They Claim Authority as a Divine Source and even Scientific

a. They are only ―true Christians‖ and the outside of them is the anti-Christ.

b. Their founder claimed to be as ―Sent by God‖, ―a faithful and discreet slave‖, ―God‘s Messenger‖ or a prophet.

But most of their predictions were failed in a very destructive doctrine by using Christ name. Jesus warned that in the last days there would be organizations and people giving false prophecies and teachings that would almost deceive the ―very elect‖, a massive ―sheep‖ will be lost, where they are claiming that Christ is with them, guiding and channeling directly to them.

c. Their ―biblical and science research‖ is ―accurate‖.

d. They are the only ―God‘s channel of communication‖.

e. They are the only God‘s ―new prophets‖.

f. Their self-claimed predictions are ―God‘s dates‖ not from themselves.

g. They actually claim where the bible itself tells that they are the only ―true church‖ because they are in complete agreement to their Organization and are united in the same mind and thought.

But the Bible itself is clearly teaches the fact was the First Christians were not really organized, united in the same mind and thought, they were already lacking in unity. See 1 Corinthians. 6:13; 8:10; 10:25; 11:2-16; 14; 15. However, Paul clearly believed these groups of Christians were Christ‘s.

h. They produce bogus scientific research through their own literatures.

i. They usually create bogus research to make ―evidences‖ or ―new light‖ for them to become credible in terms of

―biblical, historical and archeological‖ in all fields of expertise and authenticity. Example: the name of God, etc.

j. They have their own doctrine, ―spiritual‖ or ―new light‖ literatures or ―expounding gospels‖ as ―spiritual foods‖ from their leaders.

k. They also tampered the Holy Scripture or altered the text of the Bible to make it fit their false doctrine – rather than basing their doctrine on what the original Bible teaches.

l. Their organization claim as the ―co-mediator‖ of Christ or their organization is the way before going to Christ and then Christ to God. Only members do not have personal relationship with Christ.

20. Separating themselves from their Families and Friends. Cults must control their members by telling them that their love ones and friends will not understand because they are ―apostates‖, ―touching the heathen‘s things‖ and ―unclean persons‖.

21. Encourage Recruiting. The cults have specialized in training on how to recruit, getting more members but telling not to stop recruiting other people but stay away or do not waste time to non-believers.

22. Encourage Dependency, Uniformity and Conformity. The cults do encourage maintaining dependency, uniformity and conformity in their organization but they discourage autonomy and individuality. Vice President of the Watchtower Corporation Hayden Covington of under cross-examination:

Court: If a member of Jehovah‘s Witnesses took the view himself that the prophecy was wrong and said so he would be disfellowshipped?

Hayden Covington: Yes.... Our purpose is to have unity.

Court: And unity based upon an enforced acceptance of a false prophecy?

Hayden Covington: That is conceded to be true.

Cults usually says:

―The whole purpose must be the main focus and the self purpose must be subordinated‖

23. Confessionals. The cults also use the member‘s confessions and publish it to their own literature, to have confessionals where members ―demonized‖ their early lives and only praise their life on the group. They rewrite their ―past‖ as terrible and even it makes sound great when they baptized to this group: ―Before, I was a bad person but when I am become a member, my life is wonderful now, I hate my old life‖.

24. Isolation. They isolate their members from the rest of world and make them part of ―special elite group‖ with their important

―spiritual mission‖. They will say ―heavenly hope is only for our selected members and to the members who work hard will be in paradise.‖

25. Special Bonding. They usually tighten their group‘s bond by establishing ―scapegoats and demons‖ as their enemies. Cults are teaching them that the outsiders are ―corrupt, evil, anti-Christ, broken branches, apostates, and heathen‖ and conspiring against their organization. They develop an ―us‖ and versus ―them‖ mentality.

26. Fighting Resistance. They manipulate the members to tell their critical thoughts or to confess when they committed crimes against the organization. They start investigating the members and make up crimes. When a member wants to leave the organization, the cults are actively making the member feel guilty:

a. ―Do you want to give up your freedom of spiritual enlightenment or do you want yourself not save in the coming of the Lord‘s judgment day‖?

b. ―What is more important? Eternal salvation or eternal damnation?‖

c. ―Are you quit? Can‘t you see we are painstakingly indoctrinating you, helping you, to lift you up just for you to be saved! Still you don‘t want to get baptized?‖

d. ―You will be annihilated like those broken branches which they will fall to the eternal destruction.‖

e. ―You are being selfish, negative, ignored and sinful‖.

f. ―You will not save if you leave this organization‖.

g. ―Our leader is flawless and our doctrine is flawless‖.

h. ―There must be something wrong with you‖.

27. Indoctrinate by Fear. They will inject the member‘s mind to feel fear if they will leave the organization, by telling them of suffer disgrace, misfortune, far from God, they will carry many burdens like losing their jobs, money, family and even their lives. ―I‘m just warning you that without us, your life will becoming bad, get sick or even early to die with complicated diseases‖. ―If you will become rich, God will forget you, you‘ll forget God and he will never forgive you, God loves the poor people so just forget to have higher jobs, don‘t get higher education, don‘t help your country, stay away from the government because they are all products of evil‖.

There are some concepts to manipulate fear to the members:

a. The fear about disasters puts us into a self-survival mode and rather than think about concepts such as freedom and faith in Christ; we are easy to manipulate because we will do most anything to survive. Fear and trauma are also key components to their total mind-control.

b. It makes the God of the Bible appear wrathful and cruel, while they can present their hideous Satan as a light bearer, as one who liberates us from all the cruel harsh arbitrary rules of God. While this is not what God is really like, people have YAHWEH is so often misrepresented that people tend to believe God is cruel. El Niño, with its disastrous warm currents and weather effects, was the Spanish name meaning ―the Christ child‖. Why don‘t we name natural disasters after demons?

c. They are attempting to control events and disasters in order to install their own ―Christ‖ and thereby use their opponent‘s holy book to legitimize their own world ruler. This ruler will be able to save us from our troubles, just as Hitler saved Germans from their troubles during the first few years of Nazism. Appreciation for the Bible‘s wisdom is reduced by all the wild end-time theories that the Bible seems to support.

d. One important purpose of Armageddon preaching is the creation of a one-world government. National governments and nationalism can be destroyed, because entire countries are being taught that nationalism is evil. While Christ taught us to respect all men, love for one‘s family and nation is not evil. I can love my country and still appreciate that you love yours. I can love my family and still appreciate you love yours. Nationalism does not have to be an evil.

e. On Thanksgivings Day, we tend to renew family ties in this nation. No one would suggest that Thanksgivings Day is dangerous. Our love for our nation (our extended family) could also be that benign if our evil leaders didn‘t create unnecessary wars to pit us against each other. There have been clan wars, royal bloodline wars, mafia and other family feuds, and this shows us that even family ties can lead to violence.

f. No one is allowed to question the authority of their Organization, if they, they will be in under circumstances of prosecution, excommunication or shunned, black mail, psychological disturbances, demoralize, harassments and spiritual hunger.

28. Unitary Figure. By having the authority, an authoritative Organization does not have to be an individual because they will be controlling the minds of every individual to trust and to believe this Organization to commit unity. But precise unity in beliefs among members is a sign not of freedom, but of control. This is a cultic power of mind control.