Far East Doctrine
Felix Manalo, founder of the Iglesia Ni Cristo Church in the Philippines, did not have a witness outside of himself that he was a prophet of God to restore the primitive Church, which he claimed had apostated. So, he turned to the Bible to find scriptures he could interpret that would authenticate him as this prophet and authorize him to be the founder of a new religion. He found two text that fit his need and these he manipulated into a Manalo-Christology or a Manalo-Messiasology. Sometime between 1914 and 1941 and a final court decision where the conduct of Manalo was legally established, he claimed to be the Messias and used this identity to coerce girls and women into sexual relationships. He told these females he was like Solomon and could have many wives and concubines. According the ruling of the Court, Manalo used his office as head of the Iglesia Ni Cristo and as a Messias to seduce and persuade these females into fornication and adultery. He already had a large following at that time who believed his claim that he was chosen by God to restore and set up the primitive Christian Church.
Here is a scripture text he used to bear witness that INC is the true Church of Christ and contains his ordination as the endtime servant of God:
Isaiah 43:5-6: "Fear not, for I am with you; I will bring your offspring from the east, and from the west I will gather you; I will say to the north, 'Give up,' and the south, 'Do not withhold; bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the end of the earth.'
What is meant by "from the east"?
According to Manalo and the INC central administration, the word "east" here is from the Hebrew "mizrach" (Strongs 4217)--sunrise, and they interpret this to mean the far east, the Philippine Islands.
So, according to Manalo, he was to bring the offspring from the far east, the Philippines. Bring them where, to what location? Manalo never really interpreted this as the Philippines or we would look even further east for the land to bring them from to where the Philippines are located. Going east there is no land until you reach AMERICA! But it is claimed this prophecy was Manalo bringing souls into his Iglesia Ni Cristo church out of the 7,100 islands of the Philippines. Manalo is nothing but a Filipino false cristo.
Does Isaiah 43:5-6 apply to Felix Manalo? No! It applies to Israel the nation, the people of Isaiah to whom he was prophesying!
What is the context of Isaiah 43? The Filipino people or Israel? It is Israel!
Isa 43:1--But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.
Isa 43:2--When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.
Isa 43:3--For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.
Isa 43:4--Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life.
Isa 43:5--Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west;
Isa 43:6--I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth;
Isa 43:7--Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.
Felix Manalo and INC central administration are thieves! They are Bible theives. They have stolen a promise from the Israelites and applied it unto themselves. As much as God loves the Filipino people and the Philippine nation, they are not ISRAEL! They are not called by his name! They are not JACOB! They did not exist when Isaiah prophesied this to his people.
It is a deception and a lie for Manalo, the INC, and INC members to apply this text to the constituents of the Iglesia Ni Cristo denomination. If anyone believes this claim from Manalo, the central administration, and or INC ministers, THEN THEY HAVE BELIEVED A LIE! If such individuals cannot discern this lie as simple as it is to refute, how would it be possible to deliver them from the greatest of their deceptions, that being Jesus is not God just a man? A man who needs salvation himself.
Manalo claimed Jesus was no more God then he was. Manalo needed salvation, therefore we conclude in Manalo's private revelation Jesus needed salvation also. Do not make yourself equal to Jesus as a man unless you want applied to Jesus all that is applied to the rest of male humanity!
The ravenous bird claim:
Isa.46:11: "Calling a ravenous bird from the east. A man who executes my counsel from a far country."
Isa. 46:3--Hearlem unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb:
Isa. 46:4--And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.
Isa.46:5--To whom will ye like me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?
Isa. 46:6--They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.
Isa. 46:7--They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea, one shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, not save him out of his trouble.
Isa. 46:8--Remember this, and shew yourselves men: bring it again to mind, O ye transgressors.
Isa. 46:9--Remember that the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else: I am God, and there is none like me,
Isa. 46:10--Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
Isa. 46:11--Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man what executeth my counsel from a far county: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.
Manalo, the INC central administration, and the members of INC are theives! This text belongs to the nation and people of Israel and has no application to the Philippines or the Filipino people!
What is meant by "ravenous bird?"
God was accusing the Israelites of idolatry. He was rebuking them for making idols of gold and silver and worshipping them. He calls them transgressors. He tells them to remember the ancient days and his miracles. He asserts his Divinity and Sovereign Oneness. He tells them his counsel, his judgments, his word will stand and come to pass according to his own purpose. He then tells them he will bring a ravenous bird, a man from the east who will execute his counsel. What was this counsel? It was judgment. What is a ravenous bird identity to be fulfilled in the person of a man?
First it is a raven, a black bird by outward description (Filipinos are not a black people); a bird of prey, a bird that eats the flesh of dead animals, it is a vulture kind of bird, omnivorous, meaning they will eat anything which is edible. Their usual diet contains insects, seeds, berries, carrion (the bodies of animals killed by creatures other than the raven).
It is claimed the favorite food of ravens is human bodies where they go first for the eyes (like eating grapes).
Ravens are considered mischevious and theives, stealing when your head is turned or swooping down when you least expect it, snatching and flying away with squawks of victory.
They are an unclean bird, one that was forbidden the Israelites to eat. The very carcass of this bird was not to be found on the property of Israelites. It was just as much an abomination as the swine (and dinuguan) and is found in the same chapter on unclean animals (see Leviticus 11:13-20; "shall be an abomination unto you").
Noah sent out a dove and a raven from the ark. The dove returned the raven had plenty to eat of dead carcases and did not return.
It was the ravens who came and tried to steal and eat the sacrifice of Abraham in Genesis 15:11.
The word "fowl" in Genesis 15:11 is the Hebrew word "ayit" (Strongs #5861), the very same Hebrew word for RAVENOUS in the text Manalo claims identifies him.
Look at Ezekiel 39:4 where God says he will give the dead bodies of Gog unto the RAVENOUS birds.
There is only one purpose of God calling for a RAVENOUS bird from the east country to come into the land of Israel and that is to eat the dead bodies of the idolaterers among the Israelites.
Manalo applied this bird identity unto himself?
The central administration and members of INC apply this bird to their prophet and founder?
Is this not a good reason to suspicion that the entire deceived mass of the membership of INC are not in their right mind. They do not know or have not been taught to rightly divide (interpret) the Word of God?
Manalo claims he is the ravenous bird from the east, from the far east, from the Philippines. And he is the "man" to execute the counsel of God in the Philippines. This claim if it was not so serious would be funny!
Does Isaiah 46:11 apply to Felix Manalo? If it does, then he has identified the membership of the Iglesia Ni Cristo as dead people. Maybe God allowed Manalo to make this claim so those who did have their right mind would get up out from among dead people and come among the living who are in Christ's true body.
Any Filipino who falls for the perversion that Manalo is the RAVENOUS BIRD is seeking a religions delusion. Do not be so anti-Catholic you will accept a religion and a false prophet who has created a pirated Church of Christ in the Philippines..
Why believe lie on top of lies and remain in the captivity and mental prison of Manalo and the central administration?
Listen wonderful and peaceful Filipino people: GET OUT OF YOUR INC CHURCH AND DO NOT LOOK BACK.
GET OUT AND SAVE YOUR SOUL.
DO NOT ALLOW YOURSELF TO BE MERCHANDISE AND YOUR CASH EXTORTED FROM YOU BY THREATS AND COERCION.
I HAVE SHOWN YOU THE TRUTH.
YOU HAVE BEEN DECEIVED INTO A CULT WHO USES SLICK DECEPTION AND MANIPULATION OF BIBLE SCRIPTURES.
REMOVE THE CHAINS OF BONDAGE, THE BLINDFOLD, THE EMBLEMS OF YOUR SLAVERY, AND SEEK GOD THROUGH THE REAL JESUS CRISTO.
YOU CAN BE FREE.
THE CHOICE IS YOURS, ...MORE SLAVERY OF MIND AND BODY
OR
FREEDOM OF SPIRIT AND SOUL?
Felix Manalo, founder of the Iglesia Ni Cristo Church in the Philippines, did not have a witness outside of himself that he was a prophet of God to restore the primitive Church, which he claimed had apostated. So, he turned to the Bible to find scriptures he could interpret that would authenticate him as this prophet and authorize him to be the founder of a new religion. He found two text that fit his need and these he manipulated into a Manalo-Christology or a Manalo-Messiasology. Sometime between 1914 and 1941 and a final court decision where the conduct of Manalo was legally established, he claimed to be the Messias and used this identity to coerce girls and women into sexual relationships. He told these females he was like Solomon and could have many wives and concubines. According the ruling of the Court, Manalo used his office as head of the Iglesia Ni Cristo and as a Messias to seduce and persuade these females into fornication and adultery. He already had a large following at that time who believed his claim that he was chosen by God to restore and set up the primitive Christian Church.
Here is a scripture text he used to bear witness that INC is the true Church of Christ and contains his ordination as the endtime servant of God:
Isaiah 43:5-6: "Fear not, for I am with you; I will bring your offspring from the east, and from the west I will gather you; I will say to the north, 'Give up,' and the south, 'Do not withhold; bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the end of the earth.'
What is meant by "from the east"?
According to Manalo and the INC central administration, the word "east" here is from the Hebrew "mizrach" (Strongs 4217)--sunrise, and they interpret this to mean the far east, the Philippine Islands.
So, according to Manalo, he was to bring the offspring from the far east, the Philippines. Bring them where, to what location? Manalo never really interpreted this as the Philippines or we would look even further east for the land to bring them from to where the Philippines are located. Going east there is no land until you reach AMERICA! But it is claimed this prophecy was Manalo bringing souls into his Iglesia Ni Cristo church out of the 7,100 islands of the Philippines. Manalo is nothing but a Filipino false cristo.
Does Isaiah 43:5-6 apply to Felix Manalo? No! It applies to Israel the nation, the people of Isaiah to whom he was prophesying!
What is the context of Isaiah 43? The Filipino people or Israel? It is Israel!
Isa 43:1--But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.
Isa 43:2--When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.
Isa 43:3--For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.
Isa 43:4--Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life.
Isa 43:5--Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west;
Isa 43:6--I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth;
Isa 43:7--Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.
Felix Manalo and INC central administration are thieves! They are Bible theives. They have stolen a promise from the Israelites and applied it unto themselves. As much as God loves the Filipino people and the Philippine nation, they are not ISRAEL! They are not called by his name! They are not JACOB! They did not exist when Isaiah prophesied this to his people.
It is a deception and a lie for Manalo, the INC, and INC members to apply this text to the constituents of the Iglesia Ni Cristo denomination. If anyone believes this claim from Manalo, the central administration, and or INC ministers, THEN THEY HAVE BELIEVED A LIE! If such individuals cannot discern this lie as simple as it is to refute, how would it be possible to deliver them from the greatest of their deceptions, that being Jesus is not God just a man? A man who needs salvation himself.
Manalo claimed Jesus was no more God then he was. Manalo needed salvation, therefore we conclude in Manalo's private revelation Jesus needed salvation also. Do not make yourself equal to Jesus as a man unless you want applied to Jesus all that is applied to the rest of male humanity!
The ravenous bird claim:
Isa.46:11: "Calling a ravenous bird from the east. A man who executes my counsel from a far country."
Isa. 46:3--Hearlem unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb:
Isa. 46:4--And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.
Isa.46:5--To whom will ye like me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?
Isa. 46:6--They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.
Isa. 46:7--They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea, one shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, not save him out of his trouble.
Isa. 46:8--Remember this, and shew yourselves men: bring it again to mind, O ye transgressors.
Isa. 46:9--Remember that the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else: I am God, and there is none like me,
Isa. 46:10--Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
Isa. 46:11--Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man what executeth my counsel from a far county: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.
Manalo, the INC central administration, and the members of INC are theives! This text belongs to the nation and people of Israel and has no application to the Philippines or the Filipino people!
What is meant by "ravenous bird?"
God was accusing the Israelites of idolatry. He was rebuking them for making idols of gold and silver and worshipping them. He calls them transgressors. He tells them to remember the ancient days and his miracles. He asserts his Divinity and Sovereign Oneness. He tells them his counsel, his judgments, his word will stand and come to pass according to his own purpose. He then tells them he will bring a ravenous bird, a man from the east who will execute his counsel. What was this counsel? It was judgment. What is a ravenous bird identity to be fulfilled in the person of a man?
First it is a raven, a black bird by outward description (Filipinos are not a black people); a bird of prey, a bird that eats the flesh of dead animals, it is a vulture kind of bird, omnivorous, meaning they will eat anything which is edible. Their usual diet contains insects, seeds, berries, carrion (the bodies of animals killed by creatures other than the raven).
It is claimed the favorite food of ravens is human bodies where they go first for the eyes (like eating grapes).
Ravens are considered mischevious and theives, stealing when your head is turned or swooping down when you least expect it, snatching and flying away with squawks of victory.
They are an unclean bird, one that was forbidden the Israelites to eat. The very carcass of this bird was not to be found on the property of Israelites. It was just as much an abomination as the swine (and dinuguan) and is found in the same chapter on unclean animals (see Leviticus 11:13-20; "shall be an abomination unto you").
Noah sent out a dove and a raven from the ark. The dove returned the raven had plenty to eat of dead carcases and did not return.
It was the ravens who came and tried to steal and eat the sacrifice of Abraham in Genesis 15:11.
The word "fowl" in Genesis 15:11 is the Hebrew word "ayit" (Strongs #5861), the very same Hebrew word for RAVENOUS in the text Manalo claims identifies him.
Look at Ezekiel 39:4 where God says he will give the dead bodies of Gog unto the RAVENOUS birds.
There is only one purpose of God calling for a RAVENOUS bird from the east country to come into the land of Israel and that is to eat the dead bodies of the idolaterers among the Israelites.
Manalo applied this bird identity unto himself?
The central administration and members of INC apply this bird to their prophet and founder?
Is this not a good reason to suspicion that the entire deceived mass of the membership of INC are not in their right mind. They do not know or have not been taught to rightly divide (interpret) the Word of God?
Manalo claims he is the ravenous bird from the east, from the far east, from the Philippines. And he is the "man" to execute the counsel of God in the Philippines. This claim if it was not so serious would be funny!
Does Isaiah 46:11 apply to Felix Manalo? If it does, then he has identified the membership of the Iglesia Ni Cristo as dead people. Maybe God allowed Manalo to make this claim so those who did have their right mind would get up out from among dead people and come among the living who are in Christ's true body.
Any Filipino who falls for the perversion that Manalo is the RAVENOUS BIRD is seeking a religions delusion. Do not be so anti-Catholic you will accept a religion and a false prophet who has created a pirated Church of Christ in the Philippines..
Why believe lie on top of lies and remain in the captivity and mental prison of Manalo and the central administration?
Listen wonderful and peaceful Filipino people: GET OUT OF YOUR INC CHURCH AND DO NOT LOOK BACK.
GET OUT AND SAVE YOUR SOUL.
DO NOT ALLOW YOURSELF TO BE MERCHANDISE AND YOUR CASH EXTORTED FROM YOU BY THREATS AND COERCION.
I HAVE SHOWN YOU THE TRUTH.
YOU HAVE BEEN DECEIVED INTO A CULT WHO USES SLICK DECEPTION AND MANIPULATION OF BIBLE SCRIPTURES.
REMOVE THE CHAINS OF BONDAGE, THE BLINDFOLD, THE EMBLEMS OF YOUR SLAVERY, AND SEEK GOD THROUGH THE REAL JESUS CRISTO.
YOU CAN BE FREE.
THE CHOICE IS YOURS, ...MORE SLAVERY OF MIND AND BODY
OR
FREEDOM OF SPIRIT AND SOUL?
11 comments:
Bro. Wendell,
Pax Christi!
Indeed, this prophet of Doom who claimed to be of God sent (from the Far East) can not escape from the Divine justice and wrath of the Triune God. Every single soul that goes to this great heresiarch's sect everyday will bring this false prophet deeper and deeper to the bottomless pit of HELL. The Divine founder of the Roman Catholic Church has said; "Everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but the one who blasphemes against the holy spirit will not be forgiven"(Luke 12:10). Since the Holy Spirit is the soul of the Catholic Church, it is tantamount of saying explicitely that this false religion has this solemn and grave accountability in the eyes of whom he blasphemed - God and His spouse, the Roman Catholic Church.
May this venerable article bring souls closer to God through the Church. Pro Deo et Ecclesia - Bro. Ryan
What is your proof that Manalo sexually abused women?Do you have documents that may attest to your claim?
After a person has left INC, is he/she should join the Roman Catholic Church?
Pax Christi anino,
My most reliable proof on the morality of the Founder of the Iglesia ni Kristo would be that of the Court of Appeals on its Sentence on Manalo as penned by Justices Hontiveros, Briones and Torres, in favor of the complainant Rosita Trillanes, a farmer Iglesia. (The People of the Philippines, Plaintiff and Appellee, vs. Rosita Trillanes, Accused and Appellant "OFFICIAL GAZETTE," Vol. i, no.7, July 1954, page 394, Case No.8180). Here are the pertinent sentences: "In support of this conclusion it suffices to point out that as far as the credibility of the witnesses is concerned, the Prosecution itself was compelled to admit frankly in its deposition, that in the testimony of the appellant it does appear that the offended party, Manalo, took advantage of his position as head of the Iglesia ni Kristo, and employed religion as a cloak to cover his immoral practices; that he pretended to be the Messiah sent by God; and that to persuade his victims, he cited the example of Solomon and his many wives....the Prosecution admits that there is reason to believed that the offended party, Manalo, DID COMMIT IMMORAL ACTS WITH SOME WOMEN MEMBERS OF THE IGLESIA...PROOFS presented that Manalo is a Man "de boja moral", and that he took advantage of his position in the Iglesia to attack and sully the virtue of some of his female followers."
(THE POWER AND THE GLORY by Ross S. Tipon, page 19: "He (Manalo) filed a suit of libel against an accuser, one Rosita Trillanes...Rosita Trillanes was acquitted."
Remember that the primary obligation of every man is to find the true way through the parched desert to a to a magnificent oasis in order to discover the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. The truth is that the Catholic Church knows the Bible and teaches it in such a manner as to avoid the contradictions. The Catholic alone had held unwaveringly to the truth from the beginning. It was the I.N.C. and Evangelicals who had deviated, set up sola Scriptura, and left the ancient teaching of the Apostolic Church.
Thank you for replying.
The court favoured Manalo,right?
If that is your basis for claiming that Manalo is immoral,your statement is half-baked.You believe the prosecutors, but not the judge.If your believe the judge,but not the prosecutors,it is still half-baked.Do you have anything CONCRETE?
What can you say about the increasing number of rape,molestation cases being commited by priests and church elders to boys, girls,nuns, and so on?
Finally, shall the Catholic church meddle with politics of our country?
Anino,
In line to your arguments, it seems you are a member of the Iglesia ni Kristo (Manalo). Please bear in mind that priests, nuns, etc who are among the few who committed immoral acts do not constitute the whole Catholicism. Neither myself nor my parents if committed immoral acts destroys the authenticity of the Catholic Church as divinely founded by Our Lord Jesus Christ. The issue is not the members of a particular religion, but the credibility of the founder.
Of course you won't certainly agree with me that Felix M. Ysagun is the founder of your church because he claims to be only a messenger send by God. But perhaps your PASUGO might tell you this instead. There are lots of contradictions in the past issues of your magazines that prove my claim. It is unquestionably that Our Lord Jesus Christ is the FOUNDER of the Catholic Church who has found no error or sin committed during his life. But the alleged LAST MESSENGER sent by God was questionably innocent in the eyes of public. "A line that is often repeated enough, becomes a truth to the innocent" God bless us all.
Hello Anino,
The Court or the Judge did not favored MANALO. Remember that Mr. Manalo filed a suit of libel against an accuser, one Rosita Trillanes, for the statement like this: "I rwote you to confess what really happened to me and those things that I witnessed and knew during my two years stay in the Central. My parents and Brothers hated and disowned me. In my belief that I will find protection I agreed that I be brought to our central office by brother Jacinto Torres. When I was already there, I experienced the most painful ang bitter in the life of a maiden like me when Manalo, whom I considered as a father, ABUSED ME. At first he courted me but when I refused to accede to his wishes he struck and beat me which rendered me unconscious; and when I was already unconscious he RAPED ME... I also witnessed many who have been raped by Felix Manalo; others are maiden, others are wives of the members while other one is the wife of a minister. In this regard would you allow Manalo to abuse our members and receive the Church in the name of God...? Don't you love the Church...? Your wives and your daughters are in danger of this malicious thoughts of this man, which you think and honor as Preacher of the words of God. I will leave the judgement on whether your love the church and God...the Judgement is yours.
Your brethren who became unlucky because of so much faith...Rosita. (quoted from the Decisions of the Court of Appeals, Official Gazette, July 1942, page 393. And remeber that Rosita Trillanes was acquited of libel case filed by Mr. Manalo the FOUNDER OF I.N.C. in 1914.
To put an end once and for all doubts about the leadership and integrity of Felix Manalo the man proclaimed himself the Angel (without wings) of the East.
Pax Christi Anino,
Lets move to your second question: "What can you say about the increasing number of rape, molestation cases being committed by some priests and church elders?
The Church remains holy, no matter how many of her leaders prove faithless to the Gospel they preach, for these men are cut off from the Church's life by their sins, which can never be traced to her teachings or laws.
The Catholic Church is the universal Kingdom of God,divinely commissioned to teach Christ's Gospel to all men - sinner and saint, rich and poor, cultured and uncultured. "For you are all one in Jesus" Gel.3:23. Christ always speak of the Church as a Society composed of the good and the wicked. He compares it to a field in which cockle grows with the wheat (Matt 13:24-30); to a net containing good and bad fishes (Matt.13:47); to a barn containing chaff as well as wheat (Matt. 3:12) to wise and foolish virgins (Matt. 25:1-12); St. Paul also speaks of a "great house having vessels not only of gold and silver, but also of wood and earth; or honor and dishonor."(2Tim.2:20). Until Christ at the Last Day separates the sheep from the goats (Matt. 25:32); So the sinners will remain in the Church until the harvest
(Matt.13:30)
Sinners are not wicked because they are Catholics; on the contrary, they are wicked because they fail to live up to their religion. Those Catholics who faithfully practice their religion, lead holy and edefying lives. The more faithful they are to their religion, the more holy is their life. Experience shows that as soon as a bad Catholic begins to practice his religion, he becomes virtuous. Would you call an apple tree bad, because you discovered some rotten apples lying on the ground beneath it? No, you judge the tree by ripening or ripe apples on its boughs. Again wicked churchmen will one day have to render a strict account to Almighty God for their stewardship, for as Christ said: "Unto whosoever much is given, of him much will required."(Lk. 12:16).
God bless Anino.
Domenus tecum:
Lets move to your 3rd question:
Shall the Catholic Church meddle with politics of our Country?
The Catholic Church, while holding firmly to her theoretical teachings regarding the ideal State. Whenever moral issues are involved in social problems, the Holy Catholic Church feels that it has not only the right, but also the duty, to speak out. Pope Leo XIII stated that "anything pertaining to the salvation of souls is subject to the judgment of the Church." And Pope Pius XI expressed the same thought in these words: "The deposit of truth entrusted to us by God, and our weighty office of propagating and urging in season and out of season the entire moral law, demand that both social and economic questions be brought within our jurisdiction, insofar as they refer to moral issues, (QUADRAGESIMO ANNO 14)
As a modern phrase puts it, "Evangelisation (the spreading of the Gospel message and values) brings justice, and justice brings peace. The order which prevails in society is by nature moral. Grounded as it in truth, it must function according to the norms of justice, it should be inspired and perfected by mutual love, and finally it should be brought to an ever refine and human balance in freedom and development.
The Catholic Church provides society with design or blueprint for justice and peace by setting forth guidelines for moral generation in the Philippines, but one of the chief obstacles to this moral generation is secularism, the lack of religious influence in the everyday world. Christian civilization can be said to have had the God of revelation as a father and knowledge as a mother. When faith and knowledge were divorced, it was mankind that suffered, just as it is the children who have to bear the consequences when parents divorce. So the Catholic Church speaks out and will continue to do so - in one papal document after another, in one bishop's pastoral letter after another, because the Church was aware of the burning interest in social issues, the ills of Philippine society and the need for social justice - that which bring happiness and peace.
Again, the Catholic Church speaks out and will continue to do so because never has the human race enjoyed such and abundance of wealth, resources and economic power, and yet a hug proportion in the Philippine Society is still tormented by hunger and poverty, while countless numbers suffer from total illiteracy, it is most grievously torn into opposing camps by conflicting forces. For political, social, economic, and ideological disputes still continue bitterly, and with them the peril of war which would reduce everything to ashes.
The Catholic Church becomes involved in political matters when a change in laws or government is harmful to faith, to morals or to the human person and obstructs the exercise of the Church's mission. The Catholic Church respects the Philippine Government when it acts within the sphere of its own competence.
God bless
Anino
The sexual immorality of Mr. FELIX MANALO:
Hello INC Members,
The accusations of sexual immorality plagued Felix Manalo through out his life. He was able to escape all these events by claiming the women and girls who accused him were lying. But this was to catch up to him in 1942 and become a part of the official history of Iglesia Ni Cristo Church:
In a decision by the Court of Appeals, in the case: "The People vs. Rosita Trillanes" published in July 1942, (a court case initiated by Manalo), the Justices gave an extremely unfavorable estimate of Manalo's character stating:
"...Manalo, took advantage of his position as head of the Iglesia Ni Cristo, and employed religion as a cloak to cover his immoral practices; that he pretended to be the Messias sent by God; and the to persuade his victims, he cited the example of Solomon and his many wives."
"We are all entitled to our own religious beliefs. But there is nothing wrong nor shameful in correcting our religious beliefs when it is found to be wrong. It is never to late to change our religion when it is proved to be false" (Pasugo, Nov., 1970, p. 8).
Proof Inglesia central administration believe Felix Manalo is Christ:
"He whom God has chosen or taken from the ends of the earth, the fulfillment of which is undoubtly Brother Felix Manalo, is the seed of Abraham" (Pasugo, Nov., 1976, p. 14).
INC explains the four angels on the four corners of the earth in Revelation 7:
“Ang apat na anghel na pumipigil sa hangin ay mga pinuno ng bansa, na ito’y mga sugo rin o anghel ayon sa I Ped. 2:13-14. Ang hanging pinipigil ay digmaan, gaya ng sinasabi sa Jer. 4:11-13, 19. Ito nga ang digmaang sumiklab noong 1914. Ang apat na pinuno ng bansa na kumakatawan sa pagpigil sa digmaang sumiklab noong 1914 ay sina Lloyd George ng Gran Bretanya, sina Clemenceau ng Pransiya, si Orlando ng Italya at Wilson ng Amerika. Sila ay lalong kilala sa tawag na The Big Four" (World History, p. 494).”
Translation: "The four angels holding the winds were leaders of nations, who were also messengers, or angels, as written in I Pet. 2:13-14. The wind that they were controlling refers to war as mentioned in Jer. 4:11-13, 19. This was the war that broke out on 1914. The four leaders of nations who worked on the prevention of the war, which broke out in 1914, were Lloyd George of Great Britain, Clemenceau of France, Orlando of Italy, and Wilson of America. They were better known as the Big Four" (World History, p. 494)--(Pasugo, July 1964, p. 33).
Now get this: it would be Felix Manalo to instruct George, Clemenceau, Orlando, and Wilson, NOT TO HURT THE EARTH UNTIL THEY (Manalo and these four), HAD SEALED THE 144,000 IN THEIR FOREHEADS. Did Felix Manalo DO THIS? No! Did he even write letters to these four men-angels? No! Did he call them on the hot-line? No! Did he send them a telegram? No! Did he send a smoke signal message? No! Did Manalo and these four men seal 144,000 in their foreheads with the seal of God? No! Did Manalo and these four men even try to seek out the 144,000 from the 12 tribes of Israel? No! Manalo came to America we are told in 1919 and did not even send a post card to President Wilson. Lies, Lies, Lies, and these people really believe they are the true Church of Christ? They are so deceived! Why will these members not open their eyes? It is because they have their religion and right or wrong, going to hell or not unsaved, they will not allow truth to come into their heart.
Come out from among them:
The Iglesia Ni Cristo is proven false and it is now time for many millions of Filipinos to change their religion. We are told the founder of the INC is a known criminal guilty of rape, a fornicator, and an immoral man. We believe the information about him is accurate. His interpretation of the Bible is false. His doctrines are false. His plan of salvation is false. His claim the INC is the New Testament Church restored is false. His claim the Church would be restored in the Philippines is false. His use of the ravenous bird to authenticate his authority to start a new religion is one of the greatest jokes pulled on the Filipino people. This one scandle netted him billions of pesos in profits for his new cult. If you are a member of this religion, show your faith in the real Jesus Cristo and leave. Run for your life. If you get fired by someone who is ordered to do it by INC central administration or a minister of the group, take your persecution as great joy and be willing to suffer for the true Jesus and his Church. Take your soul out of the midst of that group no matter how long you have been a member, your parents are members, or your wife or husband have been members.
You must leave and never go back, and accept the One Holy Catholic Apostolic Roman Church because the PASUGO Magazine July-August 1988, page 6, stated: "Even secular history shows a direct time link between the Catholic Church and the Apostles leading to the conclusion that that the true Church of Christ is the Catholic Church."
Don't be deceived by the Mini-estro of Manalo my friend.
Son inherits the Angelic throne of INC:
Erano G. Manalo (Ka Erdy) is the fifth child of INC founder Felix Y. Manalo. He was born on January 2, 1925. He is now 80 years old. He went to college to get a degree in law but left to become a minister in his dad's religion. His dad worked out his promotion to be the general treasurer of the church. He has never had a lack of money. The bank accounts have been flowing over by the billions of pesos. The income of Ka Erdy is a top secret. Because he wanted the flow of information from the Church to the membership and the world to be under tight censorship, Erano was placed in the hierarchy of the church magazine Pasugo. Nothing would be written about or released concerning doctrine, faith, and practice and his father that he did not approve. Everything written in Pasugo about Felix Manalo had to pass the desk of Erano. When it was written in Pasugo in 1976 that his father was the "seed of Abraham", Erano approved it. It was this "seed of Abraham" doctrine that was used to claim Felix Manalo was Jesus in another form. Yes, Felix Manalo did claim he was the messias according to Philippine court records. The INC now try to cover this up and sanitize his life history to expunge this stunning falsehood. Church members and ministers join in choir when someone opposes their founder, his false doctrines, and their use of every perverted translation they can find to substantiate their claims. They sing their church is under attack and must stand firm and be faithful to "Brother Felix" and the doctrines of the Iglesia Ni Cristo. It is safe to say the rank and file of INC now have the persecuted syndrome and feel they must suffer martyrdom and not forsake the teachings of their founder.
Erano wrote a 64 page booklet attacking the deity of Christ, "Christ-God: Investigated-False". Anyone deceived by this book is brainwashed. The truth is, Manalo stole his anti-Jesus-God arguments from Islamic propaganda. The arguments of Erano Manalo in his writing against the deity of Jesus are right out of Islam-Jesus 101. Both Manalo's stole the Islamic arguments that exalt Allah and make Jesus just one of several prophets. Iglesia Ni Cristo calls God the "Father" but if pressed will admit the Father's name is also Allah! Iglesia Ni Cristo ministers are teaching a form of Islam-Christianity to its members. All this is lacking is to call the Father Allah and say Mohammed is his prophet and they are Islamic! The conversion to Islam is not that far off and can happen overnight at any instant. If the Philippine government ever suppresses INC you can expect INC to court Islamic favor and some form of unity and immediate religious war could break out right in the nation's capitol! In fact, in court pleadings before the Honorable Ofelia Marquez, Branch 216, Quezon City, Manila, Philippines on May 24, 2005; the lawyer for INC claims if the book: "POWER AND THE GLORY: THE CULT OF MANALO" is published, it will trigger unrest and possible violance throughout the 7000 islands of the Republic. This is a threat that if anyone makes INC, the central administration, and the members mad; they will turn to the streets and burn the nation down, which may include the killing of a lot of people! The proper repsonse would have been for INC to publish a rebuttal, not to threaten the nation with riots, violance, and possible killing. INC has become a dangerous militant religion and the claims of the INC lawyer proves it.
Where are Erano Manalo's arguments any different then those in Islam? There are NONE! Anyone who accepts the premise of the Manalo heresy that Jesus was not God, has accepted Islam in its doctrine against Jesus being Divine and possessing Deity! Another source of Manalo's Jesus is not God heresy is that of the Jehovah's Witnesses. It was the translation of the JWs concerning John 1:1 that the Word was a god or the Word was divine, that seduced Manalo to be bolder in his shouting that Jesus was not God! Of course the Manalo duet have worked up enough lather about Jesus not being God to wash a team of horses. The duets have never stopped grinning over the perverted Bible translation of George Lamsa. They loved his translation of "Church of God" into "Church of Christ" in Acts 20:28. Was Lamsa a clean sheet? No! Perhaps the fascination with Lamsa was assisted by the fact Lamsa was also Islamic influenced. Lamsa founded the Christian Mohammedan Society in 1921 to pursue unity by emphasizing common ground. Unity? Lamsa wants Islamic unity and Manalo wants Islamic doctrine that Jesus is not God. What better common ground could Lamsa want? Lamsa said Jesus did not claim to be equal to God and did not want worship. He also taught Jesus was two persons, a man which was born in Bethlehem and Christ which was eternal and had no beginning or end. He did not believe in a bodily resurrection. He did not believe Jesus would bodily return but would return only in the minds of people. Lamsa was a nut. His translation did not follow rules of word for word, and he often inserted his own interpretation rather then a word of the same meaning in English. The Manalo duet is doing in the Iglesia Ni Cristo exactly what Lamsa dreamed: unity with the Islamic religion based upon common ground with the same doctrine. What is the common ground between INC and Islam? It is the false doctrine that Jesus was only a man. Manalo did not get his doctrine out of the Bible but from Islamic sources either directly or from Islamic tainted sources like George Lamsa.
The premise of Manalo's book "Christ-God Examined-False" is that if Jesus was God there would be two Gods and the Father alone would not be the only true God. This premise is false and everything built upon it is false. Jesus can be both God and man, the Father and the Son, And Lord and Christ, and these can be one God (Monarchianism), from which Theodotus apostated and established Manalo's Dynamic Monarchian heresy. The Theodotus heresy is the foundation of the Islamic claim Jesus was not God only a man. Jesus himself said to Philip: "When you have seen me, YOU HAVE SEEN GOD (the Father)! Seeing is believing. Since the Manalo duet never was able to see the Father (God) when they looked at Jesus, the obvious conclusion is they were BLIND! Jesus intended that Philip understand when he looked upon him, he was looking at God the Father in flesh. If anyone denies this, they must call Jesus a liar. Let the men brave enough gainsay the words of Jesus, this writer and preacher WILL NOT!
The heir of the papal throne of INC attacked the deity of Jesus but had no backbone to attack the falsehoods of his own father. Thus, he put his father above Christ! We can be sure the papal power to continue the same errors and heresy will fall to one of Erano's sons when he becomes ill and unable to function or dies. I predict this will likely be Eduardo Manalo and he has probably already been secretly tapped for the throne. The central administration has no one among them worthy enough to inherit the messiahship throne. The blood lineage of the Manalo messias seed will be enforced you can count on that. Erano Manalo can boast of several things during his reign. He continued the Theodotus-Islamic doctrine that Jesus was just a man and not God. He can boast his methods caused membership and wealth increase for INC. He can take credit for the many, many, new rapture-designed buildings that were erected. He must be proud of the fact he holds great political power via the Church membership and by his coercion INC has risen to the level of a Philippine shadow government.
RECAPPING SOME OF THE EVENTS
Iglesia explains Manalo's departure from the SDA this way "Brother Felix remained with the Adventists until the time that he began to question their observance of the Sabbath during Saturdays. When the Adventists failed to respond to his queries, he resigned as minister and member in 1913" (GOD'S MESSAGE July - September 1994). According to sources, the INC sect today holds Sunday services and gave up Sabbath keeping.
After leaving the Seventh Day Adventists, Felix Manalo claimed to experience a call like the ancient prophets. It is said he closed himself in with his bible and other valuable inspirations. He stayed secluded we are told for three days and nights (like Jonah in the whale's belly), and was resurrected on the fourth day after his last night of power, visitation, and anointing. Manalo had his own "death, burial, and resurrection." Shut in he died to all the devil religions; he buried them all in the flames of hell fire; and on the fourth day he resurrected from his shut-in and founded the Iglesia-Ni-Cristo religion. Felix was another Jesus with a Filipino name, ...Manalo! When he emerged resurrected, we are told he gave his shoe business to a friend took his wife and began his mission to start a new religion, convinced that all others were evil and of the devil. Iglesia central administration tells us: "His exhaustive study of religions and the Bible led him to the conclusion that none of the existing churches then remained faithful with the biblical truth. Therefore, none of them is the true religion. His meditations assured him that God was commissioning him to preach the true Church of Christ." (GOD'S MESSAGE 1 July - September 1994). This experience smacks of his reading the life of Mohammed, founder of Islam. For he also secluded himself in a cave and there he was visited and had his night of power, visitation, and anointing. The same or similar experience is reported by several others who cranked out new religions: Joseph Smith, Ellen G. White, Charles Taze Russell, Alexander Campbell, and J. Barton Stone. Who would doubt him when he came out of his hiding place and made his claims? Who would dare not believe him? He would not need an outside witness or someone to validate or authenticate his calling. He would proclaim it himself and let those he could convince forsake all others and cleave unto him and they twain or many would become one Iglesia Ni Cristo.
He was self-acclaimed to be the only man of God upon the earth who had the true doctrine of the New Testament. All who would not receive him, refuse to hear him, and not join his new religion would be sent into the flames of hell screaming for their sin of rejection.
Manalo did not believe himself to be God's LAST messenger back in 1913 (1914 according to some claims). He didn't use the LAST messenger doctrine until 1922 after he was successful to lure many followers of the prophet Florencia Entrencherado into his group and he became their new messias-prophet. There seems to be several instances that could have influenced him on the date for the registration of his church on July 27, 1914, which was the date of the beginning of the first world war. It is believed he chose this date because he had swallowed the Jehovah's Witness doctrine that Christ was to return in 1914 and what better date to claim he did return and set up his restored Church then July 27th? His new religion was first known as Iglesia Ni Kristo with a "K" now changed to C. It was later after his apocalyptic influence from 7th day Adventism that he gave even more prophetic significance to this date. He claimed that it closed the period of the 6th seal as related to Rev. 7 and he was the messenger (angel) of the seventh seal and seventh trumpet. He anointed himself as the LAST seventh church age messenger. Now folks, listen real good. Hear me I say! If a man is the LAST, there ain't no more comming, hear me? If a man is the LAST before Jesus comes, there ain't no more messengers and church leaders comming, hear me? Felix say he is was the FIRST and the LAST comming. If this is true, then how is Erano Manalo following the LAST and even he is not the LAST?
Felix Manalo, the LAST angel of the church age died on April 12, 1963 at the age of 77 just a few days short of his 78th birthday. Many thought the church would divide over power struggles with his leadership gone but dad Felix was prepared for this. More than 10 years earlier, on January 28, 1953, he manipulated the powers that be to favor his son Erano Manalo (KA Erdy), and he was selected to be his successor as Executive Minister and leader of INC. He is the 5th child born to Felix and Honorata. It was Erano who wrote a 64 page booklet attacking the Deity of Christ called Christ-God; investigated—false.
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