation) speaks about that speed. Although salvation may at first be like the speed of a sea turtle, which is the speed of Christ.