Yung Suk Kim's Scholarly Journey: Scriptures

KEY SCRIPTURES

1 Thess 5:21 But test everything; hold fast to what is good.1 Cor 1:9 God is faithful; by him you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
1 Cor 1:25 For God's foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God's weakness is stronger than human strength. [DDJ 52]
1 Cor 2:2 For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
1 Cor 15:45: Thus it is written, "The first man, Adam, became a living being"; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. *"living being" (psyche zosan). In Hebrew, nefesh is a living being (Gen 2:7). *"a life-giving spirit" (pneuma zoopoioun)
2 Cor 5:14 For the love of Christ urges us on, because we are convinced that one has died for all; therefore all have died.
2 Corinthians 3:17: Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 18 And all of us, with unveiled faces, seeing the glory of the Lord as though reflected in a mirror, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another; for this comes from the Lord, the Spirit.
2 Cor 13:4 For he was crucified by (ek) weakness, but lives by (ek) the power of God. For we are weak in (en) him, but in dealing with you we will live with (syn) him by (ek) the power of God.
2 Cor 12:9-10 My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness. So, I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me. Therefore I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities for the sake of Christ; for whenever I am weak, then I am strong.
Rom 2:29 Real circumcision is a matter of the heart; it is spiritual and not literal.
Rom 7:24 Who will rescue me from this body of death?
Rom 8:26: Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness.
Rom 6:6 vs. 7:4: the body of sin and the body of Christ.
Romans 13:8-10 8 Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. 9 The commandments, "You shall not commit adultery; You shall not murder; You shall not steal; You shall not covet"; and any other commandment, are summed up in this word, "Love your neighbor as yourself." 10 Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore, love is the fulfilling of the law. "Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law."
Romans 10:4 "For Christ is the end of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes."
Rom 3:26-31 it was to prove at the present time that he himself is righteous and that he justifies the one who has the faith of Jesus. 27 Then what becomes of boasting? It is excluded. By what law? By that of works? No, but by the law of faith. 28 For we hold that a person is justified by faith apart from works prescribed by the law. 29 Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also, 30 since God is one; and he will justify the circumcised on the ground of faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith. 31 Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law.
Rom 7:25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I am a slave to the law of God, but with my flesh I am a slave to the law of sin.
Rom 11:33-36 O the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways! 34 "For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?" 35 "Or who has given a gift to him, to receive a gift in return?" 36 For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory forever. Amen.
Rom 6:1: What then are we to say? Should we continue in sin in order that grace may abound?
Rom 6:10: The death he died, he died to sin, once and for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.
Rom 6:12-13: Therefore, do not let sin exercise dominion in our mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions. No longer present your members to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and present your members to God as instruments of righteousness.
Rom 7:5-6: While we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death. But now we are discharged from the law, dead to that which held us captive, so that we are slaves not under the old written code but in the new life of the Spirit.
Rom 7:12-13: So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good. Did what is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin, working death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be shown to be sin, and through the commandment might become sinful beyond measure.
Rom 7:14: For we know that the law is spiritual; but I am of the flesh, sold into slavery under sin.
Rom 7:25: Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then, with my mind I am a slave to the law of God, but with my flesh I am a slave to the law of sin.
Gal 2:20 It is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live in the faithfulness of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Gal 5:6: For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything; the only thing that counts is faith working through love.
Galatians 5:14 "For the whole law is summed up in a single commandment, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
Mark 3:35 Whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother?
Matt 5:17 Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets; I have come not to abolish but to fulfill.
Matt 7:4 "Or how can you say to your neighbor, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ while the log is in your own eye?"
Mark 10:45 For the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.
Luke 19:10 For the Son of Man came to seek out and to save the lost."
John 18:37 Pilate asked him, "So you are a king?" Jesus answered, "You say that I am a king. For this I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice."
Mark 2:27 The sabbath was made for humankind, and not humankind for the sabbath.
Matt 5:43-48 You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' 44 But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 so that you may be children of your Father in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous. 46 For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? 47 And if you greet only your brothers and sisters, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? 48 Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
Matt 23:3 therefore, do whatever they teach you and follow it; but do not do as they do, for they do not practice what they teach.
John 11:26: "Whoever lives and believes in me will never die."
James 2:24-26 You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone. 25 Likewise, was not Rahab the prostitute also justified by works when she welcomed the messengers and sent them out by another road? 26 For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is also dead.
Jer 4:4a Circumcise yourselves to the Lord, remove the foreskin of your hearts.

QUOTES FROM me:

"I am not a pure academician who is merely digging in the past as if I have the truth about it. History is not obvious and it must be interpreted carefully. I am a bit of everything: historian, theologian, humanist, realist, lover of wisdom, and advocate of justice and love." --from my video
"I don't admire an ivory tower thinker, let alone a shallow thinker with a big mouth" (Yung Suk Kim, 4/15/2021).
“Truth is more than trustable knowledge; it is deeply experiential, confessional, and contextual. It should be engaged in a community that he or she lives, embodied in a world ... requires a life that engages the way.” --Yung Suk Kim, Truth, Testimony, and Transformation (Cascade Books, 2013).

Quotes from others:

Maya Angelou: "My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style."

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe. But that might just be me being stupid." --Albert Einstein
"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination." --Albert Einstein
"Knowing not to know is best." --Laozi (Dao De Jing 71)
知不知上 zhī bù zhī shǎng
“Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.” --Friedrich Nietzsche

"Intuitions without concepts are blind. Concepts without intuitions are empty." -- Emmanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
"When I look inside and see that I am nothing, that is wisdom.
When I look outside and see that I am everything, that is love.
And between these two, my life turns." – Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
"A person is the product of their dreams. So make sure to dream great dreams. And then try to live your dream." -Maya Angelou
"The Way of heaven reduces what is excessive and supplements what is insufficient. The way of humans is different. It reduces the insufficient and increases the excessive." (Dao De Jing 77). For the full translation of the Dao De Jing, see this: https://drive.google.com/.../1Hk1pVZKwJmkegMVo1JXrt8.../view

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Henry George was a great human who had a passion for justice and equality in human lives.
He wrote the book Progress and Poverty (full text with audio listening).
Albert Einstein says about him:
"One cannot imagine a more beautiful combination of intellectual keenness, artistic form, and fervent love of justice. Every line is written as if for our generation."
From his book Progress and Poverty (also as an epitaph): The truth that I have tried to make clear will not find easy acceptance. If that could be, it would have been accepted long ago. If that could be, it would never have been obscured. But it will find friends those who will toil for it; suffer for it; if needs be, die for it. This is the power of truth.

Interestingly, I thought about Dao De Jing Chapter 41, which echoes part of the truth that George Henry states. Below is my translation:

When the wise person hears of the Way, they act it out diligently.
When the mediocre hear of the Way,
they are uncertain and do not practice it.
When the foolish hear of the Way, they laugh out loud.
If it were not laughed at, it would not be the Way.
Therefore, there is an old saying:
“The enlightenment of the Way seems obscure.
Progression in the Way seems like a regression.
The even path of the Way seems uneven.
The higher virtue seems like valleys.
Great purity seems tarnished.
The great character seems weak.
Solid virtue seems lacking.
Great space has no corners.
A great vessel takes time to be filled.
A great sound is inaudible.
A great form is shapeless.”The Way is hidden and indescribable.
Yet it alone nourishes and completes all things.

“Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.”

--Henry George (my note: "man" must be "a human").