Cults? What are they?

Wow this might turn in to a flame war, who's got the nachoes? I feel that every religion is important as eachother, no matter how small, laughable, weird or sadistic, there is no cult in my book.
 
kevman4christ said:
I answered this in the lates post in What is a True Christian.
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Actually you didn't.

My post was concerned with respect and your use of a deragatory term to describe those that don't subscribe to your particular views.

Would you mind addressing this please?
 
Cult isn't derogatory - we just defined it's position as subjective so that when you use it you're saying more about your own frame of reference than you are about the object it is applied to.
 
Gentlemen (and Ladies if applicable) please keep an eye on your posts and remember that then tone you are intending may not be brought out when read by others.

Gen
 
Here's a list of Christian denominations.

I'd be obliged if someone would separate the Christian from what you consider non-Christian:

* African Methodist Episcopal
* African Methodist Episcopal Zion
* African Orthodox Church
* American Baptist Churches USA
* Amish
* Anabaptist
* Anglican Catholic Church
* Antiochian Orthodox
* Armenian Evangelical Church
* Armenian Orthodox
* Assemblies of God
* Associated Gospel Churches of Canada
* Association of Vineyard Churches
* Baptist
* Baptist Bible Fellowship
* Branch Davidian
* Brethren in Christ
* Bruderhof Communities
* Byzantine Catholic Church
* Calvary Chapel
* Calvinist
* Catholic
* Cell Church
* Celtic Orthodox
* Charismatic Episcopal Church
* Children of God (COG)
* Christadelphian
* Christian and Missionary Alliance
* Christian Churches of God
* Christian Identity
* Christian Reformed Church
* Christian Science
* Church of God (Anderson)
* Church of God (Cleveland)
* Church of God (Seventh Day)
* Church of God in Christ
* Church of God of Prophecy
* Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
* Church of Scotland
* Church of South India
* Church of the Brethren
* Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America
* Church of the Nazarene
* Church of the New Jerusalem
* Church of the United Brethren in Christ
* Church Universal and Triumphant
* Churches of Christ
* Churches of God General Conference
* Congregational Christian Churches
* Coptic Orthodox
* Cumberland Presbyterian Church
* Disciples of Christ
* Episcopal
* Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church
* Evangelical Congregational Church
* Evangelical Covenant Church
* Evangelical Formosan Church
* Evangelical Free Church
* Evangelical Lutheran Church
* Evangelical Methodist Church
* Evangelical Presbyterian
* Fellowship of Christian Assemblies
* Fellowship of Grace Brethren
* Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches
* Free Church of Scotland
* Free Methodist
* Free Presbyterian
* Free Will Baptist
* Gnostic
* Great Commission Association of Churches
* Greek Orthodox
* Hutterian Brethren
* Independent Fundamental Churches of America
* Indian Orthodox
* International Church of the Foursquare Gospel
* International Churches of Christ
* Jehovah's Witnesses
* Living Church of God
* Local Church
* Lutheran
* Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod
* Mar Thoma Syrian Church
* Mennonite
* Messianic Judaism
* Methodist
* Moravian Church
* Nation of Yahweh
* New Frontiers International
* Old Catholic Church
* Orthodox
* Orthodox Church in America
* Orthodox Presbyterian
* Pentecostal
* Plymouth Brethren
* Presbyterian
* Presbyterian Church (USA)
* Presbyterian Church in America
* Primitive Baptist
* Protestant Reformed Church
* Reformed
* Reformed Baptist
* Reformed Church in America
* Reformed Church in the United States
* Reformed Churches of Australia
* Reformed Episcopal
* Reformed Presbyterian Church
* Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
* Revival Centres International
* Romanian Orthodox
* Rosicrucian
* Russian Orthodox
* Serbian Orthodox
* Seventh Day Baptist
* Seventh-Day Adventist
* Shaker
* Society of Friends
* Southern Baptist Convention
* Spiritist
* Syrian Orthodox
* True and Living Church of Jesus Christ of Saints of the Last Days
* Two-by-Twos
* Unification Church
* Unitarian-Universalism
* United Church of Canada
* United Church of Christ
* United Church of God
* United Free Church of Scotland
* United Methodist Church
* United Reformed Church
* Uniting Church in Australia
* Unity Church
* Unity Fellowship Church
* Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches
* Virtual Churches
* Waldensian Church
* Way International, The
* Web Directories
* Wesleyan
* Wesleyan Methodist
* Worldwide Church of God
 
That's a nice way of avoiding the point.

If no one is willing to divide up that group, then I will take that to mean that you consider them ALL Christian.
 
DV - Do you have a quickguide that can be used to provide additional information. I will admit, some of them are new to me, and some I am surprised to see listed. (since this is in the definition of a cult thread)

I do think though that HCS's point is pretty valid. Yes, we all have some diffenence, but a Christian is a Christian.
 
hescominsoon said:
The denom itself may be misled or even unbiblical..but that does not mean the PEOPLE in the denom aren't Christians.
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But how can you be a "true" Christian when you are part of a misled or unbliblical denomination?
 
I understand that being part of a denomination in and of itself can't make you Christian. That wasn't my question.

My question was how one could be a "true" Christian while a part of a misled or unbiblical denomination.

If, as you claim, you CAN be a "true" Christian in ANY denomination, then why point fingers and claim entire denominations as misled or unbiblical if it doesn't matter?
 
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