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| years_active = 1954–1985 |
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| known_for = World Mission Society Church of God |
| known_for = World Mission Society Church of God |
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| notable_works = ''The Mystery of God and The Spring of The Water of Life'' |
| notable_works = ''The Mystery of God and The Spring of The Water of Life''<br />''Problems with the New Jerusalem, the Bride and Women's Veils'' |
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| religion = [[Christianity]] |
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| denomination = [[Sabbath in seventh-day churches|Seventh-day Sabbatarianism]] |
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'''Ahn Sahng-hong'''{{efn|{{korean|hangul=안상홍}} can variously be seen [[Korean romanization|represented in Latin letters]] as Ahn Sahng Hong, Ahn Sahng-hong, Ahn Sahnghong, Ahnsahnghong, Ahn Sang Hong, Ahn Sang-hong, Ahn Sanghong, Ahnsanghong, An Sahng Hong, An Sahng-hong, An Sahnghong, Ansahnghong, An Sang Hong, An Sang-hong, An Sanghong, and Ansanghong. [[Korean name]]s follow the ''<[[family name]]> <[[given name]]>'' pattern, but his name is sometimes romanizised using the Western pattern ''<given name> <family name>'', consequently e.g. Sang Hong Ahn, Sang Hong An etc. can also occur.}} ({{korean|hangul=[[wikt:안|안]][[wikt:상|상]][[wikt:홍|홍]]|hanja=[[wikt:安|安]][[wikt:商|商]][[wikt:洪|洪]]|rr=An Sanghong}}; 13 January 1918 – 25 February 1985) was a [[Korea]]n [[Christian]] [[Religious minister|minister]] and founder of Witnesses of Jesus Church of God.{{efn|{{Lang-ko|하나님의교회 예수증인회|links=no}}. Translation in a more direct word order would be "Church of God Witnesses of Jesus".}} |
'''Ahn Sahng-hong'''{{efn|{{korean|hangul=안상홍}} can variously be seen [[Korean romanization|represented in Latin letters]] as Ahn Sahng Hong, Ahn Sahng-hong, Ahn Sahnghong, Ahnsahnghong, Ahn Sang Hong, Ahn Sang-hong, Ahn Sanghong, Ahnsanghong, An Sahng Hong, An Sahng-hong, An Sahnghong, Ansahnghong, An Sang Hong, An Sang-hong, An Sanghong, and Ansanghong. [[Korean name]]s follow the ''<[[family name]]> <[[given name]]>'' pattern, but his name is sometimes romanizised using the Western pattern ''<given name> <family name>'', consequently e.g. Sang Hong Ahn, Sang Hong An etc. can also occur.}} ({{korean|hangul=[[wikt:안|안]][[wikt:상|상]][[wikt:홍|홍]]|hanja=[[wikt:安|安]][[wikt:商|商]][[wikt:洪|洪]]|rr=An Sanghong}}; 13 January 1918 – 25 February 1985) was a [[Korea]]n [[Christian]] [[Religious minister|minister]] and founder of Witnesses of Jesus Church of God.{{efn|{{Lang-ko|하나님의교회 예수증인회|links=no}}. Translation in a more direct word order would be "Church of God Witnesses of Jesus".}}<ref name=doctrinemanual>{{cite book|last=Ahn|first=Sahng-hong|title=Doctrine Manual of the Witnesses of Jesus Church of God| year=1972|publisher= Witnesses of Jesus Church of God |location=Korea |url=http://www.ncpcog.co.kr/rb/home/c/21/22/65|accessdate=2013-08-18}}</ref>{{rp|7–8}}<ref name="inch106doctrines">{{cite web|url=http://www.hdjongkyo.co.kr/html/sup01_1.html?Hid=106|title=///현대종교///|accessdate=2013-08-28|author=Information Network on Christian Heresy|language=Korean}}</ref> |
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Shortly after his death in 1985 a [[Schism (religion)|schism]] took place dividing Witnesses of Jesus Church of God into two [[sect]]s, [[:ko:새언약 유월절 하나님의교회|New Covenant Passover Church of God]]{{efn|{{Lang-ko|새언약 유월절 하나님의교회|links=no}}}} and |
Shortly after his death in 1985 a [[Schism (religion)|schism]] took place dividing Witnesses of Jesus Church of God into two [[sect]]s, [[:ko:새언약 유월절 하나님의교회|New Covenant Passover Church of God]]{{efn|{{Lang-ko|새언약 유월절 하나님의교회|links=no}}}} and what is today known as [[World Mission Society Church of God]].{{efn|{{Lang-ko|하나님의교회 세계복음선교협회|links=no}}. Translation in a more direct word order would be "Church of God World Mission Society". This word order has previously been used by the organization.<ref |
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name=wawocogwms>{{cite web|url=http://web.archive.org/web/20050305144730/http://english.watv.org/|title=Web-Archieve: Welcome to Church of God|accessdate=2013-08-18|date=2005-03-05}}</ref> 복음 can also translate to "gospel",<ref name=dicgospel>{{cite web|url=http://www.zkorean.com/dictionary/search_results?word=%EB%B3%B5%EC%9D%8C|title=zKorean - Dictionary Result: "복음"|accessdate=2013-08-18}}</ref> and the full name can e.g. be seen translated to "Church of God World Gospel Association."<ref name="kcourt2005">{{cite court |litigants=Church of God World Gospel Association v. Ji Won Tak|vol= |author= |opinion= |pinpoint=|court=Northern Seoul Regional Court Civil Section Number 11|date=2005-07-08|url=https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B-VK7RLDRwS4S1ktblozc1FabVk/edit?usp=sharing}}</ref>}}<ref name=inch10685>{{cite web |url=http://www.hdjongkyo.co.kr/html/sup01_1.html?Hid=106|title=///현대종교///|accessdate=2013-08-28|author=Information Network on Christian Heresy|language=Korean}}</ref> Both organizations claim him as their founder; New Covenant Passover Church of God regard Ahn as a teacher,<ref name=ncpcoghistory>{{cite web |url=http://www.ncpcog.net/eng/?page_id=13|title=History|accessdate=2013-08-28|author=New Covenant Passover Church of God}}</ref> World Mission Society Church of God regard Ahn as [[God]].<ref name=wmscogabraham>{{cite web |url=http://english.watv.org/truth/truth_life/content_abraham.asp|title=Abraham's Family and Mother|accessdate=2013-08-28|author=World Mission Society Church of God}}</ref> |
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== Biography == |
== Biography == |
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===Early life=== |
===Early life=== |
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Ahn was born to [[Korean Buddhism|Buddhist]] parents{{efn|By 1918 Buddhism was the predominant religion in Korea. By 2010, according to a survey cited by ''[[The World Factbook]]'', 2013-14 edition, Christians accounted for 31.6% (Protestant 24%, Roman Catholic 7.6%) and Buddhists for 24.2% of the South Korean population.<ref name=CIA>{{cite web |url=https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ks.html|title=The World Factbook|accessdate=2013-08-18}}</ref>}} on 13 January 1918 in the small, [[rural]] village of Myeongdeok-[[Ri (administrative division)|ri]] in the [[North Jeolla Province]] at a time when [[Korea under Japanese rule|Korea was under Japanese rule]]. The family [[Human migration|migrated]] to [[Busan]], where Ahn grew up in the [[Haeundae District]], the city in which he would later found his church.<ref name="issues141144">{{cite book|title=現代宗教|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=FoE4AAAAIAAJ|accessdate=2013-08-18|year=1985|publisher=現代宗敎社|language=Korean}}</ref>{{rp|127}}<ref name="emerging1992">{{cite book|author=탁명환|title=한국 의 신흥 종교: 기독교 편|trans_title=South Korea's emerging Christian side|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=Xsu5AAAAIAAJ|accessdate=2013-08-18|volume=4|year=1992|publisher=국제 종교 문제 연구소|language=Korean}}</ref>{{rp|339}} |
Ahn was born to [[Korean Buddhism|Buddhist]] parents{{efn|By 1918 Buddhism was the predominant religion in Korea. By 2010, according to a survey cited by ''[[The World Factbook]]'', 2013-14 edition, Christians accounted for 31.6% (Protestant 24%, Roman Catholic 7.6%) and Buddhists for 24.2% of the South Korean population.<ref name=CIA>{{cite web |url=https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ks.html|title=The World Factbook|accessdate=2013-08-18}}</ref>}} on 13 January 1918 in the small, [[rural]] village of Myeongdeok-[[Ri (administrative division)|ri]] in the [[North Jeolla Province]] at a time when [[Korea under Japanese rule|Korea was under Japanese rule]]. The family [[Human migration|migrated]] to [[Busan]], where Ahn grew up in the [[Haeundae District]], the city in which he would later found his church.<ref name="issues141144">{{cite book|title=現代宗教|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=FoE4AAAAIAAJ|accessdate=2013-08-18|year=1985|publisher=現代宗敎社|language=Korean}}</ref>{{rp|127}}<ref name="emerging1992">{{cite book|author=탁명환|title=한국 의 신흥 종교: 기독교 편|trans_title=South Korea's emerging Christian side|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=Xsu5AAAAIAAJ|accessdate=2013-08-18|volume=4|year=1992|publisher=국제 종교 문제 연구소|language=Korean}}</ref>{{rp|339}}<ref name="heresy1999">{{cite book|author1=이대복|author2=월간교회와이단|title=이단연구: 안식일교정체, 안상홍(하나님교회)사교집단|trans_title=Heresy studies: Sabbath school retention, ansanghong (Church of God) cult|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=p3QLAQAAMAAJ|accessdate=2013-08-18|year=1999|publisher=기독교이단문제연구소|language=Korean}}</ref>{{rp|65}}<ref |
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name="heresy2000">{{cite book|author=이대복|title=이단종합연구|trans_title=Comprehensive heresy studies|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=Q20LAQAAMAAJ|accessdate=2013-08-18|year=2000|publisher=기독교이단문제연구소|language=Korean}}</ref>{{rp|489}}<ref name="nrk2002">{{cite book|title=한국의 재림주들(2002 한국의 신흥종교 실태조사 연구집 1)|trans_title=Researches on the New Religions of Korea 2002, Collection I (subtitled, Self-Claimed Reborn Jesus Christ of Korea)|url=https://www.kyobobook.co.kr/product/detailOnelineKor.laf?mallGb=KOR&barcode=2008241000146&linkClass=21030901&ejkGb=KOR|accessdate=2013-08-18|date=2002-04-27|publisher=Hyudae Jongyo|language=Korean|isbn=2008241000146|pages=145–168}}</ref> |
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===Conversion to Christianity=== |
===Conversion to Christianity=== |
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Ahn reported getting [[revelation]]s in 1953,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ncpcog.co.kr/rb/?r=home&m=bbs&bid=0602&iframe=Y&uid=68|title=새언약 유월절 하나님의 교회|accessdate=2013-08-18|author=안광섭|language=Korean}}</ref> |
From 1937, during the [[Second Sino-Japanese War]] and [[World War II]], Ahn and his mother lived in [[Japan]] over a nine year period. He returned to Korea in 1946, after the war, and began attending the local congregation of the [[Seventh-day Adventist Church]] in [[Incheon]] in 1947.<ref name="issues141144" /><ref name="emerging1992" /><ref name="heresy1999" /><ref name="heresy2000" /><ref name="nrk2002" /> Ahn reported getting [[revelation]]s in 1953,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ncpcog.co.kr/rb/?r=home&m=bbs&bid=0602&iframe=Y&uid=68|title=새언약 유월절 하나님의 교회|accessdate=2013-08-18|author=안광섭|language=Korean}}</ref> and [[Renunciation|renounced]] his Buddhist faith and was [[Believer's baptism|credobaptised]] on 9 October 1954.<ref name='ikccah2012'>{{cite web|url=http://ikccah.org/298|title=안상홍 교적부 있는 부산 해운대안식일교회|accessdate=2013-08-18|author=International Korean Christian Coalition against Heresy|date=2012-02-24|language=Korean}}</ref>{{efn|Previously a baptismal date of 16 December 1948 performed by a [[Pastor]] Lee Myeong-deok in Incheon has been reported, but the source for this date and name is obscure, and no written record exists.<ref name="issues141144" />{{rp|125}}<ref name="emerging1992" />{{rp|338}}<ref name="heresy1999" /><ref name="heresy2000" />{{rp|494}}<ref name="issue348">{{cite book|title=月刊朝鮮|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=q7UQAQAAMAAJ|accessdate=2013-08-18|date=March 2009|publisher=朝鮮日報社|language=Korean|page=357}}</ref> The published references writes that with a 1948 baptism the ministry of Ahn was {{Circa}} 37 years (1948-1985),<ref name="issues141144" /><ref name="emerging1992" /><ref name="heresy1999" />{{rp|75}}<ref name="heresy2000" /><ref name="history1999">{{cite book|author=정행업|title=한국교회사에 나타난 이단논쟁|trans_title=Heresy Debate in Korean Church History|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=k2wLAQAAMAAJ|accessdate=2013-08-18|date=1999-03-10|publisher=한국장로교출판사|language=Korean|isbn=978-89-398-0127-1|pages=70–}}</ref> which has been used in argument for him fulfilling a [[Davidic dynasty in Bible prophecy|Davidic]] prophecy being the [[Second Coming]] of Jesus, the use of the honorific ''Christ Ansanghong'', and the assertation that he [[Entering heaven alive|ascended]] rather than died by the World Mission Society Church of God.<ref name="david">{{cite web |url=http://english.watv.org/truth/sermon/content.asp?idx=1433|title=Seek David in the Last Days|accessdate=2013-08-18|author=World Mission Society Church of God}}</ref> The investigation by The International Korean Christian Coalition against Heresy of the protocol from the Seventh-day Adventist Church stating Ahn was baptised on 9 October 1954 by a Pastor Gim Seo-gyeong showed, that while Pastor Gim could be confirmed, no Pastor Lee Myeong-deok was with the church in 1948.<ref name='ikccah2012' />}} In 1956 Ahn proclaimed that "Within 10 years there will be a [[Second Coming]] of [[Jesus]]."<ref name="issues141144" />{{rp|127}}<ref name="emerging1992" />{{rp|339}}<ref name="heresy2000" />{{rp|489}}<ref name="2007cults">{{cite book|author=편집부|title=신천지와 하나님의 교회의 정체(현대종교 이단사이비 자료집 2007)|trans_title=Identity of Shinchonji and the Church of God (Modern Religion - Heretic pseudo-cults 2007) |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=6fTAMQAACAAJ|accessdate=2013-08-18|date=2007-11-05|publisher=현대종교사|isbn=978-89-85200-01-1}}</ref>{{rp|90}}<ref name="amen12676-1948-88b">{{cite web|url=http://www.amennews.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=12676|title=‘하나님의교회’(세계복음선교협회)의 주요교리와 그 비판|trans_title=Criticism of the Major Doctrines of World Mission Society Church of God|accessdate=2013-08-18|author=Amennews|date=2013-06-05|language=Korean}}</ref> On 5 April 1958 he married Hwang Wonsun (1923–2008),{{efn|{{lang-ko|[[wikt:황|황]][[wikt:원|원]][[wikt:순|순]]|links=no}}; {{transl|ko|''hwang-won-sun''}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sori.org/hangul/conv2kr.cgi?q=%C8%B2%BF%F8%BC%F8&m=1|title=Hong's Hangul Conversion Tools|accessdate=2013-08-18}}</ref>}} with the marriage producing three children.<ref name="interview with ahn kwang-sup">{{cite journal |last1=이 (Lee)|first1=명덕 (Seung-yeon)|year=2012|title=하나님의교회는‘장길자’증인회! 안상홍씨 친아들 안광섭씨가 말하는 하나님의교회|trans_title=The Church of God is Zahng Gil-Ja's Congregation! Ahn Sahng-hong's son Ahn Kwang-sup speaks out about the Church of God |journal=현대종교 (Modern Religion) |volume=|issue=2|pages=28–33|publisher=Hyudae Jongyo|url=https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B-VK7RLDRwS4MW1Ed2M2SWtQOVE/edit?usp=sharing|accessdate=2013-08-18}}</ref><ref name=grave2>{{cite web|url=http://www.imssdarm.net/bbs/zboard.php?id=freeboard&page=9&sn1=on&divpage=1&sn=on&ss=off&sc=off&keyword=%B9%DA%BF%EB%C1%F8&select_arrange=headnum&desc=asc&no=1358|title=안상홍씨와 본처 황순원씨의 묘를 직접 찾아가 봄|accessdate=2013-08-18|date=2010-08-19|publisher=International Missionary Society of Seventh-Day Adventist Church Reform Movement|trans_title= On-site Spring Visit to the Grave of Mr. Ahn Sahng-hong and his lawfull wife Hwang Won-sun|language=Korean}}</ref> |
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===Own church=== |
===Own church=== |
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Twenty-three people followed Ahn and left the church, and two years later on 28 April 1964, Ahn established his church '''Witnesses of Jesus Church of God''' |
Ahn grew critical to [[Seventh-day Adventist theology|teachings]] in The Seventh-day Adventist Church, and the church [[Excommunication|excommunicated]] him in March 1962 over disputes about the [[Christian cross|cross]] as a [[religious symbol]].<ref name="inch106doctrines"/><ref name="issues141144" />{{rp|128}}<ref name="heresy1999" />{{rp|65}}<ref name="heresy2000" />{{rp|490}}<ref name="nrk2002">{{cite book|title=한국의 재림주들(2002 한국의 신흥종교 실태조사 연구집 1)|trans_title=Researches on the New Religions of Korea 2002, Collection I (subtitled, Self-Claimed Reborn Jesus Christ of Korea)|url=https://www.kyobobook.co.kr/product/detailOnelineKor.laf?mallGb=KOR&barcode=2008241000146&linkClass=21030901&ejkGb=KOR|accessdate=2013-08-18|date=2002-04-27|publisher=Hyudae Jongyo|language=Korean|isbn=2008241000146|pages=145–168}}</ref><ref name='ikccah2012' /><ref name=elijahand>{{cite book|last=Ahn|first=Sahng-hong|title=Elijah and The Last-Days Church|year=|publisher=Witnesses of Jesus Church of God|location=Korea|url=http://www.ncpcog.co.kr/rb/home/c/21/22/63|accessdate=2013-08-18}}</ref>{{rp|30}} Twenty-three people followed Ahn and left the church, and two years later on 28 April 1964, Ahn established his church '''Witnesses of Jesus Church of God'''{{efn|{{Lang-ko|하나님의교회 예수증인회|links=no}}. The name "Church of God", mentioned several times in e.g. [[Paul the Apostle]]'s [[First Epistle to the Corinthians|First]] and [[Second Epistle to the Corinthians]], and in his [[Epistle to the Galatians]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.biblegateway.com/quicksearch/?quicksearch=%22church+of+god%22&qs_version=NIV|title=BibleGateway - Quick search: "church of god"|accessdate=2013-08-18}}</ref> is a name used by numerous, mostly unrelated [[Christian denomination]]al bodies.<ref name="Melton2005">{{cite book|author=J. Gordon Melton|title=Encyclopedia of Protestantism|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=bW3sXBjnokkC&pg=PA150|accessdate=2013-08-18|date=2005-01-01|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=978-0-8160-6983-5|pages=150–}}</ref> Ahn in ''Doctrine Manual of the Witnesses of Jesus Church of God'' (1972) cites [[First Epistle to the Corinthians]] and [[First Epistle to Timothy]]<ref>{{bibleref2|1TIM|3|NIV|1 Timothy 3}}</ref> as the source for "Church of God", and several [[Chapters and verses of the Bible|verses]] in [[Acts of the Apostles]] as the source for "Witnesses of Jesus".<ref name=doctrinemanual>{{cite book|last=Ahn|first=Sahng-hong|title=Doctrine Manual of the Witnesses of Jesus Church of God|year=1972|publisher=Witnesses of Jesus Church of God|location=Korea|url=http://www.ncpcog.co.kr/rb/home/c/21/22/65|accessdate=2013-08-18}}</ref>{{rp|7–8}}}} in [[Busan]].<ref name="inch106doctrines"/><ref name="kcourt2005" /><ref name="heresy1999" /><ref name="nrk2002" /><ref name="金洪喆1989">{{cite book|author=金洪喆|title=韓國新宗教思想의研究|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=C5JzAAAAIAAJ|accessdate=10 August 2013|year=1989|publisher=Chimmundang|language=Korean|page=47}}</ref> Witnesses of Jesus Church of God expanded to 13 congregations in [[South Korea]] before Ahn's death in 1985.<ref name="issue348" /><ref name="mr141-144">{{cite book|title=現代宗教|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=FoE4AAAAIAAJ|accessdate=2013-08-18|year=1985|publisher=現代宗敎社|language=Korean|page=128}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=韓國宗敎|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=P381AAAAIAAJ|accessdate=10 August 2013|year=1997|publisher=圓光大學校宗敎問題硏究所|language=Korean|page=547}}</ref> |
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=== Beliefs === |
=== Beliefs === |
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Major [[dogma]]ta are detailed in the more than two [[dozen]] books Ahn wrote. His original publications as well as scans of his notes |
Major [[dogma]]ta are outlined in ''Doctrine Manual of the Witnesses of Jesus Church of God'' (1972),<ref name=doctrinemanual>{{cite book|last=Ahn|first=Sahng-hong|title=Doctrine Manual of the Witnesses of Jesus Church of God|year=1972|publisher=Witnesses of Jesus Church of God|location=Korea|url=http://www.ncpcog.co.kr/rb/home/c/21/22/65|accessdate=2013-08-18}}</ref> and detailed in the more than two [[dozen]] books Ahn wrote. His original publications as well as scans of his notes and extant [[sermon]]s have been made available online.<ref name=ashpubs>{{cite web |url=http://www.ncpcog.co.kr/rb/home/c/21/22|title=진리책자|accessdate=2013-08-18|}}</ref> Ahn argued that the practice of the [[Apostolic Age|apostolic early church]] had been distorted and his [[Restorationism|restorational]] doctrines and practices included:<ref name=inch106doctrines>{{cite web|url=http://www.hdjongkyo.co.kr/html/sup01_1.html?Hid=106|title=///현대종교///|accessdate=2013-08-28|author=Information Network on Christian Heresy|language=Korean}}</ref> |
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# Women should wear [[Christian headcovering|headcovering]] while praying. |
# Women should wear [[Christian headcovering|headcovering]] while praying. |
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# [[Baptism]] is the first step towards [[Salvation (Christianity)|salvation]]. |
# [[Baptism]] is the first step towards [[Salvation (Christianity)|salvation]]. |
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# The [[Sabbath in Christianity|Sabbath]] should be kept on [[Sabbath in seventh-day churches|Saturdays]], not Sundays. |
# The [[Sabbath in Christianity|Sabbath]] should be kept on [[Sabbath in seventh-day churches|Saturdays]], not Sundays. |
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# [[Christmas]] should not be celebrated as Jesus' birthday because it is the anniversary of the [[Solar deity|sun god]] |
# [[Christmas]] should not be celebrated as Jesus' birthday because it is the anniversary of the [[Solar deity|sun god]]. |
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# The [[Christian cross|cross]] is considered a form of [[idolatry]]. |
# The [[Christian cross|cross]] is considered a form of [[idolatry]]. |
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# The [[Passover (Christian holiday)|Passover]] and Festival of Unleavened Bread should be kept ... |
# The [[Passover (Christian holiday)|Passover]] and Festival of Unleavened Bread should be kept ... |
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# as should the other feasts in [[Book of Leviticus]] {{bibleref2|LEV|23|NIV|chapter 23}}: [[First Fruits]], [[Festival of Weeks]], [[Feast of Trumpets]], [[Day of Atonement]]; and [[Feast of Tabernacles]]. |
# as should the other feasts in [[Book of Leviticus]] {{bibleref2|LEV|23|NIV|chapter 23}}: [[First Fruits]], [[Festival of Weeks]], [[Feast of Trumpets]], [[Day of Atonement]]; and [[Feast of Tabernacles]]. |
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Ahn, who like most Christians<ref name="EricksonHustad2001">{{cite book|author1=Millard J. Erickson|author2=L. Arnold Hustad|title=Introducing Christian Doctrine|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=XSwYdMvFAcQC&pg=PA384|accessdate=2013-08-18|date=1 April 2001|publisher=Baker Academic|isbn=978-0-8010-2250-0|pages=384–}}</ref> believed in the [[Second Coming|Second Coming of Jesus]],<ref name=doctrinemanual-secondcoming>{{cite book|last=Ahn|first=Sahng-hong|title=Doctrine Manual of the Witnesses of Jesus Church of God|year=1972|publisher=Witnesses of Jesus Church of God|location=Korea|url=http://www.ncpcog.co.kr/rb/home/c/21/22/65|accessdate=2013-08-18|pages=17–18}}</ref> had predicted a Second Coming "within 10 years" in 1956.<ref name="issues141144" />{{rp|127}}<ref name="emerging1992" />{{rp|339}}<ref name="heresy2000" />{{rp|489}}<ref name="2007cults" />{{rp|90}}<ref name="amen12676-1948-88b"/> In the tradition of [[Seventh-day Adventist eschatology]], which had been suppressed by [[Kuniaki Koiso]] during his wartime rule of Korea,<ref name="Kang1997">{{cite book|author=Wi Jo Kang|title=Christ and Caesar in Modern Korea: A History of Christianity and Politics|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=zgAMhZmKXxwC&pg=PA69|accessdate=2013-08-18|year=1997|publisher=SUNY Press|isbn=978-1-4384-0832-3|pages=69–}}</ref> Ahn further believed to be living in the [[end time]] and that the Second Coming was imminent. As Korean [[Protestant]]s earlier in the 20th century had perceived [[Korea under Japanese rule|Japanese occupation]] by identifying symbolically with the history of Israel,<ref name="ParkPak2011">{{cite book|author1=Chung-shin Park|author2=Chŏng-sin Pak|title=Protestantism and politics in Korea|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=BPXqQ6yhkg8C&pg=PA61|accessdate=2013-08-18|date=15 December 2011|publisher=University of Washington Press|isbn=978-0-295-80208-4|pages=50–94|chapter=2}}</ref> Ahn through biblical [[exegesis]] in his book ''The Mystery of God and the Spring of the Water of Life'' (1980)<ref name="The Mystery of God and the Spring of the Water of Life">{{cite book|last=Ahn|first=Sahng-hong|title=The Mystery of God and the Spring of the Water of Life|year=1980|publisher=Witnesses of Jesus Church of God|location=Korea|url=http://www.ncpcog.co.kr/rb/home/c/21/22/57|accessdate=2013-08-18 |language=Korean}}</ref> interprets the [[Gospel of Matthew]] {{bibleref2|MT|24|NIV|chapter 24 verse 32-34}} to suggest that the world could come to an end in 1988, 40 years after the [[Israeli Declaration of Independence|independence]] of the modern state of [[Israel]].<ref name="amen12676-1948-88b">{{cite web|url=http://www.amennews.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=12676|title=‘하나님의교회’(세계복음선교협회)의 주요교리와 그 비판|trans_title=Criticism of the Major Doctrines of World Mission Society Church of God|accessdate=2013-08-18|author=Amennews|date=2013-06-05|language=Korean}}</ref> Ahn's original ''The Mystery of God and the Spring of the Water of Life'' is made available [http://www.ncpcog.co.kr/rb/home/c/21/22/57 online]; World Mission Society Church of God in their later editions of the book have deleted information pertaining to the failed prediction.<ref name=amen12676-1948-88b>{{cite web|url=http://www.amennews.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=12676|title=‘하나님의교회’(세계복음선교협회)의 주요교리와 그 비판|trans_title=Criticism of the Major Doctrines of World Mission Society Church of God|accessdate=2013-08-18|author=Amennews|date=2013-06-05|language=Korean}}</ref> Ahn in his book ''The Bridegroom Was a Long Time in Coming, and They All Became Drowsy and Fell Asleep'' (1980)<ref name="The Bridegroom Was a Long Time in Coming, and They All Became Drowsy and Fell Asleep">{{cite book|last=|first=|title=The Bridegroom Was a Long Time in Coming, and They All Became Drowsy and Fell Asleep|year=1980|publisher=Witnesses of Jesus Church of God|location=Korea|url=http://www.ncpcog.co.kr/rb/home/c/21/22/75|accessdate=2013-08-18 |language=Korean}}</ref> in a discussion based on [[Typology (theology)|scriptural typology]], presented his conclusion that the world would come to an end in 2012: |
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By 1978 a group of people centrered around a female member, one Um Sooin{{efn|{{lang-ko|엄수인|links=no}}; {{transl|ko|''eom-su-in''}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sori.org/hangul/conv2kr.cgi?q=%BE%F6%BC%F6%C0%CE&m=1|title=Hong's Hangul Conversion Tools|accessdate=2013-08-18}}</ref>}} (born 1941), |
By 1978 a group of people centrered around a female member, one Um Sooin{{efn|{{lang-ko|엄수인|links=no}}; {{transl|ko|''eom-su-in''}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sori.org/hangul/conv2kr.cgi?q=%BE%F6%BC%F6%C0%CE&m=1|title=Hong's Hangul Conversion Tools|accessdate=2013-08-18}}</ref>}} (born 1941), within the Witnesses of Jesus Church of God, claimed through a chain of scriptual [[eisegesis]] that they published in writing, that Um variously was "the only [[Bride of Christ|bride]]", "the [[New Jerusalem|Heavenly Jerusalem]]", "the [[New Jerusalem]]" on earth, "the [[The Paraclete|comforter]] sent by God", and they asserted that she was "our [[Heavenly Mother|mother]] who has come down from Heaven", and that Ahn was [[Christ]].<ref name='kchr130528'>{{cite web|url=http://www.jesus114.org/gnuboard4/bbs/board.php?bo_table=bbs07_03&wr_id=22|title=안상홍 증인회의 정체|accessdate=2013-08-18|last=이|first=영호|date=2013-05-28|publisher=South Korean Christian Heresy Counselling Centres|language=Korean}}</ref><ref name=enjerusalem>{{cite web |url=http://ncpcog.co.kr/rb/home/b/0604/441|title=Interpretation on the New Jerusalem and the Issue of the Head Covering of Brides|accessdate=2013-08-18}}</ref><ref name=kojerusalem>{{cite web |
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|url=http://www.ncpcog.co.kr/rb/home/c/21/22/59|title=새 예루살렘과 신부 여자들의 수건 문제 해석|accessdate=2013-08-18}}</ref> Um and the group around her claiming she was the spiritual mother were expelled from the church, and Ahn dedicated a book entitled ''Problems with the New Jerusalem, the Bride and Women's Veils]'' (1980, reprinted 1983) to the controversy, in which he writes: |
|url=http://www.ncpcog.co.kr/rb/home/c/21/22/59|title=새 예루살렘과 신부 여자들의 수건 문제 해석|accessdate=2013-08-18}}</ref> Um and the group around her claiming she was the spiritual mother were expelled from the church,<ref name="kcourt2005" /><ref name=enjerusalem /><ref name=kojerusalem /> and Ahn dedicated a book entitled ''[http://ncpcog.co.kr/rb/home/b/0604/441 Problems with the New Jerusalem, the Bride and Women's Veils]'' (1980, reprinted 1983) to the controversy, in which he writes: |
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|quote = This booklet was published to prevent troublemakers who misinterpret and behave fanatically, [and] explain the errors in the books that Um Sooin published ... women like Um Sooin have caused a great problem to arise with her corrupt ideas ... The Jerusalem in Heaven is Our Mother ... Um Sooin speaks as if she is out of her mind when she claims that the [[New Jerusalem]] is herself ... they assert that Um Sooin is our mother who has come down from Heaven. ... How extremely scandalous is this? With this type of misguided [[delusion]], she has become a [[false prophet]] and has attempted to gain power. ... The New Jerusalem which is written of in {{bibleref2|REV|21:1-4|NIV|Revelation 21:1-4}} ... is a spiritual building not a person. .... Nobody except someone who is not in their right state of mind can believe and follow after this. ... Because the interpretation of Um Sooin was made to match their claims, they have made these ridiculous interpretations. ... |
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After this, just before the revelation of the actual "Heavenly Mother", this book was recalled by Ahn and is the only one of his works never to be published again as evident since 1984. Zang Gil Jah was then revealed by Ahn and she began to lead service in Ahn's church contrary to his previous writing. She is today still regarded as Heavenly Mother by the World Mission Society Church of God. |
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Following a [[heart attack]] during lunch on 24 February 1985, Ahn had a [[stroke]] en route to hospital, and died the next day, 25 February 1985 in the Catholic [[Maryknoll|Maryknoll Hospital]]{{efn|{{lang-ko|메리놀병원|links=no}}; Also romanizised ''Merinol Hospital'' after its pronunciation, {{transl|ko|''me-ri-nol-byeong-won''}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sori.org/hangul/conv2kr.cgi?q=%B8%DE%B8%AE%B3%EE%BA%B4%BF%F8&m=1|title=Hong's Hangul Conversion Tools|accessdate=2013-08-18}}</ref>}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.maryknoll.co.kr/|title=메리놀병원|trans_title=(Maryknoll Medical Center)|accessdate=2013-08-18}}</ref> in [[Jung District, Busan]].<ref name=doctorsnews>{{cite web|url=http://www.doctorsnews.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=53142 |title=::빠르고 정확한 인터넷 의협신문:: |publisher=Doctorsnews.co.kr |accessdate=2013-08-18}}</ref> Ahn Sahng-hong was 67 years old. He was survived by his wife and three children.<ref name=inch10685 /><ref name="emerging1992" />{{rp|337}}<ref name="heresy1999" />{{rp|65}}<ref name="heresy2000" />{{rp|494}}<ref name="nrk2002">{{cite book|title=한국의 재림주들(2002 한국의 신흥종교 실태조사 연구집 1)|trans_title=Researches on the New Religions of Korea 2002, Collection I (subtitled, Self-Claimed Reborn Jesus Christ of Korea)|url=https://www.kyobobook.co.kr/product/detailOnelineKor.laf?mallGb=KOR&barcode=2008241000146&linkClass=21030901&ejkGb=KOR|accessdate=2013-08-18|date=2002-04-27|publisher=Hyudae Jongyo|language=Korean|isbn=2008241000146|pages=145–168}}</ref> |
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Ahn was [[Burial|buried]] in a public [https://maps.google.com.au/maps?hl=en&q=%EC%84%9D%EA%B3%84%EA%B3%B5%EC%9B%90&ie=UTF-8 grave] located in Seokgye [[Cemetery]]{{efn|{{lang-ko|석계공원묘지|links=no}}; {{transl|ko|''seok-kkye-gong-won-myo-ji''}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sori.org/hangul/conv2kr.cgi?q=%BC%AE%B0%E8%B0%F8%BF%F8%B9%A6%C1%F6&m=1| title=Hong's Hangul Conversion Tools|accessdate=2013-08-18}}</ref>}} {{convert|30|km}} north of Busan. From the time of his burial in 1985, a single [[tombstone]] stood beside the grave, the [[epitaph]] reading: "The grave of the prophet [[Elijah]] Ahn Sahng-hong."{{efn|{{lang-ko|선지 엘리야 안상홍 지 묘|links=no}}}} |
Ahn was [[Burial|buried]] in a public [https://maps.google.com.au/maps?hl=en&q=%EC%84%9D%EA%B3%84%EA%B3%B5%EC%9B%90&ie=UTF-8 grave] located in Seokgye [[Cemetery]]{{efn|{{lang-ko|석계공원묘지|links=no}}; {{transl|ko|''seok-kkye-gong-won-myo-ji''}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sori.org/hangul/conv2kr.cgi?q=%BC%AE%B0%E8%B0%F8%BF%F8%B9%A6%C1%F6&m=1| title=Hong's Hangul Conversion Tools|accessdate=2013-08-18}}</ref>}}<ref name='ikccah1572grave'>{{cite web|url=http://ikccah.org/ahnsanghong/1572|title=하나님의교회 안상홍증인회 - 안상홍의 정체|trans_title=Witnesses of An Sang-hong Church of God - An Sang-hong's identity|accessdate=2013-08-18|author=International Korean Christian Coalition against Heresy|language=Korean}}</ref> {{convert|30|km}} north of Busan. From the time of his burial in 1985, a single [[tombstone]] stood beside the grave, the [[epitaph]] reading: "The grave of the prophet [[Elijah]] Ahn Sahng-hong."{{efn|{{lang-ko|선지 엘리야 안상홍 지 묘|links=no}}}}<ref name='grave'>{{cite news|first=윤석|last=정|title=하나님이라더니, 땅 속서 썩고있네?|date=2006-03-14|url=http://www.amennews.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=6545|work=Amennews|accessdate=2013-08-18|language=Korean}}</ref><ref |
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name=grave85ex>{{cite web|url=http://www.examiningthewmscog.com/archives/ahnsahnghongs-tombstone-says-the-prophet-elijah-not-jesus|title=Ahnsahnghong's Tombstone Says "The Prophet Elijah", Not Jesus|accessdate=2013-08-28|author=Examining the World Mission Society Church of God}}</ref> After the death of his wife Hwang Won-sun 23 years later on 4 September 2008, she was buried in the plot beside Ahn, and a new tombstone carrying both their names (as well as their children's on the back) replaced the 1985 stone, repeating the epitaph.<ref name=grave2 /><ref name=ikccah2023grave>{{cite web|url=http://ikccah.org/2023|title=과연 안상홍의 부인은 누구인가?|trans_title=Who is the wife of An Sanghong really?|accessdate=2013-08-18|author=International Korean Christian Coalition against Heresy|date=2012-05-18|language=Korean}}</ref> |
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==Legacy== |
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The death of Ahn gave rise to a power struggle within Witnesses of Jesus Church of God. |
The unexpected death of Ahn gave rise to a power struggle within Witnesses of Jesus Church of God:<ref name="kcourt2005" /><ref name="ncpcog-after-death">{{cite web |url=http://ncpcog.co.kr/rb/home/b/0603/639|title=우리어머니|accessdate=2013-08-18|date=2013-06-23}}</ref> some people in the church wanted to continue along the lines laid out by Ahn, others wanted to re-introduced the concept of a "spiritual mother" embodied in the then 41 year old woman named [[Zahng Gil-jah]]{{efn|{{lang-ko|장길자|links=no}}; {{transl|ko|''jang-gil-ja''}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sori.org/hangul/conv2kr.cgi?q=%C0%E5%B1%E6%C0%DA&m=1|title=Hong's Hangul Conversion Tools|accessdate=2013-08-18}}</ref>}} (born 1943).<ref name="kcourt2005" /><ref name="nrk2002" /><ref name="interview with ahn kwang-sup" /><ref name=ikccah2023grave /> After an [[extraordinary general meeting]] in Witnesses of Jesus Church of God on 4 March 1985 failed to reconcile the opposing fractions, a [[Schism (religion)|schism]] divided the church into two [[sect]]s<ref name="kcourt2005" /><ref name=inch10685 /><ref name="nrk2002" /> |
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;* New Covenant Passover Church of God,{{efn|{{Lang-ko|새언약 유월절 하나님의교회|links=no}}}} and |
;* New Covenant Passover Church of God,{{efn|{{Lang-ko|새언약 유월절 하나님의교회|links=no}}}} and |
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;* Witnesses of Ahn Sahng-hong Church of God.{{efn|{{Lang-ko|하나님의교회 안상홍 증인회|links=no}}. The name is reflected in the domain name WATV.ORG registered in February 2000<ref name=whoiswatv>{{cite web|url=http://www.whois.com/whois/watv.org|title=Whois watv.org|accessdate=2013-08-18}}</ref> the [[acronym]] standing for '''W'''itnesses of '''A'''hnsahnghong '''T'''ele'''v'''ision.<ref name=watvname>{{cite web|url=http://english.watv.org/intro/family.asp|title=World Mission Society Church of God|accessdate=2013-08-18}}</ref> {{Lang-ko|하나님의교회 안상홍 증인회|links=no}} can be seen in other translations, e.g. a more direct word order "Church of God, Witnesses of Ahn Sahng-hong", or "Church of God, Association of Ahnsahnghong's Witnesses".}} |
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;* Witnesses of Ahn Sahng-hong Church of God, whom formed the World Mission Society Church of God.{{efn|{{Lang-ko|하나님의교회 안상홍 증인회}}|links=no}} |
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===New Covenant Passover Church of God=== |
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One group of people in Witnesses of Jesus Church of God stayed on the premisses in Busan. Among them were Ahn's wife and their three children. This sect is today known as New Covenant Passover Church of God. Ahn's son Ahn Kwang-sup{{efn|{{lang-ko|안광섭|links=no}}; {{transl|ko|''an-gwang-seop''}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sori.org/hangul/conv2kr.cgi?q=%BE%C8%B1%A4%BC%B7&m=1|title=Hong's Hangul Conversion Tools|accessdate=2013-08-18}}</ref>}} (born 1954) is an elder in the church and |
One group of people in Witnesses of Jesus Church of God stayed on the premisses in Busan. Among them were Ahn's wife and their three children. This sect is today known as New Covenant Passover Church of God. Ahn's son Ahn Kwang-sup{{efn|{{lang-ko|안광섭|links=no}}; {{transl|ko|''an-gwang-seop''}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sori.org/hangul/conv2kr.cgi?q=%BE%C8%B1%A4%BC%B7&m=1|title=Hong's Hangul Conversion Tools|accessdate=2013-08-18}}</ref>}} (born 1954) is an elder in the church and continues to expound on his father's work.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ncpcog.co.kr/rb/home/b/0603/361|title=생명수는 무엇인가?|trans_title=What is the Water of Life?|accessdate=2013-08-18|date=2012-05-10}}</ref> An outside observer visited the church and had this comment: |
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Another group of people in Witnesses of Jesus Church of God including Kim Joo-cheol{{efn|{{lang-ko|김주철|links=no}}; {{transl|ko|''gim-ju-cheol''}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sori.org/hangul/conv2kr.cgi?q=%B1%E8%C1%D6%C3%B6&m=1|title=Hong's Hangul Conversion Tools|accessdate=2013-08-18}}</ref>}} and [[Zahng Gil-jah]] wanted to |
Another group of people in Witnesses of Jesus Church of God including the man Kim Joo-cheol{{efn|{{lang-ko|김주철|links=no}}; {{transl|ko|''gim-ju-cheol''}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sori.org/hangul/conv2kr.cgi?q=%B1%E8%C1%D6%C3%B6&m=1|title=Hong's Hangul Conversion Tools|accessdate=2013-08-18}}</ref>}} and the woman [[Zahng Gil-jah]] wanted to re-introduce the concept of a "spiritual mother", and on 22 March 1985 moved from Busan to [[Seoul]].<ref name="kcourt2005" /><ref name=inch10685 /><ref name="heresy1999" /><ref name="nrk2002" /> On a meeting in Seoul on 2 June 1985, they established a church called Witnesses of Ahn Sahng-hong Church of God. Two major new doctrines were codified<ref name=ikccah2023>{{cite web|url=http://ikccah.org/2023|title=과연 안상홍의 부인은 누구인가?|trans_title=Who is the wife of ansanghong really?|accessdate=2013-08-18|author=International Korean Christian Coalition against Heresy|date=2012-05-18|language=Korean}}</ref><ref name="amen12676-1948-88a">{{cite web|url=http://www.amennews.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=12676|title=‘하나님의교회’(세계복음선교협회)의 주요교리와 그 비판|trans_title=Criticism of the Major Doctrines of World Mission Society Church of God|accessdate=2013-08-18|author=Amennews|date=2013-06-05|language=Korean}}</ref> |
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;*Ahn Sahng-hong should be regarded as Jesus Christ who had already come, should be titled ''Christ Ahn Sahng-hong'', and pursuant to a traditional [[Trinity|trinitarian]] view of Christian [[Hypostasis (philosophy and religion)|hypostasis]] Ahn was consequently also [[Holy Spirit|The Holy Spirit]], [[God the Father]], and thus [[God]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://english.watv.org/truth/truth_life/content_trinity.asp|title=Trinity|accessdate=2013-08-18}}</ref> |
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;*Zahng Gil-jah should be regarded as [[Heavenly Mother|God the Mother]], a female image of God,<ref name="God Elohim">{{cite web|url=http://english.watv.org/truth/truth_life/content_elohim.asp|title=God Elohim|accessdate=2013-08-18}}</ref> be titled ''Heavenly Mother'', or simply ''Mother'', and together with Ahn Sahng-hong be regarded as God.<ref name="God Elohim"/> |
;*Zahng Gil-jah should be regarded as [[Heavenly Mother|God the Mother]], a female image of God,<ref name="God Elohim">{{cite web|url=http://english.watv.org/truth/truth_life/content_elohim.asp|title=God Elohim|accessdate=2013-08-18}}</ref> be titled ''Heavenly Mother'', or simply ''Mother'', and together with Ahn Sahng-hong be regarded as God.<ref name="God Elohim"/> |
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A change in religious practise, as reflected in the change of name from "Witnesses of Jesus" to "Witnesses of Ahn Sahng-hong", was, that prayers were no longer conducted in the name of [[Jesus Christ]] but in the name of ''Christ Ahn Sahng-hong''.<ref name="inch106doctrines">{{cite web|url=http://www.hdjongkyo.co.kr/html/sup01_1.html?Hid=106|title=///현대종교///|accessdate=2013-08-28|author=Information Network on Christian Heresy|language=Korean}}</ref> |
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⚫ | The [[Apotheosis|deification]] of Ahn Sahng-hong and Zahng Gil-jah has been "harshly criticized,"<ref name="kcourt2005" |
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⚫ | The [[Apotheosis|deification]] of Ahn Sahng-hong and Zahng Gil-jah has been "harshly criticized,"<ref name="kcourt2005" /> and has led to the church being officially [[Damnation|condemned]] by The National Council of Churches in Korea as an [[interdenominational]]ly combatted, [[Blasphemy|blasphemic]], [[Heresy|heretic]] [[cult]].<ref name="kncc">{{cite web|url=http://www.kncc.or.kr/sub04/sub03.php?ptype=view&code=board_04_2&idx=10852|title=기독교 이단 사이비 종교 명단과 종교차별 신고|accessdate=2013-08-18|publisher = The National Council of Churches in Korea|date=2012-12-13|language=Korean}}</ref><ref name="KOR43208.E">{{cite web|title=Korea: The Church of God, including the denomination of Christianity to which it adheres, its beliefs and practices; whether there is a congregation of the Church of God in Seoul known as the Church of God Mission Society located at 381-2 Suyu-dong #2, Gangbuk-gu (2002-2004)| publisher=Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada|author=Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada|url=http://www.refworld.org/docid/42df611d20.html|accessdate=2013-08-18|date=2004-12-08}}</ref> |
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⚫ | As a central argument to the claim that Ahn Sahng-hong should be the Second Coming of Jesus, and in turn an argument for his suggested promotion of Zahng Gil-jah to the Bride of the Lamb, is the proposision that he fulfilled a [[Davidic dynasty in Bible prophecy|Davidic]] prophecy by preaching 37 years from his baptism 16 December 1948 to his death on 25 February 1985,<ref name="david"/><ref name="952summarize">{{cite web |url=http://english.watv.org/press/content.asp?idx=952|title="Mother" the Mystery of the Bible|accessdate=2013-08-18|author=World Mission Society Church of God}}</ref> a period which |
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⚫ | As a central argument to the claim that Ahn Sahng-hong should be the Second Coming of Jesus, and in turn an argument for his suggested promotion of Zahng Gil-jah to the Bride of the Lamb, is the proposision that he fulfilled a [[Davidic dynasty in Bible prophecy|Davidic]] prophecy by preaching 37 years from his baptism 16 December 1948 to his death on 25 February 1985,<ref name="david">{{cite web |url=http://english.watv.org/truth/sermon/content.asp?idx=1433|title=Seek David in the Last Days|accessdate=2013-08-18|author=World Mission Society Church of God}}</ref><ref name="952summarize">{{cite web |url=http://english.watv.org/press/content.asp?idx=952|title="Mother" the Mystery of the Bible|accessdate=2013-08-18|author=World Mission Society Church of God}}</ref> a period which in reality was only 36 years, 2 months, and 9 days.<ref name="36years">{{cite web |url=http://www.timeanddate.com/date/durationresult.html?d1=16&m1=12&y1=1948&d2=25&m2=2&y2=1985|title=Calculate duration between two dates – results|accessdate=2013-08-18|author=Timeanddate.com}}</ref> The source for the baptismal date of 16 December 1948 performed by a [[Pastor]] Lee Myeong-deok in Incheon is however obscure, and no written record exists.<ref name="issues141144" />{{rp|125}}<ref name="emerging1992" />{{rp|338}}<ref name="heresy1999" /><ref name="heresy2000" />{{rp|494}}<ref name="issue348">{{cite book|title=月刊朝鮮|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=q7UQAQAAMAAJ|accessdate=2013-08-18|date=March 2009|publisher=朝鮮日報社|language=Korean|page=357}}</ref> In 2011 a protocol from the Seventh-day Adventist Church was discovered, stating Ahn was baptised when he was 36 years old on 9 October 1954 by a Pastor Gim Seo-gyeong. The investigation by The International Korean Christian Coalition against Heresy showed, that while Pastor Gim could be confirmed, no Pastor Lee Myeong-deok was with the church in 1948, reducing the length of the ministry of Ahn from 36 years to 30 years and 4 months.<ref name='ikccah2012' /> |
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The source for the baptismal date of 16 December 1948 performed by a [[Pastor]] Lee Myeong-deok in Incheon is however obscure, written records are limited to Ahn's own written note with other records remaining to be found. In 2011 the Seventh-day Adventist Church claimed a protocol was discovered, and produced a document stating Ahn was baptised when he was 36 years old on 9 October 1954 by a Pastor Gim Seo-gyeong. According to them the length of the ministry of Ahn is then 30 years and 4 months. Other sources have criticized the Seventh Day Adventist Church protocol as a forgery.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://m.crc.ac:449/?m=bbs&bid=undefined&sort=d_regis&orderby=desc&uid=57}}</ref> |
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Witnesses of Ahn Sahng-hong Church of God announced that "1988 is the end of the world" citing [[Gospel of Matthew|Matthew]] {{bibleref2|MT|24|NIV|24:32-34}} as Ahn had done in his 1980 book ''The Mystery of God and the Spring of the Water of Life''.<ref name="kcourt2005" /><ref name="The Mystery of God and the Spring of the Water of Life" /><ref name='wa1988end1'>{{cite web|url=https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B-VK7RLDRwS4NWF6Q0lGVUJUTFU/edit?usp=sharing|title=1988 is the end of the world (front)|accessdate=2013-08-18|author=Church of God, the association of An Sang Hong Witness {{sic}}|year=1988|language=Korean and English}}</ref><ref name='wa1988end2'>{{cite web|url=https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B-VK7RLDRwS4X21OQmQ4bGRVeHc/edit?usp=sharing|title=1988 is the end of the world (back)|accessdate=2013-08-18|author=Church of God, the association of An Sang Hong Witness {{sic}}|year=1988|language=Korean and English}}</ref> A few thousand members of Witnesses of Ahn Sahng-hong Church of God gathered on a mountain in [[:ko:소정면|Sojeong-myeon]], [[Yeongi County]], [[South Chungcheong Province]] awaiting the coming of Christ Ahn Sahng-hong, preparing for the [[rapture]] and the [[Salvation (Christianity)|salvation]] of [[144000 (number)|144,000]] souls. When Ahn [[Unfulfilled Christian religious predictions|failed to appear and nothing happened]] the church updated their apocalyptic forecast and scheduled it to the opening of the 1988 Olympics in Seoul later that year.<ref name="inch106doctrines">{{cite web|url=http://www.hdjongkyo.co.kr/html/sup01_1.html?Hid=106|title=///현대종교///|accessdate=2013-08-28|author=Information Network on Christian Heresy|language=Korean}}</ref><ref name="kcourt2005" /><ref name="emerging1992" />{{rp|342}}<ref name="heresy1999" />{{rp|77}}<ref name="heresy2000" />{{rp|494}}<ref name="nrk2002" /><ref name="issues88-90">{{cite book|title=錦湖文化|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=JrU3AQAAIAAJ|accessdate=11 August 2013|year=1992|publisher=錦湖文化財團}}</ref><ref name="renamed-cwm">{{cite news|title=법원, "근거없는 추측비방은 비인격적인 범법행위"|date=2003-09-29|url=http://www.cwmonitor.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=7917|work=The Christian World Monitor|accessdate=2013-08-18|language=Korean}}</ref> |
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Around 1997, Witnesses of Ahn Sahng-hong Church of God had established a non-profit organization titled the Church of God World Mission Society for the purpose of registering and managing the organization's assets.<ref name="kcourt2005" /><ref name=renamed-cwm>{{cite news|title=법원, "근거없는 추측비방은 비인격적인 범법행위"|date=2003-09-29|url=http://www.cwmonitor.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=7917|work=The Christian World Monitor|accessdate=2013-08-18|language=Korean}}</ref> |
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Ahn Sahng-hong | |
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Born | Ahn Sahng-hong 13 January 1918 |
Died | 25 February 1985 Maryknoll Hospital, Busan, South Korea | (aged 67)
Cause of death | Stroke |
Resting place | Seokgye Cemetery, Oeseok-ri (신전리), Sangbuk-myeon, Yangsan, South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea 35°27′26″N 129°2′55″E / 35.45722°N 129.04861°E |
Occupation(s) | Religious leader, author |
Years active | 1954–1985 |
Known for | World Mission Society Church of God |
Notable work | The Mystery of God and The Spring of The Water of Life Problems with the New Jerusalem, the Bride and Women's Veils |
Spouse | Hwang Won-sun (b. 1923) (1958–1985, his death) |
Children | Ahn Kwang-sup (b. 1954) Ahn Myeong-seon (b. 1957) Ahn Chang-jun (b. 1959) |
Parent(s) | Ahn Gyujung and Lee Weoljeon |
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Hanja | |
Revised Romanization | An Sanghong[1] |
McCune–Reischauer | An Sangong[2] |
Template:Contains Korean text Ahn Sahng-hong[a] (Korean: 안상홍; Hanja: 安商洪; RR: An Sanghong; 13 January 1918 – 25 February 1985) was a Korean Christian minister and founder of Witnesses of Jesus Church of God.[b][3]: 7–8 [4]
Shortly after his death in 1985 a schism took place dividing Witnesses of Jesus Church of God into two sects, New Covenant Passover Church of God[c] and what is today known as World Mission Society Church of God.[d][8] Both organizations claim him as their founder; New Covenant Passover Church of God regard Ahn as a teacher,[9] World Mission Society Church of God regard Ahn as God.[10]
Biography
Early life
Ahn was born to Buddhist parents[e] on 13 January 1918 in the small, rural village of Myeongdeok-ri in the North Jeolla Province at a time when Korea was under Japanese rule. The family migrated to Busan, where Ahn grew up in the Haeundae District, the city in which he would later found his church.[12]: 127 [13]: 339 [14]: 65 [15]: 489 [16]
Conversion to Christianity
From 1937, during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II, Ahn and his mother lived in Japan over a nine year period. He returned to Korea in 1946, after the war, and began attending the local congregation of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Incheon in 1947.[12][13][14][15][16] Ahn reported getting revelations in 1953,[17] and renounced his Buddhist faith and was credobaptised on 9 October 1954.[18][f] In 1956 Ahn proclaimed that "Within 10 years there will be a Second Coming of Jesus."[12]: 127 [13]: 339 [15]: 489 [22]: 90 [23] On 5 April 1958 he married Hwang Wonsun (1923–2008),[g] with the marriage producing three children.[25][26]
Own church
Ahn grew critical to teachings in The Seventh-day Adventist Church, and the church excommunicated him in March 1962 over disputes about the cross as a religious symbol.[4][12]: 128 [14]: 65 [15]: 490 [16][18][27]: 30 Twenty-three people followed Ahn and left the church, and two years later on 28 April 1964, Ahn established his church Witnesses of Jesus Church of God[h] in Busan.[4][7][14][16][31] Witnesses of Jesus Church of God expanded to 13 congregations in South Korea before Ahn's death in 1985.[19][32][33]
Beliefs
Major dogmata are outlined in Doctrine Manual of the Witnesses of Jesus Church of God (1972),[3] and detailed in the more than two dozen books Ahn wrote. His original publications as well as scans of his notes and extant sermons have been made available online.[34] Ahn argued that the practice of the apostolic early church had been distorted and his restorational doctrines and practices included:[4]
- Women should wear headcovering while praying.
- Baptism is the first step towards salvation.
- The Sabbath should be kept on Saturdays, not Sundays.
- Christmas should not be celebrated as Jesus' birthday because it is the anniversary of the sun god.
- The cross is considered a form of idolatry.
- The Passover and Festival of Unleavened Bread should be kept ...
- as should the other feasts in Book of Leviticus chapter 23: First Fruits, Festival of Weeks, Feast of Trumpets, Day of Atonement; and Feast of Tabernacles.
Eschatology
Ahn, who like most Christians[35] believed in the Second Coming of Jesus,[36] had predicted a Second Coming "within 10 years" in 1956.[12]: 127 [13]: 339 [15]: 489 [22]: 90 [23] In the tradition of Seventh-day Adventist eschatology, which had been suppressed by Kuniaki Koiso during his wartime rule of Korea,[37] Ahn further believed to be living in the end time and that the Second Coming was imminent. As Korean Protestants earlier in the 20th century had perceived Japanese occupation by identifying symbolically with the history of Israel,[38] Ahn through biblical exegesis in his book The Mystery of God and the Spring of the Water of Life (1980)[39] interprets the Gospel of Matthew chapter 24 verse 32–34 to suggest that the world could come to an end in 1988, 40 years after the independence of the modern state of Israel.[23] Ahn's original The Mystery of God and the Spring of the Water of Life is made available online; World Mission Society Church of God in their later editions of the book have deleted information pertaining to the failed prediction.[23] Ahn in his book The Bridegroom Was a Long Time in Coming, and They All Became Drowsy and Fell Asleep (1980)[40] in a discussion based on scriptural typology, presented his conclusion that the world would come to an end in 2012:
Since the day that the Ten Commandments was received, it took 168 days to build the tabernacle and to hold the ceremony, and as the fulfillment of this prophecy, Jesus also went into the heavenly Most Holy on the 10th day of the 7th month in 1844 which is the Day of Atonement, and since then began to build the heavenly temple for 168 days namely 168 days until the ceremony. The prophecy is to be interpreted as 1 day to 1 year (Ezekiel 4:6; Numbers 14:34. Therefore, adding 168 years to 1844 when Jesus entered the heavenly Most Holy, 2012 becomes the last day.
Ahn Sahng-hong, The Bridegroom Was a Long Time in Coming, and They All Became Drowsy and Fell Asleep, 1980 & 1985[40]
Mother
By 1978 a group of people centrered around a female member, one Um Sooin[i] (born 1941), within the Witnesses of Jesus Church of God, claimed through a chain of scriptual eisegesis that they published in writing, that Um variously was "the only bride", "the Heavenly Jerusalem", "the New Jerusalem" on earth, "the comforter sent by God", and they asserted that she was "our mother who has come down from Heaven", and that Ahn was Christ.[42][43][44] Um and the group around her claiming she was the spiritual mother were expelled from the church,[7][43][44] and Ahn dedicated a book entitled Problems with the New Jerusalem, the Bride and Women's Veils (1980, reprinted 1983) to the controversy, in which he writes:
This booklet was published to prevent troublemakers who misinterpret and behave fanatically, [and] explain the errors in the books that Um Sooin published ... women like Um Sooin have caused a great problem to arise with her corrupt ideas ... The Jerusalem in Heaven is Our Mother ... Um Sooin speaks as if she is out of her mind when she claims that the New Jerusalem is herself ... they assert that Um Sooin is our mother who has come down from Heaven. ... How extremely scandalous is this? With this type of misguided delusion, she has become a false prophet and has attempted to gain power. ... The New Jerusalem which is written of in Revelation 21:1–4 ... is a spiritual building not a person. .... Nobody except someone who is not in their right state of mind can believe and follow after this. ... Because the interpretation of Um Sooin was made to match their claims, they have made these ridiculous interpretations. ...
Ahn Sahng-hong, Problems with the New Jerusalem, the Bride and Women's Veils, 1980 & 1983[43][44]
Ahn concludes his rebuking of Um Sooin:
There is never a time when the activity of Satan is cut off in the true Church. The Apostle Paul has written as follows that the Devil will utilize women to cause confusion inside the Church: "A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet. For Adam was formed first, then Eve. And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner."1 Timothy 2:11–14 In other words, whenever a woman makes assertions in the Church, the Church will fall under the deception of the Devil.
Ahn Sahng-hong, Problems with the New Jerusalem, the Bride and Women's Veils, 1980 & 1983[43][44]
Death
Following a heart attack during lunch on 24 February 1985, Ahn had a stroke en route to hospital, and died the next day, 25 February 1985 in the Catholic Maryknoll Hospital[j][46] in Jung District, Busan.[47] Ahn Sahng-hong was 67 years old. He was survived by his wife and three children.[8][13]: 337 [14]: 65 [15]: 494 [16]
Ahn was buried in a public grave located in Seokgye Cemetery[k][49] 30 kilometres (19 mi) north of Busan. From the time of his burial in 1985, a single tombstone stood beside the grave, the epitaph reading: "The grave of the prophet Elijah Ahn Sahng-hong."[l][50][51] After the death of his wife Hwang Won-sun 23 years later on 4 September 2008, she was buried in the plot beside Ahn, and a new tombstone carrying both their names (as well as their children's on the back) replaced the 1985 stone, repeating the epitaph.[26][52]
Legacy
The unexpected death of Ahn gave rise to a power struggle within Witnesses of Jesus Church of God:[7][53] some people in the church wanted to continue along the lines laid out by Ahn, others wanted to re-introduced the concept of a "spiritual mother" embodied in the then 41 year old woman named Zahng Gil-jah[m] (born 1943).[7][16][25][52] After an extraordinary general meeting in Witnesses of Jesus Church of God on 4 March 1985 failed to reconcile the opposing fractions, a schism divided the church into two sects[7][8][16]
New Covenant Passover Church of God
One group of people in Witnesses of Jesus Church of God stayed on the premisses in Busan. Among them were Ahn's wife and their three children. This sect is today known as New Covenant Passover Church of God. Ahn's son Ahn Kwang-sup[p] (born 1954) is an elder in the church and continues to expound on his father's work.[58] An outside observer visited the church and had this comment:
The service performed at the New Covenant Church is not much different from that of the mainstream churches. The parishioners pray in the name of 'Jesus Christ' and recite the Lord's Prayer. They sing unmodified mainstream hymns. Like the Seventh-day Adventists, they observe Saturday as the Sabbath day.
Lee Seung-yeon, in Modern Religion, February 2012[25]
Witnesses of Ahn Sahng-hong Church of God
Another group of people in Witnesses of Jesus Church of God including the man Kim Joo-cheol[q] and the woman Zahng Gil-jah wanted to re-introduce the concept of a "spiritual mother", and on 22 March 1985 moved from Busan to Seoul.[7][8][14][16] On a meeting in Seoul on 2 June 1985, they established a church called Witnesses of Ahn Sahng-hong Church of God. Two major new doctrines were codified[60][61]
- Ahn Sahng-hong should be regarded as Jesus Christ who had already come, should be titled Christ Ahn Sahng-hong, and pursuant to a traditional trinitarian view of Christian hypostasis Ahn was consequently also The Holy Spirit, God the Father, and thus God.[62]
- Zahng Gil-jah should be regarded as God the Mother, a female image of God,[63] be titled Heavenly Mother, or simply Mother, and together with Ahn Sahng-hong be regarded as God.[63]
A change in religious practise, as reflected in the change of name from "Witnesses of Jesus" to "Witnesses of Ahn Sahng-hong", was, that prayers were no longer conducted in the name of Jesus Christ but in the name of Christ Ahn Sahng-hong.[4]
The deification of Ahn Sahng-hong and Zahng Gil-jah has been "harshly criticized,"[7] and has led to the church being officially condemned by The National Council of Churches in Korea as an interdenominationally combatted, blasphemic, heretic cult.[64][65]
As a central argument to the claim that Ahn Sahng-hong should be the Second Coming of Jesus, and in turn an argument for his suggested promotion of Zahng Gil-jah to the Bride of the Lamb, is the proposision that he fulfilled a Davidic prophecy by preaching 37 years from his baptism 16 December 1948 to his death on 25 February 1985,[21][66] a period which in reality was only 36 years, 2 months, and 9 days.[67] The source for the baptismal date of 16 December 1948 performed by a Pastor Lee Myeong-deok in Incheon is however obscure, and no written record exists.[12]: 125 [13]: 338 [14][15]: 494 [19] In 2011 a protocol from the Seventh-day Adventist Church was discovered, stating Ahn was baptised when he was 36 years old on 9 October 1954 by a Pastor Gim Seo-gyeong. The investigation by The International Korean Christian Coalition against Heresy showed, that while Pastor Gim could be confirmed, no Pastor Lee Myeong-deok was with the church in 1948, reducing the length of the ministry of Ahn from 36 years to 30 years and 4 months.[18]
- 1988 failed doomsday prophecy
Witnesses of Ahn Sahng-hong Church of God announced that "1988 is the end of the world" citing Matthew 24:32–34 as Ahn had done in his 1980 book The Mystery of God and the Spring of the Water of Life.[7][39][68][69] A few thousand members of Witnesses of Ahn Sahng-hong Church of God gathered on a mountain in Sojeong-myeon, Yeongi County, South Chungcheong Province awaiting the coming of Christ Ahn Sahng-hong, preparing for the rapture and the salvation of 144,000 souls. When Ahn failed to appear and nothing happened the church updated their apocalyptic forecast and scheduled it to the opening of the 1988 Olympics in Seoul later that year.[4][7][13]: 342 [14]: 77 [15]: 494 [16][70][71]
Around 1997, Witnesses of Ahn Sahng-hong Church of God had established a non-profit organization titled the Church of God World Mission Society for the purpose of registering and managing the organization's assets.[7][71]
See also
List of people claimed to be Jesus
Footnotes
Notes
- ^ Korean: 안상홍 can variously be seen represented in Latin letters as Ahn Sahng Hong, Ahn Sahng-hong, Ahn Sahnghong, Ahnsahnghong, Ahn Sang Hong, Ahn Sang-hong, Ahn Sanghong, Ahnsanghong, An Sahng Hong, An Sahng-hong, An Sahnghong, Ansahnghong, An Sang Hong, An Sang-hong, An Sanghong, and Ansanghong. Korean names follow the <family name> <given name> pattern, but his name is sometimes romanizised using the Western pattern <given name> <family name>, consequently e.g. Sang Hong Ahn, Sang Hong An etc. can also occur.
- ^ Korean: 하나님의교회 예수증인회. Translation in a more direct word order would be "Church of God Witnesses of Jesus".
- ^ Korean: 새언약 유월절 하나님의교회
- ^ Korean: 하나님의교회 세계복음선교협회. Translation in a more direct word order would be "Church of God World Mission Society". This word order has previously been used by the organization.[5] 복음 can also translate to "gospel",[6] and the full name can e.g. be seen translated to "Church of God World Gospel Association."[7]
- ^ By 1918 Buddhism was the predominant religion in Korea. By 2010, according to a survey cited by The World Factbook, 2013-14 edition, Christians accounted for 31.6% (Protestant 24%, Roman Catholic 7.6%) and Buddhists for 24.2% of the South Korean population.[11]
- ^ Previously a baptismal date of 16 December 1948 performed by a Pastor Lee Myeong-deok in Incheon has been reported, but the source for this date and name is obscure, and no written record exists.[12]: 125 [13]: 338 [14][15]: 494 [19] The published references writes that with a 1948 baptism the ministry of Ahn was c. 37 years (1948-1985),[12][13][14]: 75 [15][20] which has been used in argument for him fulfilling a Davidic prophecy being the Second Coming of Jesus, the use of the honorific Christ Ansanghong, and the assertation that he ascended rather than died by the World Mission Society Church of God.[21] The investigation by The International Korean Christian Coalition against Heresy of the protocol from the Seventh-day Adventist Church stating Ahn was baptised on 9 October 1954 by a Pastor Gim Seo-gyeong showed, that while Pastor Gim could be confirmed, no Pastor Lee Myeong-deok was with the church in 1948.[18]
- ^ Korean: 황원순; hwang-won-sun[24]
- ^ Korean: 하나님의교회 예수증인회. The name "Church of God", mentioned several times in e.g. Paul the Apostle's First and Second Epistle to the Corinthians, and in his Epistle to the Galatians,[28] is a name used by numerous, mostly unrelated Christian denominational bodies.[29] Ahn in Doctrine Manual of the Witnesses of Jesus Church of God (1972) cites First Epistle to the Corinthians and First Epistle to Timothy[30] as the source for "Church of God", and several verses in Acts of the Apostles as the source for "Witnesses of Jesus".[3]: 7–8
- ^ Korean: 엄수인; eom-su-in[41]
- ^ Korean: 메리놀병원; Also romanizised Merinol Hospital after its pronunciation, me-ri-nol-byeong-won[45]
- ^ Korean: 석계공원묘지; seok-kkye-gong-won-myo-ji[48]
- ^ Korean: 선지 엘리야 안상홍 지 묘
- ^ Korean: 장길자; jang-gil-ja[54]
- ^ Korean: 새언약 유월절 하나님의교회
- ^ Korean: 하나님의교회 안상홍 증인회. The name is reflected in the domain name WATV.ORG registered in February 2000[55] the acronym standing for Witnesses of Ahnsahnghong Television.[56] Korean: 하나님의교회 안상홍 증인회 can be seen in other translations, e.g. a more direct word order "Church of God, Witnesses of Ahn Sahng-hong", or "Church of God, Association of Ahnsahnghong's Witnesses".
- ^ Korean: 안광섭; an-gwang-seop[57]
- ^ Korean: 김주철; gim-ju-cheol[59]
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