The membership here has a number of members who have been in cults and are triggered by such discussion. I hope this thread will soon realize it has enough information and if members wish to continue the discussion or study, will do so privately. IMO this no longer is considered to be supportive here.

Here are the facts of this movement.

In keeping with the signs of a cult, this person Jose Luis De Jesus Miranda,<ul type="square">[*] (1) now claims he is the antichrist.[*](2) claims to be the only legitimate spiritual authority.[*](3)in 1988 he announced he had been reincarnated as the Apostle Paul[*](4) In 2004 he proclaimed himself to be Jesus Christ.[*] His followers have disrupted Catholic processions on Good Friday, protested outside an evangelical church gathering in Miami's Tropical Prak, tore up literature published by the JWs and Christian movements during a march in Downtown Miami.[*] Members say the symbol (666 which the Bible says is the mark of evil) that it doesn't mean that but connects them not to Satan but to De Jesus' claim that he has replaced Christ's teachings with a NEW gospel.[*] Daniel Alvarez, an instructor in the department of religious studies at FIU has studied the movement and says that De Jesus' control over people is so great that no matter what he says to them, they will follow.

Whether you wish to use the strong term of cult or not is your option, whereas it is a cult in the Theological definition. But in any shape or fashion of semantics, you must consider it a SECT.

BTW, his FIRST wife who knew him well, and his son have both defected from him and his movement. This is "clearly a personality-driven group" and is "defined by the claims of De Jesus Miranda" not God in any other fashion.

IMO this man is going off the deep end with this. I hope few follow there.[/list]