Ahn Sahng-hong

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Ahn Sahng-hong (Hangul: Ã, ??? ; Hanja: Ã, Video Ahn Sahng-hong

Biography

Initial life

Ahn was born from Korean parents. In 1918, Buddhism was the dominant religion in Korea. In 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 population of South Korea.}} on January 13, 1918 in the small village of Myeongdeok-ri in North Jeolla Province when Korea was under Japanese rule. The family migrated to Busan, where Ahn grew up in the Haeundae District, the city where he would later find his church.

Conversion to Christianity

From 1937, during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II, Ahn and his mother lived in Japan for a period of nine years. He returned to Korea in 1946, after the war, and began attending a local congregation of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Incheon in 1947. Ahn reported receiving revelation in 1953, leaving his Buddhist belief and believed in 1948 In 1956 Ahn proclaimed that " In 10 years there will be the Second Coming of Jesus. " On 5 April 1958 he married Hwang Wonsun (1923-2008), with a marriage producing three children.

Church yourself

Ahn became critical of the teachings of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and the church isolated it in March 1962 because of a dispute over the cross as a religious symbol. Twenty-three people followed Ahn and left the church, and two years later on April 28, 1964, Ahn founded his church Witnesses of Jesus Church of God in Busan. Witnesses The Lord's Church was expanded to 13 trials in South Korea prior to Ahn's death in 1985.

Confidence

The main dogmata is described in the Manual Doctrine of Witnesses of Jesus Church of God (1972), and is detailed in more than two dozen books written by Ahn. The original publication and its scanned records and preaching sermons are available online. Ahn argues that the practice of the apostolic early church has been distorted and its doctrine and practice of restoration includes:

1. Women should wear headgear while praying.
2. Baptism is the first step toward salvation.
3. The Sabbath should be kept on Saturday instead of Sunday.
4. Christmas is not to be celebrated as the birthday of Jesus because it is the day of the sun god.
5. The cross is considered a form of idolatry.
6. Easter and Unleavened Bread Festival must be stored...
7. as should other parties in Leviticus chapter 23 : First Fruit, Sunday Festival, Feast of the Trumpet, Day of Atonement; and Feast of Tabernacles.

Eschatology

Ahn, who like most Christians believes in the Second Coming of Jesus, had predicted the Second Coming "in 10 years" in 1956. In the tradition of Seventh-day Adventist eschatology, which Kuniaki Koiso had persecuted during his war in Korea, Ahn further believed to live in the end times and that the Second Coming is near. Since the Protestant people of Korea in the early twentieth century had felt the Japanese occupation by symbolically identifying with the history of Israel, Ahn through biblical interpretation in his book The Mystery of God and the Eye of Life (1980) interprets the Gospel of Matthew < span> chapter 24 verses 32-34 to declare that the world could end in 1988, 40 years after the independence of the modern state of Israel. The Original Ahn The Mystery of God and the Spring of Life is available online; The World Mission Society Church of God in the last edition of their book has removed information relating to a failed prediction. Ahn in his book The Bridegroom Is Long To Arrive, and They All Become Drowsy and Asleep (1980) in a discussion based on scripture typology, presenting his conclusion that the world will end in 2012:

Mother

In 1978 a group of people centered around female members, one Um Sooin (born 1941), in the Witnesses of Jesus Church of God, claiming through the biblical eisegesis chain they publish in writing, that Um diverse is "the only bride" , "Heavenly Jerusalem", "New Jerusalem" on earth, "comforters sent by God," and they affirm that he is "our mother who came down from Heaven", and that Ahn is Christ. Um and the group around him claimed he was a spiritual mother expelled from the church, and Ahn dedicated a book entitled Problems with New Jerusalem, Bride and Veil Woman (1980, reprinted 1983 ) to the controversy, where he writes:

Ahn concludes that he rebuked Um Sooin:

Death

After a heart attack at lunch on February 24, 1985, Ahn suffered a stroke on the way to the hospital, and died the next day, February 25, 1985 at Maryknoll Catholic Hospital in Jung District, Busan. Ahn Sahng-hong is 67 years old. He survived by his wife and three children.

Ahn is buried in a public grave located at the Seokgye cemetery 30 kilometers (19 mi) north of Busan. From the time of his funeral in 1985, a tombstone stood next to the grave, inscribed on the headstone: "The Tomb of the Prophet Elijah Ahn Sahng-hong." After the death of his wife Hwang Won-sun 23 years later on September 4, 2008, he was buried in a plot next to Ahn, and a new tombstone carrying both their names (as well as their children behind) replaced the stone in 1985, repeating the headstones.

Maps Ahn Sahng-hong

Legacy

Ahn's unexpected death sparks a power struggle within the Witnesses of Jesus Lord's Church: some people in the church want to continue the line set by Ahn, others want to reintroduce the concept of "spiritual mother" embodied in women 41 years ago named Zahng Gil- jah (born 1943). After the extraordinary general meeting at the Witnesses of Jesus The Lord's Church on March 4, 1985 failed to reconcile opposing factions, the split divided church into two sects

• The New Passover Church of God, and
• Witness Ahn Sahng-hong Church of God.

The New Passover Church of God

A group of people in the Witnesses of Jesus, Church of God, lives in a place in Busan. Among them is Ahn's wife and their three children. This sect is now known as the New Church of the Passover of the Covenant of God. Ahn's son, Ahn Kwang-sup (born 1954) is an elder in the church and continues to explain his father's work. An outside observer visited the church and commented this:

Witness Ahn Sahng-hong Church of God

A group of others in the Witnesses of Jesus The Church of God including Kim Joo-cheol's men and women Zahng Gil-jah wanted to reintroduce the concept of "spiritual mother", and on March 22, 1985 moved from Busan to Seoul. At a meeting in Seoul on June 2, 1985, they established a church called the Witnesses of the Church of God Ahn Sahng-hong. Two large new doctrines were codified

• Ahn Sahng-hong should be regarded as the coming Jesus Christ, should be titled Christ Ahn Sahng-hong , and according to the traditional trinitarian view of Christian hypostasis Ahn is the result also the Holy Spirit , God the Father, and thus God.
• Zahng Gil-jah should be regarded as the God of Mother, the image of the woman of God, given the title of Celestial Mother , or just Mother , and together with Ahn Sahnghong considered God.

The change in religious practice, as reflected in the change of name from "Witnesses of Jesus" to "Witnesses Ahn Sahng-hong", is that prayers are no longer performed in the name of Jesus Christ but in the name of Christ Ahn Sahng-hong .

The charter of Ahn Sahng-hong and Zahng Gil-jah has been "heavily criticized," and has led to the church being formally denounced by the National Council of Churches in Korea as an interdenominationally, battling, blasphemous cult.

As the main argument for the claim that Ahn Sahng-hong should be the Second Coming of Jesus, and in turn an argument for the suggested promotion for Zahng Gil-jah for the Lamb, is a proposition that he fulfilled the prophecies of David by preaching 37 years since his baptism 16 December 1948 until his death on 25 February 1985, a period which in reality was only 36 years, 2 months and 9 days. The source for the date of christening of December 16, 1948 by Pastor Lee Myeong-deok in Incheon is unclear, and there is no written record. In 2011, a protocol from the Seventh-day Adventist Church was found, stating that Ahn was baptized when he was 36 years old on October 9, 1954 by a Reverend Seo-gyeong Gim. An investigation by Korea's International Christian Coalition against Heresy showed that while Father Gim could be confirmed, there was no Reverend Lee Myeong-deok who, together with the church in 1948, reduced the length of Ahn's ministry from 36 years to 30 years and 4 months.

1988 failed doomsday predictions

Witnesses Ahn Sahng-hong Church of God announces that "1988 is the end of the world" quotes Matthew 24: 32-34 as Ahn has done in his 1980 book The Mystery of God and Spring of the Water of Life . Several thousand members of the Witness of Lord Ahn Sahng-hong Church gathered on the mountain in Sojeong-myeon, Yeongi County, South Chungcheong Province awaiting the coming of Christ Ahn Sahng-hong, preparing for the rapture and salvation of 144,000 souls. When Ahn fails to show up and nothing happens, the church renews their apocalyptic prophecy and schedules it at the opening of the 1988 Olympics in Seoul later that year where members gather and preach at the end of the world will come by the end of 1988 and ASH will come again. WMSCOG then claimed it was the fulfillment of Johna's sermon.

Around 1997, Witnesses Ahn Sahng-hong Church of God has established a non-profit organization entitled Church of God's World Mission Society for the purpose of registering and managing organizational assets, including the right on behalf of "On Hung Lo."

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See also

List of people claimed to be Jesus

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Footnote

Note

References

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External links

• The New Covenant Passover Church of God
• World Mission Society of God

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