Posted on 11/17/2006 9:32:22 PM PST by Louis Foxwell
(I have been wanting to express this for some time. A comment on another thread prompted me to put it in words.)
South Korea has some of the largest Christian churches in the world. They send missionaries to every nation including our own. They are, by all appearances, a great Christian nation, but their Christianity is a lie.
The most basic Christian impulse is to care for one's neighbor and to love one's brothers and sisters. South Korea is absolutely paranoid about a sudden influx of North Koreans into their society. They are not willing to threaten the comfort and wealth they have developed for the sake of desperately poor cousins to the north. This is NOT a Christian response. It is selfish and profoundly immoral.
South Koreans will lose their precious comforts because they are not willing to share them. Greed is their byword and poverty will be their reward. They will reap the whirlwind of their failure to be genuine Christians.
So I take it you are pro illegal immigrant in the U.S.? There is a world of difference between being cruel and self-defense/protecting one's nation.
Defending one's self, family, nation, or property, for that matter, does NOT make a person a non-Christian.
With all due respect, this ranks up there with the worst vanity ever.
So Amos the Prophet, when was the last time you were actually in Korea?
Amos, I must beg to differ with your interpretation.
First, they aren't frightened about letting North Koreans into their country. They are frightened about letting soldiers and an influx of desperate people along side pillaging everything in sight.
Second, North Koreans are not necessarily "brothers" in Christ. Christians are just supposed to give everything over to everyone. Paul reprimanded one church for having done just that in preparation for the coming of Christ. Did Paul, the Apostles, or Christ say for everyone to give everything away? No. But Christ did tell us to be willing to offer help to others when prompted. But this does not necessarily mean to the detriment of your other responsibilities, such as your family and your commitment to your church.
South Korea may have spiritual issues, but you've targeted their situation in a truly bizarre, and I believe wrong, way.
Pablum or meat? milk or solid food?
It's not greed, it's self preservation.
How weird.
What discerning criteria is used between real prophets and false prophets?
What discerning criteria is used between real prophets and false prophets?
Pablum or meat? milk or solid food?
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Thank you. Tender digestions have difficulty with meat and potatoes.
You make a grand, sweeping accusation against South Korean and it's Christians, on what factual basis? Have you been over there? Do you personally know all of the things they have tried to do to help the North? I noticed you have not responded to questions such as these in this thread. Who are you to judge them, and on what basis?
P.S. Have you invited 10 inner city ghetto families from the city closest to you (your neighbors) to live in tents on your property, rent free? NO?! Now you're in judgment and will have doom come upon you... /sarcasm
I haven't observed any Korean believers, from either North or South, fail to exhibit love for their fellow man or their fellow believers in Christ.
I have observed a split body of people, generally of one race and tongue, also known as a nation, with many unbelievers with very real animosities towards anything Christian.
National governance is a divine institution for believers and unbelievers alike. When the legitimate authority of national governance is violated, the divine blessings available to that institution are infringed.
If unbelievers from North Korea attempt to invade the South Korean nation and remove the freedoms of believers to study Scripture and witness the Gospel, such actions are nowhere defended in Scripture.
More primal than love for one's fellow man, is for each and every believer to remain in fellowship with God through faith in Christ by His protocol. Loving one's fellow man as oneself includes the use of force to defend legitimate authority and living within the domain of legitimate authority and respecting those authorities.
The existence of conflict doesn't entail love doesn't exist. On the contrary, a true perseverant love will always result in separation between good and evil, especially when divinely judged.
Forgiveness without repentence merely implies the degeneration of good to accept the force of evil.
Spoken as a true Christian aparatchek. Clearly political issues hold sway over humanitarian concerns in this divided nation.
I am deeply disturbed as a fellow Christian that there is no attempt to encourage North Koreans, reduced to eating the bark from trees, to escape to the South and be assimilated. Why is there no underground railroad freeing the slaves of the North? Why is the answer to the death of hundreds of thousands by starvation always couched in a dehumanizing political context?
South Korea could end the evil regime by applying some of their vaunted Christian compassion in the form of offering hope to people who have no hope.
Surely they are clever enough to figure out how to do this in a systematic, organized fashion.
The simple, awful truth remains that the South enforces the rigidity and evil of the North by refusing to offer sanctuary to some of the most blighted people in the world.
Sorta like the anti-illegal immigration types around here?
Your "thesis" is laughable.
North Koreans are not welcomed to escape into the South. When they do they are returned to a death sentence. The South is attempting to live in a bubble. It will burst and they will be devastated.
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