How come come people who worship "GOD" arent considered to be in cults?

Question

but other people who have other beliefs are considered to be weirdos and in cults?!

Answer 1

Unfortunatly its accepted in modern society as a religion but i agree with you they are all just cults all religions.

Answer 2

Counterfeit Christianity is probably the best description I can give for a cult. Counterfeit Christianity is an imitation of real Christianity. Bible terms like "Jesus Christ, Resurrection, Salvation, and Atonement" are used by the Cult, but the various cult groups have assigned entirely different meanings to these terms.
Like counterfeit money which is sometimes difficult to detect, so it is difficult to detect counterfeit Christianity, since it looks like the real thing. Experts examining counterfeit money often hold it up to a strong light and look for identifying marks. Counterfeit Christianity also has identifying marks, which can be seen when, held up to an even stronger light, the light of God's word, the bible.
We are at an advantage if we know what to expect from a cult. Cultists are very well trained to appear "Christian", and indeed believe they are the true churches, and you need the deliverance! Therefore, be bold and ask the question, "do you believe the group you represent is the only true church on the face of the earth?"
If they reply that they are, or if they are evasive, making remarks like "Well, every church has a measure of truth but...", you have made an early detection of a Cultist.
Every true Christian, if asked the same question, regardless of his denomination, would reply that the true church is comprised of believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, and HE (not some organization) is THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE, (John 14:6). No legitimate denomination would claim that they alone and their members have salvation exclusively, but the cults (the counterfeits) do.

Answer 3

In early Catholicism, the people were all considered "Catholic" but were permitted their individual deviations into the saints, etc. These folks were called the "cult of ___." There was the "Cult of Mary," "Cult of Benedict," and others. Many others. The Protestants saw all of this as merely smoke screens from the real issue that the Catholic church had stopped paying attention to the Scriptures it said it reverenced. Thus, Protestants began calling any deviation from Scripture that pretended to follow Scripture a "cult." The word stuck, much the same as we "turn on a light" without turning anything; 150 years ago something turned. Technology changes quickly, language more slowly.

I'm sure folks like you will work to change the meaning of "cult," too.

Answer 4

Some mainstream religions have the trappings of a cult. I have a brother-in-law who is a Southern Baptist and believes the rest of the billions of people who are not "born again" are doomed to hell.

But a cult is more than a strong belief in the Bible. It's an organization that not only takes over the person's mind but their finances as well and believes in strange things like UFOs taking them to heaven. They often preach things that are illegal such as not paying taxes or having sex with underage kids or even committing mass suicide. They often recruit the young who are already confused about life and substitute their teachings over the parents beliefs. It is the extreme and often illegal beliefs that make a religion a cult.

Answer 5

Anybody who thinks that way has a massive misunderstanding as to what a cult actually is. There are many hallmarks of a cult that must be in place for it to be truly considered a cult and not simply a healthy but splinter religious group.

A cult usually has an extremely charismatic and authorative leader who over time develops an extreme and unhealthy power over a small group. Though healthy religious groups often have leaders, even strong ones, healthy religious leaders maintain humility, are willing to admit that they don't have all the answers and might be wrong, and encourage health both physical and psychological from their members.

Cults usually discourage any interaction by their members with anyone outside the group for fear of being culturally "tainted." Healthy spiritual communities encourage people to remain close to friends, associates, and family who may not be in that particular group.

Cults also cannot tolerate differences of belief and ideas about those beliefs. Whereas a healthy Christian community may have members who though still believing in Christ's death and resurrection may disagree over what communion really means. Some may think that it is simply a memorial supper, and some may see it as an active means of physically imparting grace and forgiveness. But neither are turned away at the table because they might not agree (unless you happen to be Missouri Synod, but that is a completely different story and subject).

Cult leaders often claim to have superhuman powers or abilities. Where healthy religious leaders consider themselves to be fully human and faillible.

Another sign of a cult is the reaction of members to any disagreement with the fundamental or even peripheral"theology" of the group. If any statement of disagreement or questioning of the authority results in complete isolation from the rest of the members via the silent treatment, or deliberate exclusion, than that is a sure sign of a cult.

I know that there are probably more signs that I am forgetting. Unfortunately, many fundamentalistic Christians do tend to see any splinter group as a "cult" However,discerning people who know what a cult is, can easily tell the difference between healthy, but small, splinter, or even not so small, spiritual groups of their own and other cultures, and cults.

Answer 6

Because the word "cult" has been used to label anything outside of Chritianity. Usually a cult is related to those beliefs with immoral beliefs. Not all religions outside of Christianity is labeled a cult.

Answer 7

A cult is any non secular company that does no longer carry Jesus as God. The Christian faith is the in trouble-free terms one which has a saviour who got here from heaven and informed us about God. Jesus is an historic determine, he grow to be written of through his disciples and the Jewish historian Josephesus. No different faith has a God who visited this earth and lived between us.

Answer 8

you used the word come twice.
In religion and sociology, a cult is a group of people (often a new religious movement) devoted to beliefs and goals which may be contradictory to those held by the majority of society. Its marginal status may come about either due to its novel belief system or due to idiosyncratic practices that cause the surrounding culture to regard it as far outside the mainstream.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult

Answer 9

Depends who you ask. If you ask the person in the cult, they tell you it isn't a cult. There just happen to be a lot of them.

2,000 years ago we knew that the earth was flat. 1,500 years ago we knew that we were at the center of the galaxy and that things revolved around us. Just because the majority knows something does not make them correct.

Answer 10

Anything that is unknown to them is considered "weird" or a cult. Some of these people even call them satanists. They are just intolerant, ignorant rednecks (the people who accuse, I mean.)

Answer 11

Because "GOD" is comfortable to most. Why those who do not are considered wierd or in cults is beyond me. I do believe that there is a supreme being but do not go to church or worship "GOD" either. There is more to life than sitting in church being told you are going to hell. And if that is what I have to do to get into "heaven", I'll take my chances.