After
100 years, INC still don't have solid official written doctrine
available in public. As we know it, INC preach their doctrine through
oral (or what we call, tradition). You go to their chapel and have a
one-on-one talk with a minister. Aside from that, they have their
official yet incomplete doctrine lessons in their website but in a form
of a video which is so hard to cite. If official doctrines are not
written down, they can simply deny "it is not official".
Why should one entrust the salvation of his soul on the shifting sands of human doctrines? A wise man builds his house not on a sand but on a rock. The Catholic Church, on the other hand, puts its doctrines in written form and the summary of it is the Catechism of the Catholic Church. The dogmas of the Church, e.g. Original Sin, Trinity, Transubstantiation, etc., are true and will always remain true both now and forever. You can bet your life and soul on this.
I have heard that INC do have an official written doctrines but only the ministers can use and INC would never publish it in public it for the reason that non-members might misunderstood it. But for me that reason is absurd. Catechism is available in public and it has been quoted many times by the INC minister in their preaching to discredit the Catholic Church. As Christ said, “No one who lights a lamp hides it away or places it (under a bushel basket), but on a lampstand so that those who enter might see the light” (Lk 11: 33).
I believe INC do not want to publish their official written doctrine because they are afraid that it might be used against them just like how the use numerous Catholic books and also to maintain their reason that non-member do not know about their doctrines which will force to visit an INC chapel and do the brainwash. For the mean time, Catholic apologists have only the Pasugo as an official reference of the doctrines of Iglesia ni Cristo. But it does not contain so much about doctrines but rather messages and convert stories.
I think it is a challenge for the INC administration to publish their COMPLETE written doctrines and make it available in public or else they will remain INC (INCOMPLETE). But I doubt they can do that, it is because only the Catholic Church can do that. As Christ said:
“You are the light of the world. A city set on a mountain cannot be hidden.j15 Nor do they light a lamp and then put it under a bushel basket; it is set on a lampstand, where it gives light to all in the house.” (Mt 5:14-15)
Why should one entrust the salvation of his soul on the shifting sands of human doctrines? A wise man builds his house not on a sand but on a rock. The Catholic Church, on the other hand, puts its doctrines in written form and the summary of it is the Catechism of the Catholic Church. The dogmas of the Church, e.g. Original Sin, Trinity, Transubstantiation, etc., are true and will always remain true both now and forever. You can bet your life and soul on this.
I have heard that INC do have an official written doctrines but only the ministers can use and INC would never publish it in public it for the reason that non-members might misunderstood it. But for me that reason is absurd. Catechism is available in public and it has been quoted many times by the INC minister in their preaching to discredit the Catholic Church. As Christ said, “No one who lights a lamp hides it away or places it (under a bushel basket), but on a lampstand so that those who enter might see the light” (Lk 11: 33).
I believe INC do not want to publish their official written doctrine because they are afraid that it might be used against them just like how the use numerous Catholic books and also to maintain their reason that non-member do not know about their doctrines which will force to visit an INC chapel and do the brainwash. For the mean time, Catholic apologists have only the Pasugo as an official reference of the doctrines of Iglesia ni Cristo. But it does not contain so much about doctrines but rather messages and convert stories.
I think it is a challenge for the INC administration to publish their COMPLETE written doctrines and make it available in public or else they will remain INC (INCOMPLETE). But I doubt they can do that, it is because only the Catholic Church can do that. As Christ said:
“You are the light of the world. A city set on a mountain cannot be hidden.j15 Nor do they light a lamp and then put it under a bushel basket; it is set on a lampstand, where it gives light to all in the house.” (Mt 5:14-15)
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