The Bible testifies that the one sent by God speaks
according to the law and to the testimony (Is. 8:20). To speak according to the
law is to teach the will or doctrine of God, not one’s own will - no addition
nor subtraction (Jn. 7:16-17; Dt. 12:32). A messenger of God must also possess
the testimony or the spirit of prophecy (Rev. 19:20).
Brother Felix Y. Manalo is the last messenger because he
is the fulfillment of the various prophecies recorded in the Bible (Rev. 7:2-3;
Is. 46:11; Is. 41:9-10). The fact that he became a member of other religions
prior to his being called by God does not in any ay prove that he was not sent
by God. Before Apostle Paul was called to become Christ’s apostle, he belonged
to the religious group known as the Pharisees and he had been one of the
ruthless persecutors of the Church (Acts 22:1-4). Moses was raised as an
Egyptian before he was called by God so that he would be prepared to lead the
Israelites out of Egypt (Acts 7:22) In the same way that Apostle Paul and Moses
were prepared to lead and administer God’s people, Brother Felix Y. Manalo was
also prepared, one way of which was through his membership in other religions
where many of God’s people would come from.
Brother Felix Y. Manalo did not take the doctrines of the
Church of Christ from these religions. He left
such religions precisely because he found many of their doctrines different
from the doctrines of the true Church
of Christ as written in
the Bible. For instance, all of those churches believe in the Trinity and the
deity of Jesus Christ while the Church
of Christ believes that
the only true God is the Father (Jn. 17:1, 3; I Cor. 8:6), and Jesus Christ is
not God but man in state of being (Jn. 8:40; I Tim. 2:5).
The doctrines that Brother Felix Y. Manalo taught are the
words of God written in the Bible – no addition nor subtraction – which is a
characteristic of the true messenger of God.