"하나님의 자녀" 모티브로 본 외국인에 대한 성경 신학

Biblical idea about foreigners in the perspective of God's children

All men are brothers and sisters and God’s children as descendents of Adam and Even, who were created in the image of God. Meanwhile, in theology human beings were separated into the chosen and the Gentiles, and missiology divided human beings into Christians and preliminary Christians. The reason why missiology had said about preliminary Christian is that all men are not only the object of mission but also people who are able to be Christians if foreigners believe in Jesus Christ who is God’s son. However, furthermore, as a writer, I will start the biblical idea concerning foreigners with the idea that they are lost children of God, who do not belong to God yet, rather than mere foreigners or preliminary Christians. Even though human beings are created in the image of God, we are separated from God because of sin; blood brothers and sisters are also separated from each other at the same time. God promised to send the offspring of woman first to recover human beings as God’s children as well as blood brothers and sisters(Genesis 3:15), and he commands the Israelites to do this role after he had chosen Abraham as the source of blessing(Genesis12:3). The Israelites who had been chosen to save all men made foreigners participate in Israel through the method of mission strategies centered on Israel and synagogue; Israelites also made foreigners believe in the Lord as the Israelites revealed God in the life of synagogue when the Israelites were scattered in the foreign country. Therefore, foreigners, who have merely foreign nationality, are not different from us at all. They are also Adam’s descendents and they are the people who will live together in the kingdom of God.