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By Chris Lawson The one thing that cults, cult leaders, and cultic doctrine will always do is lessen and twist the Person of Jesus Christ, His Deity, His work, His mission and His Personage.    Even the groups and leaders that place the Bible first, or don't use "other books'", they too somehow seem to manage to get things wrong.  If one takes the Bible as a whole, interpreting Scripture in

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By Chris Lawson Do you know a loved one, or a neighbor, or a co-worker who is in a cult or an abusive church?  Perhaps you could give them the generic Spiritual Abuse Questionnaire that can be used by anyone to help a loved one, a friend, a nieghbor, a co-worker, and more.  This questionnaire leads individuals to answer basic Yes or No questions so that one can think critically on their own -

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By Chris Lawson The following article links found at the Spiritual Research Network Psuedo-Christian Cults page will help the reader understand the problematic and extremely cultic teachings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, otherwise known as Mormonsism. Click here to view links to aticle archive pages exposing the unbiblical teachings of Mormonism: Mormonism (Church of

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By Chris Lawson The active link above and at bottom of this post will take you to a site that has links to what these groups CLAIM and BELIEVE.  The sites then EXPOSES the false beliefs.  The articles are from various ministries who have done in-depth research and exopsed the perversions of Scripture that these groups promote. Do some of these titles ring a bell with you? Another Jesus

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Psuedo-Christian Cults (Sects) in San Luis Obispo County Armstrongism (Herbert W. Armstrong) Branhamism (William Marion Branham) Branhamism (Bible Believers Christian Fellowship, Atascadero) Branhamism (The Believers, San Luis Obispo) Branhamism (See King's Chapel) Center For Creative Thought (Science of Mind) Christadelphians Christian Family Fellowship (Active in San Pedro, California)

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A Cult Is A Cult by Dave Hunt  (May 31, 1991, The Berean Call) Source: http://www.thebereancall.org/node/5895 The evangelical church today is being seduced as never in its history. It faces a danger so grave that, although we have discussed this problem before, it must be addressed again with new insight and vigor. If evangelicals succumb to the seduction, as they increasingly are doing, then

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Many people end up involved in cults and abusive churches simply because their leaders have misinterpreted the Bible. The quoted material below comes from the appendix of James Sire's Scripture Twisting Methods of the Cults. 1. INACCURATE QUOTATION: A biblical text is referred to but is either not quoted in the way the text appears in any standard translation or is wrongly attributed. Example:

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Our main purpose with this new blog is to equip Christians and local community members for discernment regarding spiritual abuse, cults and various religious groups that employ cult like methods along the Central Coast of California...and beyond! For the Christian, we hope to strengthen individuals for the defense of the Christian faith.  In doing so, we hope to help believers effectively engage

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