Blog/Apologetics: I Ran into the Mother God Cult at the Mall.

I’m really hoping that I don’t get sued for writing this. The Mother God cult is not something that you want to mess with. Even the apologist Mike Winger had to take down his YouTube video on this cult because they were threatening legal action against him if he didn’t.

But with that worry out of the way, I should probably explain how I ran into these guys in the first place.

It was my birthday, and I had just wrapped up meeting with my grandparents at the mall. They had just left, and my family and I were planning on staying for a little bit longer, walking around, and checking out the Tesla store. We hadn’t even been walking for five minutes and were standing right outside of the Tesla store when a short woman that looked to be in her 30s or so asked us if we had heard of the World Mission Society Church of God, also aptly nicknamed the Mother God cult.

After answering that we hadn’t, another woman who was standing with the one who had asked us the original question then went on to ask us if we had heard the prophecy (please read that in a ridiculously over-dramatic voice like you’ve just found the key to saving the world or something). What this prophecy was, we never found out in the near forty-minute conversation we had with these ladies. It could’ve been anything from “You are going to bring balance to the Force,” to “You’re the one to defeat Voldemort.” We actually had to go online and look up the cult to figure out what they were even talking about since the conversation quickly turned into a debate about what they believe the Bible says versus what it actually says. So, here were the two highlights of that:

#1: God the Mother

The main thing that this other woman who we mainly talked to (I’m going to call her Clarise) brought up while trying to explain the prophecy (I’ll get to that in a minute) was that not only is there a God who is the three persons of the Trinity (God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit; the idea of which I like to explain as being like a three-ingredient chocolate fudge cookie that I attempted to make some time ago), but there’s also a separate version of God outside of the Trinity that is God the Mother.

Now, at this point my alarm bells were ringing so loudly that tinnitus might’ve seemed like a minor nuisance. Having seen some of the beliefs commonly practiced in New Age circles and hearing of some of the strange practices in cults having to do with goddesses or the idea of a mother god, I immediately deemed this as being very, very suspicious. It only got worse as Clarise further explained the idea of God the Mother being outside of the Trinity, to which I eventually asked: “Okay, so if God the Mother is outside of the Trinity, and God is the Trinity – three distinct persons in one – doesn’t that mean that with Mother God there’s now two gods?”

And to no one’s surprise, Clarise answered that yes, there are two gods: Mother God and Father God.

For those of you who somehow haven’t noticed yet, this is not Christianity in the slightest. The idea that there’s two gods flies in the face of several Bible verses, especially Exodus 20:3 which says: “You shall have no other gods before Me.”

Isaiah 45:5: “I am the Lord, and there is no other; apart from me there is no God.”

1 Cor. 8:4: “So then, about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that ‘An idol is nothing at all in the world’ and that ‘The is no God but one.'”

Christianity is a strictly monotheistic religion. There are not two gods, three gods, or a million gods. There is only one. To say that there is a “Mother God” is not only completely heretical, but it is also a belief that stems from pagan beliefs in which there was always some sort of Mother God and Father God (I’ll use Gaia and Uranus as examples) who – often by doing the thing – created the universe. My alarm bells might as well have been a train horn now.

Almost worse was the absolutely ridiculous Scripture-twisting involved in rationalizing this insane belief. Throughout the conversation where we were constantly circling back to the repeated talking points of the Mother God cult, Clarise was pointing us to verses from Revelation and Galatians about the “bride of Christ” being another name for Mother God and we can only know this if we read it in context.

Ironically, Clarise was not reading the Bible in context at all.

The Bible is chock full of metaphors, with the “bride of Christ” being one of them. The bride of Christ is not literally a goddess; it’s the church. When it says in Revelation 22:17: “The Spirit and the bride say, ‘Come!’ And let the one who hears say, ‘Come!’ Let the one who is thirsty come; and let the one who wishes take the free gift of the water of life.” that is not affirming that the bride is a goddess. It’s 1). an invitation to those reading that verse to accept Christ as their Lord and Savior and 2). you’re now in heaven; it’s party time!

Not only that, but she also pointed to Galatians 4:26 which describes the New Jerusalem (heaven) as “our mother”. Once again, this is another metaphor, similar to Russians calling Russia “Mother Russia.” It’s a descriptor for how a country nurtures its people like a mother nurtures her children. It does not mean that the place being described as Mother So-‘n’-So is your actual spiritual mother who must be worshipped. Unfortunately, I did not say this while I and my mom and dad were standing there talking to her. I just had nothing to say. Listening to her go off on the same talking points for so long was turning my brain to mush. I just wanted to go, maybe take some pictures in front of the Cybertruck in the Tesla store and walk around.

Okay, I think I’ve debunked that belief enough. Time to talk about the prophecy.

#2: The Prophecy

The day after talking to Clarise, it occurred to me that her asking if we had heard the prophecy would have been an amazing set up for a YA novel. In fact, that’s pretty much how every YA fantasy novel opens up. Nervous self-insert girl (or boy) is approached by some rando asking if they’ve heard the prophecy or something and it’s revealed that they’re actually the super special Chosen One because…reasons (*insert dramatic hair flip and an absurd amount of teenage angst here*).

The prophecy in question (like the rest of this cult) is absolutely ridiculous, completely un-biblical, and straight-up blasphemous. Can you believe it? While I couldn’t find their actual prophecy, according to GotQuestions.org, the Mother God cult believes that their founder, Ahn Sahng-Hong came as the savior in the Age of the Holy Spirit, reestablished the New Covenant Passover, and was the Second Coming of Christ and his wife, Zahng Gil-Jah, is God the Mother, who gives us the water of life. I think I know how Ahn got her to marry him. He just fed her ego.

And if you think that’s bad, Ahn was also (surprise, surprise) a false prophet, making several predictions that the world would end in 1967, 1988, and then 2012. If anyone reading this was alive from 1967 or earlier to today, congratulations. You are this meme:

They also believe that they have to stay inside their churches on Saturdays and Sundays and if they step foot outside, they are risking being killed if the end of the world starts happening. I suppose this is a more manipulative form of that thing they taught in schools during the 50s into the 60s that if there’s a bombing raid, you should get under your table…because that will protect you.

These people are brainwashed and need help.

Until next time,

M.J.