VALUES EDUCATION 12

ACTIVITY

IGLESIA NI CRISTO

SUBMITTED BY: RT 5: Jo-el Lagaac

Kate Enar
Athea Labador
Danes Jane Richa
Kent Daiz

SUBMITTED TO: Mrs. Marcelina H. Tual

Iglesia ni Cristo
Abbreviation: INC
Classification: Restorationism
Theology: Nontrinitarians,
Unitarianism
Governance: Central
Administration
Executive Minister: Eduardo V.
Manalo
Region: 156 countries and
territories
Headquarters: Quezon City,
Philippines
Founder: Felix Manalo
Origin: July 27, 1914; 108 years
ago (date registered to
the Philippine
government) Punta,
Santa Ana, Manila,
Philippine Islands
Congregations: approximately 7,000
Members: 3 million (estimated worldwide)
 Felix Manalo as the founder

According to INC, Manalo is the "angel from the east"

mentioned in Revelation 7:1–3 who started preaching
about the INC coincide the outbreak of the World War I.
This is the start of the period according to INC being
referred to in the Bible as the ends of the earth (cf Is 41:9-
10; 43:5-6) the time when the end of the world is near,
even at the very doors (cf. Mt. 24:3, 33), which began
with the outbreak of a war of global proportions (cf. Mt.
24:6-7)Manalo is from the Philippines, which they say is
in the "center" of the Far East. The ‘four winds’ in
Revelation 7:1-3, they say refers to World War I and the
four angels are the four leaders known as the big four
(Woodrow Wilson, David Lloyd George, Georges
Clemenceau, and Vittorio Orlando) who they say worked
on the prevention of the war to continue.
Manalo is also portrayed as the fulfillment of several
passages in Isaiah and other books of the Bible.
As the one who sent by God to restore INC, Manalo
became the first executive minister and spiritual leader of
the church. As such, he taught that what is written in the
Bible was the ultimate authority in all aspects of the
church, and effectively as a messenger of God, Manalo is
"the foremost Biblical authority for all humanity and the
divinely designated leader of a reestablished Church of
Christ in the modern world."
 Iglesia ni Cristo the Religion’s History

Built in 1937, the former chapel of the Punta, Manila,

congregation is now an INC museum

During American Occupation over the Philippines, there

were a variety of rural anti-colonial movements, often
with religious undertones, and American Protestant
missionaries introduced several alternatives to the
Catholic Church, the established church during Spanish
colonial period, by that it was the founder’s works who
cause influence into people and eventually end up to a
religion.
Beliefs and core values
Iglesia ni Cristo believes that it is the true church
established by Jesus Christ in the first century, and that its
registration in the Philippines is the fulfillment of biblical
prophecies that Christ's church would re-emerge in the
Far East. Because of a number of similarities, INC's
doctrines have been described as restorationist in outlook
and theme.

Bible
The Iglesia ni Cristo believes that the Bible is the only
book inspired by God, thus it is the sole basis of all their
beliefs and practices.
 God the Father, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit

The Iglesia ni Cristo believes that God the Father is the

creator deity and the only true God. INC rejects the
traditional Christian belief in the Trinity as heresy,
adopting a version of Unitarianism. They believe that this
position is attested by Jesus Christ and the Apostles.
Christ and the Apostles are united in teaching how many
and who is the real God. Similar to other true Christians,
according to Apostle Paul, there is only one God, the
Father—not the Son and more so not the Holy Spirit. The
Apostles also did not teach that there is one God who has
three personas who are also Gods.… It [Trinity] is not
found in the Holy Scriptures or the Bible, and if
[Catholic] priests ever use the Bible to prove this teaching
of theirs, all are based only on suppositions and
presumptions.
The church believes that Jesus Christ is the Son of God
and the mediator between God the Father and humanity,
and was created by God the Father. God sanctified him to
be without sin, and bestowed upon him the titles "Lord"
and "Son of God". The church sees Jesus as God's highest
creation, believe that he is a Man and denies the deity of
Jesus.[19] Adherents profess Jesus' substitutionary role in
the redemption of humankind. He is believed to have been
"foreordained before the foundation of the world" and
sent by God "to deal with sin". Members "are saved by
Christ's blood" who died because of his "self-sacrificing
love".
INC believes that the Holy Spirit is the power of God and
also not a deity, being sent by God the Father and Jesus
Christ to guide God's people.