How to start a cult
Add over a billion miss lead people
Add pagan beliefs with a pinch of christianity
Add one man of sin (the pope)
stir until you just believe on blind faith and "Wella"!
You have yourself the biggest cult in the world even bigger than the JW's and Mormans (that is if they are a cult not sure about there practices accept door knocking which never hurt anyone)
The doctrine (of the trinity) is one of confusion, because it is drawn not from the Bible, but from pagan mythology. One edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica states
"The propositions constitutive of the dogma of the Trinity were not drawn directly from the New Testament, and could not be expressed in New Testament terms. They were the products of reason speculating on a revelation to faith ... They were only formed through centuries of effort, only elaborated by the aid of the conceptions and formulated in the terms of Greek and Roman metaphysics."
2007-02-03 03:07:21 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Make sure you come with a catchy name for the cult. Something like, 'The Love Of God'.
2007-02-03 03:12:23 · answer #1 · answered by S K 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
I don't think they are a cult because cults are very ( whats the word for ? ) they break up families by encouraging them to leave the non believer & they only hang around with their own kind! &
they never ever help an outsider like Catholics do they are a very caring church
just because some things are not quite out of the bible
& there are some dirty priests in the church
that doesn't make them all bad & a cult
they love God & Jesus Christ & would help you any time you ask for help
If your marriage is suffering & you're not even Catholic they will try to help you
they are mostly lovely people
2007-02-03 08:25:51 · answer #2 · answered by ausblue 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jehovah's Witnesses are not a cult.
Anti-Witnesses try to use the term "cult" like a sledgehammer to obliterate any thinking analysis of what the supposed "cultist" actually believes. Trinitarians embrace a bizarre, non-etymological, quite arbitrary definition of the term "cult" which includes anyone who does not believe that Jesus is God Himself, rather than the Son of God. Interestingly, pagans in the first century slandered Christ's followers with the insulting term "Atheist" (!) because the Christians had a somewhat different idea from the pagans about the nature of God.
Jehovah's Witnesses teach that no salvation occurs without Christ, that accepting Christ's sacrifice is a requirement for true worship, that every prayer must acknowledge Christ, that Christ is the King of God's Kingdom, that Christ is the head of the Christian congregation, that Christ is immortal and above every creature, even that Christ was the 'master worker' in creating the universe! Secular authorities in academia and government routinely acknowledge that Jehovah's Witnesses are a Christian religion. With more than 16 million associating with Jehovah's Witnesses, the term "cult" seems very out of place in a fair discussion of Jehovah's Witnesses. Jehovah's Witnesses are Christians.
Sadly, Trinitarians seem more interested in perpetuating their human traditions, Greek philosophy, and Babylonish fetishes rather than reasonably examining the Scriptural definition of "Christian". In fact, the bible most closely associates being "Christian" with preaching about Christ and Christ's teachings. Review all the times the bible uses the term "Christian" and note that the context connects the term with:
"declaring the good news"
'teaching quite a crowd'
'open eyes, turn from dark to light'
"uttering sayings of truth"
"persuade"
"keep on glorifying"
(Acts 11:20-26) [The early disciples of Jesus] began talking to the Greek-speaking people, declaring the good news of the Lord Jesus... and taught quite a crowd, and it was first in Antioch that the disciples were by divine providence called Christians.
(Acts 26:17-28) [Jesus said to Paul] I am sending you, to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light and from the authority of Satan to God... Paul said: “I am not going mad, Your Excellency Festus, but I am uttering sayings of truth and of soundness of mind. ...Do you, King Agrippa, believe the Prophets? I know you believe.” But Agrippa said to Paul: “In a short time you would persuade me to become a Christian.”
(1 Peter 4:14-16) If you are being reproached for the name of Christ, you are happy... But if he suffers as a Christian, let him not feel shame, but let him keep on glorifying God in this name
So why do anti-Witnesses try to hijack the term "Christian" and hide its Scriptural implications? Because anti-Witnesses recognize that it is the preaching work that makes it clear that the relatively small religion of Jehovah's Witnesses are by far the most prominent followers of Christ:
(Matthew 28:19,20) Go therefore and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit, teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded
2007-02-03 19:55:37 · answer #3 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Is it safe to assume you're not a fan of Catholicism?
2007-02-03 03:13:33 · answer #4 · answered by Prophet ENSLAVEMENTALITY (pbuh) 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hi. You are rather intelligent and funny. No, we Witnesses are not Cultists.
2007-02-03 05:29:14 · answer #5 · answered by Ish Var Lan Salinger 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋