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| All Manner of Cults: An Evangelical Tract. |
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A standard dictionary gives one of the meanings of cult as extravagant devotion to a person, cause or thing; also the object of such devotion. The word cult is often associated with religion although a cult does not need to be religious in outlook. Cults are also often associated with secrecy but not all cults are secret organizations. In the case of religious cults, another dictionary defines cult as a system of religious devotion directed towards a particular figure or object; a relatively small religious group regarded by others as strange or as imposing excessive control over members. |
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A religious cult can also be described as any religious group, which differs significantly in some one or more respects as to belief or practice from those religious groups which are regarded as the established expressions of the religion. Our religious focus in this tract is on Christianity, and in this case we can regard a cult as a group of people gathered about a specific person or person's misinterpretation of the Bible. |
| Many of such cults have certain writings for which they claim supernatural authority in addition to the Bible. Usually they reject faith in Jesus Christ as God's only way of salvation. John 3:18; 14:6; Acts 4:12. |
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| There are certain characteristics which most cults share in common |
• A centralized authority which tightly structures both philosophy and lifestyle; |
• A “we” versus “they” complex, pitching the supposed superior insights of the group against a hostile outside culture; |
• A commitment for each member to preach intensively to the unconverted; and |
• An entrenched isolationism that divorces the devotee from the realities of the world at large. |
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