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Handbook on Cults & False Religions
Many Churches and groups claiming to be Christian have differences of opinion over such issues as Church government, the proper mode of Baptism, and when the Rapture of the Church is going to happen. These issues do not define cults because these are considered peripheral doctrines (that is, they are minor doctrines over which people can freely disagree). Other Doctrines of the Christian Faith are so essential that if you deny one or more of them, you are no longer truly Christian. Five Doctrines are especially important;
1. Scripture = The Holy Bible is the inspired and authoritative Word of God.
2. God = The One True God is infinite and eternal, revealed in Three Persons; The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit.
3. Jesus = Jesus is Eternal God as the second Person of the Trinity. In the incarnation, He took on a human nature , being born of a virgin. He died for all humankind's sins and three days later physically rose from the dead.
4. Humanity = God created human beings in His image, and they are morally accountable to the Creator.
5. Sin and Salvation = Every human being is born into the world in a state of dire sin and is estranged from God. People can do nothing to merit Salvation before God. SALVATION IS BY GRACE ALONE THROUGH FAITH ALONE, BASED SOLELY ON THE ATONEMENT WROUGHT BY JESUS CHRIST.
Some Cults & False Religion Sects
Satanism, Christian Science, Latter-Day Saints or Mormans, Jehovah's Witnesses, The Masonic Lodge, All Islam Sects, The New Age Movement, Religious Science, Astrology, Spiritism, Transcendental Meditation, Wicca/Witchcraft, Zen, Roman Catholics
By - Ron Rhodes
Many Churches and groups claiming to be Christian have differences of opinion over such issues as Church government, the proper mode of Baptism, and when the Rapture of the Church is going to happen. These issues do not define cults because these are considered peripheral doctrines (that is, they are minor doctrines over which people can freely disagree). Other Doctrines of the Christian Faith are so essential that if you deny one or more of them, you are no longer truly Christian. Five Doctrines are especially important;
1. Scripture = The Holy Bible is the inspired and authoritative Word of God.
2. God = The One True God is infinite and eternal, revealed in Three Persons; The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit.
3. Jesus = Jesus is Eternal God as the second Person of the Trinity. In the incarnation, He took on a human nature , being born of a virgin. He died for all humankind's sins and three days later physically rose from the dead.
4. Humanity = God created human beings in His image, and they are morally accountable to the Creator.
5. Sin and Salvation = Every human being is born into the world in a state of dire sin and is estranged from God. People can do nothing to merit Salvation before God. SALVATION IS BY GRACE ALONE THROUGH FAITH ALONE, BASED SOLELY ON THE ATONEMENT WROUGHT BY JESUS CHRIST.
Some Cults & False Religion Sects
Satanism, Christian Science, Latter-Day Saints or Mormans, Jehovah's Witnesses, The Masonic Lodge, All Islam Sects, The New Age Movement, Religious Science, Astrology, Spiritism, Transcendental Meditation, Wicca/Witchcraft, Zen, Roman Catholics
By - Ron Rhodes
