CHAPTER 12
FAQ - CULT, HERSEY A LITTLE HISTORY
QUESTION
350 :
How could they believe such
stupid cultic stuff? [Click
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QUESTION
351 :
Isn't
joining a cult a choice? [Click
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QUESTION
352 :
No
one's holding a gun to their head. Why don't they just leave
(cult)? [Click
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QUESTION
353 :
What do you mean there are truths in all heresy and cults? [Click
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QUESTION
354 :
Who is dividing
the church and why do some leave the faith? Is it Heresy? [Click
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QUESTION
355 :
Why do you talk
about false doctrine? [Click
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QUESTION
356 :
How
Does False Doctrine Arrive at the Human Heart? [Click
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QUESTION
357 :
If It
Is So Dangerous,
Why Does God allow the teaching of False Doctrine? [Click
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QUESTION
358 :
What are the Classifications
and Elements of False Doctrine? [Click
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QUESTION
359 :
Doesn't
the Bible say that God often deceives his own prophets?
1 Kings 22:23 – “Now therefore behold, the LORD has put
a lying spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets;
the LORD has spoken evil concerning you." This verse
is repeated verbatim in 2 Chronicles 18:22. Apparently,
God deceived King Ahab's 400 "heathen" prophets
so that God could destroy King Ahab, although God sent another
prophet to warn Ahab that his "other" prophets
previously mislead him by God's command. Why? When Ahab
died, his throne was succeeded by an even worse king! [Click
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QUESTION
360 :
Let's
jump forward to the Apostle Paul, the most prolific author
in the New Testament. Paul admits that he sometimes "stretches
the truth" to further the Gospel. Romans 3:7 -- But
if through my falsehood God's truthfulness abounds to his
glory, why am I still being condemned as a sinner? [Click
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QUESTION
361 :
Furthermore,
what about taking the Bible literally? We're always told
that God "breathed the Word", but the Bible itself
seems to dispute the assumption of perfection. For instance,
look at this verse in Jeremiah 8:8 -- "How can you
say, 'We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us'?
But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has made it into
a lie." Here, God admits that the Jewish scribes sometimes
"falsify the word", which calls into question
the integrity of the Bible's authors. Has anything else
in the Bible been equivocated? [Click
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QUESTION
362 :
"In John 14
and 15 Christ is telling His disciples about the preeminency
of the nature of God and the unity of triune composition.
Jesus declared, 'And I will pray the Father, and He shall
give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for
ever; even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive,
because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know
him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you' (John
14:16,17). Our Lord here prays to the Father for the Spirit,
and His awareness of triunity is quite apparent. In John
14:26 and 15:26 Christ uses the same formula, mentioning
the three Persons of the Deity and indicating their unity,
not only of purpose and will but of basic nature."
Isn’t it so? [Click
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QUESTION
363 :
"The birth
of the Lord Jesus Christ as described in the accounts in
Matthew and Luke show that the doctrine of the Trinity was
not a later invention of theologians. Luke records, 'The
angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come
upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow
thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born
of thee shall be called the Son of God' (Luke 1:35). Since
other passages of Scripture reveal that the term 'Highest'
refers to God the Father, we have in Luke a concrete instance
of the Holy Spirit, the Father, and the Son all being mentioned
together in the supernatural event of the Incarnation. Doesn’t
it? [Click
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QUESTION
364 :
If the Trinity doctrine
was not even defined until the beginning of the 4th century,
which doctrine was current with numerous adherents up until
that time (according to history)? [Click
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QUESTION
365 :
Is it acceptable
to formulate a new doctrine not expressly stated by Jesus
and the Apostles in scripture? [Click
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QUESTION
366 : "The
most serious weakness in the modalistic system of the (oneness)
movement is its failure to recognize the subject-object
relationship among the members of the Godhead... The very
existence of an 'I'-'you' relationship denotes personality;
and the followers of the (oneness) movement must either
ignore or pervert these, and many other passages, to destroy
the personal 'ego' of the members of the Holy Trinity...
Therefore it is untenable to maintain the Christology of
the (oneness) movement when the testimony of the scriptures
is so clear. There is, according to the Scriptures, a Person
(or Ego) who is called 'the Father' and who is designated
as God (John 5:17-24). There is also a Person (Ego) who
is called 'the Son' and who is designated as God (John ]:1,14).
There is a Person (Ego) who is called 'the Holy Spirit'
and who is designated as God (Acts 5:3-4). All three Persons
are co-existent, and, in the unity of the Deity, are termed
'one God' (1 Timothy 2:5)." [Why is that so hard to
understand?] [Click
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QUESTION
367 :
But to obliterate
your false persuasions, that the early church at the time
of the apostles and after were "Oneness" and not
Trinitarian, I looked up some quotes for you. Let them speak
for themselves:- Clement... " Brethren, we must think
of Jesus Christ as of God." Clement of Rome, Epistle
to the Ephesians. Isn’t that so? [Click
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QUESTION
368 :
Where
did this doctrine come from in your book, isn’t it a new
modern thing from Azusa Street? [Click
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QUESTION
369 :
Isn’t
this book teaching Modalistic Monarchianism (or Sabellianism),
where God is said to have three modes or offices; “Think
of God as a ‘shape shifter’ that can change His form into
three different shapes or modes?” (bible.ca) [Click
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QUESTION
370 :
Is
what this book teaching (apostolic doctrine) similar to
Gnosticism? [Click
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QUESTION
371 :
I’ve seen
quotes where mediums, masons and other questionable persons
understand and agree about the oneness of God, that is,
he is one as against a trinity. Does that make it wrong? [Click
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QUESTION
372 :
Is the
doctrine displayed in the book inspired by human pride because
of its exclusiveness that any other doctrine is false; as
some would say this is a “cult-like belief”? [Click
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QUESTION
373 :
Do
Trinitarians worship three Gods? [Click
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QUESTION
374 :
I've heard
many Trinitarians and some Apostolics term us Apostolics
as "Oneness" or "Oneness Pentecostals."
Why? [Click
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QUESTION
375 :
Did Simon
the sorcerer influence the oneness apostolic doctrine taught
in the bible called Monarchianism or as one person puts
it, “invented the conceptual framework of Sabellian-style
Modalism” (thriceholy.net)?
[Click
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QUESTION
376 :
Who is
Philo or what did he teach and why? [Click
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QUESTION
377 :
Is the
Prophesied Messianic Ruler Over Israel David, The Son Of
Jesse, rather than Jesus Christ? [Click
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QUESTION
378 :
Many
say the “Father is the Son” or the “Son is the Father.”
Why? [Click
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QUESTION
379 :
Can we
trust recorded church history, that is, those given by the
Catholics and Immediate protestant colleges? Can we trust
their canonical archives? [Click
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QUESTION
380 :
Was emperor
Constantine saved when the Nicea Council was held?
Or, was he saved at all? [Click
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QUESTION
381 :
How to
prevent susceptibility to heresy? [Click
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QUESTION
382 :
Oneness
or Pentecostals are not only heretical, but pagans, because
they can be traced back to an idolatrous sect called “monarchs.”
And this book (“The Voice…”) affirms that present day Apostolics
were called Monarchians in the early centuries, hence the
same “monarchs” of Assyria and Babylon – pagans! Isn’t this
clearly so? [Click
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