(November 12, 2013 at 1:35 pm)Chuck Wrote: I think the Kims read it, and decided to emulate the alledged prophet, god, son of god, instead of the two bit disciples and their penny a dozen acolytes down the ages, and thus become christains in a sense so much truer than self-styled christains like Drich, that the likes of Drich found it understandably and accutely discomforting.
Actually, I am being flip.
Christians thinks their idiocy is unique. But many a unscruplous men down the ages have come up with similar self-styled divinities on their onw. Self-styled god and son of god like Jesus is really quite common in history for the Kim's to study, and Kims didn't have to know anything about the particular Jesus of Bible to emulate the godhead Jesus to perfection. This kim's grand father could have looked across the border and saw Mao to the same thing. And it is not even hard to believe the Kims could have come up with it all on their own even if their studies didn't extend to any of their like minded predecessors.
Not as flip as you might think. Kim Il Sung was raised Presbyterian and his grandfather was a Presbyterian minister. Billy Graham visited N. Korea as a guest of Kim Il Sung on multiple occasions. His son Franklin said 'My father went to North Korea and he met with the president of North Korea, presented the Bible and even witnessed and preached to Kim Il Sung. And Kim Il Sung liked my father--liked him."
“He invited him in 1994 and [my father] went back to North Korea and this time he took a larger delegation and was able to speak at their university and preach at the only two churches opened [in the country],” continued Graham. “In 1997 my mother was invited to go and in 2000 I had the privilege to go and preach in the churches and meet with many of the government leaders.”
The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, along with Samaritan's Purse, is involved in setting up medical aid in North Korea. Good work, to be sure.
But the idea that the Kims got some of their inspiration from the Bible is not so far-fetched, especially if the junior Kim angles for a trinity.
