A good christian just has faith without thought. Believe in the good book without question.
2007-07-25 16:50:59 · 28 answers · asked by jojo5656 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The fact that Christians think they know the truth..... that's the first sign.
2007-07-25 16:52:56 · answer #1 · answered by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7 · 14⤊ 2⤋
How do you know it is the truth? There are many faiths and each one of them could be correct. Faith without thought isn't the best thing, how can you learn to think on your own and develop your own mind without thinking? Without questioning anything, how can you come to true conclusions? All of the big religions started out as cults, now they are just bigger.
2007-07-25 23:56:23 · answer #2 · answered by Maya 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
The word 'cult' is not always the negative word that people make it out to be. Society forgets that words have more than one meaning.
Here, I'll show you:
–noun
1. a particular system of religious worship, esp. with reference to its rites and ceremonies.
2. an instance of great veneration of a person, ideal, or thing, esp. as manifested by a body of admirers: the physical fitness cult.
3. the object of such devotion.
4. a group or sect bound together by veneration of the same thing, person, ideal, etc.
5. Sociology. a group having a sacred ideology and a set of rites centering around their sacred symbols.
6. a religion or sect considered to be false, unorthodox, or extremist, with members often living outside of conventional society under the direction of a charismatic leader.
7. the members of such a religion or sect.
8. any system for treating human sickness that originated by a person usually claiming to have sole insight into the nature of disease, and that employs methods regarded as unorthodox or unscientific.
–adjective
9. of or pertaining to a cult.
10. of, for, or attracting a small group of devotees: a cult movie.
The problem that many people have is that they associate only one meaning to a word. Please note that it is not required for everybody to be so persuaded.
I can call Christianity a cult without feeling that I just called what I believe in a dirty word.
2007-07-26 00:14:10 · answer #3 · answered by Christian Sinner 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cults and cultists believing in Good Books that are nothing more than various versions of the Goat or Camel Herders' Guide to the Galaxy made up from various Bronze Aged myths and still worshiped in 21st Century.
Sounds like general insanity to me.
2007-07-25 23:57:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Many people are begining to want answers and there are quiet a few flaws in the "good book" believe it or not.
That's why outsiders view the Christianity as a cult. Why can you not question something you are putting the utmost faith in?
2007-07-25 23:55:00 · answer #5 · answered by peacexfrogs 2 · 6⤊ 1⤋
Only Christians think that Christianity is the truth. Christianity is not the only religion. Being an atheist, I say it is not the truth. All religion is false.
atheist
2007-07-26 00:01:14 · answer #6 · answered by AuroraDawn 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Any group of people who believe their way of thinking is superior or in any way better than what the rest of the people think is in fact a cult.
2007-07-25 23:59:05 · answer #7 · answered by ToolManJobber 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A cult is one that brainwashes its followers into doing weird things. Like the Church, host and wine, and crap like the Bible. They make you believe things without question?! That answers yes to your own question.
2007-07-25 23:57:16 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
What are you talking about? We are to give a good defense of what we believe. That means we actually have to know something. If it really is the truth, then questioning should not be a problem. It should only reinforce what we know to be the truth.
2007-07-25 23:54:52 · answer #9 · answered by The GMC 6 · 5⤊ 1⤋
You should look up the definition of cult in the dictionary. Christianity is certainly a cult.
2007-07-25 23:54:36 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 9⤊ 1⤋
How can you say it's the truth. You have no back up on this. You just say faith but that proves nothing.Now grow up and stop believing in fairy-tales.
2007-07-25 23:57:34 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋