Christian readers of the Divine Principle will immediately recognize the Biblical language and basic scriptural concepts in the book. The Divine Principle speaks of such traditional Christian doctrines as the creation, the fall, original sin, Old Testament and New Testament salvation history, the Messialiship of Jesus and the eschatological consummation of history. Reverend Moon treats God's redemptive work primarily in terms of the history of Israel and the Christian church. There is no radical dualism between man's flesh and spirit. God is personal rather than impersonal, a loving Father and not simply the metaphysical Absolute.
Time is real and meaningful rather than illusory.
Finally, history is interpreted as linear rather than cyclical, since God acts in history to accomplish His goal for creation. In all these affirmations, Divine Principle expounds the basic Biblical viewpoint. First, let us look at Divine Principle as a reaffirmation and clarification of the Biblical revelation. In this connection it may be helpful to modernre it with a standard treatise in systematic theology. Like the Institutes, Divine Principle treats the major doctrines of the Chrire it with a standard treatise in systematic theology.