With the definition of a cult being "a group who follows a charismatic leader" would early Christianity be considered a cult? Now before you condemn me to hell... a cult isnt always a Waco Texas type of thing, k? Serious answers only please.
2006-08-10 18:31:37 · 17 answers · asked by Ray 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
im sorry i messed up there, i did mean to say still considered a cult. thanks for correctin me there. good point about them not acting like their leader.
2006-08-10 18:41:41 · update #1
kingreef777: knew it... someone would preach at me and try to send me to hell via yahoo answers... ok hypocrite, im a Christian, harmless question here, k? prime example of people not tryin to be like their leader, what in the world gives you the right to judge me or call me antichrist? go back to bein a white supremacist and beating ur wife for not wearing a dress.
2006-08-10 18:45:00 · update #2
It still is.
2006-08-10 18:35:01 · answer #1 · answered by upallnite 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Any group of people believing the same way is by definition in the dictionary a "cult" But its the "guru's" that have turned that word into a bad thing. Not every "cult" is going to drink poisened cool aide and commit mass suicides. My step dad accused me of being in a cult once becuase of my beliefs some people just cant help there ignorance sometimes. Good luck to you in your quest for answers I hope I helped.
2006-08-18 10:53:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know about it being a cult, but I don't think that children should be forced into something that they don't even have the smallest concept of understanding. My family went to church every sunday for all of my life but my mother never told me to get baptized or anything. She felt that if it was in God's will I would choose on my own when I understood what it meant. I did! I joined when I was 21 and since then have developed a uniques understanding of my realtionship with God.
2006-08-17 02:33:50 · answer #3 · answered by dezyre 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Saul called Paul set out to wipe out the Cult of Christians!
Rome called Christians a cult (talk about the pot calling the kettle black)
I don't know how larger a cult has to be before its a religion?
2006-08-17 02:33:32 · answer #4 · answered by Grandreal 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Early Christianity was considered as a cult by the Rabbais at that time. Otherwise all 12 followers of Jesus would not have run away when they captured and took him away. And he had not a majority following to Vote for him, when Pontius Pilot asked them to Vote for Pardon Between Jesus and Barabas. So Jesus was Voted To Be Crucified.
2006-08-17 04:08:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christianity is a cult, early or late.
2006-08-17 15:09:34 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it was considered a curious cult. it's members were maligned accordingly.
but it became a political entity.
it sold out to the roman government for survival and respectability.
political entity.
politians.
politians are liars.
word of god taken away from and added to.
word of god suppressed and destroyed.
2006-08-11 11:48:50 · answer #7 · answered by Stuie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was considered a jewish cult - that was only altered by St Paul
2006-08-11 01:59:47 · answer #8 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Christianity itself is a cult. don't christians worship someoneand follow unproven teachings.?
2006-08-11 01:36:40 · answer #9 · answered by sonnyd 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it was considered a cult and often people were killed or beaten for practicing it.
2006-08-11 01:38:21 · answer #10 · answered by CAT 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
makaveli_3k1,
This cult will exceed all others. It hasn't even gotten started yet compared to what it will become.
Have you even looked up the definition of antichrist?
The first definition for you.
I'd rather be in a cult than to be an antichrist.
2006-08-11 01:40:47 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋