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세상에 나와있는 온갖 종교에 관한 자료를 모아 이곳에 전시할까? 하는 구상도 하였으나 참 신을 찾은 자로서 너무도 부질없는 생각하고 있는 것이 자각이 되어 그만 두었다. 어차피 이곳에 들리는 사람들은 필자처럼 신의 존재를 찾는 사람들이 대부분일 터인데 그들에게 혼돈만 주어서 무엇을 할 것인가? 오랫동안이나 헤매고 다녔지만 신을 발견하지 못했을 때나 이 종교 저 종교를 기웃거렸지 이제 참 신 이신 하나님을 발견하고 그 분 앞에 능히 설 준비가 되어 있는 사람으로서 다른 사람들에게 참 신의 존재에 관하여 일러주는 것은 마땅한 일이며 내게 맡겨진 본분인데 무엇 때문에 허망한 일에 마음을 쓸 필요가 있겠는가? 혹시 다른 종교를 지금도 찾는다면 다른 사이트나 도서관이나 서점에 들려보기를 바란다. 그러나 당신이 정말로 신의 존재를 찾는 다면 이곳으로 다시 올 것은 분명하다. 그 이유는? 다른 종교나 철학이나 가르침 속에서는 신의 존재를 찾을 수 없었기 때문이다. 다음에 오는 내용은 성경 여호수아 서에 기록된 태양이 하루 멈춘 사실을 컴퓨터를 통해서 발견하였던 과학자가 그의 인생에서 신을 찾아 헤매고 다니면서 느꼈던 간증이다. missing day ( 잃어버린 하루 ) 
태 양 계 All the religions, the philosophies, and the cults mean nothing to me Recently, the Lord brought forcibly to my mind all the religions, the philosophies, and the cults in which I had been involved in my pagan days, and showed me what they had to offer when I was sinking in the filthy black muck which represented the sin in my life. All the religions, the philosophies, and the cults in which I had been involved in my pagan days, and showed me what they had to offer when I was sinking in the filthy black muck which represented the sin in my life : Confucius said, "It is better to stay away from such places. And having delivered that wonderful advice, he went on his way and left me to sink. Buddha said, "Let that be a lessons, and I sank down further. I had been a Buddhist and knew that these things were supposed to be lessons, so when I reincarnated the next time around, I might have a better trip. Mohammed sighed and said, "It is the will of Allah," and I sank deeper. Christian Science said, "It is only an error in your thinking. You're not really in trouble. You're just thinking wrong." I had been a Christian Scientist, but right thinking hadn't cured my alcoholism. So I sank another inch, and I didn't have many inches to spare. The Hindus told me, "Better trip next incarnation. You got a bum trip, coming as a flea this time. You might come as a fly, next go round." The filthy black ooze sucked me deeper. The evolutionist told me, "All you need is more time. Time cures everything." But I was worse off with every passing minute. Yoga told me, "Transcend your problem, "I had tried. I had sat and I had contemplated so long I got bored with the whole thing and wished a daisy would grow out of my navel just to relieve the monotony. Now my navel had sunk out of sight. I'd never see it again. Unity had said, "All you need is to realize more love." But how are you going to love yourself out of a swamp of quick mud? A fortune-teller told me, "Consult the zodiac. The stars have the answer." But the stars weren't shining that day, and so I sank deeper. Darwin said, "It is the survival of the fittest. If you are fit, you will survive." That's what I was afraid of. Sinking another inch, I proved my unfitness for anything except being buried alive. Aristotle smiled and said, "My boy, just know thyself." That was the trouble. I knew myself-healed for the bottom of the mud-pile. Plato said, "Truth is the answer. Just seek the truth." But he wasn't talking about tangible truth, a living truth, and truth in his terms mean that I was about to be annihilated. Zoroaster said, "Use your willpower." But I had used mine all up, and it had availed me nothing. I was about finished. A headshrinker, a psychiatrist, said, "Don't feel guilty. All you need is to go out and do some more sin." But I was in such bondage there was no way to go out anywhere or do anything. I had also tried Spiritual Frontiers, New Thought, Moral Rearmament, Edgar Cayce, and all the rest. None of them helped at all. I sank deeper and deeper until I was almost totally lost. There was no religion, no philosophy, that I had not looked into. All claiming to be different, they were all the same, worthless, leaving me in my miserable, empty, insane, dreary, drab, stinking corpse-hood. But then Jesus came by, and He said, I'm the way, I'm the only way. Just give Me your hand. I didn't argue, "But what about the others?" I just gave Him my hand, and He gave me His. He hauled me out of that filthy black mud and set my feet on solid rock and washed the mud away. |