SoulandSoil | Are the Brahma Kumaris less than pure?

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Brahma Kumar wrote at 03:20:43 AM on Jul 09, 2009

Never mind portraying ex-members as "axe grinders". That is always the first thing cult apologists to do. Have the Brahma Kumaris leadership been leading their adherents along on false predictions of "The End of the World" ... taking their money, free labor and properties ... or not?

Is that ethical by today's standards?

I read an interesting thing the other day. The Brahma Kumaris used to tell their followers that the End of the World would be in 1976 (note, also 1950, WWII, mid-1980s and Year 2000). Someone just discovered that also in 1976 the leaders including their Dadi Janki bought a freehold property with their followers' money.

Why buy a freehold property with followers' money when the world is about to be "Destroyed"?

Please excuse me if I am being too rational, or expecting some kind of reasonable ethics from cult leaders, but does that not seem a little bit hypocritical and irresponsible? Of course, that was not the end of the property portfolio ... it was only the beginning. Check out the huge Mansion in the countryside.

Individuals BKs might well be wonderful people. They might have lots of lovely retreat palaces in the country ... but what is it really all about? If the leadership is hiding all of this, re-writing their history, hiding the truth from newcomers - and the whole induction process is designed to slowly "cook" newcomers before they are told the truth - isn't that corrupt by Western standards?

And where is the response to all this from the leadership?

Its just another cult, driven by deluded spirit mediums, who think the spirits that are speaking through them are the God of all Religions. And they are the only true religion and all religions must come to them to re-learn religion. Never mind the oblox about being "trappist monks" ... people have got to get to the heart of it.

Its not meditation. What they are trying to do is hook people up to worshipping these spooks, and their deceased leader, as if they were God and the father of humanity. Its insane.

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Sam Bro wrote at 02:30:17 PM on Nov 12, 2009

My Brothers and Sister here time will unfold the truth, but as for now what I can say is that the knowledge is really subtle and it take a lot to understand it in depth......... But I thinks "That God is with them" in true sense. To support what I say I have some Mind-Maps that wish to share with you with love.
I tried hard to prove that God does not exits but I failed.
http://cid-83e8e7033f51e6ac.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Mind-Maps/GodDon^4tExists.png

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graham misson wrote at 08:00:16 PM on Apr 19, 2010

Over the years I have talked to thousands of people who have asked me how to find their way to God. Some have sat in church pews all their lives but never come to personally know God. Others have sought for ultimate meaning in all sorts of ways but never found the peace of mind for which they were searching. Some simply realize that there is something vital missing in their lives.

The Bible teaches that this sense of lostness is rooted in the fact that we live in a fallen world in which we are all handicapped by a sin nature: we "all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:23). And despite our best efforts we are unable to remove the haunting weight of guilt that separates us from our Creator.

God sent his Son to solve our dilemma. "God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life" (John 3:16).

Jesus Christ made the way to God for us by his death on the Cross. He purchased our salvation by the shedding of his blood. His death and resurrection made a new and everlasting covenant between God and humanity.

Jesus told his disciples, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me" (John 14:6). He did not merely point the way to God. He himself claimed to be the only way to the Father and the source of eternal truth and life.

The way to God is through personal faith in Jesus Christ. Intellectual acceptance of Christ is not enough. You must come to him determined to turn from what displeases him, with a total trust in Christ's saving power for you.

Christ promises those who turn to him: "Whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed from death to life" (John 5:24).

Today you can come to him by surrendering your life and heart to Christ. The Bible says: "To all who received him (Jesus Christ), to those who believed in his name he gave the right to become children of God" (John 1:12).

Right where you are you can pray something like this: "Lord, I know that I have sinned and need your forgiveness. I believe that Jesus Christ died for me and rose from the dead. I invite you into my life to be my Lord and Savior."

If you sincerely put your faith in Christ, God promises not only to forgive you, but also to receive you into his family. It's the greatest discovery you will ever make!

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graham misson wrote at 08:01:42 PM on Apr 19, 2010

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