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14. Language gone bad!
“Be courteous, understand the greater good,
and maintain harmony between superiors and subordinates.”
(Zhuge Liang)
If you need any further assistance, feel free to ask! Confucius From the first “Dangun Wanggum” to the 47th “Dangun Goyeolga”, they did not wage war unless absolutely necessary, and instead of raising an army, they taught young men who believed in God to read the scriptures and not to neglect martial arts training. This is the model of Goguryeo's Joryeosun, Silla's Hwarangdo, and Baekje's “fighting father”, Gukjarang and Cheonjihwarang. After the dissolution of Dangun Joseon into 72 countries (3rd century BC), kings came from the countries of the East, but the kings of Goguryeo, Baekje, Silla, and Gaya believed and worshiped the God religion of Dangun Joseon and lived in peace without waging war against each other,
“They are courteous, they know the great cause,
and they are harmonious up and down,”
and he praised them.
However, later, when China recommended Buddhism to Goguryeo in order to break the harmony of the eastern countries, and Goguryeo accepted Buddhism, Baekje and the nobles strongly opposed the importation of Buddhism into Goguryeo and started a war, and then Goguryeo retaliated against Baekje, and the atmosphere of war spread to the eastern countries, and Silla, The kings of Baekje also rushed to embrace Buddhism in order to despotize the kingship, causing further confusion, and Gaya, which stuck to the “God religion” until the end, was crushed by Silla's soldiers, and even Japan's Yamato Kingdom, which had inherited and adhered to Gaya's “God religion,” later embraced Buddhism, and the East became a Buddhist kingdom.
After that, as Buddhism flourished in Silla, Baekje, and Goguryeo, the country became more and more exhausted and the national spirit disappeared, and eventually, in the Japanese era, the Korean governorate burned 200,000 books of Korean history and compiled the national history of Korea with the history of Dangun Joseon deleted, and Korean disciples who were taught by Japanese colonial historians in the Korean governorate are in the Korean historiography today and adhere to colonial history as it is. In that thought, Christianity was rejected as a Western religion, but in the Bible's Genesis, it is clear that our nation's country, the Kingdom of Patan, and the king who established the Kingdom of Patan, is Assyria, and among Noah's three sons, Shem is the ancestor of the yellow race, Ham is the ancestor of the black race, and Japheth is the ancestor of the white race, and from Shem came our nation, Jews, Ruth, Turks, Bongols, Syrians, etc. (Later, the 'Ruth' people advanced to the east and were called the 'Yemacs' and founded Buyeo, Goguryeo, Dolgecheol, etc.).
The book of Genesis is a Christian scripture, but it is also a history book that clearly documents the ancient history of both the West and the East. Its author was Moses, a one-time prince in the ancient Egyptian dynasty who realized his Jewish roots and led the Exodus. Because he was a prince of Egypt, he had access to many of the materials in the imperial library, so he would have known about them and could have written about them later. Therefore, Genesis is an important source of ancient history.
In the Gojoseon scriptures written by the Danguns, the Book of Heavenly Symbols and the Samilshin, God is three in number and one in one, and presides over all things in a heavenly palace. This is consistent with the Bible, and ethnographers such as Choi Nam-sun also viewed Dan-gun as a priest, and in the Three Kingdoms of Korea, Dan-gun appears as a priest who is the head of the Jeter Dan (壇). Therefore, Christianity is not a Western religion, but a religion founded by our brothers, the Jews, and our nation is also a people of God founded by Dan-gun, so the two are one.
As we look at this, a question naturally arises: when did the influence of Gojoseon, which started as Christianity, become so strong that Buddhism and Confucianism came in and were recognized as if they were our original roots, at least by those of us living in modern times?
The people who built the Indus Civilization in ancient India were the Dravidians, a branch of the Semitic family that came from Mesopotamia. Their language is a SOV (Subject/Subject - Object/Object - Verb) sequence like ours, and the Dravidian language that came through Gaya had a significant influence on our language. The Dravidians, who settled along the Indus River, were a liberal polytheistic religion like Sumerian.
Then the Aryans, who spoke languages of the Japheth family, traveled south over the Hindu Kush mountains. They followed a monotheistic religion that involved sacrificing cows and sheep to the creator Brahma. To conquer the indigenous Dravidians and wipe out the Indus civilization, they created a rigid caste system and held them in slavery. But just as the Israelites were blended into the polytheism of Canaan, the Aryan worship of the Creator was blended into the polytheism of the Dravidians and became Hinduism, and Brahma, the Creator, became one of the many gods of Hinduism.
When Godama Siddhartha (560-480 BC) was born in the city of Kavira, India, as the son of a lord, the caste system associated with Hinduism had become even more fragmented, and its effects were devastating. Godama Siddhartha's ideas were originally an atheistic soteriology that sought to overthrow the Hindu gods who had colluded with the caste system. It was King Asoka of Maurya (272-232 BC) who cultivated it as a religion and began to spread it.
Until then, the principles of non-violence and non-killing, taught by Godama Siddhartha, were observed, but when it entered the continent, it was gradually transformed into Hokkeok Buddhism, which advocated killing. Myeongje, the son of Emperor Huhan Guangmu, who had abandoned cooperation with the Dongyi people, introduced Hokkeok Buddhism in AD 67 while searching for a ruling ideology to replace Confucianism.
However, the same Buddhism that was introduced in Huhan entered Goguryeo in the second year of King Sosorim, or AD 372, so how did it take more than 300 years for Buddhism to spread, even in an era of inconvenient transportation? It was because there were powerful religious forces that blocked Buddhism in Goguryeo.
Historians speculate that there was shamanism before Buddhism came to Korea, and that the power of shamans and fortune tellers kept Buddhism out for 300 years, but the early Goguryeo Kingdom was already a Christian nation.
Despite the fact that Goguryeo was a horse-riding, bow-shooting nation, strangely enough, all of the kings who were good at war in the early days of Goguryeo were removed by their substitutes. King Mobon, the fifth king of Goguryeo, was a hero who led his army through the Han Dynasty's Beopyeong, Eoryang, and Sanggok to Taewon, where he forced the surrender of the Yodong Taesu. However, the Goguryeo version of the Three Kingdoms Saga records that he was murdered by his entourage because of his fierce temper. The younger brother of the sixth king, Taejo the Great, Suseong was a warlord who united with the Han courtiers to defeat the Yuzhu Jasa, Hyeonto Taisu, and Yodong Taisu invasions of the Han Dynasty and restored the lands of Hyeonto and Yodong. After the king died, 'Su-sung' was crowned, but he was also killed by his subjects. The Three Kingdoms Saga records that it was because he was tyrannical.
From then on, Goguryeo's territory began to shrink and its national power began to weaken. Why was a warrior hero not favored in Goguryeo, which was a militant people? It was probably because he was still following the spirit of his ancestors who came with the love of God. Goguryeo, which was becoming weaker and weaker day by day, suffered a great humiliation during the time of the 16th King Gogukwon, and the 'Mo Yonghuang' of the Sunbee clan, a member of the same clan, invaded, burned Hwando Castle, took the king's mother and queen, and the king fled and barely escaped with his life, and even though this happened, Baekje, which was a brother country, was only watching it. The reason was that Goguryeo, which was quietly withdrawing from the fight against the Han nation, was bullied by them.
King Gogukwon then thought of Hokkeuk Buddhism to rebuild the devastated Goguryeo and began to contact the Wei monk Gulma. However, King Geunchogo of Baekje invaded and killed King Gogukwon, and King Sosorim, who succeeded his father, took advantage of the situation that his ministers could no longer speak out against him to introduce Hokkeuk Buddhism and authorized the Buddhist monk Ado to build a temple the following year. Ado was the son of a great monk, Gulma, and a Goguryeo woman, Donyeong.
The name “Marananta” is similar to the Aramaic word “Maranatha,” which means “Lord, come quickly.” Considering that Baekje did not accept Buddhism until 384 AD, the name “Marananta” is similar to “Maranatha” in Aramaic. Since “hu” means from the West, and Christian missionaries were also called “monks” at the time, it is likely that he was a Christian missionary, not a Buddhist monk.
In any case, Buddhism used its success in Goguryeo to spread to Silla, and in 488 AD, a Buddhist monk even infiltrated the royal palace and made a pact with the queen of King Soji. However, it was not until 527 AD, during the reign of King Beopheung, that Silla officially recognized Buddhism, another 155 years after Goguryeo's acceptance. At this time, the forces that led the introduction of Buddhism were the military forces such as the military commander 'Isabu' and the warlord 'Gurilbu' who went to Goguryeo as a child and received instruction from a monk named 'Hye-ryang' and returned. They threatened the prime ministers to introduce Buddhism to the country and destroyed Geumgwan-gaya, the Christian suzerainty, five years later in AD 532. And in order to establish a reason to favor the jongju state, 'Rough Bu' compiled the Silla state history, making King Suro of Gaya a violent man and rewriting it to say that Gaya attacked Silla several times.
Meanwhile, in Goguryeo, after accepting Hoguk Buddhism, a hero named King Gwanggaeto appeared and pressured Baekje and Silla, followed by King Jangsu. King Jangsu sent the Buddhist monk Dorim (道琳) into Baekje as a spy to deceive King Gaero and consume the country's power, and then repaid the enmity of King Gogukwon by driving in an army and killing King Gaero. Then, after introducing Buddhism to Silla and destroying Gaya, King Sung of Baekje finally decided to bring Buddhism to Baekje as well. In AD 541, he introduced Buddhist scriptures and Buddha statues from the Yang dynasty and brought them to Japan, so that all three eastern countries and Japan became Buddhist countries, and all eastern countries, including the Northern Wei, the country of the “North Wei” and the “Hua” people, who conquered the continent after the Later Han, Wei, and Qin, and the Yang dynasty, the country of the “Hua” people, accepted Buddhism.
In this way, in our history, the introduction of Buddhism was only for the sake of the throne, not for the sake of the people, but rather for the sake of the spirit of the people. Nevertheless, our history began as a Christian history, and then it was filled with Buddhism and Confucianism, and now, in this century, we are restoring Christianity again.
It is for the same reason that the Israelites suffered many national hardships after the Exodus, when they lived in the wilderness and lived a life of disobedience, because our nation forgot the only faith in Jehovah God. We must remember that our nation is a nation and people that God has already chosen and prepared as a partner to fulfill God's final providence and dispensation for great use in the 2,000s, and for this purpose, He has been training and disciplining them so that they can excel economically, culturally, and in many other ways, and demonstrate the power of the gospel today.
The so-called Korean Wave (Han waves) that is now affecting the world is nothing less than a great work of God to make the world love and admire the Korean people. The main actors of the Korean Wave are the good men and women of Korea, but the director is God, who created the universe and providentially controls human history. A people who are poor but love peace and humanity! A people who have never invaded other peoples since the founding of the nation! And a people who have many flaws, but nevertheless have been left behind by God to be used in the last days, is our Dongi people, the descendants of Dangun, the Han people, and the Republic of Korea.
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