Thinking About the Iglesia ni Manalo's Upcoming 100th Anniversary

July 27, 2014 will be the upcoming celebration of the Iglesia ni Manalo's founding.  What is pretty disturbing is to why the call themselves as the Iglesia ni Cristo when the founder is Felix Manalo, that the whole religion is based on the will of Felix Manalo, Christ's deity is denied and Felix Manalo is uplifted.  Now I guess members of the Iglesia ni Manalo will brag about their 100th year of celebration which is absurd.  

According to Felix Manalo, the Church had apostasized and that he is the last messenger, sent to restore the Church.  One must TAKE CARE of this argument. One, the Church is the Body of Christ and it DOES NOT apostasize!  1 John 2:19 had made a distinction between apostates and true believers.  The true members of the Church abide in Christ to the end, the false ones walk away.  In short, false members apostasize but NOT the Church itself.  Jesus promises in Matthew 16:16-18 that the Church is built upon the Rock (Jesus) and that the Gates of Hell cannot prevail against it.  With Jesus as the foundation, the Body of Christ is not going to be defeated by the Gates of Hell!

The Church was NOT founded in 1914 neither did it apostasize prior to that.  Any Christian union that claims to be Christian but is into unbiblical doctrine and practices is a counterfeit.  The Iglesia ni Manalo denies Christ's deity, teaches salvation by works instead of faith in Christ, it teaches the Holy Spirit is just a force and only the INC may interpret, it's no better than its mother the Roman Catholic institution.

What Christians can do is not to debate but to rather share the Gospel with the misguided members of the Iglesia ni Manalo.  Fighting and debating them will do no good.  One may as well consider the 100th anniversary as another soulwinning opportunity.