07/12/2018

Coercive conversion & the imminent fall of the Christian Council of Korea (CCK)


“Denominations who exercise those actions are not Christian. They are extremist and anti-Christian. I want to ask them: in which chapter and which verse are you following to commit such bad actions? If the Bible does not say so, why are you doing that?"

Recent global media coverage of the murder of Ms. Ji-In Gu from the religious “coercive conversion” programme established and implemented by pastors of the Christian Council of Korea (CCK) has reached the ears and eyes of people all over the world.

Since its founding in December 1989, the CCK has shown its vested interest in politics, bought and sold positions and ordainment certificates for money and distorted the words of God’s promise (the new covenant), sowing lies into congregation members’ hearts by making their own interpretations of the Bible, making them children of the devil born of the devil’s seed (Mt 13:39). Furthermore, in the late 1990s, an ex-chairman of CCK spread rumours to the entire Korean Christian community about a forthcoming rapture to heaven; yet the church is still standing. Is this the work of a true pastor? Can this organisation be considered Orthodox or a church of Jesus?

CCK’s congregation members - who once numbered 12 million - are now leaving in droves after having perceived their lies and the dirty mesh of religion and politics. They neither believe in what their leaders preach nor vote as they are told to. Their membership has fallen to 1.9million and continues to fall dramatically.
The CCK is being destroyed from its lack of knowledge (refer to Hosea 4:6) and has declared war against Shincheonji Church of Jesus (hereonin Shincheonji Church), but Shincheonji Church has declared peace (refer to Mt 5:9-10) and is rapidly growing. The CCK blocked Shincheonji Church’s numerous works of peace including the erection of peace monuments such as the Declaration of the Reunification of Korea and the largest hand-printed Korean flag that is currently recorded in the Guinness Book of Records, and has interfered with numerous Shincheonji Church’s volunteer works. Moreover, it crushed Shincheonji Church’s image before the whole world through its March 2015 eight-part documentary broadcast by Christian Broadcasting System (CBS) - People who fell into Shincheonji Church" - which was ruled as groundless by the Supreme Court, ordering CBS to pay hefty damages and retract this broadcast. With thoughts on the pain of the previously experienced by the apostles and the word of Jesus in Matthew 5:9-10, Shincheonji Church has endured these lies with love and invited the CCK to engage in public debate over the Bible on numerous occasions, but they have never accepted this invitation.

Perhaps worst of all is the “coercive conversion programmes” which violate human rights on every level and has led to two deaths and over 1000 kidnappings. The CCK has used this practice in an attempt to bring their congregation members, who have fled to a different denomination due to their corruption, back to them. These are not the actions of Christianity, but of Calvin (who established Presbyterianism upon which the CCK is founded) and murdered men, women and children who opposed his theory on predestination.

Moreover, CCK conversion pastors deceive the parents of Shincheonji Church’s youth, receiving weekly payments of approximately 600,000KRW (£420), and educate parents on ways to convert their child, forcefully feeding them sleeping pills, taking away their cell phones, handcuffing them, confining them in isolated places, beating them into signing an agreement to receive conversion programmes and forcing them to apply for a leave of absence from school or work until they sign for conversion education. If children are still not converted, they are sent to psychiatric wards. Parents then return to their child’s church and shout out all sorts of profanities, saying “give back my son (daughter)”. What do you think about this?

The CCK will not stand for long. Ms. Gu’s death has triggered a wave of global protests as this news is being made known to religious communities and people all over the world through media and press in various countries. The UN has condemned the CCK’s coercive conversion programme and is calling for its abolishment. The entire world is crying out for the CCK to shut down for their oppression of the freedom of religion and human rights. They are aware of this.

According to the Bible, there will be a time of judgment whereby one’s actions will be judged according to what is recorded in the Bible, resulting in either heaven or hell (Revelation 20:12-15).
Shincheonji Church has appeared according to what God and Jesus promised in the Book of Revelation, has mastered its prophecies and the word of God here is being delivered freely without cost through the mouth of the messenger (promised pastor) promised by Jesus Christ (Revelation 22:16). Here is the creation of the promised twelve tribes of new heaven and new earth, which is a new kingdom and new people (Rv 21:1). It is the desire of every Shincheonji Church congregation member that the pastors of the CCK turn from their ways, come to hear the true word of God and receive salvation.

To the pastors of the Christian Council of Korea (CCK)

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