Complete group dependence, an abandonment of everything in the past life, a new view of life reinforced with a heavy learning programme and regimentation and discipline, all remove and possibility for an individual to arrive at God's will for them. Parents in the U.S. have gone so far as to kidnap their children and hire professional deprogrammers. Again their view that the world and everything in it is evil, has allowed the C.O.G. to bleed parents and raise funds on false pretences eg. Raising money for youth drug programmes that never existed. Parents are of the world and therefore disciples must be protected from them.
Contact is kept to a minimum, mainly only letters.
It says obey them in all things even if they are wrong. Moses David continually made contradictory statements in his Mo papers. Fundamental errors in Biblical interpretation are the root cause of the strange beliefs and behaviour of the C.O.G. A literalist approach to the Bible, unfounded prophetic interpretations and the identification of Moses David as the Messiah, give the C.O.G. little chance of reflecting the truth. Scriptural authority - Mo letters. God - yes.