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The Authority of the Bible

• ¶ 21The Bible is inspired because it makes us better men and women. In the second place, the scriptures have had an enormous influence upon the intellectual…
• ¶ 12Within the Bible, there are many conflicting religious, moral, and doctrinal ideas. Some passages are historically contradictory; in places, the Bible contains morally inadequate teachings. Often…
• ¶ 24In the Bible, we find an amazingly realistic portrait of man, which corrects our sentimental optimism on the one hand, and our cynical pessimism on the…

Women of the Bible

• ¶ 1…the significant women in Jesus’ life, the Bible records the lives of women who made great efforts for God’s will, often at considerable personal cost.
• ¶ 29…a swindler. The Bible records these things clearly, as well as the fact that God approved of them. This has been a puzzle for Bible students.
• ¶ 85…a prostitute. These women, concubines and prostitutes, appear in the Bible as playing significant roles in the background of human history. (92:292, April 18, 1977…

Questions & Answers on Bible Interpretation

The Partnership Of God And Man

• ¶ 1In the Bible, the give-and-take process is illustrated by the notion of a divine-human covenant. God makes covenants with Noah, Abraham, and Moses…
• ¶ 48Unification theology, like the Bible, is not an advocate of the exploitation of our natural environment. Nature is not simply made up of “resources” to be…
• ¶ 35…mysticism by insisting upon the higher value of God's second blessing. When the Bible teaches us to multiply and fill the earth, it sanctifies marriage.

Inheriting Heavenly Blood Lineage

• ¶ 1I'd like to take today's topic from the Bible. The subject is how the Gentiles could inherit the blood lineage of the Israelites.
• ¶ 9Bearing this in mind, let's look at the following story from the Bible. After the liberation from Egypt, the Israelites went through the period of…

Biblical Clues to The History Of Restoration

• ¶ 13According to the Bible, Yahweh intended for the primal couple to enjoy forever the bliss of Eden by establishing a foundation of faith and a foundation…
• ¶ 36If one reads the Bible carefully, he will notice how certain numbers are repeated over and over again in Judeo-Christian salvation-history. Some of these…
• ¶ 7If so, then the Bible should contain important clues to the goal of history as well as God's means to bring about its realization.

The Fundamentalist Apocalyptic

• ¶ 34Scofield Bible Christians also present a weak case when they try to find confirmation of Biblical predictions in the newspaper headlines. Let me cite here Hal…
• ¶ 35He claims that the Bible predicts as signs of the Messiah's imminent appearance the creation of the European Common Market, Arab hostility to Israel, Russian…
• ¶ 46Dispensationalism interprets the Bible as a series of separate historical periods, each of which receives a divine revelation to obey God in a specific way. The…

The Power of True Parents' Name

• ¶ 1The Bible says that humankind fell. So God must be liberated. Through the Fall, the sons and daughters, husband and wife, the nation, and even the…

The Forsaken Jesus

• ¶ 1These Bible verses metaphorically describe Jesus as a stone. They also describe how the stone that the builders rejected became a cornerstone. We can see that…

The Identity of the Serpent

• ¶ 1In the Bible, we read that a serpent tempted Eve to commit sin (Gen. 3:4-5). What does the serpent symbolize? Let us investigate the…
• ¶ 2The serpent described in the Bible was able to converse with people. It caused the Fall of humans, who are spiritual beings. Furthermore, the serpent knew…
• ¶ 7…a metaphor for someone who ensnares others for his own benefit. For these reasons, the Bible likened the angel who tempted human beings to a serpent.

In What Manner Will Christ Return?

• ¶ 2…symbols in the Bible has inevitably resulted in many divergent interpretations. This is a major reason why the churches have become divided. In interpreting the Bible…
• ¶ 4Until today many of us have read the Bible with the preconceived notion that Jesus will come on the clouds with signs and wonders. This is…
• ¶ 14Hence, we should re-examine the Bible from the perspective that the Second Advent of Christ may not take place in a miraculous way. It may…

The Purpose of the Creation of the Universe

• ¶ 1It is recorded in the Bible that after God completed each day of creation, He saw that it was good (Gen. 1:4-31). This suggests…

Jesus’ Sorrow

• ¶ 2In the Bible, there is a saying that in the Last Days, the Lord, who becomes the bridegroom, will come as the cosmic central being.
• ¶ 159In the Bible, it is said,
• ¶ 178As is recorded in the Bible, Jesus of two thousand years ago spoke the Word that he would save fallen human beings. But that Word was…

Jacob

• ¶ 67The Bible records that God hated Esau from the womb (Romans 9:11-13), but this was only because he had been given the role of…
• ¶ 1Jacob is one of the most victorious figures in the Bible, and one of the most problematical. Clever and ambitious, he tricked his brother into selling…
• ¶ 24…and bring together all the generations of his family. That is why the Bible speaks of “the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.” Jacob knew the…

Resurrection

• ¶ 6The Bible speaks of the 144,000 saints of the “first resurrection.” This means that even in the afterlife, spirits are languishing in darkness, oppressed by…
• ¶ 30The Bible teaches that those who are willing to die shall live, and those who want to live shall die. This means that to escape from…
• ¶ 1The resurrection of the dead prophesied in the Bible and the Qur’an holds out the promise of a blessed future life with God. Resurrection is…

Understanding the Kingdom of Heaven

• ¶ 1According to the Bible, the Kingdom of Heaven is in our heart. It is not at the end of the world, but in our heart. In…
• ¶ 6It is stated in the Bible, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is…
• ¶ 16The line where heaven and hell are divided is not determined by knowing or preaching well from the Bible, but through actual results and heart. Ultimately…

Growth and Dominion

• ¶ 11…body, and extremities; plants have roots, trunks, and leaves. In the Bible, the number three symbolizes completion. Many significant works have been accomplished through this number.

The Origin of Sin

• ¶ 8As the Bible states: "None is righteous, no, not one." (Rom. 3:10b)
• ¶ 15…the Hebrews commonly spoke of eating or picking a fruit. In the Bible and elsewhere, to "know" a woman often means to have sexual relations with…

Jacob and Esau

• ¶ 61Tamar's story is disturbing to many who read the Bible because of the seemingly immoral action she took to preserve Judah's lineage.
• ¶ 62Yet, by applying the principle of restoration to Tamar's course, we can now see that she was one of the Bible's truly great women.