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Title: 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
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