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Let us seek wisdom, for He gave us a problem.
Let us seek wisdom, for He gave us a problem.
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* Book by the bestselling author with 2 million copies sold
* Includes a recommendation from Dr. Ahn Gwang-bok, a philosophy teacher with 400,000 readers.
* YouTube's "Chungko's Philosophy," recommended by novelist Sim Neul

“Jesus’ words are to make our daily lives a paradise.
“It is the wisdom that enables us to create.”
3,500 Years of Biblical Words Reinterpreted in the Language of Philosophy

If you are tired of the daily routine of this world, come to me.
I will show you how to live a life filled with peace.

If you are tired of the love of this world, come to me.
I will show you what true love is.
And I will be on your side.

Also, the worldly values ​​of this world that have tired you out,
I will show you another truth.

Haruhiko Shiratori, a world-renowned humanist and bestselling author, has published a philosophical reinterpretation of the "Words of Jesus" contained in the Bible, the oldest extant book and the most beloved book in human history.
He views Jesus as a thinker, an ancient philosopher, rather than a religious figure.
This book, "Seek Wisdom and He Gave Us Problems," contains sentences translated into modern language from the biblical teachings of Jesus, a saint who maintained his own way of life with indiscriminate love, unswayed by vested interests, profit and loss, desires, emotions, and social sanctions.
From the perspective of people of other religions or atheists, the word 'Jesus' somehow brings to mind the exclusivity of Christianity or the hereditary nature of megachurches.
Although the Bible is the oldest literary classic of mankind, containing historical, cultural, and literary value, it is difficult for non-Christians to easily access.
In this book, Haruhiko Shiratori breaks down those barriers and helps us overcome the suffering we face today through the language of Jesus contained in the Bible, spanning 3,500 years of history.
“If you become friends with your enemies, you will have no enemies anywhere,” “If you cannot forgive others’ mistakes, your own heart will eventually become hell,” “Think for yourself what is right, not what the world tells you,” etc. This “transcendent translation” written with the general public in mind is clear and vivid, yet resonates uniquely.
Readers who first encountered this book praised it, saying, “Even if you’re not a Christian, you’ll want to read it over and over again as a philosophy of life,” and “This is a valuable book that even atheists can easily access the wisdom left behind by the figure of Jesus.”
Let's put aside any worries that the Bible is 'unfamiliar' or 'difficult to understand.'
By reading a passage or two each day and examining your perspective on life, you will not only be able to fully grasp Jesus' philosophical thoughts, but you will also gain the insight to wisely navigate life's turmoil.
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Ⅰ Calm your mind

001 Don't worry about tomorrow
002 Focus on what you need to do today.
003 When love is abundant, you can sleep peacefully.
004 Pain is worth it
005 Don't belittle
006 Do not be afraid
007 Give to those who cannot repay you.
008 The Kingdom of God is established within you.
009 Become a person who brings peace to everyone just by existing.
010 I love those who repent and suffer.
011 If you don't hide, you won't be afraid.
012 Ignore the bad passions within you.
013 Think about true abundance
014 Don't be tempted by money.
015 Happy is he who does not seek.
016 Keep an open mind
017 Don't give up on what you want
018 The memory of sin enslaves man.
019 Ask yourself if you are qualified.
020 Forget about good deeds right away
021 Judgment is passed the moment a bad deed is committed.
022 The rich are pitiful
023 Those who do not know the heart of abundance are mired in a swamp of misery.
024 Wash your body and mind.
025 If you don't like it, get out.
026 Don't be consumed by greed
027 Think seriously about justice and truth.
028 True baptism is a transformation of the soul.
029 Accept things as they are, like a child.
030 Don't be a dull egoist
031 Break free from your own illusions
032 A dark heart cannot be hidden from anyone.
033 Peace does not come from outside.
034 Don't be obsessed
035 Illusion is seen through intelligence.

Ⅱ Do what needs to be done

036 Take action
037 Do what makes everyone happy
038 You can't be happy with tricks.
039 Be honest from head to toe.
040 Words clearly reveal the person
041 Evil begets evil
042 Don't see women as tools.
043 Look at yourself as you look at others
044 Forget even what you lent me
045 Do not reverse good and evil.
046 Do not swear
047 Don't give up good for money
048 Become a fertile land
049 No one will mourn the death of someone without love.
050 Sin does not exist, only sinners exist.

Ⅲ Cherish people

067 Reconcile now
068 The person you love is not just the person you love.
069 There is no love without action.
070 Like someone offering a glass of cool water to a weary traveler
071 Forgive others' mistakes
072 Forgive even when you are sad
073 Forgive a lot
074 Don't judge others too quickly.
075 Don't label others.
076 Do not test
077 Love your enemies
078 To eliminate enemies
079 If you make peace with your enemy, you will never lose.
080 People with similar views on good and evil are deeply connected.
081 Don't worry, love
082 My hometown doesn't accept me
083 The leader is the slave
084 Promises must be kept
Parables of Jesus * The Good Samaritan

Ⅳ Live well

085 Can You Live on Bread Alone?
086 Living means being with others.
087 Is that life enough?
088 The road to destruction is wide.
089 Take the narrow road
090 Follow the one path that makes you the best you can be.
091 Live honestly and uprightly
092 Learn the honesty of the dove and the wisdom of the serpent.
093 Finding Love is Salvation
094 I am in your heart
095 The reason why your heart is not in heaven is because you think you are better than others.
096 Everyone has the right to be paid for the work they do.
097 You should not blindly trust your teacher.
098 Don't just learn, put it into practice.
099 The end is just beginning
100 Let go of your present self and be reborn.
101. Letting go of yourself makes you free.
102 It's important that you be yourself.
103 The poor are those who do not know themselves.
104 Giving life means giving yourself back.
Drink the cold water from the 105 springs
106 Give yourself back to yourself
107 The place where I am resurrected is within you.
108 Repentance is a change in one's way of life.
109 Heaven is being true to one's original self.
110 The Kingdom of God is within you
111 When the heart is filled with love, that place is heaven.
112 Heaven was from the beginning
113 It is difficult for those who are accustomed to this world to enter heaven.
114 The seed of my words falls on the ground of you, sprouts, and bears fruit.
115 Become a fruitful person
116 It is useless to speak to someone who has no ears to hear.
117 Those who are hated are the salt of the earth.
The Parable of Jesus * The Workers in the Vineyard

Ⅴ Love unconditionally

118 Happiness is loving others
119 Those who desire love will one day be loved.
120 The new world has already arrived
121 Love your enemies
122 The most important discipline is to love.
123 The new rule I give is 'love one another'
124 Do not let desire be your motivation.
125 Do what God wants you to do
126 God exists in love
127 Intelligence grows through love.
128 I thirst for love
129 Don't try to dominate, but join in.
130 Salvation is to be rescued
131 Those who mourn will one day be healed.
132 Love eliminates the desire to possess.
133 Love is the beginning of great things
134 Act with love alone, without regard for gain or loss.
135 The baby who drinks milk is already in the kingdom of God.
136 Save Yourself by Loving All Things
137 When your whole body is filled with love, it is like being born again.
138 Drink the water of life
139 My actions themselves are love.
140 God's greatest work is none other than love.
141 Precious words and actions live forever.
142 The root of evil lies in ignorance of love.
143 My words always stay
144 The Joy of Finding a Lost Lamb
145 I seek you, undefiled
146 Religious forms are not important
147 The child is the greatest
148 When there is love, words come out.
149 Love is understood as love
150 It is not I who speaks, but love.
151 This world takes love lightly.
152 If you are absorbed in worldly affairs, you will not know love.
153 When you change your stubborn mind, you will know love.
154 Sprinkle love like rain
The Parable of Jesus * The Prodigal Son

Ⅵ Question the world's values

155 There are only corpses in this world.
156 Do not believe in the values ​​of the world.
157 I did not come to bring peace.
158 Burning the lies, greed, and violence of this world
159 If you are distracted by the world's attention, you will not hear what I say.
160 I hate those who try to gain authority by using God.
161 You believe in a cult religion.
162 Beware of False Prophets
163 According to the world's values, one cannot escape the suffering of the world.
164 Live freely like me
165 Stay with me for just one day
166 Stop the bad words that come with a price
167 As long as you follow worldly common sense, you will never find love.
168 Passion and greed obscure true love.
169 The present is always more important than the past.
170 Don't try to fit yourself into the world.
171 Throw away all worldly things.
172 See the truth that is different from the values ​​of this world.
173 I destroy the values ​​and customs of this world.
174 Return to the state of a child
175 Think for yourself what is right.
176 Evil is evil even if it does not violate the law.
177 Laws exist to make people comfortable.
178 Do not rely on the law
179 Is it right to judge people and take away their freedom and life?
180 Trial is just another word for revenge
181 How much killing would be necessary to be satisfied?
182 Heaven does not come from money and power.
183 A religion that does not love people is meaningless.
184 Embrace the Eternal

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Into the book
This book is not about faith.
It's not even a Christian book.
Even if you are not a Christian, anyone who has even a little exposure to the Bible will immediately recognize this.
This book is about the words of a man named Jesus.
--- p.16

Jesus went out to heal the sick regardless of whether it was the Sabbath or not, and did not rebuke those who, unable to bear their hunger, plucked heads of barley and ate them.
According to the law, this too was a sin called harvesting.
Jesus not only asserted that “the law exists for people, not people for the law,” but he also put this into practice.
In other words, he was a humanist.
--- p.23

Every day, we are given the consequences of our words and actions.
You yourselves know this better than anyone else.
If you go to bed at night with a complicated mind and have trouble falling asleep, it is because of the karma of that day.
--- p.50

Don't be sorry.
Don't be obsessed.
Separate from your love without regrets.
This world is just a bridge.
You just cross there.
Don't stay.
Just crossing.
Don't look back.
--- p.81

Adding new water to old, cloudy water does not make it clear.
Freshly drawn clean water should be poured into a new cup.
Knowing this obvious truth, why do we arrange personnel and organizations so foolishly?
--- p.103

No matter how greedy you are, you can only achieve one thing.
That too, when I gave it my all.
Too many people are unaware of this fact because of their extreme greed.
Do you think you could ride two horses and shoot two bows by yourself?
--- p.149

A miracle is full of love.
If you follow love without regard for worldly fame or gain, that is a great miracle.
--- p.200

I did not come to bring peace.
I came with a sword in my hand, not peace.
My way of thinking and my words will cause considerable discomfort and backlash.
Because it goes against the values ​​of those who are accustomed to this world.
I reject the current mindset of many people.
And he will punish you with a sword for your wrongdoing.
--- p.232

Publisher's Review
“If there was no Bible,
We wouldn't have been able to tell right from wrong.”
Humanities in the Bible for a Quality Life 184

Thousands of years ago, when the concept of natural rights did not even exist, when blood was washed with blood and civilization could not yet distinguish barbarism, Jesus, who spoke of love, was clearly a great pioneer, regardless of religious beliefs.
So much so that even now, billions of people accept him as a god.
_Sim Neul (novelist)

About 2,000 years ago, in Palestine, a region in the Middle East that was a province of the Roman Empire, a Jewish man was accused of being a political prisoner.
And he was executed by crucifixion, the Roman method of punishment for serious criminals at the time.
During his lifetime, the man rebuked the greed and deceit of scribes and religious leaders, their obsession with the literal meaning of scriptures, and did not hesitate to reach out to those who were hated and marginalized.
His attitude of emphasizing forgiveness and love, supporting the weak, and criticizing those who only look out for themselves may seem simply honest and desirable to modern eyes, but in a time when only Jewish law ruled the world, it was shocking enough to be called a true prophet.

Although he passed away at the young age of thirty-three, he was called the Son of God and remains a world-renowned spiritual teacher for thousands of years.
This book contains the essence of the words that Jesus, the most influential human being in human history, wanted to leave to the people of the world.
His words and actions, which he practiced until the moment of his death, are even more valuable today, in what is called an era of hatred and where polarization and division are deepening.
This book is composed of six chapters, and contains 184 biblical passages that resonate on every page, from love, forgiveness, and gentleness, which Jesus particularly valued, to temperance, justice, and humility.
Because it introduces not only the New Testament but also the words of Jesus in the Apocrypha that were not included in the Bible, you can learn about his thoughts and philosophy with a more open mind without being bound by established concepts.


“When we try to resemble Jesus’ philosophy and attitude,
“Our lives become much more desirable.”
A book that tells us that anyone can live a good life

There is no evaluation that lasts without a reason.
Jesus is the greatest existential philosopher.
Even if you hold Christian faith and do not hold Jesus sacred, Jesus' advice is meaningful.
_Ahn Gwang-bok (Doctor of Philosophy)

A Jew was attacked by robbers on a hill road.
The robber took all his belongings, beat him, stabbed him with a knife, and then ran away.
The stabbed Jew lay gasping for breath on the hillside.
As it happened, a Jewish priest passing by saw him, but turned away with a displeased expression.
A Levite, who had been serving the temple for generations, was also climbing the hill, and he also pretended not to see them and passed by.
Because there was a rule that the Levites were not to touch a dead body.
But there was someone who stopped in front of the fallen Jew. It was a Samaritan who was traveling.


Although Samaritans have historically had poor relations with Jews, this Samaritan confirmed that the Jew was still alive and provided first aid.
He also took him to his lodgings on his own donkey and took good care of him.
Through this parable of the Good Samaritan left by Jesus, we can see his image as an 'existential philosopher' and 'humanist'.
According to his teachings, accumulating a lot of wealth does not make one truly happy.
Only by cultivating the ability to think for oneself without being bound by the laws or values ​​set by the world can one live as 'oneself'.
If you act with love and forgive, you will ultimately save yourself.
In other words, what he meant was the wisdom that enables us to make our everyday lives into heaven.

This book contains three fables, including “The Good Samaritan.”
These three pieces are very famous fables from ancient times and have been quoted countless times in literature and paintings, so reading and understanding them even once will definitely be of great help in understanding Western culture in the future.
The content of the Bible is often used in the classic works of world-renowned authors such as Nietzsche, Goethe, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Dante, and Charles Dickens, as well as in animations, movies, and various other content.
After reading the entire Bible through this book, your world will become much broader.
GOODS SPECIFICS
- Date of issue: June 4, 2025
- Page count, weight, size: 264 pages | 348g | 124*201*17mm
- ISBN13: 9791199247826
- ISBN10: 1199247820

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