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What is a cult?: Difference between revisions
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A heretical Christian sect creates division in a church over teaching that perverts Biblical truth. The result is the formation of a group that chooses to separate from God’s people and God’s truth. Although a heretical sect has questionable doctrines, its deviation from a mainline group is usually a question of what or who will be '''the source of authority'''. | A heretical Christian sect creates division in a church over teaching that perverts Biblical truth. The result is the formation of a group that chooses to separate from God’s people and God’s truth. Although a heretical sect has questionable doctrines, its deviation from a mainline group is usually a question of what or who will be '''the source of authority'''. | ||
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The Jewish leaders charged the apostle Paul with being the ringleader of a sect: | The Jewish leaders charged the apostle Paul with being the ringleader of a sect: | ||
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“There will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves.” (2 Peter 2:1) | “There will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves.” (2 Peter 2:1) | ||
=How to determine wheter something is a cult?= | =How to determine wheter something is a cult?= | ||