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| Bskillet Registered user Username: Bskillet Post Number: 914 Registered: 8-2008 |
The World Mission Society Church of God recently opened a church near me. This is a cult of people who think Jesus already returned as a Korean guy. They also believe his wife is the Bride of Christ or something like that. My friend had a run-in with some of their followers when he was visiting the mall nearby. They prey on lonely women with low self-confidence, usually women who are here from other countries. Sickening. They are Sabbatarians, and I their founder/false Christ was an SDA. (Message edited by bskillet on January 12, 2012) | ||
| Skeeter Registered user Username: Skeeter Post Number: 1743 Registered: 12-2007  |
click on the "was an SDA" part..... crazy/stupid. | ||
| Bskillet Registered user Username: Bskillet Post Number: 915 Registered: 8-2008 |
Yes, and the apologetics site notes this:
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| River Registered user Username: River Post Number: 7576 Registered: 9-2006  |
As Spock said, I find that illogical.  | ||
| Butterfly_poette Registered user Username: Butterfly_poette Post Number: 148 Registered: 5-2011 |
I came across them in Korea. Ahn Sang-Hong claimed to be Christ. He died in the 1980s. Zhang Gil-Jah is his widow. She is supposedly God the Mother. | ||
| Butterfly_poette Registered user Username: Butterfly_poette Post Number: 149 Registered: 5-2011 |
I wanted to talk about this a little more. In Korea I met up with a young woman in the Incheon Bus Terminal. She came up to me and asked me if I had heard of "God the Mother". She showed me a little video on her small gadget and it was a sort of religious promotion video, saying there is a God the Mother. I didn't know what she meant, I just thought that maybe she thought that God had a feminine side. She invited me to her church. I decided to go, just for the witnessing opportunities. They had me watch a video in English. They talked about their church, how they have members all across the globe, 1.1 million to be exact. They showed people from all over the world coming to visit Korea, just to meet "Mother". I kept seeing the same woman over and over again. She was wearing many different "hankboks". A hanbok is a traditional Korean outfit. Koreans usually own just one of them and wear them for special occasions. A good hanbok is very expensive. She had many of them. All along I didn't figure out who that woman was, I just thought she was maybe a spiritual leader. I knew she had to have a big status since I kept seeing her, and that she had so many expensive traditional Korean outfits. They later told me that the woman, Zhang Gil-Jah, is God the Mother. According to Genesis, God created people in His image, Male AND Female He created them. So, God has a feminine part. The feminine part is Zhang Gil-Jah. I never went back there. I did offer to teach my new acquaintance Sukie, about some Bible truths in Revelation, since she said she was interested in learning more about Revelation. I tried contacting her a few times later, but she always said she was busy. Maybe the other church members told her to stay away from me. I learned that the Church is a very popular church in S. Korea. About 75% of the members are female. They have worship services on the 7th day Sabbath. The women all wear head-coverings for services. It is interesting to note the Zhang Gil-Jah left her husband for Ahn Sang-Hong. Ahn left Buddhism for Adventism in the late 1940s and started his new religion in the 1960s. He claimed to be the Second Coming of Christ. I did wonder what the church will do when their "God the Mother" finally passes away. Some more information about them: http://www.therowboat.com/2008/08/do-you-believe-in-mother-god/ Youtube has lots of their propaganda: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59Ba9L783Tw&feature=related Note that their names come from Korean characters and can have different spellings in Roman letters. "Ahn" can be written as "An". "Zhang" can be also "Zahng", "Zang", and "Jang". "Gil-Jah" can also be "Gil-Ja". | ||
| Truman Registered user Username: Truman Post Number: 62 Registered: 1-2012 |
Reading this, I feel very sad for these people. It boggles the mind that they can fall for such foolishness....but I guess most of us have fallen for strange teachings at one time or another. | ||
| Butterfly_poette Registered user Username: Butterfly_poette Post Number: 151 Registered: 5-2011 |
Yes. I see their "Mother" is a woman with charisma, who really does teach some nice things. That's what hooks people into cults. Their leader(s) have charisma, teach some nice things, claim supernatural experiences, etc. People then often overlook all the negatives and fall for those positives.  |
