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Truth Controversies: Chronology of Events

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Truth Controversies: Chronology of Events

 

Questions (reasons for the turbulence):

  • Based on “common sense” judgments: Is it possible that YM Yang exalts satan? Denies the sovereignty of God? Denies God’s omniscience and omnipotence? Denies that speaking in tongues is evidence of the receiving of the Holy Spirit?
  • Can Elder Lin and Elder Che please explain during this meeting YM Yang’s thesis on the self-existence of satan? Can they also point out how he has exalted satan, denied God’s sovereignty and denied the omniscience and omnipotence of God? If they are unable to do so, who have they heard this from?
  • The origin of evil is something that Christianity has been unable to explain for the last two thousand years. We must first be able to explain the origin of evil spirits. Angels (ministering spirits) are incapable of dwelling in a person, so how do they turn into evil spirits which can enter people (in order for this transformation to occur, an external agent or another of God’s creations must be present)? HH Ko has previously used Hebrews 12:9, saying that God is “the Father of spirits”, therefore God is also the father of evil spirits; God has created them. Is this so?
  • The topics for discussion in the Truth Research Committee are decided in IA EXCO meetings. Why then did YJ Lin, in March 2007, privately submit the two topics, “The self-existence of satan” and “The book of Romans”, in YM Yang’s name?
  • In the transcription of YM Yang’s sermon of September 2009, why was the segment that came after the words: “Do not think that I am denying the importance of speaking in tongues!” missing? This missing segment was: “Today, some people listen to sermons only to find fault with what is spoken. ‘Ah! Look! He has denied that speaking in tongues is evidence of receiving the Holy Spirit!’” Was the segment omitted because these words happen to provide an accurate portrayal of the transcriber? Moreover, why did YJ Lin privately and misleadingly entitle a segment of the audio recording “Speaking in tongues is absolutely not a sign of being filled with the Holy Spirit”?
  • In January 2012, YJ Lin said in a meeting that YM asserted that we should “Pray for God”! It seems that some people are so preoccupied with finding fault with others that they have failed to understand that there are different styles of discourse. When they hear someone saying “If..., then the sun rises from the west”, they instantly focus on the second half of the statement, insisting: “This person has claimed that the sun rises from the west! He should be excommunicated!”
  • Why has Yang been depicted in various ways throughout the world as a person who 1) exalts satan, 2) denies God’s omniscience and omnipotence, 3) denies that speaking in tongues is evidence of the receiving of the Holy Spirit, 4) has caused the chaos in the churches in China? As for YM Yang’s work over the past few years in Congo, South Africa and France - how he has battled with the satan he has exalted, how the God he has denied has nevertheless worked with him, how there has been a rapid increase in the number of people receiving the Holy Spirit and speaking in tongues in the areas he has worked in, how the chaos of the Chinese churches began 20-30 years ago... why has all this information been “overlooked”?





Chroniques table :

2005.06.21

HH Ko had distorted the statements of YM Yang. Word that YM Yang was preaching heresies was already being spread everywhere. However, the IA administration took the position that HH Ko was allowed to distort the words of YM Yang, but YM Yang was not allowed to explain his position, thus fanning the flames of controversy.

On 12 June 2005, YM Yang wrote to the training department’s person-in-charge at the time, FM Che, asking him to be aware that HH Ko was presenting a distorted version of YM Yang’s views everywhere he went and slandering YM Yang by saying that he was preaching heresies. This caused panic amongst the brethren, to the extent that it made them tremble with fear to see YM Yang walking up to the pulpit to speak a sermon. At the time, the question: “Why hasn’t YM Yang, a preacher of heresies, been excommunicated yet?” was already on everyone’s lips.

The IA workers claimed that the chaos created by themselves had in fact been created by YM Yang !

 

2006-2007

The topics for discussion in the Truth Research Committee (TRC) are determined in IA EXCO meetings. However, YJ Lin secretly submitted the two topics, “The self-existence of satan” and “The book of Romans”, in YM Yang’s name.

2007.03.08

YM Yang discovered that his co-worker YJ Lin in the administration had conveniently made use of his administrative authority to secretly submit the topics of “The book of Romans” and “The self-existence of satan” to the TRC in the name of YM Yang without his knowledge. Yang immediately wrote to the office to tell them to notify the three elders, HT Chen, EY Hou and EZ Chang, and chairman YJ Lin. He expressed his disgust at the use of such underhand methods.

2007.03.

The resolution of the TRC meeting in 2007 on the topic “Is satan self-existing but not everlasting?” that was put forward by YJ Lin in the name of YM Yang (!) was as follows:

  1. Is devil self-existing? (Yuh Ming Yang)

2007 Resolution:

1. All of the TRC members in this meeting did not agree to the view that Satan is self-existing. Therefore, the church's common belief on the origin of Satan remains unchanged.(Please refer to the church publication "Essential Biblical Doctrines") 

2. If there is any new observation on the theory of "Satan's Self-Existence", it can be submitted to the TRC for further discussion. But it should not be presented or discussed on other occasions. 



The IA office subsequently amended the English version: 

Dear all:

Sorry for bothering you again. Please use this file instead of the previous one.

The English version should be : 

None of the participants of this TRC meeting indicated his/her agreement to the view that "Satan is self-existing", hence the church's common understanding regarding the origin of Satan remains that of the traditional belief. (Please refer to our church publication "Essential Biblical Doctrines.") 



(The IA office had amended the words “common belief” to “common understanding”. This change of one word indicates that this topic has no bearing on the common faith, and relates only to the general consensus. This is a million miles away from the claims of the senior levels that Yang has denied and shaken the foundations of our faith.)



After 2007, those in the highest levels repeatedly slandered Yang, claiming that he had continued to discuss the topic openly “everywhere” (in actual fact, Yang’s scope of work had been severely limited by those in the senior levels of the administration, so that he was unable to move beyond the boundaries they had imposed; what was this “everywhere” they were referring to?). In addition, he was repeatedly “dealt with” in the IA EXCO meetings. Unable to withstand this any longer, Yang told the Western Hemisphere Department of World Missions, “All my sermons are on the internet. I will fork out NT$40,000 so that you can hire one of your associates to spend a month listening to all my sermons online, to see whether there is any truth in the charges which those in the senior levels have so indiscriminately accused me of!” Alas! An unnamed preacher said it well when he commented: “If there are people who want Yang [dead], what can (we) do about it?”... Especially when the ones who want you dead are acting as both your opponents and your judges! 

In addition, a certain episode emerged from the TRC meeting that year: as the resolution for this particular topic was being submitted to the World Delegates Conference for approval, it was discovered that the Chinese version of the resolution had been altered such that it was substantially different from the English version of the resolution! This was discovered during the conference itself; it was so serious that the meeting had to be adjourned !

 

2008.10.23

On 23 October 2008, the IA issued two successive false documents and copied them to Paris church, which was not involved at all in the affairs of the IA’s TRC!

In March 2009, during an IA EXCO meeting, Elders HT Chen and EY Hou pointed out on the spot that these resolutions had not been made during the conference. Furthermore, YM Yang, who had himself attended the conference, had not been informed of the existence of such resolutions! The IA’s intention of stirring up trouble in Paris was thus revealed.

After March 2009, the IA issued a correction of the false resolutions. These actions are similar to those of March 2009, when the IA Standing Committee entered the fabricated, defamatory letters concerning Paris church and YM Yang into its records and distributed the information to the IA EXCO members, with the intention of “dealing with” YM Yang during the meeting. However, this tactic failed and the case was withdrawn one year later.

YM Yang’s IA co-workers habitually use their administrative privileges to publish false information detailing his faults in order to achieve certain objectives. However, not only do they not meet with success, they leave behind glaring evidence of their fabrications. As a result, they use their administrative privileges once again, to remove their fabricated materials or simply “withdraw the case”. (In spite of this, the original records have become the basis by which Yang’s detractors can continue to attack him, saying to those who don’t know any better: “IA says that YM Yang has done such and such a thing...”.) In this way, YM Yang’s IA co-workers are able to kill two birds with one stone. Firstly, fabricated material can be left for Yang’s attackers to use as they please. Secondly, when people admonish the IA for their fabrications, IA can say “I’ve already made the amendments and withdrawn the records!” And so they will carry on in this way until they finally take Yang down.

10.24

Upon receiving the false documents, YM Yang immediately wrote two letters, to

  1. FM Che, saying that the contents of the documents were false and would have a catastrophic effect on Paris church. Che was asked to rectify it. This letter was copied to MX Zhao and HJ Zhou. Che ignored the letter. (In the March 2009 IA EXCO meeting Elders Chen and Hou pointed out that the contents of this document were false. The IA therefore issued a “correction”. But did this really rectify things? Couldn’t those who wanted to continue their attacks on Yang still show the false document to others? Who was to know that a subsequent correction had been issued?)
  2. IA EXCO, a letter entitled “Points of doubt”, in which questions regarding the false letter were raised.

2008.11-12

YJ Lin acted in breach of the TRC regulations and privately asked Sis. YX Zhao to provide a critique of the topic “Truth is entrusted once for all but is gradually revealed”, which had already been passed by the TRC. He also privately asked Elder ST Hsieh to provide a critique of YM Yang’s lecture notes on the book of Romans. He then unilaterally compiled a file on the “clarification of the truth” and distributed it in China. Moreover, he instructed the Newlife website to remove all of YM Yang’s sermons, essays and articles from the website,with the intention of putting a complete block on Yang. Below is the notice on the Newlife website:

2008
1214 下午 12:13:35 星期日 

(14 Dec 2008, 12:13:35 p.m., Sunday)



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A member from mainland China, Sign, went on the Newlife website to ask why this was being done. The answer he received was: “whoever supports Yang will be beaten; the louder he shouts, the harder he will be hit.”

Below is his testimony:

In 2008, the biggest TJC Chinese website in mainland China, “The Light of Life”, posted an announcement: ““It is forbidden to post Pr. YM Yang’s essays and articles on this website. Violators will have their user data deleted. (Before this, two members had posted Yang’s articles from the “Holy Spirit Monthly” and had had their user registration details deleted). I went on the website and asked a question: “Who authorized the ban, and why?” My blog registration details were deleted that very day. Although I took the initiative to contact the webmaster in order to try to get a handle on the situation, I received no response. I asked an “insider” friend to make some inquiries, and the response I got was: this was a joint resolution between the IA and a Chinese local organization known as the “board of ministers” (Zhang Zhi Hui). (Was there a meeting and a record of the minutes?) Moreover, it was said: whoever supports Yang will be beaten; the louder he shouts, the harder he will be hit.

2011.12.09 A believer from China asked Brother Erock to relate his testimony: Indeed, Elder YJ Lin came over and said that publishing Yang’s articles and listening to his sermons was prohibited. This is absolutely true and is what I as a mainland Chinese believer personally experienced. Moreover, I do not belong to Putian district church and am not related to them in any way.

2008.11.11

 “Denying that speaking in tongues is evidence of the receiving of the Holy Spirit”:



2008.11.11 Paris church’s Religious Affairs officer, Sis. Chih-Hua Kuo, wrote a letter to the IA expressing her disappointment with them. She further pointed out that in order to attack YM Yang by asserting that he had denied that speaking in tongues was evidence of the receiving of the Holy Spirit, the IA had transcribed the audio recording that Ly Minh and Stephane had sent them of Yang’s sermon “Simeon and Anna”. However, they had omitted the segment where Yang had said, “Do not think that I am denying the importance of speaking in tongues! One must be careful when one sermonizes today, because many people pass audio recordings around. It seems we sometimes no longer listen to sermons, but instead focus on finding fault with others: ‘Ah! Look! He has denied that speaking in tongues is evidence of receiving the Holy Spirit!’” Was this omission accidental?



Below is an excerpt from YM Yang’s lecture notes on being filled with the Holy Spirit. All the IA EXCO members had been given copies of the notes. How his co-workers, despite having these notes, could have discredited YM Yang by saying that he had rejected the church’s doctrines and had denied that speaking in tongues was evidence of the receiving of the Holy Spirit is beyond comprehension. 



Lecture notes:

After baptism, one who is “filled with the Holy Spirit” (submits to the guidance of the Holy Spirit, bears abundant fruit) but does not seek to “receive” the Holy Spirit (pray in tongues, speak mysteries, edify oneself) is still some way away from salvation. One who has “received” the Holy Spirit, but is not “filled with the Holy Spirit” and does not bear fruit, will also not obtain salvation.



In the bible, “rebirth” refers to baptism - the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit. When Cornelius received the Holy Spirit, nobody said that he had been “reborn”, whereas a person who has been baptized is said by all to have been reborn (regardless of whether he has received the Holy Spirit or not). 

The “rebirth” in John 3:5-7 - being born of water and the Spirit - refers back to John 1:33 “but He who sent me to baptize with water” (to baptize you unto repentance; Matthew 3:11). The baptism of John the baptist was accomplished with water only and was only for repentance. The baptism of Jesus Christ was imbued with greater power (Mark 1:7) and was accomplished by the Holy Spirit; it enables one to be born of water and the Spirit, to be reborn from water empowered by the Holy Spirit. 

A person who has been so baptised is one who is born of the Spirit. We should not deny the importance of baptism in order to emphasise the importance of the Holy Spirit. Baptism enables one to die, be buried and be resurrected with the Lord! All who have been baptized have become part of the body of Christ, which is the fullness of Him who fills all in all. Every part of the body should be filled with the Holy Spirit and manifest its gifts.



If it is claimed that a person who has not received the Holy Spirit is incapable of being filled with the Holy Spirit, then he would of course be unable to bear the fruit of the Holy Spirit. So should someone who has still not received the Holy Spirit after 3 years be cut down? After all, he is incapable of being filled with the Holy Spirit and is unable to bear the fruit of the Holy Spirit! (Luke 13:6-9)



After baptism, one becomes part of the church, which is the fullness of Him which fills all in all; one should then ask to be filled with the Holy Spirit and manifest its gifts in service to God. However, to enter the heavenly kingdom, it is still necessary to receive the Holy Spirit (speak in tongues) as a guarantee of our inheritance.

2011.12

 “Praying for God”:



Yang records in his Congo journal (sent to the IA EXCO members):

“No wonder Paul says that we should pray for those in authority. A greedy and loathsome government can only give rise to poor and uncultured citizens. As such, how can it be said that “the authorities that exist are appointed by God”? If all rulers have indeed been appointed by God, then God must know in advance, before appointing each ruler, their every future deed and action, whether good or evil. It is because He knows how a given person will govern a country, and further considers this person’s future actions to be good, that He appoints him to be a ruler! This being the case, why should we pray for our rulers, who have been specially appointed by God? If indeed a fundamental change is to be made, it may be more appropriate for Paul to say: “Everyone should pray for God”, to ask God not to allow Himself, generation after generation, to keep picking such evil rulers to govern these already pitiful citizens! 

Would God really allow these numerous corrupt officials to rule over such good and kind people? If so, it means that every governor at every level, from the king to the local officials, whether they have come to power through violent means or not, can say using the bible: “God has appointed me as ruler, what can you do about it?” in order to justify their actions. The prayers of men should not be for their rulers (these rulers are innocent, as God has ordained them to be rulers, even if it is against their will), but for God! “Whether in church or out in the world, please choose those who will be in authority carefully!”...as the chaos and corruption of those in authority are ultimately the result of God’s selection! This is especially so in Africa, where one evil ruler is often succeeded by another even more evil ruler.”



As a result, people have claimed that YM Yang holds that we should “pray for God”! It seems that some people are so preoccupied with finding fault with others that they have failed to understand that there are different styles of discourse. When they hear someone saying “If..., then
 the sun rises from the west”, they instantly focus on the second half of the statement, insisting: “This person has claimed that the sun rises from the west! He should be excommunicated!”