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INSTITUTE OF DIVINE METAPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Founder:  Henry Clifford Kinley(1895-1976)
Beginning: 1958
Membership: 10,000+

With this group having a branch here in Birmingham, I've had the opportunity to visit them on one occasion.  When I went, I was really made to see how a group can imitate Christianity, but not even claim any ties with Christianity.   This group has several off-shoots from it, thereby making it influential from that perspective.  Two groups I know of have come from IDMR, which are the "Institute of Divine Reality" and "PLIM-Power Latent in Man". 

IDMR is a very persuasive "sacred name" group, who believe that one must call God by his "exact sacred name" or else they can't be saved.   Of course, there are many sacred name groups around today, however, this one has had an impressive impact more so than others with the rise in members.  The New Orleans branch had 600+ members, and had to purchase another facility.  They have television broadcasts of their services on many stations around the country. 

In 1931 a man named Henry Clifford Kinley supposedly received a vision from God in Springfield, Ohio.  This vision is told to have "revealed esoteric secrets concerning the structure and operation of Spirit by a threefold tabernacle pattern, and showed that Yahweh(or God) is a universal principle".  And then in 1958, Kinley founded IDMR as a result of this "divine vision and revelation" that he received.  They believe that at the end of every age Yahweh(or God)gives a particular man a vision to inform the world of  "who He is and how He actually exists".  According to IDMR, for this age the man is Kinley. 

What this group essentially is, is a direct attack against biblical Christianity and the Jesus of the Bible.  Central to their teaching is the belief that the vision of the tabernacle pattern showed to Moses by God on mount Sinai reveals "who God is and how He actually exists", and this tabernacle pattern also reveals how He made man and everything else in the universe.  So this tabernacle pattern is central to everything, and they use this teaching to literally attack biblical Christianity and attempt to prove that all Christian churches are in error and that they are right.  It also seems as if they hate the name "Jesus" with a passion.   They hammer away at the fact that the letter "J" was not in existence when Jesus was alive, so if His name wasn't "Jesus" then, it couldn't be "Jesus" now.  How weak an argument, for we all know that "Jesus" is only the english variation of the name "Yeshua".  But remember as I said before that this is a sacred name group, they believe you must call God by His exact name, and if you don't, you can't be saved. 

They attempt to draw the intellectual person by not calling themselves a church but a "school".  In their "Scientific Introduction to the Divine Pattern of the Mosaic Tabernacle", which is a little hand-booklet, they list their aims.  Here are some of them: 

1.)To help you find and Know Yahweh our Elohim as He really is and actually exists.

2.)To form a nucleus of Universal Brotherhood of Humanity in Yashua the Messiah without distinction of Race or Nationality, Creed, Sex, Caste, or Color

3.)To investigate the unexplained Spirit Law or so-called Law of Nature and the Powers latent in man.

4.)To encourage and promote the study of the Scriptures, comparative Religions, Psychology, Philosophy and Modern Science(practical and occult).

From their website, here are just a few of their anti-christian teachings, which clearly show their attack against biblical Christianity.  As you will see, its almost as if they are attacking the exact things that the christian Church teaches.

1.)The name "Jesus" comes from two pagan deities.

2.)The name "Christ" is derived from the Hindu idol god "Krishna".

3.)The Great Commission states to baptize in the name, not title or water.

4.)The books Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, are not the New Testament.

5.)The letters of Paul, Peter and John, etc. are epistles, not the New Testament.

6.)Yashua the Messiah was with Moses and the Israelites as "Joshua".

What a sad day it is, when this type of abberation becomes acceptable to so many people.  Here side by side with the Bible, are the teachings of IDMR.