洪秀全对太平天国革命的圣经解读

Hong Xiuquan's Bibical Interpretation for Taiping Revolution

太平天国的意识形态上帝教是由基督教千禧年主义在当时语境中发展而来的异端,并向着异教的方向发展。其核心思想是神魔斗争神学,太平军跟清政府的战争正是《启示录》中所说的神魔大决战,在这场战斗中,上帝派遣天王下凡救世,带领人们破坏偶像,上帝(天父)和基督(天兄)本身也都亲自降世扶助天王,他们在地上建立天国,太平天国就是《启示录》中所预言的"新天新地"。就太平天国一系列怪诞的、跟正统基督教格格不入的教义,西方基督徒和传教士做出了批评,而洪秀全则根据他对圣经的理解对这些批评做出了反驳,试图为太平天国的暴力革命、偏离主流教义的思想找到释经学上和神学上的根据。

The ideology of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, God Worshiping Sect, is an unorthodox belief developed from Christian Millennium in the then context, and further develops in heresy. Its kernel idea is the theology of god-devil struggle, and it is believed that the war between Taiping uprising and the Qing government is such a one. In this battle, God sends the Heavenly King to save the earthly world, and both God （Heavenly Father） and Christ （Heavenly Elder Brother） are personally descending to help the Heavenly King to build a heavenly kingdom on earth, while Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is just the ＂new heaven and new earth＂ foretold in Revelations. The Western Christians and missionaries criticize Taiping Heavenly Kingdom for its unorthodoxy teachings, while Hong Xiuquan retorts them by his own understanding to Bible. He tries his efforts to find hermeneutic and theological grounds for his violent revolution and his ideas deviated from the mainstream Christian doctrines.