Negotiations between Shincheonji Church of Jesus, The Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony (hereon ‘Shincheonji church’) and the Christian Council of Korea (CCK) have failed to achieve their purpose. Negotiations began on 22nd June in Cheonan, Republic of Korea, with the two parties agreeing to engage in public discussion on five New Testament themes, and fixed a follow-up meeting to coordinate details of the public discussion. However, each side had different proposals regarding the method of debate with Shincheonji church seeking to use only the Bible alone while the CCK sought to use external commentaries as a way to also disprove Shincheonji church’s teachings.

The CCK, which uses Christian media - particularly Christian Broadcasting System (CBS) - as their mouthpiece to slander Shincheonji church in recent years, has grossly distorted the public’s understanding of Shincheonji church. Shincheonji church is growing explosively with 300,000 members worldwide forecast by the end of 2019 while the CCK is desperately holding on to its ecclesiastical authority as its congregation members leave their churches, once peaking at 12million to 1.8million today.

In order to expose the CCK’s continual slander and to pressure them into engaging in public discussion, 1000 Shincheonji church congregation members rallied outside CCK’s branch churches in Cheonan city on 22nd July. Shincheonji church's most recent press release in early August (link below) asserted stated, “An open forum has to be based on the words written in the Bible and not on the words of people. This is because the Bible is the standard and the foundation for believers. We also stress that slandering is not permitted.” Outside Korea, people in the United Nations and all over the world have been calling for the dismissal of the CCK for its heinous religious coercive conversion programme that violates human rights and led to the deaths of two women in Korea.

Of all the churches in the world, Shincheonji church is the only church promised in the New Testament. It is 'The Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony' (Rv 15:5) because it has witnessed all the promised events of Revelation and can, therefore, give testimony about them.  It is also 'New Heaven New Earth' where God promises to return to end all mourning, death, crying and pain (Rv 21:3-4).

It is a matter of time before the CCK's lies are exposed. Shincheonji church continues to keep negotations open with the CCK in the hope that it will engage in public discussion and help the public assess the correct meaning of the Bible in an objective and impartial way.