(I’m praising and thanking God for enlightening our hearts and minds to know the Truth. He truly delivered us from a deception of an ordinary man. Now as Christians, we are hopefully waiting for the “TRUE PROMISED ONE”. Lastly, we fervently pray that God will touch the hearts of other Baha’is to discover the Truth.)

To the National Spiritual Assembly of the Philippines and to the entire Baha’i Community,

After a very careful scrutiny and study about the Baha;i Faith, my family have found out that the teachings of Baha’u’llah is not the Truth. It did not conform with the teachings of Christ and the Holy Bible. We know that the Spiritual Teachings of Moses and Christ would last forever and will not be altered by an ordinary man like Baha’u’llah. Just as we are overjoyed in becoming Baha’is before same is our exultation now of professing this new found truth-we want to inform all the Baha’is that since the month of March 2012, me and my husband Rudy and my 3 sons namely Christopher, Rudy Jr. and Francis have decided to recant our Faith as a Baha’i.

We have served the Baha’i Faith for more than twenty years and as Baha’is before, we have applied to ourselves the principle of Baha’u’llah’s “Independent Investigation of Truth” to deepen more ourselves in the Baha’i Faith, but to our disappointment , hopelessness and dismayed we have searched that his teachings on marriage is really wrong ( ref. KITAB- I- AQDAS*Tagalog translation,Ang Pinakabanal Na Aklat p.52 no.63; Mga Tala p. 260 no.89) . We felt that we were being deceived by Baha’u’llah and his son Abdul- baha because of the inconsistencies in their writings. Baha’u’llah allowed bigamy in marriage, but Abdul- Baha corrected the teachings of his father, and he said, that the teachings of the Baha’i Faith on marriage is monogamy. This is a blasphemy to God. We know that the teachings of the TRUE MESSIAH is always perfect cause it is from God and there’s no need that his teachings will be corrected by an ordinary man. During the time of Moses, where polygamy was rife because of their tradition, God gave His strict commandment to man that, they should not commit adultery, they should not covet their neighbor’s wife and to have only one wife. And when Christ came, He continued to preach monogamy on marriage and the Holy Bible is the living witness on this. The teaching on “Covenant” is not a good excuse and be used as a shield to support the succession and infallibility of Figures and Institution of the Faith. Man can only have Covenant with God and not with an ordinary man. Aside from this, there were other teachings of the Baha’i Faith which is wrong and we don’t want to be misled.

I’m praising and thanking God for enlightening our hearts and minds to know the Truth. He truly delivered us from a deception of an ordinary man. Now as Christians, we are hopefully waiting for the “TRUE PROMISED ONE”. Lastly, we fervently pray that God will touch the hearts of other Baha’is to discover the Truth.

In God We Trust,

CRISTINA H. VILLAMIL

– Former National and International Resource Person to non- active clusters, Former Auxiliary Board Member for NCR-CALABARZON, Former Regional Institute Coordinator For Southern Luzon, Regional Baha’i Council for Southern Luzon- Former Member, Local Spiritual Assembly of Caloocan- Former Member, Interfaith Dialogue- Former Representative