What Would Jesus Say To

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What Would Jesus Say To

• Tom Cruise
• 1 Cor. 11 1-15

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Thomas Cruise Malpother IV

• July 3, 1962
• Most powerful celebrity in the world (Forbes)
• Roots in Louisville, KY

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Thomas Cruise Malpother IV

• Divorced home
• Estranged from father for a decade
• First big break at 21Risky Business
• First actor with 5 consecutive films grossing
  over 100 million each

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Thomas Cruise Malpother IV

• Married 3x
• Two adopted children 1 biological child
• Introduced to Scientology by his first wife Mimi
  Rogers

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A. Be Careful Who You Follow

• Submitted himself to the words of L. Ron Hubbard
• Spoke and wrote a lot of words
• Founder of Scientology

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L. Ron Hubbard

• Scientologists consider his tapes and words as
  scripture
• He is known as the exclusive Source
• His words are considered infallible
• Foundational work Dianetics (1950)

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Wisdom About Spiritual Teachers

• Judge by
• Quality of their lives
• Quality of their message
• Jesus, Paul both spoke of their lives and message

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Hubbards Quality of Life

• Born in Nebraska 1911
• 1930s became somewhat well known science fiction
  writer
• Said if you want to get rich start a religion

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Hubbards Quality of Life

• Continual details revealing dishonesty
• Involved with the occult
• Mentored by Satanist Aleister Crowley
• Married 3x, accused of bigamy, declared a
  pathological liar by a judge

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Hubbards Quality of Teaching

• Dianeticssupposed to be derived from Greek
  meaning what the soul is doing through the body.
• While starting the religion in early 1950s he did
  not emphasize that as much in the beginning

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Hubbards Quality of Teaching

• Said it was scientific and therapeutic
• Divided the mind between
• Analytic
• Reactive

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Hubbards Quality of Teaching

• Reactive affected by engrams which are past
  traumas
• With help of e-meter and auditor one can identify
  engrams
• Engrams can be removed until one is clear

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Hubbards Quality of Teaching

• One pays for courses and auditing
• At clear one would be free from psychosomatic
  illnesses and a host of other things
• Scientific community rejected his pseudo science,
  thus he hated psychiatry

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Hubbards Quality of Teaching

• By passed criticisms by emphasizing spiritual.
• After 1971 they took on more trappings of a
  church
• We are Thetans

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Hubbards Quality of Teaching

• Reincarnated spirits with billions of years
  behind us.
• We created MEST and then became entangled by it
• We have engrams from past lives

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Hubbards Quality of Teaching

• We can move up the Bridge with auditing
• We can become OTs or Operating Thetans
• At OT III you learn more of the story regarding
  aliens. Cruise may be an OT VII

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B. Be Humble about Yourself

• Scientology about self-evaluation and
  self-salvation
• Much wiser spiritual teachers have warned us
  that we are not capable of a full self-analysis
• Jeremiah 17 9-10 1 Cor. 44

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B. Be Humble about Yourself

• Our hope is not in self-deliverance but in the
  Saviors deliverance
• 1 Cor. 1 18-25
• The only clear that matters is the one He
  gives

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C. Be Wise Regarding theBest Explanation

• Mans great stories follow similar themes
• There is something wrong with us
• There is something wrong with our world
• There is something beyond us that is perfect

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C. Be Wise Regarding theBest Explanation

• There is evil to be overcome
• We know that a day of reckoning is coming
• The question is Who has the best explanation?
  Whose story coheres?

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C. Be Wise Regarding theBest Explanation

• It is the story of the Bible
• We have a creation story that makes sense
• We have an explanation of whats wrong that makes
  sense
• We have a salvation story rooted in history