This has been my experience. Has it been yours also? When I ask questions (either too many or too serious), no matter how friendly or sincerely caring my intent, I am met with hostility and insults. Why, when Jesus said we should love even our enemies (Matt. 5:43-47)?
At first I thought it was simply a failure on their part, individually. I try, but I am not always perfect at responding to confrontation either. Or maybe they are like those who purposely disregard what the Bible teaches about love, even though claiming to be Christians. But it happens so often, and they claim to obey everything the Bible teaches. What's going wrong here? The problem is in the teachings of the WMSCOG.
The WMSCOG teaches that complete obedience is required for salvation, and by that they mean complete obedience to the WMSCOG's teachings and Biblical interpretation.
So what does the WMSCOG teach about those who disagree with them?
"God awakens us to the existence of Jerusalem our Heavenly Mother, but the devil our enemy who slanders the truth is covering the glory of God by telling a lie that God the Mother does not exist." (from Do Not Call Anything Impure That God Has Made Clean)They teach that those who don't believe in "Mother God" are spreading lies and slander from the devil--listening to them is listening to the devil. It's very sad that they won't even consider that what they think is a lie is actually verifiable truth.
"The devil is our enemy because he has become the enemy of Elohim-especially God our Mother. The serpent [the devil] is a perpetual enemy of the woman. The woman, our Mother, leads us into life, but the serpent [the devil] tries to lead us into death. From the beginning there was enmity between them, and to the very end of the age the enmity will continue. He constantly hinders the truth about Mother through various tricks. To prevent us from knowing Mother who gives us life, he denies the Biblical records of Elohim working together by every tricky word and scheme. Thus, he tries his utmost to swallow our souls and lead us into death. The more the devil hinders us, the more we should be alert and self-controlled, so that we may resist the devil with the correct knowledge of God.... The dragon, the ancient serpent called the devil, is mobilizing numerous people like the sand on the seashore, so-called Christians, to oppose Mother and us who follow Her (Rev 12:17)." (from The Elohim Gods)They teach that anyone who is against "Mother" (Zahng Gil-Jah) is a servant of the enemy Satan, and that any argument that sounds convincing is one of the devil's tricks to lead them to death. Doesn't that sound like the kind of logic a deceiver would use to avoid being exposed?
"The Bible says that the spirit that does not acknowledge God can come in the flesh is the spirit of the antichrist, and warns that we must not accept it.... Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is from Satan.... If anyone denies God's incarnation, he is not a Christian but the one controlled by the spirit of the antichrist." (from Christianity is a Religion That Believes in Incarnation of God)They teach that it's the antichrist who doesn't believe in Ahnsahnghong is God in the flesh. In fact, they teach that anyone who speaks against the WMSCOG in any way is a servant of Satan...
"Then, why do Satan's servants masquerade as servants of righteousness? They do that for the only one purpose of leading people, even God's chosen ones, to hell by deceiving them. ...we should diligently preach the gospel of truth to the people, enlightening them to know the real identity of Satan and his servants who hinder the gospel of God and devour men's souls. They deceive people into believing that what God's people keep or celebrate is not truth.... What does the Bible say about Satan's servants who blaspheme against God and His people? It says that God scoffs at them and He will break them with an iron rod and dash them to pieces like pottery." (from Hindrance of Satan and Victory of God)Back to the main question--why do we see such animosity from our loved ones when we are only trying to help them? Because they are taught that Satan is using us to try to take them away from the "truth." Their anger towards us is their anger towards Satan.
The important lesson for us here is to understand why this is happening. That understanding may help us to avoid responding with equal animosity.
As for the logic of this teaching, I can only tell our WMSCOG friends this...
Be careful! Satan is a skillful deceiver. Don't fall for his schemes. Don't just call these claims about the WMSCOG lies and ignore them. Don't just listen to your leaders' explanations. Check it out for yourself. Think for yourself.
By the way, for those of us who wonder why our loved ones can't seem to see a problem that looks perfectly clear to us, maybe it's because they are also being told...
"We, too, should completely follow what God has taught and instructed us to do, as the children of God, instead of having a faith based on common sense." (from Do Not Call Anything Impure That God Has Made Clean)
If you like allegories, read "The Last Battle" by C.S. Lewis. It's the final book in the Chronicles of Narnia and gives a good example of how deception and mind control are used to lead people to worship a false Christ.
