IGLESIA NI CRISTO: Why A Multi-Million Sect is Without a Website?

You might be wondering why the Iglesia ni Cristo with its million dollar assets, founded by Felix Manalo in the Philippines in 1914 is without an official website where people could merge and refer rather than quoting from various unofficial ones? You might be wondering how much is the worth of this “Corporation Sole” that they can’t even have a website or official publications available in our bookstores?

This is just the tip of an iceburg.

According to INC in a Nutshell, and average yearly amount that a single INC member submits to Erano Manalo to the Philippines is $3,681.

Not much, right?

But translating that figure to peso (multiplied with the current exchange rate of 48.4 per US dollar), it would sore up to 178,160.40 pesos—a huge amount for an ordinary wage earner.

But this is just the estimated amount from a single member.

The breakdown?

Worship service offerings ($5.00x52x2)....$ 520.00

Local offerings ($10.00x40)............... 400.00

District offerings ($10.00x12)............ 120.00

Thanksgiving deposits ($25.00x49)........ 1,225.00

Supplemental Thanksgivings............... 500.00

Anniversary offerings.................... 700.00

God's Message offerings ($2.50x2x12)..... 60.00

EGM offerings ($3.00x52)................. 156.00

TOTAL $3,681.00

In an attempt to disclose the secrecy of Manalo’s wealth, here’s how this Sole Corporation makes money from its members:

The supplemental thanksgivings is the amount necessary to cover up whatever deficits of the member's deposits to make the thanksgiving comply with the abounding doctrine (amounts given this year must have increase over the increase of last year). For example, if what was given last year was $1,500, this year’s thanksgiving of $1,995 has increase of $495.00. This $495.00 must be greater than the increase last year. If last year's increase was $600.00, the member has drawn back from his obligation. Manalo teaches that God will not have pleasure with those who draw back from their obligations. Each of the above offerings can be increased at will by Manalo by issuing worship lessons to whip members into conformance if he sees the offerings graphs are falling.

The money outlays that are not included are the personal expenses for gasoline and tolls in going back and forth to their chapels for the worships, meetings, nightly devotional prayers, and out of pocket expenses for the food and snacks for the weekly bible expositions. If the local congregation's census is average of 300 members, Manalo has yearly income of $1,104,300.00 just for that one congregation or one chapel building. Since, the Iglesia ni Cristo has 134 congregations in the United States, the income of Manalo from the U.S. alone is a whooping $15,460,200.00. If we include the takes of Manalo from the rest of the world from Canada to Europe and Asia, an estimate of $50 million to $75 million is a low estimate.

With that huge amount flowing to Manalo’s Bank Vault, his full time ministers in the Philipipnes and elsewhere in the world receive an approximately US$1,000 which means an average 12,000 US Dollars annually.

That’s a very little amount compensation for all the lying techniques one has to speak in order to win ignorant and uninformed Catholics to their fold. Lying is a serious job and it must have a huge compensation.

Take this [12,000] out from the annual receipts of
$75,000,000 will leave net Manalo receipts of $63,000,000.

And what happens to other expenses such as utilities,
telephones, supplies and other important things needed for the Iglesia?

"… all paid from the local offerings. Strictly speaking, the local offerings pay for all expenses other than the minister's allowance and travel expenses.
Therefore, if we take out the local offerings of $3,000,000 the net takes of the Iglesia ni Cristo owner is $60,000,000 tax free.

How do they do that? They use “Classical Conditioning” by Pavlov

Psychology Book Example of Classical Conditioning:Mind conditioner................Pavlov
Animal to be conditioned........A dog
What Pavloc wants the dog to do? To salivate (detected by use of inserted instrument) Two things needed to condition the dog: 1) Bell 2) Meat powder as bait.

Application:Every time Pavlov rings the bell, the bell is accompanied by giving the dog the meat powder. Pavlov does this repeatedly to train or condition the dog. After several ringing and dispensing of the meat powder, the dog is now trained (or conditioned). Pavlov rings the bell but without the accessory meat powder.

Result:
The dog salivates upon hearing the bell even without the meat powder.
Conclusion: The dog is already conditioned to accept that the bell means meat
powder.

The INC Application of ClassicalConditioning:
Mind Conditioner............Felix Manalo (or INC minister);
Animal to be trained........Visitor or Prospect;
What FYM or INC minister wants the visitor to do: To enroll in the INC free bible study; Two things needed to condition the visitor....1) Gospel of Manalo, and 2) The Bible (as bait).Application:In the bible exposition, every time the INC minister teaches the gospel of Manalo, it is accompanied by reading the Bible. In the entire session, the two things (Manalo
gospel plus Bible bait) are being repeated again and again. At the end of the
session, the visitor is impressed that the Iglesia ni Cristo is a Bible based
church.

Conclusion: The visitor is already conditioned to become a Bible student or indoctrinee.

In one of the 27 “Manalo’s Gospels” numbers 18 and 19 respectively under the guise of “Worship Services” and “Voluntary Contributions”. Actually they’re for business purposes.

1. Lesson 1 - The Bible
2. Lesson 2 - The true God
3. Lesson 3 - The true religion
4. Lesson 4 - The Church of Christ
5. Lesson 5 - History of the church built by Christ in the first century
6. Lesson 6 - Proofs that the apostasy of the first century Church of Christ took place
7. Lesson 7 - The origin of other churches
8. Lesson 8 - Not by faith only
9. Lesson 9 - One organized church
10. Lesson 10- The Church of Christ in the Philippines
11. Lesson 11- Brother Felix Y. Manalo: God's Messenger in the last days
12. Lesson 12- The promise for those who endure persecution
13. Lesson 13- Membership in the Church of Christ
14. Lesson 14- The Lord Jesus Christ, Part 1
15. Lesson 15- The Lord Jesus Christ, Part 2
16. Lesson 16- The Lord Jesus Christ, Part 3
17. Lesson 17- Leading a new life
18. Lesson 18- Worship services
19. Lesson 19- Our voluntary contribution
20. Lesson 20- The brotherhood
21. Lesson 21- Other prohibitions
22. Lesson 22- On baptism
23. Lesson 23- Missionary work and praying
24. Lesson 24- The church administration
25. Lesson 25- Unity
26. Lesson 26- Judgment Day
27. Lesson 27- Overall instructions

In fact members are strictly monitored by their deacons and deanonness with the strict commandment from Erano Manalo that those who are “Drawing Back” are prone to danger, either by expulsion or by fear-tactic—thrown into the “Lake of Fire”.

It’s voluntary contribution is not true. Here are the 6 “INC Purgatories” according to “INC in a Nutshell.”

1) Not to miss the Thursday and Sunday worship services, and other compulsory gatherings;

2) To give monies to all the many kinds of offerings and contributions;

3) To give increasing amounts of thanksgivings offerings every July and December to the two saviors;

4) To work for the Iglesia ni Cristo savior night and day without any compensation whatsoever;

5) To seek prospective converts weekly and persevere in devoting time and efforts and money throughout the indoctrination process of the future soul fruit until baptism;

6) To obey Erano G. Manalo on whatever he orders.

Aha! So what are those “many kinds of contributions” which are supposed to be “voluntary”?

Annual December Thanksgiving - This is one of the delicate worship services. As such, it requires the seven day devotional prayers by members. In this worship service, each one, adult, youth, and babies, must have his/her envelope stuffed with monies. Members are required to have one year preparation accomplished by making weekly Sunday deposits starting from the first Sunday of January through the second Sunday of December. A token check for the total amount deposited is given to the member depositor in exchange for the surrendering of the deposit booklet. The token check will be placed in the thanksgiving envelope. Since the Thanksgiving Day is the third Sunday of December, the deficiency of the deposits will be covered up by adding cash, money orders, or bank checks. Personal checks are discouraged unless the brother/sister is sure of sufficiency of funds in the bank. The members must thankGod for calling them to become members of the Church of Christ. According to Manalo, the members must thank God for many things such as: Most important of all is for remaining as members inside the Iglesia ni Cristo, for being alive, for being freed from mishaps, sickness, and other calamities, for receiving many blessings such as the jobs, the possessions, and properties they own..

July Anniversary Thanksgiving- This is another delicate worship service to commemorate the founding of the Iglesia ni Cristo by Felix Y. Manalo. It is also the commemoration and praise of Felix Y. Manalo, whose commissioning by God lead to the rebirth of the first century church established by Jesus Christ. The members must have the envelope stuffed with monies to thank God for the progress of the Church.

Here are the punishments for missing such worship services:

1. Not to miss the Thursday and Sunday worship services, and other compulsory gatherings
2. To give monies to all the many kinds of offerings and contributions;
3. To give increasing amounts of thanksgivings offerings every July and December to the two saviors;
4. To work for the Iglesia ni Cristo savior night and day without any compensation whatsoever;
5. To seek prospective converts weekly and persevere in devoting time and efforts and money throughout the indoctrination process of the future soul fruit until baptism;
6. To obey Erano G. Manalo on whatever he orders.

So why such a huge and rich sect could not even have an official website where they can post their official doctrines and their official position to many social and moral issues our country is facing. With the rapid moral decline of our own citizens, we need to see what alternative they could offer for our country to move uprightly as a “Christian” nation.

I am not the only one who’s questioning their deafening silence. In fact, in one of the forums at PinoyExchange particularly addressed to Iglesia ni Cristo members, all they have to say is a very frustrating answer “Visit one of our chapels” or “attend the Pamamahayag.”

Normally, in human character, everything that’s not good, we keep it secret and anyone who would dare to expose us to shameful truth, we either tend to ignore, be passive, pretend as if nothing is happening or worst there are those who commit crime by just keeping their secrets hidden. In the case of the Iglesia ni Cristo, they use all of the above. (See articles in Answers.com. And the surest way to keep their secrets, they maintain it buried away from intelligent minds.

Understandably, their PANDOKTRINA in its entirety is FULL OF HATRED against the Catholic Church.

As a help, we all have to pray for those who have misled by this cult. It is only by the grace of God acting in our prayers that a long time INC member can able to break out the chains of the Iglesia ni Cristo. INC in a Nutshell hope…

“With the power of God, all of those who are willing may be able to recognize
the truth of God. However it requires the individual to test what they are being
told to believe by the Word of God. This is something that Iglesia ni Cristo members are discouraged to do."