성경의 세계관과 상고시대 천손민족의 세계관 = The Universal View of Idealogy Reflected in the Bible and Asian Heavenly Descendants

국문 초록 (Abstract)

유일신관과 홍익인간의 이념 등에서 또 삼재합일과 영적인, 무형상의 하느님관과 관계적 인간관 등에서 상고시대 천손민족의 세계관은 성경의 세계관과 매우 유사하다. 이 여러 유사성때문에 최근에 기독교 계통의 사람들 가운데에 천손민족이 노아의 후예, 또는 아브라함의 후예 또는 잃어버린 이스라엘의 한지파라고 주장하는 사람들이 많은 게 사실이다. 그러나 상고시대 천손민족에게 안식일에 관한 계명이 없다는 점과 또 인류의 타락에 관한 신학적 설명이 천손민족에게 없다는 점 등에서 볼때에 상고시대 천손민족이 이스라엘이나 그 조상 아브라함보다 더욱 고대에 속하며 이스라엘의 신앙의 원형의 일부가 천손민족의 신앙에서 온 것으로 보인다. 또한 천손민족에게 하느님의 심판으로서의 대홍수가 거의 없다는 점에서 한님의 시대의 일부는 노아의 홍수보다 오래되었다고 보인다.

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

A world view is a view of the world, including life, or a perceptual framework of the world and of life. This world view is often reflected in languages and documents. By analyzing languages and the documents written in those languages, one can see the world views of the people who used those languages or wrote their documents in those languages. This essay analyzes some aspects of Korean language and ancient Korean laws and the stories of people called “Ancient Descendants of God,” who include ancient Koreans, Manchurians, Mongols, Turks, American Indians, Japanese and other people in China and Russia. Then it detects the world views of ancient Koreans and Descendants of God and compares them with biblical world views. Both the biblical world view and the world views of ancient Koreans and Descendants of God have a similar monotheism, a similar view of God who does not have a form and should not be made in an image, similar creation stories and similar, relational views of humans. They also both have a similar view of the need for harmony among God, humanity and nature. Finally, they have a similar view of trinity. The world view of ancient Koreans and Descendants of God differs from the biblical world view in some ways: For example, they do not share the biblical view that the first humans’ violation of God’s commandment regarding the knowledge of good and evil caused their fall from God and their loss of paradise. Their stories of many floods also lack the ethical nature of the biblical view of Noah’s flood. Finally, the ancient Koreans and most of the Descendants of God did not have laws about the Sabbath. From these similarities and differences, and also from the fact that ancient Koreans and Descendants of God were more ancient people than Abraham and his descendants, it is proposed that ancient Koreans and Descendants of God influenced the Israelites’ world view as shown in their scripture, not the other way around, as some contemporary Korean Christians think.