Roughly 50,000 people attended an Open Bible Seminar hosted by Shincheonji Church of Jesus, The Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony (hereon ‘Shincheonji church’), from May-June 2019 in the Republic of Korea. In a climate of false news published about Shincheonji church, the purpose of these seminars was not only to teach the correct understanding of the Bible but to resolve peoples’ misunderstandings about Shincheonji church. The series of seminars - held throughout the country - explored Biblical themes including its 6000-year history, the identities of the tree of life and tree of the knowledge of good and evil, the signs of the second coming, the new covenant required for believers to keep today, the book of Revelation and answers to 24 questions posed about life by the former president of Samsung, Mr. Lee Byung-chul.

Groundless accusations have been made against Shincheonji church by the Christian Council of Korea (CCK), which has thrown the religious world into confusion through its dissemination of false news. While it labels Shincheonji church a ‘cult’, the CCK uses the media in Korea to disguise its own evil intentions. It is not a religious, but criminal, organisation which is responsible for the deaths of two women who refused to convert and accept their Presbyterian teachings through a ‘coercive conversion’ programme (see previous articles for more information). Pastors affiliated to the CCK in Korea have been sentenced for roughly 12,000 crimes including fraud, burglary, forgery, defamation, drink-driving, arson and sexual assault from 2008-2018. Within the last four years alone, close to 550 pastors in Seoul have been sentenced. This is the disturbing reality of mainstream Christianity in Korea today. In contrast, not a single accusation made against Shincheonji church by the CCK has been upheld by a court of law. In fact, the Supreme Court ruled in favour of Shincheonji church after CCK broadcast a false documentary entitled “Those who fell into Shincheonji”.

In spite of the CCK’s slander, Shincheonji church has sent invitations to the CCK to hold a public debate on the Bible to address the public’s misunderstandings about Shincheonji church and its teachings. Negotiations between the Christian Council of Cheonan and Shincheonji church’s Cheonan branch began, but quickly broke down as the intentions of the former was to use external commentaries to disprove the teachings of the latter while the latter uses the Bible alone to teach the truth of the Bible.

The fact that 50,000 people - of all faiths and none - came to listen to the word taught at Shincheonji church’s Open Bible Seminar shows peoples’ hunger for ‘truth’ in an era of increasing secularisation. The majority of participants registered for further study at one of Shincheonji church’s 300 Zion Christian Mission Centers, which provides free Bible-teaching. Zion Christian Mission Centers are being established all over the world for anyone hungry to understand the Bible in-depth.

Shincheonji church, Cheonan branch, keeps its doors open for dialogue with the Christian Council of Cheonan. To read more about negotiations between the Christian Council of Cheonan and Shincheonji church’s Cheonan branch, click here

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 ([Maeil Daily] Shincheonji Church of Jesus Completes its Open Bible Seminar with an Attendance of 50,000+)