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Cultic Errors
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This is a list of basic doctrines from cults that do not have full reports
listed at Biblefacts.org.
- Bahaism
An eclectic cult based on Islam. Its international headquarters is in Haifa,
Israel. Ali Mohammed was the forerunner of Bahu Allah.
1. There is no trinity
2. Moses, Jesus, Zoroaster, Buddha, Confucius, Mohammed, and Bahu Allah, were all
manifestations God.
3. All religions are the same and are divine in origin.
4. The universe is without beginning or creation but is an emanation of God.
5. There is no such thing as sin or hell.
6. After death spirit continues until perfection.
7. Man can't know God.
8. Man is basically good.
9. No sin nature.
10. Jesus did not physically resurrect.
- Church Universal and
Triumphant
1. There is no trinity
2. Spiritual knowledge is given from ... ascended masters and angels.
3. Reincarnation and Karma
4. Elisabeth Clare Prophet is the incarnation of the "mother god."
5. Jesus was not the "only Christ." Like Him, we can have a christ
conscieneness
- ISKCON 'Hare Krishna's'
1. There is no trinity
2. Pantheism.
3. Self-salvation.
- Jehovah's Witnesses
1. There is no trinity.
2. Jesus is not God, but the archangel Michael.
3. There is no Holy Spirit.
4. There is no hell.
5. Christ didn't come to die for a ransom but show a good life.
6. There is no soul so at death you cease to exist.
7. Christ's sacrifice is not complete.
8. Christ was only a man while on earth.
9. Refuse blood transfusions.
- Ku Klux Klan
A white supremacist group made up of those who are white Anglo-Saxon and
protestant.
- Moonies
1. There is no trinity
2. God is Yin Yang.
3. Jesus failed to fulfill the primary task of defeating Satan by marrying the perfect
woman and having 12 sinless children. Moon, who is the second Messiah, has fulfilled this
messianic duty of creating God's family on earth.
- Rosicrucianism
1. There is no trinity
2. Reincarnation
3. Pantheism – God is the Supreme Intelligence, pure energy, not a person.
4. Spiritism
5. Belief in a universal soul
6. Jesus is the highest initiate of the sun period, but not God.
7. The Holy Spirit is the highest initiate of the moon period, but not
God, or not even a person.
8. Sins are expiated not by blood of Christ but can only be with the law
of AMRA.
- Scientology
1. There is no trinity.
2. We are all reincarnated gods (Thetans).
3. Jesus is not special.
4. No sin, or hell
5. Reincarnation with Karma
6. Humans are born naturally good.
7. Every one has the right to worship the god they choose.
8. You save yourself by getting to the level "clear."
9. Hubbard taught he was 1 level higher than Jesus.
- Self Realization
Fellowship
1. There is no trintiy
2. God is not a person, hold to pantheism
3. Jesus was just a prophet.
4. Reincarnation
5. We need to obtain the cosmic consciousness.
6. Try to combine Hinduism with Christanity
- Theosophical society (teachings are based on Buddhism)
1. There is no trinity
2. Reincarnation.
3. Heaven is nirvana.
4. God is a force.
5. We will all become God. {No conscience}
- Transcendental Meditation
1. There is no trinity
2. Salvation is god-realization.
3. Jesus just showed the way.
- United Pentecostal Church 'Oneness'
1. There is no trinity
2. You must speak in tongues to be saved.
Notice, however, in John 14:23 the "we" refers to Jesus and the Father.
- Unity School of Christianity
Headquartered in Lee's Summit Mo., it started in 1891 as a break off of Christian
Science.
1. There is no trinity.
2. Jesus is not God.
3. Matter does exist.
4. God is not a person.
5. Christ is an idea {consciousness}.
6. Jesus is not the Christ.
7. Reincarnation
1 John. 2:22 If you say that Jesus is not the Christ you are of antichrist.
1 John. 4:2 If
you say that Jesus did not come in the flesh you are of antichrist.
Mt.16:16-17 The Father
revealed to Peter that Jesus was the Christ.
- The Worldwide Church of God
"Armstrongism" started on February 1934 as a branch off of a
branch of 7th Day Adventist.
1. There is no trinity
2. They are the only true church. The gospel has not existed for 1900 years.
3. Every other denomination preaches a false gospel, except them.
4. They teach British Israelism.
5. Salvation is ongoing, not just believing & you're not 'born again' until the
resurrection.
6. People in this church will become a creator god.
7. At the resurrection they will be raised as spiritual gods, not in the flesh.
8. The Holy Spirit is not a person.
9. Jesus didn't rise in the flesh.
10. They teach soul sleep.
11. You must keep the Sabbath and all the dietary laws of Moses; otherwise you are unsaved.
12. The soul is not immortal.
13. The atonement of Christ {His blood} doesn't save anyone.
The Worldwide Church of God was the only cult, that after its founder died, changed its
doctrine and became orthodox.
- The Way International
1. There is no trinity, and Jesus is not God.
2. There is no blood atonement.
3. Jesus did not exist prior to Bethlehem.
4. You are a Holy Spirit that speaks in tongues.
5. Speaking in tongues is proof of salvation.
6. Humans do not have a living spirit.
7. Soul sleep
8. Reject water baptism
- Other Cults
Adventism
Assemblies of Yahweh
Aum Shinrikyo
Shoko Asahara
Branch Davidians
Brethren (Jim Roberts)
Chen Tao (the Right Way)
Christian Identity
Church of God General Conference
Church of Religious Science
Concerned Christians
Monte Miller
Dawn Bible Students
Bible Students
Associated Bible Students
Deepak Chopra
Divine Science
Father Divine
Family
Children of God
Growing in Grace Ministies
Creciendo en Gracia
Jose Luis de Jesus Miranda
Heaven's Gate
Holyland Reach Inc
Luke Edwards
House of Yahweh
Bill Hawkins
Iglesia ni Cristo
Israelite Church of God in Jesus Christ
Liberal Catholic Church
Lucius Trust
Alice Bailey
New Age movement
New
Thought
Order of the Solar Temple (OTS)
Philadelphia Church of God
Gerald Flurry
Rasafarianism
Share International
Benjamin Creme
Schwenkfelder Church
Swedenborgianism
Church of the New Jerusalem
True and Living Church
Jim Harmston LDS offshoot
Unitarianism
Urantia
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Date: 6-1996 |