Yesterday a fellow Christian and Facebook friend pointed my attention to a commercial that is currently being widely broadcast in the United States by
the so-called "Church of Scientology". I have one word for my readers:
BEWARE!

While they claim to be a religion, and in fact have been legally recognized
as a religion in a number of countries -- including in the USA -- in my
view, they are no such thing.

Even a cursory examination of Scientology will reveal that it is nothing
more than a dangerous, money-making cult which caters to the rich and the elite. In fact, according to information I have read, it costs literally thousands of dollars to go through their various levels and courses; and the higher one advances, the more expensive the levels become to complete.

Scientologists engage in a practice called "auditing", which, according to
what I have read, is a dangerous form of "control hypnosis". In other words, the Scientologist who is "auditing" another individual, controls the
subject. This is very dangerous and should be avoided!

Scientologists also believe in reincarnation, and hold the view that we have lived on other planets. As many Christians will already know, reincarnation
is totally contrary to the teachings of the Scriptures. For example, in the Epistle to the Hebrews we are told the following:

"And as it is appointed unto men ONCE to die, but after this the judgment:" Hebrews 9:27, KJV

There are no past lives. We get one chance, and one chance only.

One of the secret doctrines of Scientology involves an alleged
extraterrestrial being named Xenu. In typical Star Wars or Star Trek
fashion, supposedly, Xenu was the dictator of the so-called "Galactic Confederacy". It is claimed by Scientologists that some seventy-five million years ago, this evil entity brought billions of his people to the Earth in a DC-8-like spacecraft, arranged them around active volcanoes, and then killed them using hydrogen bombs. Furthermore, Scientologists believe that the essences of these murdered people remain to this day, and that they form
around people and cause them spiritual harm. To me, it sounds a lot like demonic oppression.

The commercial in question -- there are others which have been made by Scientology as well -- is dangerously deceptive. When it states that "Man
can save his soul", it does not mean that we can save our souls through our faith in the Atoning Sacrifice of Jesus Christ. The truth of the matter is
that Scientology has absolutely nothing to do with Jesus Christ, or His
Atoning Sacrifice, or any other aspect of Bible-based Christianity. In other words, Scientologists believe that we are all immortal beings who have
simply forgotten that we are immortal, and that we can save ourselves
through their dangerous hypnotic ritual of "auditing".

The line "This is an invitation to freedom" is an absolute lie. Rather than spiritual freedom, people who become involved in Scientology are in fact entrapped in it through the control hypnosis referred to as "auditing". Not only that, but financially-speaking, they likewise become in bondage to Scientology as well, due the increasing amount of money that they must pay
-- in the thousands of dollars -- in order to continue with the various
levels and courses. In contrast, consider what Jesus Christ told His
followers when He sent them out to preach the Kingdom of God to the masses:

"Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely
ye have received, freely give."
Matthew 10:8, KJV

Concerning true freedom and the truth, Jesus Christ said the following in
the Gospel of John:

". . . I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."
John 14:6b, KJV

". . . If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye
shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free . . . If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed."
John 8:31b-32, 36, KJV

So, as you can see, true spiritual freedom is knowing Jesus Christ, and accepting His loving Sacrifice as the only valid means of Atonement for our sins.

Perhaps the most devilishly subtle line in the whole commercial is the following one. In describing the so-called "freedom" which Scientology supposedly offers, the commercial says:

"It does not come with the blares of trumpets or the flare and flash of
flame"

Exactly what does this mysterious phrase mean? While I am not absolutely certain, it does seem to be in contradiction to the Scriptures, which indeed associate both trumpets and flames of fire with Christ's Return, at whose Coming we shall indeed be set free from the mortal shackles of the flesh. Consider these verses, for example:

"And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they
shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven
to the other."
Matthew 24:31, KJV

"Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we
shall be changed."
1 Corinthians 15:51-52, KJV

"For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice
of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall
rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together
with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever
be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words."
1 Thessalonians 4:16-18, KJV

"But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets."
Revelation 10:7, KJV

"And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, In flaming fire taking
vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our
Lord Jesus Christ:"
2 Thessalonians 1:7-8, KJV

So just remember. When the Scientology commercial states that "You have been invited", please recognize that it is actually an invitation to deep
deception and financial bondage, and to nothing more. As I have often shared with my readers, the Apostle Paul wrote:

"But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived."
2 Timothy 3:13, KJV

The commercial ends with the phrase "Know yourself, know life". In contrast, our Christian faith is not just about looking inward and realizing our
sinful condition, and our need for a Savior. More importantly, it is about looking outward and upward in faith at Jesus Christ, who is the Son of God,
the Author and Finisher of our faith, and the only Mediator between God and man, through whom we have hope in Forgiveness, Redemption, Salvation and Eternal Life. As we read in the Scriptures:

"And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me."
John 12:32, KJV

"Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy
that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set
down at the right hand of the throne of God."
Hebrews 12:1-2, KJV

"For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;"
1 Timothy 2:5, KJV

Scientology's dangerous so-called "auditing" technique saves no one. Scientologists are not mediators or dispensers of Salvation. Only Jesus
Christ saves us. Period.

Beware of Scientology! In the words of the Apostle Paul, it is "science
falsely so called", as we see by this verse:

"O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:"
1 Timothy 6:20, KJV

One final verse for your consideration:

"Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ." Colossians 2:8, KJV

You've been warned! Don't fall for Scientology's deceptions!

If any of you want to see how weird the Scientology cult really is, then I encourage you to visit the following Wikipedia page after their 24-hour
protest blackout has finished. It is a rather lengthy examination of the
Xenu myth:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenu

It is important to remember that L. Ron Hubbard was actually a science
fiction writer before he founded the so-called "Church of Scientology". Furthermore, it was only after his strange ideas and techniques were
rejected by the science and medical communities decades ago, that Hubbard incorporated them into a so-called "new religion".

As I stated in my original post on this subject, Scientologists literally
pay many thousands of dollars in order to learn about this Xenu and
"Galactic Confederacy" nonsense. It is absolutely ridiculous what this
made-up, science fiction story claims, but Scientologists believe it and embrace it as a part of their advanced, esoteric, secret teachings.

My suspicion is that the reason why top level Scientologists deny or try to conceal the story concerning Xenu, and endeavor to make it as inaccessible
as possible to outsiders -- even initiating law suits -- is because they are actually embarrassed by it, and by its ridiculous claims.



Jeff Snyder, SysOp - Armageddon BBS Visit us at endtimeprophecy.org port 23 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Your Download Center 4 Mac BBS Software & Christian Files. We Use Hermes II


--- Hermes Web Tosser 1.1
* Origin: Armageddon BBS -- Guam, Mariana Islands (1:345/3777.0)