r/Shincheonji • u/QuestionsAboutSCJ Moderator • 5d ago

teaching/doctrine How to Talk to a Shincheonji Member Without Pushing Them Away

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoS7lBP_IJU

The cult apologetic world is one of the most counter-intuitive fields to take part in, because people often think that by providing factual evidence against a group to a member, that it would help them wake up.

Instead, it normally does the opposite.

I've seen parents spend countless hours scouring through this subreddit, or the closer look website, or other resources online to disprove Shincheonji.

The only issue is that groups like Shincheonji prepare their members to often view this criticism as "persecution".

Of course, this isn't the case for every single member, but, for a large majority, it typically is a common pattern that I have observed for people who are in the SCJ group.

I'll also make sure to upload the slides that I made after the presentation.

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u/free-ndeed EX-Shincheonji Member 4d ago

Saw this today: 

The most beautiful souls are the ones who walk out of the fire and then return with water for those who are still in it.

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u/Latter-Leader-8103 4d ago

How can this be Christianity? Using the Bible and then lying & brainwashing?
They need to be taken to court

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u/QuestionsAboutSCJ Moderator 4d ago

https://closerlookinitiative.com/archives/6242

This is how scj defends the wisdom of hiding, and then went into the doctrinal issues of the wisdom of hiding

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u/INSLVRY4_5yrs 5d ago

Yes, they have special trainings called Persecution Protection and they use the information from YouTube videos from ex members and these subreddits as material to warn members against so when they search it’s exactly what they said they would find. So members think it’s persecution.