Christ Ahnsahnghong – Guilty by Association
Christ Ahnsahnghong and the fallacy of guilt by association
Many of the websites that speak negatively about Christ Ahnsahnghong and the World Mission Society Church of God use the same logic, that logic is “guilty by association.” Guilt by association is defined as an inductive informal fallacy, which is also known as a hasty generalization. Pretty much, if it quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, it’s a duck, and anything that comes from that same country, is also a duck! This fallacy is made as an appeal to emotion and is not based on facts.
Some examples of guilt by association are as follows:
- Peter is a criminal. Peter is from California. Therefore, all the people from California are criminals.
- Tom, John, Chris, and Will are all friends of Ray, and they are all corrupt politicians. Tammy is a friend of Ray. Therefore, Tammy is a corrupt politician.
2,000 years ago Jesus was a victim of this fallacy. When Jesus was crucified, He was crucified between two criminals. Although Jesus Himself was not a criminal, I am sure that those who did not know Jesus Christ automatically judged Him and thought of Him as being a criminal as a result of association.
This is the same thing people try to do with the World Mission Society Church of God and Christ Ahnsahnghong. They speak about the Unification Church and Sun Myung Moon, then they say that the World Mission Society Church of God and Christ Ahnsahnghong must be the same since it started in South Korea.
In reality, there are absolutely no similarities in the teachings of the World Mission Society Church of God and the Unification Church. The Unification Church teaches principles that do not come from the Bible, as per their official website:
“Sun Myung Moon studied the Bible and many other religious teachings in order to unravel these mysteries of life and human history.”
The World Mission Society Church of God and the teachings of Christ Ahnsahnghong come strictly from the Bible and nothing else. The Unification Church keeps Sunday service, Christmas and all other teachings that do not come from the Bible. The World Mission Society Church of God keeps the Passover and the Sabbath of the New Covenant just as Jesus taught 2,000 years ago.
So instead of judging by standards of association with other religious groups, why don’t you try to understand Christ like the disciples did 2,000 years ago?
How did the disciples recognize Jesus 2,000 years ago?
John 4:41-42 – “And because of his words many more became believers. They said to the woman, ‘We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the savior of the world.’”
2,000 years ago, the first thing people considered was His teachings. It was because of His teachings that the people believed He was the savior of the world. What was the second thing they considered?
John 1:44-45 – “Philip, like Andrew and Peter, was from the town of Bethsaida. Philip found Nathanael and told him, ‘We have found the one Moses wrote about in the Law, and about whom the prophets also wrote – Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.’”
The second thing the disciples considered was how Jesus fulfilled all the prophecies of the Old Testament. Then it was because of His teachings and the prophecies He fulfilled that the disciples were able to recognize Jesus Christ as the Savior.
In the same way, it is because of what He taught and the prophecies He fulfilled that I believe Christ Ahnsahnghong is the second coming of Christ – not because of what people say about Him or by how popular He is.
From my research, I can confidently say that there are no similarities between the Unification Church and the World Mission Society Church of God.
If you want to understand about Christ Ahnsahnghong correctly, please come and study the Bible at the World Mission Society Church of God.
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What a clear explanation to how and why the people denied their Savior 2,000 years ago. They never received Jesus because they only focused on the exterior appearance of their Savior. But by doing that, that resulted in them being completely blind to see Jesus was in actuality teaching them the truth and the way to eternal life and fulfilling the words of the scriptures they themselves regarded as precious. Their looking only at the exterior made them blind and cut them off from receiving salvation from Jesus. What a sad end. That is a end we must try our very BEST to avoid and use as a lesson to prepare with because God is here again.
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We should not make hasty generalizations concerning our salvation. Those who make these type of generalizations will never be able to meet God. For example, do you think that those who judged Jesus Christ as a criminal since He was crucified on the cross between two criminals were able to believe in Him? No! So since they did not believe in Him, could they have salvation? No! Instead of making generalizations about the World Mission Society Church of God, we should try to understand how the disciples recognized God who came in the flesh as a man 2,000 years ago. We should understand how the disciples recognized Jesus as God because in Hebrews 9:28 it states that Christ will appear a second time in the flesh. The disciples recognized Jesus as the savior because of His teachings and because He fulfilled all the prophecies in the Old Testament. They did not make hasty generalizations about Christ or believe because someone told them to. In the same way, we cannot make generalizations about the World Mission Society Church of God and comparing them to the Unification Church because both started in South Korea. Instead we need to see which church focuses on the teachings in the bible and understands the prophecies concerning Christ at His first and second coming.
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So, we compare two things that come from the same place. And, that somehow makes them the same thing?
REALLY?
The same metal used in gun barrels is used for baby carriages too! Are these people going to rob a bank with a stroller!?!
For the intelligent Christian, there are ONLY two ways to recognize Christ, who is the object of their faith:
1.) What does he teach?
2.) What does he fulfill?
The book used in the Christian faith is called the BIBLE.
If you do not source the bible then you are not teaching Christian-faith-anything!! This ‘Moonie’ guy is sourcing other stuff!?!Forget about comparing him to Christ. He’s not even a REAL ‘Christian’!!!
If you read the bible and understand it, then to believe in the bible is to believe in God. To believe in God, is to believe in Jesus. And, to believe in Jesus is to realize Christ AhnSahngHong.
Jesus said 2000 years ago, blessed are those who don’t fall away on account of me, meaning his appearance.
This article is about two Korean men. One is Jehova God. The other…not even Christian.
Come to Zion, Read the bible.
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The Zion at which I attend had an event in March of last year, for which we made posters testifying the history of the Passover and Father and Mother. After looking at the posters and hearing how Father brought the Passover back in 1948, one man asked me if I was a Moonie. I didn’t know who Moon was at the time, so I looked at man, looked at Father’s picture (which had His name on it), looked back at the man, looked back at Father’s picture and asked him where he had gotten Moon from based off of the information on the posters. Even despite the fact that he saw Father’s name, he still managed to associate us with Moon. Why is that? First of all, the man had no knowledge of what Moon taught (or what he didn’t teach, e.g. Passover), just that he proclaimed himself to be the second coming of Christ. Second of all, he associated the WMSCOG with the Unification Church after I told him that we started in Korea. This just goes to show you how quick people are to associate the WMSCOG to something negative out of plain ignorance of the Bible and of the life of Christ Ahnsahnghong. Please come to study the Bible in order to know the facts about Second Coming Christ and Christ Ahnsahnghong before stating things out of complete ignorance.
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I am learning the bible. I am a little confused by what has been written here. I am not aware that Jesus was recognized as the saviour because of his teaching. Even in the passage you quote from John 4, Jesus directly told the Samaritan woman that he is the messiah. Did AhnSahngHong claim that he was 2CC?
You said, “From my research, I can confidently say that there are no similarities between the Unification Church and the World Mission Society Church of God.”
Isn’t this an exaggeration? There are obvious similarities like the country of origin, the claim of 2CC, the mother, etc. You might arguably claim that the differences are more significant than the similarities but the statement you make is logically incorrect. -
This article was very informative and eye opening to the TRUTH. The best way to recognize Christ is through his teachings and the prophecies he fulfilled, not by a generalization other people may have about Him. Jesus came 2,000 years ago and people failed to receive him because of their generalizations. What we need not focus on is the slander and false accusations, but the Word of God. Please study the Bible with WMSCOG so you can see everything clearly through the Bible.
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How simple. By his words and by what the scriptures wrote about him we can know and believe without a doubt that Christ Ahnsahnghong is Second Coming Christ, God Almighty. Unfortunately, those who oppose the truth like to play on basic human emotions and way of thinking. The human mind naturally categorizes places, ideas, etc. together almost like a computer stores information. Unfortunately we categorize things incorrectly from time to time. Even though from the outside it looks as if our Church and the unification church are the same, we are very different. The World Mission Society Church of God fulfills all prophecies. We have true God, we know all mysteries. We are the Church who will enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Don’t let anybody sway you from believing that.
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Dear Cassaundra. I would like to explain one small fact here. It is the matter of causality. You appear to think that people reject the WMSCOG because of its resemblance, superficial or otherwise, to the unification church. That is far from true.
Many people I know, reject the WMSCOG because of disagreement with its doctrines. Having done this, they then find resemblance with the unification church.
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Truly thank Father and Mother for this one. After reading all the other comments, I can see that most of us have heard that the WMSCOG and the Unification Church are the same. I was told that we broke out of the unification church but when you look at the teachings, they are not the same. The World Mission Society Church of God follows the bible and follows God. Those whose eyes are blind will be so quick to accept a mans opinion or comment on the internet but when you show the scriptures proving Christ Ahnsahnghong is Almighty God they cant deny it because its right there but they will still argue. Hopefully through this many eyes can be opened and come to God.
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I agree with the this article 100%. WMSCOG gets picked on because of rumors that say it is similar to Unification Church. Only by coming to WMSCOG will you be able to know for sure why and how we are different from every other church.
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This is so true. Even in our everyday life we come across a society that easily judges. Usually our judging might seem correct. In Spanish there is even a famous phrase that goes “tell me who you’re with and I’ll tell you who you are”. HOWEVER, clearly in the teachings of God is the opposite. Christ even taught His disciples that the whole world would reject them because it also rejected Him. He also taught that when He returns, that generation would reject Him as well and He must suffer many things. So truly the ONLY way to recognize God in the flesh is through all His prophesies. I’m so thankful to have been given the opportunity to understand the prophesies and that’s why I fully believe Christ AhnSahngHong is the 2nd Coming of Jesus and God Almighty. All His works are all over the Bible! Those who don’t believe are those who haven’t studied the Bible. And those who fully know who is Jesus according to Bible prophesy, will fully believe Christ AhnSahngHong.
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In the WMSCOG we only believe and follow the teachings of Christ Ahnsahnghong according to the Bible, people judge following their own points of view and concepts, which have nothing to do with the concept of God, that is inconsistent in what they say without knowing the truth, all the truth for our salvation is found only in the Bible, which testifies that there is only one true Church established by Christ God Almighty.
“We are the children of God, we live in the world
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I am so grateful for this article because it is very eye opening. People go to such great lengths in order to find faults in the Church of God and this article makes a very important point. To really know the truth, you have to go to the source, that is the scriptures. The scriptures clearly point to Christ Ahnsahnghong to be God Almighty. To compare the two just because they are from the same country is so far fetched. I implore to anybody before you believe the words of men, please visit the Church of God and hear the words of God.
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Many people try to associate Christ Ahnsahnghong with the teachings of the unification church because they do not know the scriptures as the bible says ,”Jesus replied, “You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God. ”
(Matthew 22:29 NIV)When you look at the teachings of unification church they do not keep the teachings that Christ established in his first coming. Such as, Sabbath Day , “He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. (Luke 4:16 NIV)
Passover ,”And he said to them, “I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer. “(Luke 22:15 NIV)Unification church keeps Sunday service and other man made ideas in which Christ was against at his first coming,”He replied, “Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites; as it is written: “ ‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. They worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules.’ (Mark 7:6, 7 NIV)
Church of God World Mission Society keeps all the teachings In accordance with the bible, because according to the bible second coming Christ will teach us all the truth. “But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. “(John 16:13 NIV)Christ Ahnsahnghong has brought all the truth to the world, unfortunately people judge before they do a thorough study of the bible.
As the religious leaders judged Jesus at his first comingWhile Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with him and his disciples. When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” (Matthew 9:10, 11 NIV)
The scriptures clearly testify Christ Ahnsahnghong and has nothing to do with the unification church.
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Just as 2000 years ago the Jews could not accept Jesus as the Messiah,the same has happened with his second coming only because what has happened before will happen again… Ecc 1:9 “What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.” Ecc 3:15 “Whatever is has already been, and what will be has been before; and God will call the past to account.”
We can come across all types of web pages slandering the truth about WMSCOG, and no matter how much they try to go against it, what difference does it make if we tried to defend it?! The truth is the truth whether they believe in it or not. And yet they claim to know the Scriptures Jn 5:39-40 “You study the Scriptures diligently because you think in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me, yet you refuse to come to me to have life.”
In the times of Jesus, didn’t they know the Scriptures?! Same goes as far as his second coming. Many times we will find ourselves debating with others about the truth; will some ever listen?! Most likely not, Jesus testified in Mk 7:6-8 “He replied, Isiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites; as it is written: These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. They worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules. You have let go of the commands of God and are holding on to human traditions.”
Mt 13:13-15 “This is why I speak to them in parables: Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand. In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah: You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving. For this people’s heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.”These people will never believe, they get offended with the Lord’s teachings Jer 6:10 “To whom can I speak and give warning? Who will listen to me? Their ears are closed so they cannot hear. The word of the Lord is offensive to them; they find no pleasure in it.”
Jesus testified Jn 8:47 “Whoever belongs to God hears what God says. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God.”
Jn 10:27 “My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.”
At WMSCOG our mission is to search and find our heavenly family who truly believe in what the Spirit has said to the churches. Ro 10:15 “And how can anyone preach unless they are sent? As it is written: How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!”
So brothers and sisters, lets continue to deliver the good news of our Heavenly Father and Heavenly Mother; keeping in mind one thing… Mt 7:6 “Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.”
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Hello Yanitza.
It is very interesting that so many WMSCOG members say the same thing you have with a bit of variation perhaps.
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Just as 2000 years ago the Jews could not accept Jesus as the Messiah,the same has happened with his second coming only because what has happened before will happen again… Ecc 1:9 “What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.”
————————————————————————————————————————————————————————–The implication is that what has happened with Ahnsahnghong is exactly the same thing that happened 2000 years ago. So shall we just start examining a few things?
1. 2000 years ago an angel of the Lord appeared to Mary and announced she was to be the mother of the child of God. Anything like that with Mrs Ahn (Ahnsahnghong’s biological mother)?
2. 2000 years back Mary conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit. What about Mrs. Ahn?
3. 2000 years ago 3 wise men followed a star and arrived at the place where the child was born. And in 1918?
4. 2000 years ago an angel appeared to Joseph who told him to flee with his family to Egypt. Did Mr Ahn have a visitation telling him to go with wife and child to….. say N Korea?
5. Jesus grew in wisdom and stature. What is know about Ahnsahnghong until the age of 30?
6. At the baptism of Jesus 2000 years back, heavens opened, the voice of God was heard and the Holy Spirit descended upon Jesus. Anything like that in 1948?Want me to go on? I guess not.
Lets just look at the last point again. What was that? Oh! God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, all there at the same time? Which age was that again?
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Amen.
The Church of God is the Holy Mountain Zion prophesied in the Bible. The only way to distinguish truth from falsehood is by Believing the Word of God. No matter how many impostors there are, there is only one Truth. Please don’t be so easily influenced by the opinions of others because at the end of the day it’s just an opinion not a fact.Almighty God the Creator sacrificed so much for everyone to hear this Truth the least we can do is receive it.
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