Is the term Christ Cultist accurate?

Question

The noun cult has 3 meanings:

Meaning #1: adherents of an exclusive system of religious beliefs and practices


Meaning #2: an interest followed with exaggerated zeal


Meaning #3: a system of religious beliefs and rituals

(Source: American Heritage Dictionary)


I believe so!

Answer 1

All Christians are cultists.

They do not know the meaning of the term and misuse it as a pejorative against other cults within their cult system.

Answer 2

Actually, you missed out on one there.
And it was, "the belief in a system derived from a single person's revelation."
The first 2 you list have nothing to do with an outside source - you could do them on a desert island all by yourself. If you include the last, then you appeal to something that must be innate - or inborn - in the human spirit.
This is why Mormons, Jehovah's Witness, Unitarians, etc. (among others) are essentially cults - they have a single person who claims to have had a 'revelation' on a religious paradigm, and have changed the perspective to match their experience.
Christ did not do this, rather there was a suggestion given, and consequences laid out. There is more than one person to detest to this system, and it involves someone who is NOT a human being only.
Hence, there are an unequal amount of non-derivatives to call Christianity a 'cult', as much as there are TO call it one.
A minus times a plus is a minus.

Answer 3

By Jove I think you're right.... And that would apply to all religions not just christian.

I think most religious people have lost their way...

Faith and religion are often confused. Faith is from the heart, it is your individual celebration of spirituality. While religion is the manifestation of that faith as dictated by the group.

Religions determine what appearance that faith must have and what Laws the adherents must follow in order for their faith to be considered valid. Religion worships the Laws of Faith above faith it’s self. Followers are trained to believe that if one is not like the group, they are wrong. Therefore, you are either with us or against us, you are either good or evil, you are either saved or damned.

Religion tends to breed conformity, and this conformity propagates contempt for any non conforming behavior. Religion breeds an obedience to an orthodoxy of political beliefs and Laws that is adhered to in a Stepford Wife like manner, and those who don’t are damned.

Too many people have traded their faith for their religion
.

Answer 4

What Christian church did you ever attend? Or better, what Christian did you ever personally know?

Christianity is more than just that, it is a personal relationship with Christ.

So, let me ask you this, you have a night out with your friends every Friday night as many people do, does that make you a member of a cult?

Answer 5

Here is another one. Read the Book of Revelation also called the Apocalypse and you will read all kinds of statements about the angel with one foot on the land and one foot on the sea.

Answer 6

You believe so?

I believe you need to keep that dictionary out, young man!

Exclusive: intended for the sole use and purpose of a single individual or limited to one solitary group.

The Christian faith is open to everyone and not "exclusive". Sorry, your premise is bust! But, if you insist on calling names, and it makes you feel better about yourself, "Jesus Freak" works fine.

Answer 7

Robert! you be a BAD Boy and God is going to come down here and "Spank" you good!!!

Can I watch??? LOLFOF 8-)

Watch out for the torrent of Biblical Babble that will try and wash your past away LOL

Answer 8

christianity was a cult originally
but a large cult earns a new name
"religion"
but naming it differently doesnt change anything

Answer 9

Here's some evidence that it is.



Has Christianity deteriorated into a cult following?


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Saying there's no such place as hell has cost one of the most prominent spiritual leaders in the country his job, church and place on Christian radio.

What would make Bishop Carlton Pearson of Tulsa, Okla., who was mentored by Oral Roberts and greeted by presidents at the White House, also proclaim that Jesus isn't coming back just for Christians -- but also Muslims, Jews and atheists?

From the Sunday morning pulpits of most Christian houses of worship, the message is you have to accept Christ to be eligible for heaven. And then there are certain things you have to do, namely adhering to the Ten Commandments.

But Pearson says he had a revelation that changed his ministry while sitting in front of his television, watching displaced African refugees. Then he went back to the Bible he had been teaching from for more than 30 years.

"We can't conceive a 'hell-less' Christianity,'' says Pearson, who was recently the subject of a "Dateline NBC" segment chronicling the loss of 5,000 of his 6,000 members, the $50,000-a-Sunday collection plate, and even the church building to foreclosure.

"We have no concept of heaven or God without the counter product. It's hard for us to believe God just for love or faith. Most of us are motivated by an aversion to hell.

"It is OK to be who they are. That's the thing that scares them."

Pearson is one of the more vocal leaders of the "inclusion ministry" movement, which turns Christianity on its head: God's not counting mens' sins or trespasses against them. Not even Hitler's.

"If I had a hell to put him in I would, but I don't," Pearson says of the leader of the Nazi regime that killed millions of Jews.

Whether we believe it or not, he says, Jesus paid that price at Calvary, where he was hung on the cross.

Christianity has "deteriorated into a cult following that Jesus is protecting us from a 'good God' who has a 'bad god' in the devil ... and he's making a list, checking it twice. That's why we have so many paranoid Christians. ... They have high expectations and extreme demands on each other.

"The whole world is already saved, they just don't know it," Pearson says.

The role of Christians?

"Our responsibility is not to transform people, but to inform people of God's attitude which is good."

Pearson has gotten letters from others who agree: "I've actually had people tell me, 'Man I'm listening and studying.' I get letters from retired pastors... (who said) God showed me this 30 years ago but I couldn't afford to talk about it."

Since his change in theology, Pearson has come under attack by evangelical Christians. Roberts has admonished him. Those who he helped groom, including T.D. Jakes, say they do not understand where this is coming from. His congregation has dwindled to hundreds. But Pearson is asking people to challenge their hearts.

"Did you see the Newsweek article? Billy Graham is saying the same thing." Graham, the face of evangelical Christians, has said he can't say who will get into heaven and who won't.

Pearson says his preacher father has come around to his thinking. "My mother stills struggles from time to time. Her dad was a strict, strict holiness preacher. My mother couldn't iron clothes on Sunday. She still struggles."

What about sin?

"You'll never know you are free from sin until you know you are free to sin and still be advocated."

Answer 10

DUDE look at the size of your head man damn that's a BIG *** HEAD

i agree with rosary

you got big HEAD