The pitfall of authority

The original Korean text: https://blog.naver.com/stevision/220414752673

 

I read the Yonsei Alumni Newsletter yesterday, and Han, a former professor at Yonsei University appeared in an interview. He may well have a sense of authority, for he served as a professor at the Department of Theology, Yonsei University, taught younger scholars, retired, and now teaches students as an honorary professor at the university.

 

But Han kept a statue of the nirvana-Buddha like a treasure in his house, and presented a photo taken with the statue to the alumni newsletter as if to show off his open academic spirit.

 

Han, who is over 90 years old, claims this. You can see the same thing differently from others, so you have to admit things of others also. That is, Han teaches(!) that Christianity should have an attitude to recognize other religions.

 

No one can resist the attitude of that old theologian and raise a counterargument to his words. Who can do that, for he used to be a professor at the great(!) Yonsei University? Han seemed to be proud of his irresistible authority and enjoy such an atmosphere secretly.

 

Jeon, the pastor of a large church, habitually sexually harassed female Christians of his church, and was expelled from the church. This pastor(!) also seems to have committed dirty sex crimes bravely at first because no man dared rebuke him because of his authority. This pastor may have been amazed at the greatness of the sacred and inviolable authority bestowed on him when he saw the female victims keep silent because the perpetrator was a pastor. The denomination to which this pastor Jeon belongs acknowledges his authority, too, and hasn't proceeded with disciplinary procedures against him until now, nailing the victims' heart second time.

 

 

David, a great king, once fell into a pit of authority and violated his subordinate's wife. But God loved him, so he punished him severely while he was living in the world, so that he fortunately could die without the burden of his grave sins.

 

The absolute in Buddhism and the absolute in Christianity are different indeed, so only he who believes in an idol-god that is nothing to do with the God of Christianity can say that in fact the two absolute beings are the same. In fact, he says such strange words because he does not understand the Triune God of Christianity. As a matter of fact, he should acknowledge his ignorance and stop his mouth with his own hands, but he keeps saying strange words. What would learned theologians from other theological colleges think of Yonsei Theology?

 

If you are a theologian and serve idols and teach the teachings of the idols to the students and the people, you will surely go to hell. If you are appointed as a pastor and commit sex crimes, you are very likely to go to hell without forgiveness. If Mr. Jeon has not been punished as much as David in the world, this means that he is forsaken by God forever, and will go to hell without forgiveness.

 

 

If you're given high authority but become proud and betray God, you'll be ruined like Judas Iscariot, an apostle of Jesus. Judas admitted his sins, but was not forgiven. Neither in the Old Testament nor in the New Testament you can see a gospel that you can be forgiven sins you've voluntarily committed. In the Old Testament, you can not offer sin offerings if the sins are committed voluntarily, but have to be punished; in the New Testament, you can not find another way to be forgiven when you betray the gospel after tasting the gospel. Theologians should not imitate Han and Jeon. "The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom" ㅡ The Scripture says so.

 

>>No one is as foolish and stupid as Han and Jeon. Of course, they may think of themselves as great poeple.<<