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Christian Research Journal 48, no. 02/03 (2025),

Special print issue focusing on the dangers of The Church of Almighty God (aka Eastern Lightning)

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What’s Your Worldview?: An Interactive Approach to Life’s Big Questions

by James N Anderson 

How do you view the world? It’s a big question. And how you answer is one of the most important things about you. Not sure what you’d say? Join James Anderson on an interactive journey of discovery aimed at helping you understand and evaluate the options when it comes to identifying your worldview. Cast in the mold of a classic “Choose Your Own Adventure” story, What’s Your Worldview? will guide you toward finding intellectually satisfying answers to life’s biggest questions―equipping you to think carefully about not only what you believe but why you believe it and how it impacts the rest of your life.

The Complete Bible Answer Book — Collector’s Edition

Revised and Expanded (2024)

by Hank Hanegraaff

We all have questions about the Bible — whether we have read it or not. Join the more than half a million people who have looked to The Complete Bible Answer Book for answers
about the Bible, Christian beliefs, life problems, and what God’s Word says about current issues.

• What distinguishes Christianity from other religions?
• What is the meaning of 666?
• Are there contradictory creation accounts in the Bible?
• Why does God allow bad things to happen to good people?

This comprehensive guide covers more than 210 of the top questions people have asked Bible teacher and theologian Hank Hanegraaff, aka the Bible Answer Man, over the last 40
years. Revised and expanded topics include:

• creation and our existence
• basic apologetics
• ethics
• spiritual gifts
• the secret to effective prayers
• religions and cults
• the resurrection and afterlife
• and many more issues vital to a better understanding of God and living a spiritually nourishing life.

Each question is answered in Hank’s scholarly yet approachable style.

Truth Matters, Life Matters More

by Hank Hanegraaff 

Is there more to the Christian life than what you’re currently experiencing? Hank has dedicated his life to defending truth because truth matters. However, his life and ministry were radically transformed by this three word phrase: life matters more. After explicating the essentials of the Christian faith in a memorable way to equip readers to communicate Christian truth, Hank explains why life matters more and how we can experience the height of human existence—union with God. Simply put, the map is not the territory. The menu is not the meal. We cheat ourselves of unadulterated union with Christ when we elevate the message above the Messenger.

Christian Research Journal 48, no. 02/03 (2025),

Special print issue focusing on the dangers of The Church of Almighty God (aka Eastern Lightning)

*****CONTENT WARNING: SOME ARTICLES CONTAIN GRAPHIC DEPICTIONS OF VIOLENCE IN TEXT AND IMAGES.*****

CONTENTS:

From the President:

• Christ Returns to Earth as a Female — An Exposé of the Eastern Lightning Cult 

by Hank Hanegraaff

Feature Articles:

• Theological Travesties of The Church of Almighty God

by Hank Hanegraaff

• Radical Discontinuities: Rethinking The Church of Almighty God and Its Relationship to Christianity

by Paul H. B. Chang

• The Sociological Deviance of The Church of Almighty God 
  • Sidebar: Turing the Tables

by Hank Hanegraaff

• The Iron Rod of the Faux Almighty God

by Warren G. Nozaki

• A Firsthand Account of the “4/16 Eastern Lightning Kidnapping Case”

by Zhang Heng, Abraham Ho, and Jacob Feng

• The Faux Almighty God’s Assault on the Family

by Warren G. Nozaki

• What Are the Characteristics of C-U-L-T-S Such as Eastern Lightning?

by Hank Hanegraaff

• Cult vis-à-vis Xiejiao: With a Case Study of The Church of Almighty God

by Abraham Ho and Jacob Feng

• Contrasting Eastern Lightning Deception and Essential Christian D-O-C-T-R-I-N-E

by Hank Hanegraaff

• Because Life and Truth Matter — A Family Reunited

by David Hanegraaff

From a previous Partner Letter by Hank  

As has been well said, there is a direct connection between “the oneness of Christians” in the image of the Holy Trinity and the missionary mandate of the Church. The Church, as “a mystery of mutual Trinitarian love,” remains true to itself only when its “circle of love” is continually expanded. Only when you and I are dedicated to the Great Commission given to us by Jesus before He ascended into heaven.

While not all can go to mission fields around the world. All can facilitate the Commission Christ gave us through their support and prayers. All can have a part—can participate—in bringing the gospel to those who have not yet heard the name of Jesus.

And tragically the unreached are measured not in thousands but in multiplied millions of souls.

As I write, I am likewise reminded of the reality that the ever-growing kingdom of the cults has been aptly described as “the unpaid bills of the church.” Meaning they proliferate in part by seducing people who have not been rooted and grounded in “the faith once for all delivered to the saints” (Jude 3).

I just recently returned from the completion of a primary-source research project in China respecting an insidious cult. A cult that has seduced millions upon millions into the belief that Jesus Christ has been reincarnated as a female on “the Chinese mainland.”

Imagine this Chinese christ shamelessly asserting that the words of our Lord spoken during His Olivet Discourse (Matthew 24) apply specifically to her.

That the “lightning” that “comes out of the east, and shines even to the west” points prophetically to her reincarnation in the East and to the reality that this “eastern lightning” will radiate to the West and the rest of the world.

And tragically this is precisely what is happening worldwide!

Like The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Church of Almighty God (aka Eastern Lightning) is using the full force of its financial and creative resources to spread pernicious dogmas to farflung places across the globe.

An Oxford University Press publication provides a partial list of the countries now boasting Eastern Lightning devotees, including “South Korea, Taiwan, the United States, Canada, Japan, Australia, Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, France, Germany, Greece, Finland, Spain, [and] Hungary.”

Other countries in which Eastern Lightning has established churches include the Philippines, Hong Kong, New Zealand, and elsewhere worldwide.

Appallingly, in many of these countries the notion that The Church of Almighty God (i.e., followers of the female christ) is just another persecuted Christian group has become the prevailing narrative.

In truth this socially subversive cult induces its disciples to abandon their social and familial obligations and commit unreservedly to spreading the culturally subversive message of the counterfeit christ.

And this extends even to the tearing apart of the family unit.

In graphic language the counterfeit christ exhorts devotees to leave their families and wholeheartedly commit to the mission of gaining new converts. Those who fail to do so she explicitly renders “worthless.”

Theological travesties are equally disorientating and dangerous!

To begin with, the unique Deity of Jesus is compromised by the profane pontification that He is now reincarnated as a Chinese female.

Original Sin is compromised by the perverse assertion that the corruption of Adam and Eve was not due to their disobedience but rather “originates entirely from Satan.”

The Canons of the Holy Bible are supplanted by a blasphemous extra-biblical revelation that purports to eclipse the “Ten Commandments” with “Ten Administrative Decrees”—declarations in which the female christ warns devotees that it is her prerogative to kill all violators.

The Trinity is deemed incoherent—a figment of Satanically corrupted imagination.

Resurrection is malevolently compromised by the outrageous assertion that the female christ is the reincarnation of the first Christ.

Incarnation is debased by the profane assertion that Jesus Christ failed “to do the work of completely gaining man.”

The scintillating truth that anyone in Christ is a New Creation (2 Corinthians 5:17) is compromised by the counterfeit concoction of eternal estrangement from God.

And Eschatology—the thread that weaves the tapestry of Scripture into a harmonious pattern—is ignominiously sullied by a largely incoherent Eastern Lightning eschatological charade.

Much more can and will be said in a special edition of the Christian Research Journal. An issue of the Journal presently being translated into many different languages and made available worldwide.

This Special Issue of the Christian Research Journal, along with other CRI resources, will equip you—and those confronted by counterfeits around the globe—to become ever more familiar with truth, so that when cults such as Eastern Lightning loom on the horizon you will recognize them instantaneously.

In sum, thank you from the core of my being for the difference your prayers, partnership, and generosity make in standing against dangerous ideological battles we dare not lose. And for being willing to do for truth what cults such as Eastern Lightning are doing for a lie!