{"id":13775,"date":"2013-02-17T21:50:19","date_gmt":"2013-02-17T21:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=13775"},"modified":"2013-10-22T00:32:19","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T00:32:19","slug":"bibleinterpretationsplash","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=13775","title":{"rendered":"Bible Interpretation"},"content":{"rendered":"

The earliest incarnation of Peoples Temple was as a Pentecostal church with a theology that mirrored much of what other churches in 1950s Indianapolis offered. Heavily reliant upon Scripture, traditional and conservative, the Temple offered ways for its members to bring disbelievers and skeptics to Christ. And while these lessons in Bible interpretations<\/a> do not specifically claim biblical inerrancy, the first lesson does point out \u2013 for example \u2013 that there is \u201cno other logical explanation\u201d and \u201cno room for contradiction\u201d to the Genesis story of creation. \u201cEvolution [is] the one major enemy of the Genesis account,\u201d the lesson adds, but \u201cEvolution [is] unproven.\u201d<\/p>\n

There is no proof that these undated lessons in Bible interpretations were written by Jim Jones, and the few lines of handwriting are different from that of the Temple\u2019s young pastor. Nevertheless, there are glimpses of the Temple\u2019s theological future:<\/p>\n