 “One Already knows neither in what nor whom believing to him”. That was the conclusion at which it arrived Loving Buckets, while it was seated in the banks of the Central avenue and discussed with other gentlemen, of more than 75 years, on religion. He, per decades participated in several congregations, but always it was left with a sinsabor and many questions. Every year they appeared more sects. Of ñapa, each one says a different thing, affirmed.
THREE YEARS IN PANAMA
From April of the 2004, istmeño began to spread in this ground the Ministry Growing in Grace, although it is 20 years old to occur to know in the international scope. This ministry preaches that Jesus Man is nothing less than the Puerto Rican Jose Luis de Jesus Miranda, better well-known like the Antichrist.
Their followers tattoo the 666 in their bodies, as well as a SSS.
DIAaDIA consulted to the shepherd Alexis Afú, who is one of the representatives of this organization in Panama, next to the bishop Vicente Villegas.
“TRUTHS” AND “LIES”
Amiably, Afú made us happen to its church, to which they call “training center”, located in the Aquiline avenue Of the Guard, building Nelson Star, next to the Arrocha pharmacy. There it expressed that they create in five truths: that there is no sin, that the devil does not exist, because with the death of Jesus Christ they assume that all that was in the past; that it is not necessary to perseverar in the doctrine of Christ, no whom there is to live by works and that the salvation cannot be lost.
Those are the five “main truths” on which the Ministry is based Growing in Grace, by which many individuals have catalogued to this group like “the antichrists”.
Consequently, this ministry describes like “lies” which preaches the rest of the religions and sects, that create all in opposition to the exposed thing by Afú.
WHATEVER HAS?
Afú admitted that there is no a census of them. It commented that “here we do not give to the people a membership card him of membresía”, since they do in other religions. It added that it receives calls of people who do not congregate themselves, but that is studying by the Internet and says: “I know that that is the truth and I am convinced that that is Jesus Christ Man”.
AND THAT IS AFU?
This citizen was by 27 years evangelical shepherd, reason for which affirmed that it knows many secrets the shepherds and it dared to say that “some shake” when it talks about them.
Afú has two children and emphasized that it changed of belief in the search of the truth. A “lighting system” is considered, after dedicating several years from study to the Bible and to verify that everything what preaches the world-wide apostle, Jose Luis de Jesus Miranda, or “Jesus Man”, is truth.
“Papi does not say anything that is outside the system of the Church and that is what it bothers to him to the religious system”, reiterated the shepherd. “Papi” is another form to call to Jesus Man to him.
HERE THIS PROHIBITED “TO PROHIBIT”
In this religious group there is no a regulation to follow.
Afú commented that before they said to him that to go to the cinema, to take a beer or to smoke a cigarette was sin. But for the believers of Growing in Grace, “which the person does with its meat it is his problem. It is more, to God does not interest to him what you do with your meat”, said.
He explained that, simply, the man harvests what seeds. He put the following examples: “the one that risks to be with a woman, can contract a AIDS; the one that takes licor, can die in an accident”, among others. It reiterated: “you cannot sin, because God cleared the sin with its death and made your spirit perfect”.
The ministry considers the marriage like honorable and as far as the homosexual tendencies, Afú limited: “we did not watch that meat, we see their spirit. For us a homosexual is a spirit just made perfect”.
It criticized that don't mention it it is worth to kneel down or to regret, because God already cleared the sin.
THEY DO NOT CREATE IN THE ABSTENTION VOTE
Another concept that the Ministry Growing in Grace ruins is the celibacy, because it considers it as a doctrine of demons, cause of most of the cases of abuses of children in the world, on the part of the priests. He remembered that in the United States, in 2000, the parents of 11 thousand children presented/displayed demands against you cure by sexual abuse. He does not recognize the leadership of the Pope either, because he alleges that Pedro was hypocritical and he got to marry. He illustrates his beliefs when Jesus expresses Pedro to him: “Apártate of Me, Satan”. In short, it aims at that the Catholic Church has continued preaching a falsification and for that reason the Evangelical Church is given off or arisen.
REFINED LIES
It is as well as they catalog to the sacraments of Bautizo and the Comunión, as much in the Catholic church as in the Evangelical one. It explained that in the Evangelical one they do not receive you by the indulgence, but they sell the CD and other checheritos to you. In addition, they dictate seminaries and they say that the entrance is free, but inside gather more than four offerings. It needed that some shepherds take registries of the tithe and the one that in order safe year is not to peace and, cannot hold hierarchy positions or delegate functions. “In Growing in Grace we gave all the material to the blessed ones and nobody is forced to give”, emphasized.
THEY ARE NOT OBLIGATORY
Great amount of the calls “antichrists” has tattooed in its body the number “666” and the “SSS”. And although for many Panamanians this one is the number of the beast, inquired that the 666 are the number of the prosperity, long life or wisdom. In as much, the “SSS” means “Safe, always safe”.
It refuted that of the 777 nothing in the Bible is said, but that was reason for uninformed, praises and oration the 7 of July of the 2007, on the part of the evangelical community, which it said that that day, were a special day.
THAT THEM MARK?
DIAaDIA went by reference of “blessed” to cubículo Not of the Center the Great Station of San Miguelito, where is the local Prism Tatto Studio, which they go to mark in their body the 666.
Jean Carlos Navarro and Brandy Mosquera, whom take care of in this site, clarified that they do not comprise of Growing in Grace, but that these are their clients. They did not need the cost the work, because it depends on the exigency of the person.
AND THAT SAYS THE CHRISTIANS?
DIAaDIA very insistently looked for a version in the Apostolic Community Hosanna and, although they were committed to assign to a shepherd who dominated the subject, was no answer, after several days to ask for an interview.
By its side, the priest Luis You cause to decay, of the Basilica Smaller Don Bosco, expressed that the sacraments are not an invention, but that are instituted by the Sagradas Scriptures.
It commented that many of these sects, by their commentaries, tend to be extremist or to say and to believe in things outside the normal thing.
The salesiano informed that the followers to this type into sects, tend to believe more in which the personage says who founds this organization, who in which contains the Bible.
BELIEVERS IN NUMBERS
Recently the company Dichter & Neira revealed in a survey, that 99% of the Panamanians are believing, but at the time of defining that ideology, it was discovered that the 82,9% “catholic declared itself”. In a country with 3 million inhabitants, that percentage means 2 million 487 thousand people. Whereas 12,9% claimed to be evangelical (387 thousand people); Witnesses of Jehovah, 1,3% (39 thousands); Jews, 0,2% (6 thousands); Hindu, 0,2% (6 thousands) and others, 2,9% (87 thousands).
VERSIONS
Followers of the Ministry Growing in Grace adduce that they are not four gospels, but two. The one that were given to Pedro (gospel of the Circuncisión) and the one that was given to Pablo (the gospel of the Incircuncisión). They give to a great enhancement to the epistles written by the apostle Pablo them to the gentile ones. |
