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| =What beliefs are common to all cults=
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| Cults thrive on people who know little or nothing of the Bible and who readily replace logical reasoning with emotional decisions. They willingly pledge allegiance to charismatic leaders who claim to have the key to deeper truths and the answers to all the details of daily living.
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| #They follow the cult leader blindly.
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| #They forfeit individual freedom.
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| #They forsake friends and family to have a new “family.”
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| #They fear punishment for not conforming to legalistic rules and regulations.
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| #They feel misunderstood and persecuted by the outside world.
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| #They forego reason for emotion.<ref>June Hunt, Biblical Counseling Keys on Cults: The Truth Twisters (Dallas, TX: Hope For The Heart, 2008), 5–7.</ref>
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| “For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.”
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| (2 Timothy 4:3)
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