Claim. God is simultaneously the Parents of humankind (possessing Yang/Yin dual characteristics), the Teacher (since the Logos is truth and God created with the Word per John 1), and the Master (as Creator and Lord of dominion) — corresponding to the traditional Korean Kun-Sa-Bu (君師父) ideal.
Elaboration. Lee grounds Three Great Subjects Thought ontologically by tracing all three subject-roles to a single divine origin (The Origin of the Three Great Subjects Is God). First, God is Parents: someone may call God Father, someone Mother, but because God possesses Yang and Yin dual-characteristics, God is Parents of humankind. Humans were created as God’s sons and daughters; the fall made them sinners, but originally they were not. Second, God is Teacher: drawing on John 1, God created the universe with Logos, which is truth and God’s Word, so God is the subject of truth and therefore the teacher of truth. Third, God is Master: as Creator, God is master of dominion.
Lee then invokes a specifically Korean cultural conceptual anchor: Kun-Sa-Bu (君師父) — master, teacher, father. The Korean people possessed this triad from ancient times, and its origin is God. Kun-Sa-Bu and the three great subjects are the same, differing only in word order. Lee even cites the Korean national anthem: “Long live our country, which Hanunim protects!” — Hanunim being Hananim, the Creator. God protects Korea “with the true love of parents, teacher and master.”
The implication Lee draws is normative: because the love of the three great subjects originates in God, it accords with the Way of Heaven, which is absolute. Three Great Subjects Thought is therefore “absolute and it will never fail.” Those who disobey it can only decline or perish. Today’s social confusion is the direct consequence of not practicing this love and not observing the Way of Heaven.
Lee then offers a unifying comparative-religion claim: the love-emphases of major religions — Buddhist mercy, Confucian jen, Islamic compassion, Christian love — all originate in God’s true love and are expressions of the love of the three great subjects. Confucianism’s three bonds and five moral duties (ruler/ruled, father/son, husband/wife, brothers, friends), whose main teaching is parent-child relations, “is in agreement with” Three Great Subjects Thought. The Korean cultural form is privileged — not just as an example but as the linguistic frame in which the universal structure was best preserved.
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