현대 과학문명의 영향을 담뿍 받으며 자라난 현대인,
2000여년전의 예수의 가르침을 따르고 그분이 하느님의 아들임을 믿고
그분의 부활을 믿는 (소수건 다수건간에) 기독교인들이 과학의 발전을 받아드리고
자기믿음을 더 견고히 할수있는  그태도를 그려 봤읍니다.

Jesus warns of false prophets in the bible.
Here is another latest on today's headline news.

Doomsday prophet followers
"flabbergasted" that world didn't end.

by Liz Goodwin, May 23, 2011

It's hard to feel bad for someone whose doomsday predictions caused so much anxiety, but 89-year-old Harold Camping's recent admission that he's "flabbergasted" the world didn't end last weekend sounds somewhat pitiful.

"It has been a really tough weekend," Camping said Sunday, after emerging from his Alameda, California home for the first time to talk to a reporter from the San Francisco Chronicle. "I'm looking for answers ... But now I have nothing else to say," he said, adding that he would make a full statement today.

Camping's PR aide, Tom Evans, told the L.A. Times that the group is "disappointed" that 200 million true believers weren't lifted up to heaven on Saturday while everyone else suffered and eventually died as a series of earthquakes and famine destroyed the Earth. "You can imagine we're pretty disappointed, but the word of God is still true," Evans said. "We obviously went too far, and that's something we need to learn from." The group posted 2,000 billboards around the country warning of the rapture, while Camping--an uncertified fundamentalist minister--spread the word on his radio show.

Camping's Family Radio, which airs on 66 U.S. stations, has apparently rebranded itself quickly. Business Insider notes that the station's website has scrubbed all mentions of the Judgment Day. The site previously featured a countdown clock to the May 21 rapture on its homepage.

But the false prediction might not be so easily effaced from the lives of Camping's followers. The L.A. Times writes that Keith Bauer, a 38-year-old tractor trailer driver, took a road trip with his family to see the Grand Canyon before the world ended.

"With maxed-out credit cards and a growing mountain of bills, he said, the rapture would have been a relief," the paper writes.

But Bauer is not angry at Camping for his false prediction. "Worst-case scenario for me, I got to see the country," he told the paper. "If I should be angry at anybody, it should be me."

Robert Fitzpatrick, who spent $140,000 of his life savings to advertise the rapture in New York, said he was dumbfounded when life went on as usual Saturday.

"I do not understand why ...," he told Reuters while awaiting the event in Times Square. "I do not understand why nothing has happened."

An NPR reporter talked to two Camping followers on Sunday. "One man, his voice quavering, said he was still holding out hope that they were one day off. Another believer asserted that their prayers worked: God delayed judgment so that more people could be saved, but the end is 'imminent,'" she reported.

Evans, Camping's PR aide, told NPR he hopes Family Radio will reimburse followers who spent their savings in anticipation of the rapture, but that he can't guarantee it.

Protesters gathered outside Camping's radio headquarters to mock the false prophecy over the weekend. Some of them set aloft a toy cow with balloons to lampoon the idea that a select elite would ascend to heaven. Meanwhile, other religious groups tried to recruit disappointed Camping followers.

"Dear God,
I do not know where you are leading me.
I do not even know what my next day,
my next week, or next year will look like.
As I try to keep my hands open to pray,
I trust that you will put your hand in mine
and bring me home.
Thank you, God, for your love.
Thank you.
Amen."

....Henri Nouwen, from the book, "With Open Hands"

HIS Mystery / Hahn Lee
 
An atheist may think of "Lady Fortune's smile."
A buddhist may think of Buddha's compassion.
Confucius followers often say,
"Heaven helps those who do their bests."
However, as for a Christian,
God enters his heart as a first person
instead of the third person.
God dwells in his heart so that he can converse
with HIM and pray to HIM for a guidance.
 
To a Christian,
an ordinary encounter everyday
becomes extraordinary, meaningful consequence.
Destiny becomes the sum of
all the coincidences of everyday.
The general relativity theory and
the quantum theory are two sides of one truth.
Everything, every human, every living thing
is sacred.
Every coincidence, every encounter,
every ordinary occurrence everyday
has sacred meaning and consequence.
The prevailing justice would be the sum of
every human's desires out of their hearts.
The origin of democracy is no doubt Jesus.
Jesus taught that everything we see and
every human and living thing were created
out of HIS Love.
 
As one of human beings,
as one of HIS creations,
what am I to do this very moment?
 
The complexity and mystery of my brain
is said to be equal to those of this universe
or greater.
To a Christian,
our brains, body, mind and spirit,
must've been created by HIM
in such a way
to think of HIM,
to hear HIS voice,
to feel HIS touch and
to be able to see HIM.
 
What I must do as a Christian
is indeed simple and straight-forward.

I must
think of HIM and Jesus all the time,
concentrate and meditate to hear HIS voice,
look for HIM in everday encounter and everything,
feel HIS tender touch day and night,
and carry out what HE tells you to do.
For the rest of your life,
the only thing you mustn't forget is
to thank HIM for everything,
to love HIM with all your heart,
all your mind and all your strength.