Christians disagree on meaning due to the complexity of the Bible's historical, cultural, and literary contexts, differing interpretation methods, and focusing on non-essential doctrines rather than core truths.

Satan is a powerful, malevolent angel who influences the world, but his power is absolutely limited by God's sovereignty. He lacks the divine attributes of omniscience, omnipotence, and omnipresence.

The Bible teaches that only God is omniscient (all-knowing). Satan cannot read your private thoughts, but he is a master strategist who can strongly influence your mind and infer your thoughts based on your actions and spoken words.

The Bible teaches that the spirits of the dead are immediately with God or awaiting judgment, and strictly prohibits consulting them. Any spiritual manifestation may be a demonic deception or a misunderstood spiritual reality.

Jesus' 30 years of obscurity were not wasted time; they fulfilled the legal age requirement for ministry, established His credentials as a perfect human, and provided an eternal model of humility and obedience to God’s timing.

The strictness and seeming strangeness of some Old Testament laws, like the prohibition against mixing linen and wool, were primarily intended to reinforce Israel's covenant identity and demand total, radical separation from paganism.

The phrase "the last will be first" describes the radical inversion of values in God's Kingdom, where the humble, the marginalized, and those who serve unseen will be elevated, and the proud or self-righteous will be humbled.

The Antichrist will be recognized by three key characteristics: demanding worship for himself, exercising global political authority, and committing open blasphemy against God.

The mark of the beast is primarily a spiritual symbol of complete allegiance to the false, humanistic system that opposes Christ, rather than a literal barcode or physical chip.

The fear of the Lord is a reverent awe and profound respect for God’s holiness, power, and justice, which motivates us to worship Him and live in obedient submission to His commands.

Jesus cried out because, for the first and only time in eternity, the spiritual fellowship between the Father and the Son was broken as Jesus bore the complete judgment for human sin.

The existence of light on Day 1, prior to the sun's creation on Day 4, serves as a powerful declaration of God's sovereign independence: God is the source of light itself, not reliant on the material objects He creates.

The Ten Commandments are the foundational moral law of God, serving as a mirror to show us our sin and pointing us to the need for a Savior, divided into our duties to God and our duties to humanity.

The Lord's Prayer is a template for all Christian prayer, moving from worship of God (His name, kingdom, and will) to requests for personal need (provision, pardon, and protection).

To be the salt and light means that Christians are called to be agents of preservation and spiritual revelation, actively influencing the world by preserving moral goodness and illuminating the path to God.