The WMSCOG teaches that all humans on earth killed angels and tried to kill God in heaven and were banished to earth to await their death sentence.

Robert J. Lifton identifies the demand to “confess to crimes one has not committed” as a theme present in totalistic groups that use thought reform or “brainwashing.” (See this page for more information.)

When members accept the untruth that they are murderers, they are caught in a cycle of guilt and seeking forgiveness through submission and devotion to the church.

I believed that not only was I guilty in heaven, I was also guilty on earth for not wanting enough to bear fruit, not giving more effort to my missions, feeling unhappy, etc.

Even after I had given up everything for the church—my friends, my family, my home, my hobbies, my free time, my money, my bodily autonomy, my identity—it could never be enough to repay God for all my grave sins.