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Understand! Let the Readers Understand! Let the Readers Understand! Let the Readers Understand! Copyright ⓒ 2012 by Soon-Bang Kang All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission. Orignal Korean edition published in Korea by Great Faith Publications. First published in Korea under the title of 읽는 자는 깨달을 찐저! Published in Great Faith Publications (A Division of Great Faith Church), 111-13 Nobell bldg., NonHyun-dong, GangNam-gu Seoul, Republic of Korea http://www.greatfaithchurch.org Translated by Jennifer Seo Cover by Jin Hee Kim ISBN 978-89-93363-87-6 ISBN 7-93573-87941-7 First Printing, October 2012 Printed in Republic of Korea Let the Readers Understand! by Soon-Bang Kang To Respected Pastors and Saints in the Korean Church! Greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. My name is Soon- Bang Kang. I am a scientist at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology. I study scientific knowledge through observable facts, and I am also a believer who loves God and desires to stand upright in the word of Truth. So in all conscience, I held my pen in order to let the truth be known of the things I have seen and heard. I am not a member of Great Faith Church. I am a deacon of a Presbyterian church that has a half-a-century history and is affiliated with Tong-Hap (Presbyterian) Denomination. However, I fully support Great Faith Church and I have much respect for Pastor Seung Woo Byun. I am learning much through him. Pastor Seung Woo Byun was voted to be a heretic at the 94th general assembly of Tong-Hap Denomination in 2009. He was banned from participation and exchange with the majority of other denominations. 5 Had I not known Great Faith Church or Pastor Seung Woo Byun, I would have respected the decision of these denominations. I would have excluded Pastor Seung Woo Byun and actively forewarned everyone I know that Great Faith Church is a cult. That is because I know well that anyone who falls into a cult would not only ruin oneself, but eternally go to hell. However, I say in all Christian conscience that Great Faith Church is being falsely accused by these denominations. If the ‘Report by Tong- Hap Investigation and Research Subcommittee Against Heresy’ is true, then Pastor Seung Woo Byun is a heretic. Only if the report is true and not fabrications! However, this report is a compilation of numerous lies that are floating around on the Internet. With many of the details distorted intentionally, it is full of ignorant biases and prejudices. Based upon such poor evidences, pastors who have attended the Tong-Hap general assembly have determined that Pastor Seung Woo Byun is a heretic. Even now, the reality is that many of the churches are going along with this wrong decision. What is happening here is clearly wicked and unrighteous, and one cannot but feel thoroughly indignant at this. Since 2007, I have attended conferences and prayer meetings of Great Faith Church and have read books by Pastor Seung Woo Byun. I have been greatly blessed. I know the church very well and also know well that the ‘Report by Tong-Hap Investigation and Research Subcommittee Against Heresy’ is a total lie. This is very unrighteous and a great sin before God. Such false accusation of heresy is a clear spiritual act of murder. 6 Through this act, too many believers of Great Faith Church have been wrongfully forced into divorce, expelled, fired, refused admission to schools, assaulted, threatened with divorce, and painfully refused of seeing their own children. And too many people are being deprived of the precious opportunity to be blessed and learn from Great Faith Church. What a great loss from the perspective of the Kingdom of God! Such reality is very frustrating. Seeing the reality of the Korean Church where unrighteousness dominates, and lies become truth and truth becomes lies, I wrote this book even though I am just a layman. I just could not sit still when my Christian conscience is so provoked. Even in any secular court, when prosecutors are not able to present rational substantial evidence or when the presented proofs are revealed as false, the judge will pronounce the accused as innocent. That is a fair verdict. However, when the unrighteous prosecutor with an ill intent, made distorted false evidences to prosecute Pastor Seung Woo Byun, the judge did not even give him any opportunity to contest or defend himself but reached the unrighteous verdict unilaterally as was intended by the prosecutor. Just like the false prosecutor, that judge is clearly a person whose conscience is seared. Who are these prosecutor and judge? They are the Tong-Hap Investigation and Research Subcommittee Against Heresy‚ and even the Tong-Hap general assembly will not be free from this responsibility. How can this be done by a denomination that ought to be an example 6 7 of God’s justice to the world, especially as it is a mega-denomination that prides itself of being the firstborn of the Korean Church? Shouldn't they be ashamed? What is the identity of the Tong-Hap Denomination, which has denounced a biblical church and has committed spiritually murder while at the same time being at the forefront of the WCC’s Ecumenical Movement and even actively engaging in open conversations with other religions? (Note: WCC’s Ecumenical Movement is opposed by the majority of the evangelical churches since it promotes unity among all Christian denominations that have different doctrines of salvation.) Observe carefully the ‘Research Report on Great Faith Church (Pastor Seung Woo Byun)’‚ the bill of indictment presented by the Tong-Hap Investigation and Research Subcommittee Against Heresy. And I plead with you sincerely to read my defense that proves-- using the clear truth and the Word of God--that the bill is false from start to finish. Be the conscientious judge so that you can decide on the truth yourself. I wish that your eyes will be open to the truth, and that instead of being passive and silent, you would be the just and courageous voice. I wrote this conscientiously as a believer who knows the reality of Great Faith Church, not just widespread rumors, even though I am not its member. Therefore, I beg you to lay down your biases that may have been formed through groundless rumors floating around the Internet, and read this writing with an open heart. Since I believe that the Korean Church consists of many pastors and believers with good conscience who are in right standing with God, in 8 justice and in truth, I pray sincerely that all of us will participate together in the ministry of God in one Holy Spirit as the truth is well established. “…God our Savior‚ who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth” (1 Timothy 2:4) 8 9 TABLE OF CONTENTS To Respected Pastors and Saints in the Korean Church! 5 The Truth Behind the ‘Research Report on Great Faith Church (Pastor Seung Woo Byun)’ by the Tong-Hap Denomination! 15 1 On the Seat and Organization, History and Changes 31 2 A Distortion of Doctrinal Differences 37 3 A Distortion of the Doctrine Of Salvation 45 4 Is He Making an Idol of Himself? 53 5 Ignorance Regarding the Doctrines of Revelation and the Doctrine of the Bible 57 6 Slander Regarding the Doctrine of Salvation 71 7 Regarding the Assertion That 90% of Pastors are False Prophets 81 8 Regarding the Slander That We Are Saved By Works 87 9 The Work of the Holy Spirit--the Ministry of Mysticism? 99 10 We Shall Know Them By Their Fruit 107 Let the Readers Understand! Appendix 119 1. Many theologians speak similarly as Pastor Seung Woo Byun 2. What is prophecy? (Professor Keum Sung Kang) 3. “ To investigate heresy in Great Faith Church and Pastor Seung Woo Byun was in itself truly wrong.” (member of the ‘Investigation and Research Subcommittee Against Heresy’ at the Christian Council of Korea) 4. A phone call from the secretary of a Presbyterian denomination and member of the ‘Investigation and Research Subcommittee Against Heresy’ at the Korean Elder’s General Confederacy 5. To those who are deceived by the lie, “Great Faith Church is a cult.” 6. As a result of a several-months-long investigation by the subcommittee of the Christian Council of Korea representing the Korean Church at large, it was determined that Great Faith Church is not a heretical cult. This decision was then accepted at the general meeting of the ‘Investigation and Research Subcommittee Against Heresy’ of the Christian Council of Korea, and the same verdict was then passed legitimately by the board of Christian Council of Korea. As a result, the Council wrote a formal document that Great Faith Church is not heretical. Let the Readers Understand! The Truth Behind the Research Report Regarding Great Faith Church (Pastor Seung Woo Byun) by Tong-Hap Denomination! The Truth Behind the Research Report Regarding Great FaithChurch (Pastor Seung Woo Byun) by Tong-Hap Denomination! am not a member of Great Faith Church. I am a deacon of a I Presbyterian church with a 50-year history that is affiliated with the Tong-Hap Denomination. Though I am not a minister, I felt great indignation at the truly unrighteous slander and denouncement by several denominations, including Tong-Hap, and Modern Religion. In writing this book, the resource that helped me greatly is found in the personal website (also seen from the Great Faith Church homepage with the nickname “The Last Army”) that posted the analysis and refutation of the false resolution of the ‘94th Tong-Hap Denomination Assembly’, and the false information in the article by ‘Modern Religion’, which advertizes this info regularly.
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