interesting. just want to ask. since the INC do not believe that Jesus is God(correct me if i'm wrong), are you saying that they are not, as you say, "true christians"?
The INC does not believe that Jesus Christ is GOd because INC is monotheistic in the sense that except for the Father, there's no other God.
Jesus Christ though not God in the belief of the INC is not considered as ordinary man. He was
given a lot of extraordinary endowments by God: he was given Lordship, powers beyond ordinary man, he is the Son of God, He is the Savior, he is the Christ, he is the head of the Church, thus Iglesia Ni Cristo, He is the way to God's kingdom.
FYM on the other hand though refer to as angel does not mean higher than Christ, because angel came from angelus "Latin for angel" meaning messenger or tagapaghatid ng balita, in older tagalog: Sugo.
Plus the INC believes that Christ was originally believed not to be God by early Christians.
Of course many of you will find these unbelievable. But from where we are coming from, what is unbelievable is the belief that God had to transform into human then when on Earth, he called and prayed to himself to make the cup of suffering pass him, and when on the cross, he commended his spirit to his other self. Simplu put, we do not believe God is suffering from multiple personalities.
Like everything in religion, it's a matter of belief. We believed something that is not believed by many other people. That's how the early Christians were like, come to think of it.