Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Damating na ang Panauhing Pandangal ng Estados Unidos: Papa Francisco, Lider ng Pangkalahatang Iglesia ni Cristo

Masigabong palakpakan at sigawan ang nakakabinging maririnig sa pagdating ng Kahalili ng Panginoong Jesus na inatasang maging pastol ng Iglesia ni Cristo. 

Dumating ang Santo Papa sa Estados Unidos lulan ng Alitalia mula sa bansang Cuba. Panoorin natin ang kagalakang ito!  Mabuhay si Santo Papa Francisco!

Sunday, September 20, 2015

Mga Kaanib ng Iglesia ni Cristo sa UAE, may mga lokal na!

Buhay na buhay po ang Iglesiang tatag ni Cristo - ang Iglesia Katolika sa Gitnang Silangan lalo na sa United Arab Emirates (UAE). Sa katunayan, napaulat pa sa ibabang artikulo na hindi lang mga expats ang mga Kristianong nagsisimba sa mga Simbahan kundi may mga LOKAL na rin pong mga kaanib.  Opo, mga LOKAL pong mga kaanib kaya't marapat lamang sabihin na ang TUNAY na Iglesia ni Cristo - ay may lokal na sa UAE. Purihin ang Panginoong Hesus, Diyos na totoo at Tagapagligtas!

Overflowing Church In Middle East Proves Christianity Is Alive

Source: JOSEPH EID / Getty Images
[Source: AtlantaDailyWorld] Christanity is not dead in the middle east. One place that is showing this is Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Pew Research Center numbers Christians in the Arabian Peninsula at 2.3 million—more Christians than nearly 100 countries can claim. The Gulf Christian Fellowship, an umbrella group, estimates 3.5 million. Foreigners now make up more than 70 percent of the more than 4 million inhabitants, coming from other Arab countries, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, the Philippines. More than half of these foreign workers are Christians. Adding up the figures, Christians account for more than 35 percent of the population of the United Arab Emirates. Around a million of them are Catholic. And it’s not only in the UAE – in Saudi Arabia, too, it is estimated that there are already about a million Catholics from the Philippines.

One of the things proving that ministry is growing is the creation of a new church. Located in Mussafah, a satellite town of Abu Dhabi, St. Paul parish overflowed with 5,000 Christian worshippers gathering for the Thanksgiving Mass, far more than its 1,200-capacity. It is set to cater to the 60,000 to 70,000 Christians working and living in the surrounding area, many of whom are migrant workers from Africa, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and the Philippines. Some local Arabs have also joined in.

Mubarak Al Nahyan, UAE’s minister for culture, youth, and community development, said the opening of the church—the second in Dubai after St. Joseph’s Cathedral in the center of the city—underlines the religious tolerance of religious leaders. He lauded Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the previous president and father of the current president, for his wisdom, courage, prudence, temperance, loyalty, justice, and generosity.

Mubarak Al Nahyan says:

‘Our leadership knows its true wealth and accepts the obligation to respect and understand the many religious beliefs of the people living in this country. I believe that each of you can provide evidence that the leaders of the UAE are fulfilling that obligation.’

In the history of Christianity, both the apostles St. Peter and St. Paul had long intense missions in the middle east. The former founded the church of Antioch. St. Paul’s great mission to the gentiles began at Antioch, where the term “Christians” came to life to denote the followers of Christ. The name was first heard for the first time here. The apostle St. Thomas brought Christianity to Mesopotamia, now Iraq, and the three main Iraqi denominations—Chaldean, Assyrian, and Orthodox—still survive from that early period. The Chaldean and Assyrian churches use Syriac in their respective liturgies, a tongue close to Aramaic, which Jesus is said to have spoken.

Lider ng Iglesia ni Cristo, nagdaos ng Misa sa Havana dinayo ng halos Isang Milyon sa kabila ng pagiging Komunista ng bansa


Lider ng Santa Iglesia ni Cristo, Dumating na sa Cuba

Friday, September 4, 2015

Tuluy na tuloy na po ang kaso laban sa mga Ministro ng Iglesia Ni Cristo de Manalo- 1914 - Ang Sanggunian

Tuluy na tuloy na po ang paggulong ng kasong isinampa sa mga makapangyarihang Ministro ng INC ni Manalo.  Pinatatawag na po ni Sec. Leila de Lima ang mga kasapi sa Sanggunian na inakusahan ng tiwalag ng Ministrong si G. Isaias Samson Jr.

Wala nang makakahadlang! Panahon na para harapin ng Sanggunian ang mga paratang ng pagmamalabis, paniniil sa karapatang pantao at sa di umano'y garapalang pagnanakaw sa kaban ng nasabing grupong tatag ni Felix Manalo noong 1914.

DOJ to summon Iglesia ni Cristo leaders

Sec. Leila de Lima (DOJ)
[PhilStar] MANILA, Philippines - The Department of Justice (DOJ) will summon leaders of the Iglesia ni Cristo (INC) for a preliminary investigation into criminal charges – including serious illegal detention – filed against them by expelled members of the religious sect.

Justice Secretary Leila de Lima vowed fairness in the conduct of the preliminary investigation, wherein the eight respondents are expected to file counter-affidavits “as part of the process.”

Aside from serious illegal detention – a non-bailable offense – the eight INC ministers are also facing charges of harassment as well as threats and coercion. The eight are members of the 10-man Sanggunian, the INC’s highest administrative council.

Expelled INC members Isaias Samson Jr. and Lito Fruto filed the complaints.

De Lima said investigating prosecutors would issue subpoena requiring the respondents to appear in a hearing.

It was her order to have the complaints investigated that prompted the INC leadership to call for street protests and demand the resignation of De Lima.

Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Pag-alaala sa mga patay, larawan at imahe, bawal ba sa Iglesia Ni Cristo-1914?


Kung bias ang ABS-CBN sabi ng mga INC™, pinaka-BIAS ang NET25 ng Iglesia Ni Cristong® tatag ni Felix Manalo!

Nagsisisigaw ang mga kaanib ng Iglesia Ni Cristong tatag ni Felix Manalo noong 1914 sa harap ng DOJ sa Maynila nitong nakaraang araw na naging source of news naman ng ating mga mamamahayag.

Tiba-tiba ang ABS-CBN, GMA7, ABC5, PTV4 at iba pang mga international news services sa balitang #IglesiaNiCristo pero ang NET25 na pag-aari ng Iglesia Ni Manalo ay halos papuri at pagmamayabang lamang ang naririnig sa kanila.

Dahil sa taas ng tensiyon, ang mga lumahok sa rally nila ay nanakit ng mamamahayag ng ABS-CBN na ang sigaw pa ay "Bias! Bias"!

ABS-CBN cameraman assaulted at Iglesia ni Cristo EDSA protest – report
August 29, 2015 3:15am

Unidentified assailants reportedly mauled ABS-CBN cameraman Melchor Pinlac while he was filming the Iglesia ni Cristo protest at the EDSA Shrine.

Pinlac said that he was grabbed by the neck, then he was punched on the jaw, the body, and the back of the neck, according to a dzMM radio report. All the while, the crowd around him was chanting “biased, biased.”

According to Super Radyo dzBB, their reporter Olan Bola was shoved around during the encounter while trying to appease protesters. Bola was not injured. — GMA News

Pero sa totoo lang, sino kaya ang BIAS? Ang ABS-CBN or ang NET25 na pag-aari ng INC™?

Sa natatandaan ko, WALA man sa kanilang mga journalist ang nag-COVER sa PAPAL VISIT noong buwan ng Enero sa kabila ng pagparito ng maraming mga international journalist tulad ng CNN ng US, BBC ng UK, PressTV ng Iran, Al-Jazeera ng Qatar, France24 ng France, RT ng Russia at marami pang iba.

Pero ang lokal na lokal na TV Station na NET25, para silang hindi na natira sa Pilipinas at nagbobolahan silang pumuri sa kani-kanilang mga balita na wala namang relevance noong panahong iyon.

Tama nga ang sabi ni. G. Philip Lustre Jr., na ang Iglesia Ni Cristo raw ay "epitome of religious bigotry and ethnocentrism; its xenophobia..."

Monday, August 31, 2015

Babagsak na nga ba ang Iglesia Ni Cristo® na tatag ni Felix Manalo?

Matindi ang ginawang perwisyo ng mga kaanib ng INC™ na tatag ni Felix Manalo nitong mga nakaraang mga araw.  Daglian ang mga pangyayari.

Buwang ng Abril, nagsimulang maglahad ng mga anumalya ang isang kaanib ng INC™ sa pangalang Antonio Ebangelista sa kanyang blog na pinamagatang "Iglesia Ni Cristo Silent No More" (http://iglesianicristosilentnomore.wordpress.com).

Maraming naniwala kay Antonio Ebangelista, ngunit sila'y ITINIWALAG agad agad ng walang pagdinig.  Ang ilan ay natakot. Ayaw nang magsalita o magkomento.  Ang ilan ay gumawa ng mga fake accounts para lamang ituloy ang laban na inumpisahan ni Antonio Ebangelista.

Habang namamayagpag ng mahigit 2 milyong hits na ang blog ni Antonio Ebangelista na naging sanhi ng pagbabangayan ng mga kaanib nila, ang Media ay nagbabasa na sa mga pangyayari. Di kalauna'y biglang nawala ito. Hinacked pala di umano ng ACTIV, isang grupo raw ng mga INC™ IT experts.

Hindi ito naging dahilan kay AE upang mawalan ng pag-asa kaya't gumawa ulit ng blog si Ka AE (http://incsilentnomore.wordpress.com). Lalong matunog ang usapin tungkol sa mga akusasyong maraming mga itniwalag na Ministro ang nawawala o kaya'y hindi alam kung sinong dumukot.

Hanggang pumotk sa YouTube ang panawagan ng Ka Tenny at ng Ka Angelo (ina at kapatid ng Ka Eduardo V. Manalo) na sila'y ginigipit na raw ng Sanggunian (Council of Advisers) sa pamilya ng namayapang Ka Eraño.




Naging hayagan na ngayon ang talamak na hidwaan at kabuktutan sa INC™ ni Manalo. Kaliwa't kanan ang akusasyon ng pagmamalabis ng mga Ministro nito, sa pangunguna ni Ka GLICERIO SANTOS JR. o mas kilala sa pangalang JUN SANTOS.

Nariyan di umano ang nakabili sila ng AirBus na eroplano (pero ibinenta pagkatapos na maisiwalat ang tunkol dito).

Nariyan di umano ang pagtitinda ng INC™ ng mga ari-arian at lupain. Ang malaking gastos na ginugugol sa Philippine Arena na hindi naman kumikita.

Nariyan di umano ang kaliwat-kanang tiwalagan.

At ang panghuli ay ang malawak na backlash ng mga kaanib sa kanilang abuluyan.

August 25, 2015, naghain ang isa sa mga itiniwalag na Ministro na si G. Isaias Samson Jr, asawa at anak, ng reklamo sa DOJ laban sa mga Sanggunian.



Ang ginawa raw ng Sanggunian, nagpakalat ng text, at sinabing huhulihin daw si Ka Eduardo etc. kaya't dumagsa ang mga INC™ sa DOJ sa Manila at di kalauna'y sa EDSA Shrine at Shaw Boulevard na IKINAINIS ng mamamayan!

At dahil sa ginawa ng INC ni Manalo sa lansangan, dumami ang nainis sa INC maging ang mga pulitiko na nagsubok sumipsip sa grupo ay nakatikim ng maanghang na katotohanan na HINDI na sila suportado ng netizens.

Kaya't ang tanong, babagsak na kaya ang INC ni Manalo? O kung sakaling maka-survive, mahihirapan silang muling bumangon sapagkat sirang-sira na sila sa mga Pilipino at sa buong mundo.

Ganyan ang Iglesiang tatag ng tao. Sa pera namumuhunan kaya't sa pera rin nahuhumaling at nahuhulog.

Balik na sa tunay na Iglesia ni Cristo, ang Iglesia Katolika na sa pasimula ay siyang tunay na Iglesia ni Cristo (Pasugo Abril 1966, p. 46).


Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Vatican releases details of pope's trip July 5-12 to South America

Dadalaw po si Papa Francisco sa Bolivia, Paraguay at Ecuador ngayong darating na July 5-12. Narito ang balita mula sa CNS

By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis' July 5-12 visit to Latin America will not take him to his native Argentina, but it will put him closely in touch with his Jesuit roots and with one of the main characteristics of his ministry as archbishop of Buenos Aires: direct contact with the poor, the sick and those striving to bring the Gospel to bear on social inequalities.

The pope will begin his three-nation South America tour in Ecuador before moving on to Bolivia and Paraguay, the Vatican announced May 8 when it published a detailed itinerary for the visit.

Although local Jesuit communities have enjoyed Pope Francis' special attention on several of the seven foreign trips he already has made as pope, the South American trip is the first time the Vatican has listed the encounter on the official schedule. He will have lunch July 6 with the Jesuit community at Colegio Javier in Guayaquil, Ecuador.

The next evening, he will pay a "private visit" to Quito's Church of the Society of Jesus, known as "La Compania," a jewel of Spanish Baroque architecture. The first Jesuits reached Ecuador in 1574, just 34 years after the society was founded by St. Ignatius of Loyola. Work on the church in Quito began in 1605.

Pope Francis will spend less than four hours in Bolivia's capital, La Paz. Vatican sources said the city's high elevation made it advisable for him to visit only briefly. The same evening he arrives in Bolivia, July 8, he will fly on to Santa Cruz after the welcoming ceremony, a visit with the president and a meeting with civil authorities.

Pope Francis will have the official welcoming ceremonies and private visits with the presidents of Ecuador, Bolivia and Paraguay as dictated by protocol; in addition, the pope will meet "civil society" leaders in Ecuador, government officials in Bolivia and members of the diplomatic corps in Paraguay.

But the heart of the visit is expected to be his public Masses and the time he spends with people often on the margins of society. On July 8, he will visit a home for the aged run by the Missionaries of Charity in Quito; in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, he will address participants in the second World Meeting of Popular Movements, a group of grass-roots activists; and in Asuncion, Paraguay, he will visit both a pediatric hospital and the residents of one of the city's poorest neighborhoods, Banado Norte.

Complete agenda of Pope's trip to Cuba and the United States

Darating po ang mahal na Santo Papa Francisco sa Cuba at Estados Unidos sa darating na Setyembre 19-27 at very timely po ito sapagkat kapapasa pa lamang ng "Same-sex Marriage" sa lahat ng estado sa Amerika.  Salamat sa Diyos at sinugo niya ang kahalili ni San Pedro upang mangaral ng tamang aral sa mga nawawala sa tamang landas. 

Artikulo mula sa Rome Report

The Vatican has released the official agenda for Pope Francis' trip to the United States and Cuba. He will visit both countries from September 19th to 27th.

Saturday, September 19

10:15 a.m. Departs from Fiumicino Airport in Rome.

4:00 p.m. Arrives at José Martí Airport in Havana.

4:05 p.m. Welcoming ceremony at José Martí Airport, and a speech from Pope Francis.

Sunday, September 20

9:00 a.m. Holy Mass at Revolution Square in Havana. Homily and Angelus prayer said by Pope Francis.

4:00 p.m. Meeting with the President of the Cuba and the Council of Ministers at the Palace of the Revolution in Havana.

5:15 p.m. Celebration of the Vespers with priests, religious, and seminarians at the Cathedral of Havana. Homily said by Pope Francis.

6:30 p.m. Meeting with young people at the Father Felix Varela Cultural Center in Havana. Speech given by Pope Francis.

Monday, September 21

8:00 a.m. Departs from José Martí Airport in Havana.

9:20 a.m. Arrives at Frank País Airport in Holguin.

10:30 a.m. Holy Mass at Revolution Square in Holguin. Homily said by Pope Francis.

3:45 p.m. Blessing of the city from the Loma de la Cruz.

4:40 p.m. Departs from Frank País Airport in Holguin.

5:30 p.m. Arrives at Antonio Maceo Airport in Santiago.

7:00 p.m. Meeting with bishops in St. Basil's Major Seminary.

7:45 p.m. Prayer to Our Lady of Charity with the bishops and the papal entourage in the minor Basilica of the Shrine of Our Lady of Charity of Cobre, Santiago.

Tuesday, September 22

8:00 a.m. Holy Mass in the minor Basilica of the Shrine of Our Lady of Charity of Cobre, Santiago. Homily said by Pope Francis.

11:00 a.m. Meeting with families in the Cathedral of Our Lady of Asuncion in Santiago. Speech from Pope Francis and a blessing of the city.

12:15 p.m. Farewell ceremony at Antonio Maceo Airport in Santiago.

12:30 p.m. Departs from Antonio Maceo Airport in Santiago.

16:00 p.m. Arrives at Andrews Air Force Base in Washington, D.C. And receives official welcome.

Wednesday, September 23

9:15 a.m. Welcoming ceremony at the White House South Lawn. Speech from Pope Francis followed by a courtesy visit to the President of the United States.

11:00 a.m. Pope meets with the bishops of the United States in St. Matthew's Cathedral and delivers a speech.

4:15 p.m. Holy Mass for the canonization of Blessed Fr. Junipero Serra at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. The Pope says a Homily.

Thursday, September 24

9:20 a.m. Pope Francis visits and addresses the United States Congress

11:15 a.m. Visits the charity center of St. Patrick's parish, where the Pope meets a group of homeless people.

4:00 p.m. Departs from Washington, D.C.

5:00 p.m. Arrives at JFK Airport in New York City.

6.45 p.m. Pope celebrates Vespers with priests and men and women religious in St. Patrick's Cathedral. Homily said by Pope Francis.

Friday, September 25

8:30 a.m. Address by the Holy Father at the seat of the United Nations in New York

11:30 a.m. Pope participates in an interreligious meeting at the Ground Zero Memorial site and delivers a speech.

4:00 p.m. Pope Francis visits "Our Lady, Queen of Angels” school and meet with families of immigrants in Harlem. He delivers another speech.

6:00 p.m. Holy Mass in Madison Square Garden. Homily said by Pope Francis.

Saturday, September 26

8:40 a.m. Departs New York City.

9:30 a.m. Arrives at Philadelphia International Airport.

10:10 a.m. Holy Mass with the bishops, clergy and men and women religious in the Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul in Philadelphia. Homily said by Pope Francis.

4:45 p.m. Meeting for religious freedom with the Hispanic community and other immigrants in the Independence Mall, Philadelphia. Speech from Pope Francis.

7:30 p.m. Address to the World Meeting of Families at the Ben Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia.

Sunday, September 27

9:15 a.m. Meeting with the bishops invited to the World Meeting of Families in the St. Charles Borromeo Seminary. Speech from Pope Francis.

11:00 a.m. Visit to the detainees in the Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility, Philadelphia. Speech from Pope Francis.

4:00 p.m. Concluding Holy Mass of the Eighth World Meeting of Families at the Ben Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia. Homily delivered by Pope Francis.

7:00 p.m. Meeting with organizing committee, the volunteers and benefactors at Philadelphia International Airport.

7:45 p.m. Farewell ceremony.

8:00 p.m. Departs from Philadelphia.

Monday, September 28

10:00 a.m. Papal plane arrives in Rome Ciampino Airport.

Saturday, May 2, 2015

Kaninong Biblia ba galing ang gamit ng inyong mga pastor o ministro?

Tanging sa Biblia lamang daw po tatalima at susunod ang mga pastor Protestante at mga ministro ng Iglesia ni Manalo. Madalas nating maririnig sa kanila ang mga katagang 'yan. 

Lahat sila ay Biblia raw ang kanilang "authority" pero napapansin niyo ba kung paano sila watak-watak?  Parang lumalabas na Biblia din ang nagwatak-watak sa kanila.  Ngunit alam naman natin na ang Biblia ay NAGBUBUKLOD at hindi sanhi ng pagkakawatak-watak.  Si Satanas lamang ang maaaring nagwawatak-watak. Kaya't ating dalangin na sa pamamagitan ng katotohanang ito ay bumalik na sa tunay na Iglesia ang lahat ng mga Kristiano.

Pero kanino nga ba galing ang Bibliang ginagamit nila at sinasaligan?

Magugulat kayo sa mga mababasa niyo sa ibaba. Asahan na nating hindi sasang-ayon dito ang mga kaanib ng mga Protestante at INC™ ni Manalo.

Ang Biblia po ay hindi po gawa ng mga Protestante. Hindi rin po yan gawa ng mga pastor nila, o ng mga bayarang ministro ng INC™.

Ating alamin kung paano nagkaroon ng Biblia at kung paano nagkaroon ng maraming versions nito!

Salamat sa SVMMA APOLOGIA

HOW DID THE BIBLE COME IN EXISTENCE?

In the one-hundred-year period extending roughly from AD 50 to 150, a number of documents began to circulate among the churches, including epistles, gospels, memoirs, apocalypses, homilies, and collections of teachings. While some of these documents were apostolic in origin, others drew upon the tradition the apostles and ministers of the word had utilized in their individual missions.

For more than 300 years of Christianity, there was no definitive compilation yet into a single book of these ancient documents like what is known to the world at present. From the beginning it was expected that certain of these documents would be read in the public gatherings of the church, though there were disputes and questions over the authenticity of certain documents like the Letter to the Hebrews, Letter of James, Second Letter of Peter, Second and Third Letters of John, Letter of Jude and the Revelation, known as the Antilegomena. At that time, these materials were accepted by some local churches and others did not. However, because of the increase in the amount of documents being circulated (whether authentic or not), the Church found it necessary to discern and choose which of these materials are inspired by the Holy Spirit. How was it done? Below is the timeline of the compilation of the Holy Bible:

  • 70 BC: The translation of the Old Testament books from Hebrew to Greek known as Septuagint (LXX) by the 70 Jewish scholars for the Jews in Diaspora in Alexandria. This is the Old Testament version used by the apostles and early Christians.

  • 50-150 AD: The writing of the New Testament books and the circulation of other apocryphal documents.

  • 96 AD: Some letters of Paul were known to Clement I, bishop of Rome, together with some form of the "words of Jesus"; but while Clement valued these highly, he did not regard them as "Scripture" ("graphe"), a term he reserved for the Septuagint.

  • 100 AD: The Council of Jamnia, held in Yavneh, was a Jewish council at which the canon of the Hebrew Bible had been finalized. It excluded the seven books of the Old Testament which are part of its Greek version, the Septuagint. These books are regarded by the Church as inspired and are known as the deuterocanonical.

  • 130-140 AD: Marcion of Sinope, a bishop of Asia Minor who went to Rome and was later excommunicated for his views, was the first of record to propose a definitive, exclusive, unique canon of Christian scriptures. He taught that there were two Gods: Yahweh, the cruel God of the Old Testament, and Abba, the kind father of the New Testament. Marcion eliminated the Old Testament as scriptures and, since he was anti-Semitic, kept from the New Testament only 10 letters of Paul and 2/3 of Luke's gospel (he deleted references to Jesus' Jewishness). His gospel is called the Gospel of the Lord.

  • 145-163 AD: Justin Martyr, an early Christian apologist, mentioned the "memoirs of the apostles", which Christians called "gospels" and which were regarded as on par with the Old Testament. In his works, distinct references are found to Romans, 1 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Colossians, and 2 Thessalonians, and possible ones to Philippians, Titus, and 1 Timothy.

  • 160 AD: Tatian the Assyrian, an early Christian theologian, composed a single harmonized "Gospel" by weaving the contents of the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John together along with events present in none of these texts. The narrative mainly follows the chronology of John. This is called the Diatessaron ["(Harmony) Through Four"] and it became the official Gospel text of the Syriac church, centered in Edessa. He rejected Paul's Letters and Acts of the Apostles

  • 185 AD: Irenaeus, bishop of Lugdunum in Gaul, in his Adversus Haereses, denounced various early Christian groups that used only one gospel, such as Marcionism which used only Marcion's version of Luke, or the Ebionites which seem to have used an Aramaic version of Matthew, as well as groups that used more than four gospels, such as the Valentinians (A.H. 1.11). Irenaeus declared that there can't be either more or fewer than four, presenting as logic the analogy of the four corners of the earth and the four winds (3.11.8).

  • ca. 200 AD: Origen Adamantius, early Christian theologian, accepted 22 canonical books of the Hebrews plus Maccabees plus the four Gospels but Paul "did not so much as write to all the churches that he taught; and even to those to which he wrote he sent but a few lines."

  • ca. 200 AD: The periphery of the canon was not yet determined as of this time. According to one list, the Muratorian Canon (named after Fr. Ludovico Antonio Muratori who discovered it at the Ambrosian Library in Milan in the 18th century), which was compiled at Rome, the New Testament was comprised of the 4 gospels; Acts; 13 letters of Paul (Hebrews is not included); 3 of the 7 General Epistles (1-2 John and Jude); and also the Apocalypse of Peter. Each "city-church" (region) still has its own Canon, which is a list of books approved for reading at Mass (Liturgy).

  • ca. 215 AD: Titus Flavius Clemens (Clement of Alexandria), an early Christian theologian, made use of an open canon. In addition to books that did not make it into the final 27-book New Testament but which had local canonicity (Barnabas, Didache, I Clement, Revelation of Peter, the Shepherd, the Gospel according to the Hebrews), he also used the Gospel of the Egyptians, Preaching of Peter, Traditions of Matthias, Sibylline Oracles, and the Oral Gospel. He did, however, prefer the four church gospels to all others, although he supplemented them freely with apocryphal gospels. He was the first to treat non-Pauline letters of the apostles (other than II Peter) as scripture-he accepted I Peter, I and II John, and Jude as scripture.

  • ca. 300 AD: The Alogi, an early Christian group, rejected the Gospel of John (and possibly also Revelation and the Epistles of John) as either not apostolic or as written by the Gnostic Cerinthus or as not compatible with the Synoptic Gospels.

  • 300 A.D. The Old Syriac was a translation of the New Testament documents from the Greek into Syriac. In the Coptic Versions, Coptic was spoken in four dialects in Egypt and the materials were translated into each of these four dialects.

  • ca. 303 AD: The making of what is currently known Codex Claromontanus canon (named after the town of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis in France from where it was procured by the Calvinist scholar Theodore Bezza in the late 16th century), a page found inserted into a copy of the Epistles of Paul and Hebrews, has the Old Testament, plus Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, 1–2,4 Maccabees, and the New Testament, plus 3rd Corinthians, Acts of Paul, Apocalypse of Peter, Barnabas, and Hermas, but missing Philippians, 1–2 Thessalonians, and Hebrews.

  • 330 AD: Eusebius, bishop of Caesarea, recorded his own New Testament canon which includes the holy quaternion of the Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles, the epistles of Paul, the epistle of John, the epistle of Peter, the Apocalypse of John, the epistle of James and that of Jude, also the second epistle of Peter, and the second and third epistles of John.

  • 331 AD: Roman Emperor Constantine I commissioned Eusebius, bishop of Caesarea, to deliver fifty compiled Scriptures for the Church of Constantinople. Athanasius (Apostolic Constitution 4) recorded Alexandrian scribes around 340 AD preparing the Canon for Constans. Codex Vaticanus and Codex Sinaiticus are among of these ancient compilations together with the Peshitta and Codex Alexandrinus.

  • 350 AD: Cyril, bishop of Jerusalem, included in his Catechetical Lectures (4.36) the Gospels (4), Acts, James, 1-2 Peter, 1-3 John, Jude, and Paul's epistles (14), but listed the Gospel of Thomas as pseudepigrapha.

  • 360 AD: The making of the so-called Cheltenham/Mommsen Canon (named after German classical scholar Theodor Mommsen who discovered it in 1886 from a 10th-century manuscript belonging to the library of Thomas Phillips at Cheltenham, England), which contains the 24-book Old Testament and 24-book New Testament that provides syllable and line counts but omits Hebrews, Jude and James, and questions the epistles of John and Peter.

  • 363 AD: The Synod of Laodicea was one of the first synods that set out to judge which books were to be read aloud in churches. It canonized 22-book Old Testament and 26-book New Testament (excludes Revelation).

  • 367 AD: In his Festal letter, Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria, gave a list of exactly the same books as what would become the 27-book New Testament canon, and he used the word "canonized" (kanonizomena) in regards to them. He also listed a 22-book Old Testament and 7 books not in the canon but to be read: Wisdom of Solomon, Wisdom of Sirach, Esther, Judith, Tobit, Didache, and the Shepherd of Hermas.

  • 374-377 AD: Epiphanius, bishop of Salamis, listed the following canon in his Panarion 76.5: Gospels (4), Paul's epistles (13), Acts, James, Peter, 1-3 John, Jude, Revelation, Wisdom, Sirach.

  • 380 AD: The redactor of the Apostolic Constitutions attributed a canon to the Twelve Apostles themselves as the 85th of his list of such apostolic decrees: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John; the fourteen Epistles of Paul; two Epistles of Peter; three of John; one of James; one of Jude; two Epistles of Clement; and the Acts of the Apostles.

  • 382 AD: The Synod of Rome (presided by Pope Damasus) started the ball rolling for the definition of a universal canon for all city-churches. It listed the New Testament books in their present number and order.

  • ca. 382 AD: Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus (Jerome), a Roman presbyter, was commissioned by Damasus I, bishop of Rome, to revise the Vetus Latina ("Old Latin") collection of Biblical texts in Latin then in use by the Church. Once published, it was widely adopted and eventually eclipsed the Vetus Latina and, by the 13th century, was known as the "versio vulgata" (the "version commonly-used") or, more simply, in Latin as vulgata or in Greek as βουλγάτα ("Vulgate").

  • 385 AD: Gregory of Nazianzus, bishop of Constantinople, produced a canon in verse which agreed with that of his contemporary Athanasius, other than placing the "Catholic Epistles" after the Pauline Epistles and omitting Revelation. This list was ratified by the Synod of Trullo of 692 AD.

  • inter 386-388 AD: John Chrysostom, bishop of Constantinople, was the first (in his Homilies on Matthew) to use the Greek phrase "ta biblia" (the books) to describe both the Old and New Testaments together.

  • 393 AD: The Synod of Hippo Regius in North Africa accepted the present canon of the New Testament.

  • 394 AD: Amphilochius, bishop of Iconium, in his poem Iambics for Seleucus, nephew of St. Olympias, discussed debate over the canonical inclusion of a number of books, and almost certainly rejects the later Epistles of Peter and John, Jude, and Revelation.

  • 397 AD: The third Synod of Carthage, which refined the canon for the Western Church, sent it to Innocent I, bishop of Rome, for ratification. Its list is similar to the present canon of scriptures. In the East, the canonical process was hampered by a number of schisms.

  • ca 405 AD: Innocent I, bishop of Rome, in ratification of the canon defined by the Synod of Carthage, sent the list of the sacred books to Exsuperius, Gallic bishop of Toulouse, which was identical with that of the Ecumenical Council of Trent.

  • 419 AD: The fourth Synod of Carthage reaffirmed the canon defined by the previous synod in its present number and order (similar to the Ecumenical Council of Trent).

  • 551-62 AD: Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator, Roman statesman and writer, in his Institutiones Divinarum et Saecularium Litterarum, omitted 2 Peter, 2-3 John, Jude and Hebrews.

  • 787 AD: The Second Ecumenical Council of Nicaea, which adopted the canon of Carthage. At this point, both the Latin West and the Greek / Byzantine East had the same canon. However, the non-Greek, Monophysite and Nestorian Churches of the East (the Copts, the Ethiopians, the Syrians, the Armenians, the Syro-Malankars, the Chaldeans, and the Malabars) were still left out. But these Churches came together in agreement, in 1442A.D., in Florence.

  • 1199 AD: Innocent III, bishop of Rome, banned unauthorized versions of the Bible as a reaction to the Cathar and Waldensian heresies. The synods of Toulouse and Tarragona (in 1234 AD) outlawed possession of such renderings. But there is evidence of some vernacular translations still being permitted while others were being scrutinized.

  • ca. 1245 AD: Stephen Langton, archbishop of Canterbury, and Hugo Cardinal de Sancto-Caro, dominican titular bishop of Santa Sabina, developed different schemas for systematic division of the Bible. It was the system of Archbishop Langton on which the modern chapter divisions are based.

  • 1380 AD: The first English translation of the Bible was by John Wycliffe, the founder of the anti-Catholic group named Lollardy. He translated the Bible into English from the Latin Vulgate. This was a translation from a translation and not a translation from the original Hebrew and Greek. Wycliffe was forced to translate from the Latin Vulgate because he did not know Hebrew or Greek.

  • 1442 AD: AD : At the Ecumenical Council of Florence, the entire Church recognized the 27 books. This council confirmed the Roman Catholic Canon of the Bible which Damasus I, bishop of Rome, had published a thousand years earlier. So, by 1439 AD, all orthodox branches of the Church were legally bound to the same canon. This is 100 years before the Reformation.

  • 1448 AD: The Hebrew Old Testament was divided into verses by a French Jewish philosopher and controversialist by the name of Isaac Nathan ben Kalonymus (Mordacai Nathan).

  • 1456 AD: Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg, a German publisher and inventor of a movable type printing, produced the first printed Bible in Latin. Printing revolutionized the way books were made. From now on books could be published in great numbers and at a lower cost.

  • ca. 1500 AD: The first person to divide New Testament chapters into verses was an Italian Dominican biblical scholar Santi Pagnini, but his system was never widely adopted.

  • ⚫1514 AD: The Greek New Testament was printed for the first time by Erasmus. He based his Greek New Testament from only five Greek manuscripts, the oldest of which dated only as far back as the twelfth century. With minor revisions, Erasmus' Greek New Testament came to be known as the Textus Receptus or the "received texts."

  • ⚫1522 AD: Polyglot Bible, in which group of editors was led by Diego López de Zúñiga and funded by Jiménez Cardinal de Cisneros, was published. The Old Testament was in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, and Latin and the New Testament in Latin and Greek. Erasmus used the Polyglot to revise later editions of his New Testament. Tyndale made use of the Polyglot in his translation on the Old Testament into English which he did not complete because he died in 1534 AD.

  • ⚫1536 AD: In his translation of the Bible from Greek into German, Martin Luther, a former Catholic monk and priest who became the primary figure of the Protestant Reformation, removed four New Testament books (Hebrews, James, Jude, and Revelation) and placed them in an appendix treating them as less than canonical as well as the seven Old Testament books (Tobit, Judith, 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees, Wisdom, Sirach, and Baruch plus the additional texts in Esther and Daniel) labelling them as apocryphal.

  • ⚫1546 AD: At the Ecumenical Council of Trent, the Catholic Church reaffirmed once and for all the full list of 27 books. The council also confirmed the inclusion of the Deuterocanonical books which had been a part of the Bible canon since the early Church and was confirmed at the councils of 393 AD, 373 AD, 787 AD and 1442 AD. At Trent, the Church of Rome actually dogmatized the canon, making it more than a matter of canon law, which had been the case up to that point, closing it for good.

  • ⚫1551 AD: Robert Estienne, a French printer and classical scholar, created an alternate numbering in his edition of the Greek New Testament which was also used in his 1553 publication of the Bible in French. Estienne's system of division was widely adopted, and it is this system which is found in almost all modern Bibles.
  • ⚫1566 AD: Sixtus of Siena, a dominican theologian, coined the term "deuterocanonical" to describe the seven Old Testament books that had not been accepted as canonical by the Protestants but which appeared in the Septuagint; and defined for the Roman Catholics of the terms "protocanonical" and the ancient term "apocryphal" in his work Bibliotheca Sancta ex Præcipuis Catholicæ Ecclesiæ Auctoribus Collecta (Venice 1566).

  • ⚫16th century to present AD: The HOLY BIBLE composed of 72 canonical books (45 in the Old Testament and 27 in the New Testament) based on the infallible decree of the holy Catholic Church. Thus, the great Tridentine Council declared: "But if any one receive not, as sacred and canonical, the said books entire with all their parts, as they have been used to be read in the Catholic Church, and as they are contained in the old Latin vulgate edition; and knowingly and deliberately contemn the traditions aforesaid; let him be anathema."


The timeline of the development of the biblical canon is the living proof that the holy Bible was not handed down by Christ to His apostles as it is. The Bible did not even come down from the heavens as what it looks like at present. The truth is:

IT WAS THE CATHOLIC CHURCH WHO CHOSE WHICH BOOKS ARE INSPIRED AND COMPILED THEM INTO A SINGLE BOOK WHICH SHE CALLED THE BIBLE. THUS, IT IS THE BIBLE WHICH CAME FROM THE CHURCH AND NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND.

However, despite this historical fact, the holy Church did not claim authorship on those divine scriptures. For her, "God is the author of Sacred Scripture" (CCC 105). And, she added: "To compose the sacred books, God chose certain men who, all the while he employed them in this task, made full use of their own faculties and powers so that, though he acted in them and by them, it was as true authors that they consigned to writing whatever he wanted written, and no more" (CCC 106).

Remember, "the Christian faith is not a religion of the book but of the Word of God, a word which is not a written and mute word, but the Word is incarnate and living" (cf. CCC 108).

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Photo: The Codex Vaticanus is one of the oldest extant manuscripts of the Greek Bible (Old and New Testament), one of the four great uncial codices. It is considered one of the fifty copies of the scriptural canon produced by Eusebius as commissioned by Emperor Constantine I in 331 AD for the church of Constantinople. It is being kept in the Vatican Library since at least the 15th century.

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Sapilitang Abuluyan sa loob ng INC™ ayon sa isang tagong Ministro!

"Sana kung gaano sya katapang na ipagsigawan sa Iglesia na “Bumili kayo ng Coffee Table Book”, “Bumili kayo ng Phil. Arena Tickets”, “Magtanging Handugan kayo para sa Close-Open Centennial” sana ganyan din sya katapang na sagutin isa-isa ang mga iregularidad na kanilang pinasimulan sa Sanggunian." -G. Antonio Ebangelista (hindi niya tunay na pangalan), Ministro ng Iglesia Ni Cristo® na nagsiwalat ng malalim na kurapsyon sa loob ng pangangasiwa ng INC™

Monday, April 27, 2015

Masama ang loob ng Iglesia Ni Cristo® o INC™ dahil mas pinagkakatiwalaan ang Santo Papa kaysa kay Ka Eduardo V. Manalo (EVM)


Masama ang loob ng mga kaanib ng INC ni Felix Manalo matapos ang matagumpay na pagdalaw sa bansa ni Papa Francisco noong nakaraang buwan ng Enero 2015.

Matatandaan na umabot sa 6 na milyong katao ang dumalo sa kanyang Misa sa Luneta, Maynila ayon sa BBC. Pinakamalaking audience sa isang existing pontiff ika nga.

Ang sabi ng Social Weather Stations o SWS na inilathala ng Rappler, "all time high" daw po ang nakuhang Trust Ratings ng Santo Papa MALIBAN sa mga kaanib ng Iglesia Ni Cristo® na tatag ni Felix Manalo.

The Pope's trust ratings fell dramatically, however, among members of the Iglesia ni Cristo (INC) or Church of Christ, one of the Philippines' largest and most politically influential religious groups.
Sabi pa ng report...

"... only INC members gave Francis a lower rating after his Philippine trip. It was a 31-point drop to +2 in March 2015 from the +33 that INC members gave Francis in December 2014."

Ang Iglesia Ni Cristo® ay tatag ni Felix Manalo ayon sa Rehistro nito sa Gobyerno ng Pilipinas. Pinarehistro noong July 27, 1914, lumagda si Felix Manalo bilang TAGAPAGTATAG nito.  

Sabi pa ng nasabing report... 
"...the INC has boosted its membership by debunking the doctrines of the Catholic Church and stressing obedience to ministers in matters like electing the country's leaders."
Hindi man sila tumatalima sa Santo Papa ng tunay na Iglesia ni Cristo ngunit isang doktrina sa kanila ang SUNDIN sa lahat ng panahon ang kanilang MUNTING PAPA na si EDUARDO V. MANALO, apo ng nagtatag na si Felix Manalo.  

Ayon sa Rappler, ang bilang ng mga kaanib ng INC™ ay umabot lamang sa 2.25 milyon sa loob ng 100 taon mula noong ito'y itinatag.

Courted by politicians during elections, the INC has grown to around 2.25 million members from a dozen followers of its first executive minister, Felix V Manalo, a former Catholic. 
At kung bakit mababa ang Trust Ratings ng Santo Papa sa mga Iglesia Ni Manalo ay sapagkat malinaw na pinangaral sa kanila na kailangang ITAKWIL ang SANTO PAPA ng tunay na Iglesiang tatag ni Cristo- ang Iglesia Katolika!

Like other religious groups, the INC rejects the Pope's authority, while Catholics believe he represents Jesus Christ on earth.

Source: The Guardian

Reyna ng Sweden bumisita sa Vatican


(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Monday met with Queen Silvia of Sweden, who personally led her delegation to a one-day seminar on human trafficking and the exploitation of women which was being held at the Vatican.

Although a Swedish interpreter was present, the two spoke mostly in Spanish, which the Queen speaks fluently. In fact, Queen Silvia at one time worked at the Argentine Consulate in Munich.

The Queen spoke with the Holy Father about various activities she has promoted in Sweden, especially in favour of children. Pope Francis took the opportunity to express his gratitude for the welcome Sweden has extended to refugees and displaced persons.

Queen Silvia, the wife of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, was accompanied by her youngest daughter, Princess Madeleine of Sweden, her husband, Christopher O'Neill, and their young daughter, 14-month-old Princess Leonore.

The Queen gave the Pope a set of prayer books used by the Royal Family, along with a photographic portrait and a vase with the Royal Coat of Arms.

Pope Francis gave the Queen a Pontifical Medal, along with a copy of "Evangelii gaudium" in the Queen’s native German.

Friday, April 24, 2015

Crackdown sa mga Ministro ng Iglesia Ni Cristo® sa pagsisiwalat ng malawakang katiwalian sa pangangasiwa nito

Babalang ni G. Antonio Ebangelio, isang Ministro ng INC™ ni Manalo, ukol sa malawakang katiwalian sa Iglesia Ni Cristo®!



Warning to Ministers


WARNING:
Sa lahat ng mga kasama po naming Ministro at Manggagawa sa lahat ng distrito sa buong mundo
Mga mahal na kapatid,
Nagpadala na ng sulat ang Sanggunian sa lahat ng mga Tagapangasiwa sa buong mundo at ganito po ang nilalaman ng tagubilin:
1. Magdalaw ang lahat ng mga tagapangasiwa sa mga sakop nilang Ministro at Manggagawa
2. Tiyaking pumasok sa loob ng bahay
3. I-inspect ang cellphone, laptop, desktop computers at iba pang gadgets
4. Tingnan kung may facebook account, instagram at twitter. 
5. Tingnan ang laman ng email at text messages
Ito po ang kanilang gagawin ngayon para mahuli si Antonio Ebangelista at ang mga kasama natin na tumutulong sa amin. Pagkatapos po ay isusunod ang mga maytungkulin at karaniwang mga kapatid. 
Sundin lamang po ninyo ang nauna na po naming ibinilin ukol sa pagiingat na dapat ninyong gawin upang manatili tayong ligtas sa kanilang panggigipit. 
Note: kung may gamit po kayong NET25 Sim ay huwag na po ninyong gamitin pa. 
Meron na pong ginagawang “counter-measures” ang ibang mga Distrito para mapigilan ang mga Ministro, Maytungkulin at mga kapatid na magbasa ng mga info sa social media at sa mga emails nila. May ilang Distrito na hindi binasa sa klase ang Tagubilin na ito upang masupresa ang mga Ministro at mawalan na ng pagkakataon na makapagtago ng ebidensya na sila ay tumitulong sa atin sa paghahangad na puksain ang katiwalian sa Sanggunian at sa kanilang mga Tagapangasiwa.
Patuloy po tayong lihim na magpanata tuwing alas-10 ng gabi upang gabayan at tulungan tayo ng Ama na makapanindigan laban sa mga katiwalian sa loob ng Iglesia. 
Ang inyong Kapatid kay Cristo,
Antonio Ebangelista
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