text: Early life He was born to non-christian parents on 13 January 1918 in the small, rural village of Myeongdeok-ri in the North Jeolla Province at a time when Korea was under Japanese rule. From 1937, during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II, Ahn and his mother lived in Japan over a nine-year period. He returned to Korea in 1946. The family migrated to Busan, the city in which he would later found his church.
  Own church
  Ahn began attending the local congregation of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in 1947 and received baptism in 1948. Ahn said he received revelation in 1953. He became critical of the teachings in the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and the church disfellowshipped him in March 1962. Twenty-three people followed him and left the church. Two years later, on 28 April 1964, He established his church named the 'Church of God' in Haeundae District of Busan. He cites the First Epistle to the Corinthians and the First Epistle to Timothy as the sources for the name 'Church of God.' On 15 April 1984, the last Passover ceremony was held in Gangdong District, Seoul. On 10 January 1985, the last Provisional General Assembly took place in Seoul. Church of God expanded to 13 congregations in South Korea before Ahn's death in 1985.
  Beliefs
  He published his claims in more than two dozen books. His teachings are compiled in his representative book, 'The Mystery of God and the Spring of the Water of Life', published in 1980.
  The Restoration of the Truth of the Early Church