HEAVENPINE

1. Our Current Situation Today, people go to the hospital when they are ill. Even those suffering from ailments who sought healing from Jesus in 1st-century Palestine now turn to hospitals. The demon-possessed go to psychiatry, women with a hemorrhage visit internal medicine, lepers consult dermatology, the blind go to ophthalmology, and those who are…

1. The Anthropological Implication of a Digital Transformational Era  In the face of life’s limitations, such as death and suffering, a person maintains a consciousness of finitude. And this consciousness of finitude is the other side of the person’s transcendental intentionality. This is because, even as a person becomes aware of a finitude, he is…

The authors of the Synoptic Gospels in the Bible all describe the event of Jesus being tempted in the wilderness before his public ministry, with Matthew particularly emphasizing, “From that time on Jesus began to preach, ‘Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.’” This marks a clear sequence between ‘being tempted in the…

Not long after I began studying artificial intelligence, I came across an intriguing newspaper article. “Development of Robots that Respond to Pain: Research Presented at IEEE ICRA 2016 by Leipzig University, Germany” What interested me about this article was that while all lifeforms, including suffering humans (Homo Patiens), are essentially engaged in escaping pain, the…

Born at the end of the 1970s, I grew up attending Mt. Sion Church in Gyeongsan and Gyeongju, following my mother. On May 16, 2021, I became the third pastor in charge of Mt. Sion Church in Gyeongju. This year, on April 25, 2024, marks the 80th anniversary of the establishment of the Mt. Sion…

Recently, the popular Chat GPT introduced by its developer OpenAI is described as follows: “ChatGPT is an AI-powered language model developed by OpenAI, capable of generating human-like text based on context and past conversations.” According to this definition, it is an AI language model developed by OpenAI that is capable of generating “human-like” text based…

Yesterday, I received the tenth edition of “Life Sciences: Challenging God” from East Asia Publishing. I find myself wanting to record the memories of gratitude contained within this book. First, I must thank Professor Bang Yeon-sang, who invited me to a Yonsei University project on “Synthetic Biology” and “CRISPR-Cas9” just after I had finished my…