What About The Iglesia Ni Cristo (INC) Church: An Observation from the Republic of the Philippines.  Let a native who has witnessed the delusion speak!   “[Manalo’s adherents] Believe the name of the Church according to the New Testament is "Iglesia Ni Cristo" when in fact this name is not found in the Bible at all!  The nearest a person will find to this is in Romans 16:16 "Churches of Christ".  Here "Churches" is plural and is the collective group of congregations and not one organization.  This "Churches of Christ" was never intended to mean or was used by the Apostles to be the name of the New Testament Church.  Elsewhere the Church is called the "Church of God" (Acts 20:28); "My Church" (Matthew 16:18); "Church of the living God"(1 Tim 3:15); "Church of the firstborn" (Heb 12:23); "Church of the Laodiceans" (Col 4:16, Rev 3:14); "Church of the Thessalonians" (1Thes 1:1); and "Church of Ephesus" (Rev 2:1).  Manalo was a deceiver about the name of the New Testament Church.  The word "Church" is the Greek "ekklesia" Strongs 1577 and means: "called out ones, a congregation, a synagogue, an assembly, and a community of members." In Romans 16:16 the word "Churches" refers to the congregations plural with whom Paul was Minister and Apostle. These were the Gentile Churches who saluted the Roman Gentile Church, all being grafted branches into the Olive Tree original Jewish Church.  These Gentile branch Churches were NOT THE ORIGINAL JEWISH CHURCH of Jerusalem, but of the same body by grafting in.  Manalo thinks he can deceive the Philippine people that his Iglesia Ni Cristo is the original Jewish Church and he has restored that: when in fact, he has a Gentile Philippine Church that has no connection to the New Testament Olive Tree body at all. He is not connected to it by doctrine of salvation, by water baptism, or by name! His false doctrines on salvation, the name of the Church, the formula and practice of baptism, his denial of Holy Spirit baptism as the first Church had in Acts 2:4, his claim of being the Christ-Shepherd of John 10:16, a Messias (according to court records of his fornication with girls and women), a prophet like unto the old prophets, and the ravenous unclean bird, all go to expose him as a charlton, a fraud, a wolf-man who has deceived many sheep; and last, ...he is a Judas!  He betrayed his own people for their cash and deceived them to believe Jesus was no more God then he was.”   http://jesus-messiah.com/html/is-jesus-god.html