A millennial Christian told the story of how he was targeted by the heretical group Shincheonji Church of Jesus or New Heaven and New Earth Church because he liked to visit all kinds of social media platforms and how he finally got out of it.
Xiao Sun (pseudonym) usually likes lifestyle platforms that focus on sharing beauty and skincare knowledge and clothing. One day, she studied skin care knowledge on a platform as usual and accidentally came across a beautiful cartoon picture with Bible verses. She felt very warm as a Christian in an instant. She naturally paid attention to several bloggers who shared such pictures and planned to look at these pictures that made her feel warm every day, but she didn’t expect to be targeted by the heretical Shincheonji at this time.
From that day on, she received many such private letters: “Hello, sister, I see that you are also a Christian. Because of the pandemic, we can’t get together here, so I want to read the Bible with you. Do you usually go to church on weekends?” Xiao Sun, who was not very socially experienced, was not on guard, thinking that they were all family members and that it was also good to share faith with them.
These so-called "sisters" in the Lord often sent Bible verses and invited Xiao Sun to read them together. After a while, they gradually became familiar with them. They also began to collect her personal information and asked Xiao Sun about her age, work, and family situation. One day, one of the “sisters” sent an invitation to Xiao Sun and asked her if she would come to an online gathering. At that time, due to the pandemic, Xiao Sun didn’t attend church for a long time, then she accepted the invitation. Recalling the online gathering, she felt that everything seemed to be the same as an orthodox service, without too many differences. But one thing that puzzled her was that the people who hosted the gathering did not call themselves Christians but always emphasized that they were "believers." In addition, they also revealed through this gathering that those who wanted to study the Bible could participate in group study privately.
Sun also participated in the primary online course under the persuasion of a "sister." She knows the characteristics of heretical organizations, namely, that they do not preach according to biblical teachings. Looking back on her study for a month or so, she found that Shincheonji, a heretical organization, repeatedly emphasized the uniqueness of the Bible, but it distorted the facts by taking it out of context and making it patchwork. She summed up the primary attractive contents of the Shincheonji, such as “Why does God know everything?" “How can he achieve eternal life?" “Why does God save those who believe in him?" “The importance of flesh and spirit," “How to change the fate of life," “True faith and formal faith," “The reason to fear God," “The way to read the Bible," “How to know the voice of God,” and so on. It seemed to be very organized, but it was actually a very systematic process that had already been designed. Throw a question and then piece it together, find a chapter, and force it under your own answer with words from the Bible. People gradually lose confidence in God, paving the way for the final heresy.
After a month of intense brainwashing study four or five days a week, Xiao Sun had a vague idea that something was wrong. During a study, another organization member came to observe her performance, and she finally made up her mind to leave. It also emphasized that people were nothing before God, and if they could not attend the study on time, it meant that Satan was disturbing, and God’s words were sealed by metaphor. She was told, "You can only understand after learning, but you can not live forever if you believed in the Lord. You can only learn words with us. To learn words is to work for God, and everything in the world can be put down except learning words." It was these extreme thoughts that kept Sun from learning anymore.
At present, Sun has returned from heresy. She repented that her poor understanding of the Bible had given heretical organizations an opportunity and regretted that she had failed to discover their trap earlier. Fortunately, however, she had nothing in common with them in real life, and she blacked out their contact information. Can Sun still escape their mercy if this happened in real life? It will make people feel cold.
Here, Sun appeals to all brothers and sisters in the Lord to stay away from all kinds of heretics (including the Almighty God, the Shincheonji, etc.) on various social media and short video platforms and in orthodox churches, with her own painful experiences. Shincheonji has reached a pervasive state, and even they have begun to hang out on dating platforms and game platforms. It is not known where they will extend their events next.
- Translated by Charlie Li
一名95后基督教徒，讲诉自己因喜欢刷各种社交平台媒体，而被异端新天地盯上，最后得以脱离的故事。
小孙（化名）平时很喜欢的是一款主打分享美妆护肤知识和穿搭的生活型平台。有一天，她像往常在某平台上学习着护肤知识，偶然间刷到了一张配着圣经经文的很漂亮的卡通图片，作为基督徒的她瞬间感觉很温暖。下意识地关注了几个分享此类图片的博主，打算每天多看看这些让她倍感温暖的图片，但没想到此时的小孙已经被异端新天地盯上了。
从那天开始她收到了很多这样私信：“姊妹你好，我看到你也是一位基督徒，因为疫情原因，我们这里不能聚会，所以想和你一起读经，你平时周末去教会吗？”涉世不深小孙并没有防范心理，想着都是主内家人，一起分享也是蛮好的。
这些所谓的主内姊妹常常发来圣经经文，邀小孙一起读经，一来二去她们开始逐渐变得熟悉。对方也开始套取她的个人信息，询问小孙的年龄，工作，以及家庭情况。有一天，其中的一名“姊妹”向小孙发来了邀请，问她是否要来参加线上聚会。当时由于疫情原因，小孙很久没有参加聚会了，她接受了姊妹的邀请。小孙回忆那场线上聚会，觉得一切看似都和正统的聚会一样，没看出太多的端倪。但有一点让她觉得疑惑的是，主持聚会的人不把自己称为基督徒，而总是强调自己是“信仰人”。除此他们也藉着这次聚会透露出想学习圣经的可以私下参加小组学习的说辞。
而小孙也在一位“姊妹”的劝说下参加了初级线上课程。她知道异端组织的特点的，就是不按照圣经教义来传教。回想那一个月左右的学习，她发现这个异端组织新天地反复强调圣经的唯一，但却通过断章取义，东拼西凑来歪曲事实。小孙总结了一下新天地初级吸引人心的内容，“神为什么知道一切”“怎么样才能得永生”“神为什么拯救信他的人”“肉和灵的重要性”“神和人的关系”“怎么样改变人生命运”“真信仰和形式上的信仰”“敬畏神的原因”“看圣经的方法”“如何知道神的心声”等等。看似很有条理，其实是早已设计好的一套非常系统的流程。抛出一个问题然后东拼西凑，查找章节，用圣经里的话强行套在自己的答案下。让人逐渐失去对神的信心，为最后异端的提出做铺垫。
经过一个月每周4-5天高强度的洗脑学习，小孙隐约察觉的到异常。而让她最终下定决心离开，是在一次学习中，另一位组织成员来观察小孙的表现。还强调人在神面前什么都不是、不能按时参加学习就是魔鬼撒旦在扰乱、神的话都是被比喻封着的。学习了才能看懂、只是信主不能得永生，唯有跟着他们学习话语才可以。来学习话语就是在为神做工、世上的一切事都可以放下唯独不能放弃学习话语……正是这些极端的思想让小孙不敢再跟着学习下去。
目前，小孙已迷途知返，她忏悔自己对圣经理解不深给了异端组织可乘之机，后悔自己没能更早发现他们的圈套。不过值得庆幸的是在现实生活中小孙和她们无任何交集，小孙拉黑了她们的联系方式。试想如果这件事发生在现实生活中，小孙还能逃离他们的摆布嘛？不禁让人背后一凉。
在此，小孙以自己惨痛的经历，来呼吁主内的各位弟兄姊妹，远离各种社交媒体及短视频平台上及混迹于正统教会中的各类异端分子（全能神、新天地等）。新天地教会已达到了无孔不入的状态，甚至他们也开始混迹在婚介交友平台以及游戏平台，不知道他们下一步又会把魔掌伸向何处。
爱刷各种社交平台的95后 一不小心刷进了异端的圈套里
A millennial Christian told the story of how he was targeted by the heretical group Shincheonji Church of Jesus or New Heaven and New Earth Church because he liked to visit all kinds of social media platforms and how he finally got out of it.
Xiao Sun (pseudonym) usually likes lifestyle platforms that focus on sharing beauty and skincare knowledge and clothing. One day, she studied skin care knowledge on a platform as usual and accidentally came across a beautiful cartoon picture with Bible verses. She felt very warm as a Christian in an instant. She naturally paid attention to several bloggers who shared such pictures and planned to look at these pictures that made her feel warm every day, but she didn’t expect to be targeted by the heretical Shincheonji at this time.
From that day on, she received many such private letters: “Hello, sister, I see that you are also a Christian. Because of the pandemic, we can’t get together here, so I want to read the Bible with you. Do you usually go to church on weekends?” Xiao Sun, who was not very socially experienced, was not on guard, thinking that they were all family members and that it was also good to share faith with them.
These so-called "sisters" in the Lord often sent Bible verses and invited Xiao Sun to read them together. After a while, they gradually became familiar with them. They also began to collect her personal information and asked Xiao Sun about her age, work, and family situation. One day, one of the “sisters” sent an invitation to Xiao Sun and asked her if she would come to an online gathering. At that time, due to the pandemic, Xiao Sun didn’t attend church for a long time, then she accepted the invitation. Recalling the online gathering, she felt that everything seemed to be the same as an orthodox service, without too many differences. But one thing that puzzled her was that the people who hosted the gathering did not call themselves Christians but always emphasized that they were "believers." In addition, they also revealed through this gathering that those who wanted to study the Bible could participate in group study privately.
Sun also participated in the primary online course under the persuasion of a "sister." She knows the characteristics of heretical organizations, namely, that they do not preach according to biblical teachings. Looking back on her study for a month or so, she found that Shincheonji, a heretical organization, repeatedly emphasized the uniqueness of the Bible, but it distorted the facts by taking it out of context and making it patchwork. She summed up the primary attractive contents of the Shincheonji, such as “Why does God know everything?" “How can he achieve eternal life?" “Why does God save those who believe in him?" “The importance of flesh and spirit," “How to change the fate of life," “True faith and formal faith," “The reason to fear God," “The way to read the Bible," “How to know the voice of God,” and so on. It seemed to be very organized, but it was actually a very systematic process that had already been designed. Throw a question and then piece it together, find a chapter, and force it under your own answer with words from the Bible. People gradually lose confidence in God, paving the way for the final heresy.
After a month of intense brainwashing study four or five days a week, Xiao Sun had a vague idea that something was wrong. During a study, another organization member came to observe her performance, and she finally made up her mind to leave. It also emphasized that people were nothing before God, and if they could not attend the study on time, it meant that Satan was disturbing, and God’s words were sealed by metaphor. She was told, "You can only understand after learning, but you can not live forever if you believed in the Lord. You can only learn words with us. To learn words is to work for God, and everything in the world can be put down except learning words." It was these extreme thoughts that kept Sun from learning anymore.
At present, Sun has returned from heresy. She repented that her poor understanding of the Bible had given heretical organizations an opportunity and regretted that she had failed to discover their trap earlier. Fortunately, however, she had nothing in common with them in real life, and she blacked out their contact information. Can Sun still escape their mercy if this happened in real life? It will make people feel cold.
Here, Sun appeals to all brothers and sisters in the Lord to stay away from all kinds of heretics (including the Almighty God, the Shincheonji, etc.) on various social media and short video platforms and in orthodox churches, with her own painful experiences. Shincheonji has reached a pervasive state, and even they have begun to hang out on dating platforms and game platforms. It is not known where they will extend their events next.
- Translated by Charlie Li
Millennial Social Media Fan Fell into Online Heresy Group
