museum of the bible offers revelations, faces controversy as it opens - led display board

At first, Steve Green, chairman of the Hobby Lobby Group, first purchased a Bible artwork that launched the Green series in 2009.
Since then, Green has completed a complete
A mature museum dedicated to books in Washington, D. C. C.
After nearly three years of construction, the Bible museum will open 40-
High foot, copper door-
Gate of Gutenberg
Today, in Latin, the first chapter of the century was engraved with the public.
From the Smithsonian National Museum of African-American history and culture, open on last September, the Bible museum will provide guests with free admission and timed tickets to control the crowds.
The museum is 430,000 square feet and 140 square meters-
The foot LED display mounted on the ceiling shows images such as stained glass, a magnificent staircase with glass railings that looks like it's going to heaven, a glass kitchen, you can see the Capitol and the Washington Monument. there is an outdoor Bible garden on the roof and a huge 472-
The theater will host an amazing elegant Broadway musical by January.
Cultural relics include the ancient copy of the Bible, the first edition of the Bible and the Torah scroll on loan from the Vatican Library and Museum and the Israeli Antiquities Authority, as well as other cultural relics.
Visit the whole museum and watch every exhibition and video, 9 8-hour days.
A conservative Christian, known for winning the company's 2014 Supreme Court lawsuit against Obamacare's planned contraceptive measures, Green and other leaders stressed that the museum has no sectarianism, it is an invitation for visitors of all faiths to engage with the Bible.
There are no similar hot issues with exhibitor content
Same-sex marriage and abortion, officials say.
According to The Washington Post, the opening ceremony was held at Trump Tower on Thursday night.
Zeiss said he wants President Donald Trump to visit the museum, "every president will come at some point.
In 2010, the Bible museum was 501 (c)(3)
According to the tax form document extracted by the IRS from ProPublica, the purpose of the nonprofit organization is to "make the living word of God vivid, telling its compelling preservation story, inspire confidence in the absolute authority and reliability of the Bible.
The mission statement of the non-profit organization on its 2012 tax bill has changed: "Our presence is to invite people to the Bible through our four main events: travel Exhibitions, scholarships, the establishment of a permanent museum in Washington, and the development of high school elective courses.
"Our goal has always been to become a non-sectarian Museum," Green told reporters . "
Candice Moss, professor and co-professor of theology at the University of Birmingham
The author of the book "bible Country: America, a lobby-loving group" called it a museum's "good faith effort" with no sectarianism.
It was "criticism from the outside world that pushed them to the museum they had," she said . ".
The museum consists of a section dedicated to the Hebrew Bible, as well as some references to the Quran, although Green stressed to reporters that it is a Bible Museum.
Moss also believes that the museum is promoted as the "Smithsonian Institution of Christianity", which is misleading to visitors, "it is hard to say that you are a non-sectarian Museum, ask people to sign the statement of faith "all members of the museum's board of directors are asked to confirm which Green is.
Dan Buck
The chairman of the Religious Freedom Foundation said that the Green Party had a "very specific gospel motive" and they tried to show it as a goal.
"When I go to visit the place, I look for signs of conversion.
"If not, then I applaud," Barker told ABC News . ".
Both Moss and Buck are planning to visit the museum.
"There are already a lot of people who think about this. . .
"We are going to change our beliefs, or become evangelists or Protestant," Green said . ".
"I thought of a film critic who commented on movies they haven't even seen.
So how much credit can you give to someone who hasn't even been to the museum?
Professor Christopher Rollston, professor at George Washington University, who is an expert in the Old Testament, said "the museum is currently on a non-sectarian route", but, they have donors, visitors may expect the museum to push more religious frames into the exhibits.
"But they are trying to maintain a fairly historical position on the wording of the display they have," said Luo, adding, "they have made it clear that they are willing to listen to the criticisms of scholars.
"At this point, I am quite satisfied with most of the wording and most of the presentation in the exhibits," said Roston, who visited the museum in September and November.
". . . I hope the museum's response to the scholarship will continue.
I hope the museum's willingness to listen will not end after the opening ceremony.
Luo said he will continue to be "vigilant" about the exhibits and presentation language of the museum to see if it continues to be "historical in nature, not sectarian ".
But Luo pointed out that this is a private museum, so the leaders of the museum will do what they want.
Green added, "we can if we want to support our faith, but we choose not.
So we invited the tourists in and decided whether we did a good job or not.
"In addition to opposing criticism that his museum is gospel propaganda, Green must also be responsible for the $3 million settlement Hobby Lobby group paid to the United States. S.
This summer, the Justice Department was confiscated for illegally importing Iraqi artifacts.
"We should strengthen supervision and carefully question how the acquisition was handled," Green said in a statement at the time . ".
Green admitted to reporters on Tuesday that "mistakes have been made very early, and we have learned from these mistakes" and ensured the authenticity of museum relics from his collection.
He also believes that getting artifacts is a new area for them, they don't have much expertise and there will be liabilities when you import items.
"We have paid the fine. We’ve moved on. You learn.
This is a new area for us.
"This requires a lot of expertise," Green said in an interview with ABC News on Tuesday . ".
"We are getting and bringing together the best team of experts we can help with in the process.
One such work on display is a fragment of the Dead Sea Scroll.
Is a piece called "Are these pieces Real?
The exhibition continued with the study and read "there are still differences in academic views on its authenticity.
Luo, a witness to 2012 Israeli "nickname forgery trial", said he had some concerns about the authenticity and provenance or history of ownership, some of the works of art in some green collections on display in the museum.
But he said he was "particularly pleased" that the museum chose to be "honest" with the scroll, as it was often not honest with artifacts that might have been forged.
Luo believes that it is important for all museums to show forges or potential forges so that the public will realize that this is a problem.
The non-profit organization opened a tourist exhibition "passage" in the Vatican, Cuba and Israel in 2011, and bought the Washington Design Center in 2012 for $50 million as the location of the permanent museum.
Because the museum part is a historic building, the museum and its team of 500 to 600 live construction workers must be careful when dismantling and turning over.
According to their non-sectarian mission, private events can be held in museums through donations.
However, according to museum president Cary Summers, the events were booked almost a year before the museum's opening, and the Bible was at the heart of their speech somewhere.
"So we haven't figured out all the rules of the game yet.
Who we invite, who we invite, "Summers told ABC News.
"We are learning through this pre-study.
What effect is good to open, what effect is not good.
"Part of the third floor is dedicated to an exhibition," The World of Jesus of Nazareth ", in an attempt to transport visitors to Israel in the first century during the time of Jesus Christ.
The two founders of the museum, Lorelei Mah and Sammy Mah, recently returned from a trip to Israel and found that the exhibition "brought us back immediately.
"Close your eyes.
"Take You Back," Lorelei Mah told ABC News.
According to Summers, the museum also has technology that has never been used anywhere else in the world.
The revelation of Washington is a Disney-inspired flight-
The Esque amusement facility states that "The Bible exists in inscriptions, place names and monuments in our national capital.
The Bible of President Dwight D.
Harry Truman and George W.
Bush's family Bible is also on display at the museum.
Green said he hopes that once the museum is open, more individuals and institutions will be encouraged to donate or lend cultural relics.
However, Luo hoped that the museum would pay more attention to Thomas Jefferson's life and morality of Jesus of Nazareth, also known as the Jefferson Bible ".
The third president of the United States and one of the founding fathers of the United States, he learned the miracle of the Bible from the Gospel of the New Testament, just like the resurrection of Jesus, create a work that integrates Enlightenment ideas and Christian beliefs.
Luo said that in a museum about the Bible, it is important to highlight the Jefferson Bible, because the enlightenment of the Bible is "The main point of the founding fathers", Jefferson is so in the history of the United States.
The museum also provides modern cultural materials.
In the museum's influence on the Bible exhibition, Elvis Presley's Bible is displayed a few steps away from the model wearing a religious-themed dujiabana costume.
Kanye West's Jesus walk and Coolio's gangster heaven can be heard in the music section as its lyrics cite the Bible.
The exhibition also exhibits a small scientific section of the bronze statues of George Washington Kave, Galileo and Isaac Newton, trying to prove that science and religion can be sharedexist.
Lee Leeb, who claims to be an "incurable collector", and his wife Beth, visited the "passage", a temporary exhibit with Hobby Lobby groups in orklahe as early as 2011
Hearing Green's intention to set up a permanent Bible Museum, Li wanted to find something he could collect and contribute.
He donated two pieces: the private Church of the year when Woodro Wilson became president, Pew, and the original letter signed by Wilson written on White House stationery, the letters were accompanied by 1 million new wills of the soldiers of the First World War.
As Lee was told, while the church's pew is not on display, it will be on display in tourist exhibits, and visitors can see the president's original letter, the letter urged American soldiers to read their personal pocket Bible.
"The Bible is the word of life.
I ask you to read it and find this in person, read-
There's a lot of footage here and there.
But Wilson's message reads: "The long passage will really be the path to its core . ".
On Tuesday, Lee and Beth set out from Texas to visit the museum and were very excited to see Wilson's letter on display.
Beth Leibold said that walking into the museum was "very touching and a bit overwhelming" and was pleased that the museum was incorporated into the Hebrew Bible.
"Everyone can get a truly unique perspective, no matter what their point of view is ,[to]
When she visited the exhibition "The influence of the Bible", she said.