What is Iglesia ni Cristo?
” Answer: Iglesia Ni Cristo was founded by Felix Manalo in 1914 in the Philippines. The phrase Iglesia Ni Cristo is Tagalog (the language of the Philippines) for Church of Christ. Sadly, while claiming to be a church, Iglesia Ni Cristo has all of the basic elements of a cult. The first and foremost is a single charismatic leader who claims to have a special revelation from God. Felix Manalo was a former Catholic who abandoned Catholicism in his teens. He experimented with several Protestant denominations and the Jehovahs Witnesses. Manalo finally started his own church, the Iglesia Ni Cristo, in 1914. When a schism in the church appeared in 1922, he began claiming to be Gods prophet in an effort to accumulate power and re-assert his leadership over the church. Some of his claims are that the Iglesia Ni Cristo was prophesied in the Bible. The specific prophecy they quote is 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 ga
