do you think the history channel is right about jesus as a cult figure?

Question

it is saying it started with a guy equivalent to charles manson and a prostitute and 12 outcasts. they say christianity started as a cult like most religions. after it gets big enough it is considered a religion. the mormans are compared to this analogy, too. what do you think?

* nuts! md 1938 is way, way out there. what a nutzoid poll this is. not answering questions but preaching and proslytizing.

Answer 1

All beliefs must start somewhere. Why not with the outcast or lost?
Many beliefs begin in the poor regions and build. Look at Scientology. our most resent religion. l Ron Hubbard needed cash.
Which is more ridiculous?

Answer 2

Well...technically all religions start as a small "cult" in some sense, some just worse then others. Although the Charles Manson thing sounds a big scary and crazy...

Answer 3

I did not see the program to which you refer, but it sounds roughly accurate in that Christianity, like most religions, started off as a cult, and after it gets big enough it gets considered a religion in its own right. That is how any new and revolutionary philosophy starts out.

Answer 4

let see about what u said this man didn't run any country he didn't have a lot money only start with about 15 people no leader back him how come book Isaiah chapter 40 v 22 say the earth is roundand in Psalm say it is when the history said people believe it be flat and the planet all been name before america become a country i could go on i won't

Answer 5

My Opinion: Any belief can be summed up as cult-like in any respect. It is within the eye of the beholder, friend. The History Channel (I am a huge fan and watch this daily) generally (on many subjects) offers it viewers a perspective on events. Some details may be very factual indeed, but as for them portraying Jesus as a cult figure? This is just perspective.

What I pulled from an onine dictionary on the word cult (if you require further information on the meaning of cult): In religion and sociology, a cult is a cohesive group of people (sometimes a relatively small and recently founded religious movement, sometimes numbering in the hundreds of thousands) devoted to beliefs or practices that the surrounding culture or society considers to be far outside the mainstream, sometimes reaching the point of a taboo. Its separate status may come about either due to its novel belief system, its idiosyncratic practices, its perceived harmful effects on members, or because it opposes the interests of the mainstream culture. Other non-religious groups may also display cult-like characteristics.

In common usage, "cult" has a negative connotation, and is generally applied to a group by its opponents, for a variety of reasons. Understandably, most, if not all, groups that are called "cults" deny this label. Some anthropologists and sociologists studying cults have argued that no one yet has been able to define “cult” in a way that enables the term to identify only groups that have been claimed as problematic[citation needed].

The literal and traditional meanings of the word cult is derived from the Latin cultus, meaning "care" or "adoration", as "a system of religious belief or ritual; or: the body of adherents to same"32. In English, it remains neutral and a technical term within this context to refer to the "cult of Artemis at Ephesus" and the "cult figures" that accompanied it, or to "the importance of the Ave Maria in the cult of the Virgin." This usage is more fully explored in the entry Cult (religious practice).

In non-English European terms, the cognates of the English word "cult" are neutral, and refer mainly to divisions within a single faith, a case where English speakers might use the word "sect", as in "Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy and Protestantism are sects (or denominations) within Christianity". In French or Spanish, culte or culto simply means "worship" or "religious attendance"; thus an association cultuelle is an association whose goal is to organize religious worship and practices.

The word for "cult" in the popular English meaning is secte (French) or secta (Spanish). In German the usual word used for the English cult is Sekte, which also has other definitions. A similar case is the Russian word sekta.

Answer 6

IMPOSSIBLE.

This is my proof. The bible was in the hands of the Catholic church for hundreds of years.

The catholic church has many traditions that go against bible teaching, such as calling the preists "father" as Jesus states in the bible you should only call father God. Also Catholics pray to Idols, saints and make many symbols of worship which is totally against bible teaching. Catholics believe in the Trinity, and many other things that are against bible teaching.

Yet although the bible was in Catholic hands and many other christian sects, the bible never changed. The biblical text is the same as the original scrolls. That is a miracle, considering the bible has had so many enemies.

That proofs without a doubt that the bible is protected by God.

Jesus was the son of God, There is a lot of proof that he really existed.

Now its just faith. You have the right to believe anything you want. But there is a lot of Evidence that Jesus was actually sent by God. But now it's up to you.

By the way....JESUS DID NOT CREATE A CULT. He prayed to God and told his followers that they should pray to God as well. He did not want to be worshiped. The Jews even tried to make him king and he refused. He gave all the glory to his father in heaven and did the will of his father at all times.

Answer 7

Did you say the "history channel"? I think the person who wrote that didn't check up on his or her history very well. It is a thoughtless oversimplification to say that all religions started in the same way as cults, although I have heard that one before.

Answer 8

Well, if defined by that way (starting rather small, and then becoming big) then sure - almost every religion started that way.

You just have to be sure to include that definition when you talk about it, because people think of a lot of very different things when they hear the word "cult."

Thanks

Answer 9

If TV is your source of truth you will always remain deceived...

Read the Scripture:

" Now the Spirit speaks expressly that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils, speaking lies in hypocrisy..."(1Tim.4:1)

"There is a way that seems right to man, but the end thereof is death
" . 2:8)

"But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who shall privately bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, bring swift destruction upon themselves". (2 Peter 2:1),

Answer 10

The History channel is very anti-Christian. So is the National Geographic Channel.