Monday, September 12, 2011

Is the Iglesia Ni Cristo a Murderer church?

Question
I have persistently invited by a member of the Iglesia Ni Cristo church. I have not give in on his first attempt to invite me to attend the so called "GEM" or Grand Evangelical Mission. But in his second attempt I answered him my YES. I attended a GEM.

During the GEM, the Pastor explained that there's no other way to attain salvation but to become part of the Iglesia Ni Cristo. I was disturbed by what the Pastor told us during the GEM, so I did a research in the internet about the Iglesia Ni Cristo.

In my search for the information about the Iglesia Ni Cristo, I found many discussions in the internet. There are those who accuse the Iglesia Ni Cristo as murderer.

My question is this: Is it really true that the Iglesia Ni Cristo is a murderer religion?

Answer
Iglesia Ni Cristo is a Christian religion. And just like the other Christian religion that exist today, it promotes love not just within the church but also to the outside of the church.

However, it is true that there are members of the church who committed the crime. Few of them are those convicted in killing several victims inside their chapel (locale's house of worship i.e. the chapel of Hinunangan Locale).

But even if there are members of the said church who committed the crime, it doesn't mean that the entire church committed the crime as explained by a blogpost, Iglesia Ni Cristo members:
But if you are an open minded person, you couldn’t accuse the whole church of the crime committed by few especially that one of the teachings or doctrines of the Iglesia Ni Cristo told its members to live the life that is in accordance to the will of God. God prohibits its children to commit murder, so the Iglesia Ni Cristo prohibits it too.
To make it more clear, let us take the case of many Catholics who are now in jail. 80 percent of the Catholics or members of the Roman Catholic Church who are jailed committed different crimes. But it doesn't mean that just because there are Catholics who committed the crime, the whole Roman Catholic Church is criminal already.

In the first place, both Roman Catholic Church and the Iglesia Ni Cristo teach their members not to kill or commit any crime because according to their teaching, murder or any other kind of crime is a sin.

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