Cults?!

Ha! Glad to see that you mentioned Elizabeth Warren . . . she immediately came to mind as I began to read your post.

Daughter is supposedly running the cult at the moment...but there's a lot of trouble at the moment with her leadership. Her brother instantly got out and escaped their group as soon as their Mother and Step-father died....he went to move closer to his father.

He was initially silent on his mother's cult but has been saying things of late....they aren't positive things either.

Sister meanwhile has been trying to get money out of her brother...and he inherited nothing. Getting the picture yet? They are a cult. They are not nice people. They only appear to be nice.

Oh I admit that from the outside they look wonderful and extremely enticing....but inside its a nightmare of epic proportions.

It takes a LOT of money to look as good as they do and they don't spare a dime on it either....
And at first meeting they seem like such nice and inviting and warm people.

Who wouldn't want to be like them?

BUT
No one involved with that church doesn't have a case of anorexia or bulimia or some other unhealthy food disorder. The workout routines are crushing....prayer is now the code phrase for self hypnosis.
And for those housewives in that wealthy neighborhood are always in fear of losing their husband's because of the cellulite clause in their prenuptial agreement.

Appearances are very deceiving for that group.

People who choose to enjoy another peanut butter than JIF are just cultists of a false peanut butter!

By this definition christianity as a whole is a cult religion. Our religion is centered around one outspoken person, Jesus. Jesus says I am the way the truth and the life, in other words he is the one true way to salvation. Jesus always spoke strongly about and warned about the end times. Jesus teachings were a constant cause of debate in his lifetime and even now.

Except point numbers 2, 4, and 5 don't really apply. That's only 40%.

Exactly, Satan duplicates the one true church every time.

Satan appears as an angel of light.

Your right that Christianity was a cult as viewed by Judaism and still is. It depends on the perspective you take.

Christianity has been dealing with cults since the time of the apostles.

And the problem is that most people, including today's modern-day "christians" don't know what it is about.

Point 2: The True Christian Doctrine is always Biblical
Point 4: There is freedom in Christ; not control
Point 5: Sharing the True Gospel of Jesus Christ doesn't involve Eschatology . . . as it is being presented to a "new believer"

I believe fundamentally that a cult is a religion that tries to make you do things that go against your conscience. I think that this is the red flag to look out for. If someone calls a certain religion a cult but can not give any examples of how that religion violates a persons conscience I dont believe they are right. Some religions teach false teachings because they do not interpret the bible correctly. These are religions that contain false teachings and if these false teachings are many they are false religions, but they are not cults. I strongly dont agree with the teachings of the churches mentioned here that I know but with some of these they are misguided people. Their teachings are clearly out of sync with bible teachings and wrong, but some are sincere and their religion does not call on its members to violate their consciences.

a cult is some religion that you can never leave and if you do try they will hunt you down and kill you

other than that...

whats this about a clown church?! I thought Krusty the Klown was Jewish

This is actually most likely the best definition of a cult stated so far. The word cult is derived from the word cult. Culling is a process used to kill large numbers of animals in a single place at the same time. Usually by trickery but also by other means, you get the animals to group together into a large group that makes it easier for you to kill the entire herd at once.

That is a most unwise statement. Keep in mind that there are many who are not Christians who read these posts. So if Christianity is a "cult religion" why should they even consider the claims of Christ seriously?

This thread is about heterodox groups who reject, pervert, or subvert Bible truth and snare people with their lies. Those are the cults.

I could not find the actual word in the KJV, so the it might be a matter of opinion. I would say that anything that rejects the deity of Jesus and the cleansing power of His blood is cult-like.

thanks all

I pretty much avoid the term cult. I see groups as on a continuum between benign and harmful.

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https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=cult

cult (n.)

1610s, "worship, homage" (a sense now obsolete); 1670s, "a particular form or system of worship;" from French culte (17c.), from Latin cultus "care, labor; cultivation, culture; worship, reverence," originally "tended, cultivated," past participle of colere "to till" (see colony).

The word was rare after 17c., but it was revived mid-19c. (sometimes in French form culte) with reference to ancient or primitive systems of religious belief and worship, especially the rites and ceremonies employed in such worship. Extended meaning "devoted attention to a particular person or thing" is from 1829.

Where do you see "culling" in that?

Instead of one word we have "ever learning and never able to come unto the knowledge of the truth" (2 Tim 3:7).