“The correct interpretation of the Bible is to read it with the eyes of those who suffer. It is impossible to know without seeing the site.”
Professor Yong-Shil Choi, member of the Reconciliation and Reunification committee of the NCCK brought to mind the difficult situation of the year 2009 when bullets flew around in Bethlehem emphasizing the importance of experience with the body. She said that this is another such occasion about which you cannot know if you don’t see.
She continued. “To read the bible correctly we have to listen to the wails and cries of hardship that come from around the world. This is the reason why Korean Christians have to pay attention to the people who are suffering in Palestine.
A seminar was held on November 28, 2014 with the theme “Looking for peace in Palestine & the Korean Peninsula: Kairos Document and Peace Documents of the Korean Peninsula”, sponsored by NCCK and KCNPP. This seminar was part of a seminar series hosted by KNCCP beginning last June with the theme, “Peace in the Palestine and the Korean Peninsula”, with participation from the NCCK, Korea YMCA National Alliance, YWCA of Korea, Asia-Pacific Life Research Institute, etc.
Professor Choi explained the formation and contents of the Palestine Kairos Document which was announced in December 2009 and the “Declaration of the Korean Church on National Unity and Peace (called Declaration 88)” which was announced in 1988. She emphasized the need to fulfill the basic principles, which are mentioned in those documents, in each detail to achieve a confession of guilt and peace.
She said that Christians resist an unjust policy, law system, and false ideologies; and that we must end this injustice and we should fulfill justice right now and in this crucial time.
The next “Peace seminar” will be held on December 22, 2014.
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