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Old 04-20-2023, 06:40 AM   #81
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Default Another brick in the wall, part 3

Sorry - one more - Iglesia Ni Cristo, established and run for over a century by Manalo family et al, now a global parachurch organization & multimedia corporation.

"Manalo—who is upheld by members to be the last messenger of God—was an act of divine providence and the fulfillment of biblical prophecy concerning the re-establishment of the original church of Christ in the Far East concurrent with the coming of the seventh seal marking the end of days."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_ni_Cristo

This was originated in the Philippines, circa 1914, then tracks in tandem with the Nee/Lee groups: exclusion, peculiarity, control, unwavering focus on the supposedly unique anointed messenger Felix Manalo. Christianity is a useful cover for recruitment, and then for control.

There's a lot of groups like this - they only have to convince you that this person is God's special messenger/apostle/prophet to interpret/reveal/unveil the Bible in these last days, and establish/recover/rebuild the original/true/genuine church. They'll manufacture some crisis situation, and get you to yield, and have an emotional overload/rush that you're in the group, then they can do what they want, and you'll go along. It's really disconcerting, how suggestive & pliable the human race is to manipulation & control mechanisms. I was there.
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