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9 Signs Of Cult Church And How To Recognize It by man49men: 5:49pm On Feb 26, 2018
If you want to know if your church belong to cult organization or an anti-Christ church then read this to find out and avoid them before you are trap, hypnotize and eternally deluded forever. So many people were trap by cult group before they realize it becomes too late. Cults are of different categories, we have sociological cult and theological cult. Some churches are sociological cult, their conduct and ways of life look like a cult but their doctrine look like Pentecostals churches. While the other have a theology and belief that made them cultist but their outward appearance and social life look Pentecostals. None this group should confuse you there are birds of the same feathers. If you see the following sign run away.



Denial of Jesus deity

Many religion especially cult group present Jesus as angel Michael or some prophets. They don’t believe is the only son of God and our savior. They doubt the theology of Jesus been God in human flesh. In doing this they are doubting God’s testimonies about is son.

17 And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Matt 3:17 KJV



10 He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. 11 He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. 12 Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— 13 children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.

14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. John 1:10-14 NIV



Denial of the God head (trinity)

Many cult group deny the trinity without fear and second thought. We plead with them to consider many scriptures that prove the God head, they blindly refuse, claiming that God only manifest himself in three office and not three person as one in agreement. The word let us make man in genesis cannot be for one individual, or God talking to himself or angels. No, God is referring to his son and the Holy Ghost. The three Person are co-equal, co-eternal and co-existence.

26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” Gen 1:26 NIV Gen 1:26


7 For there are three that bear witness in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one. 1 John 5:7-8 NKJV


Ignoring and refusing baptism

Most cult organization refuse to be baptize they said that baptism is no longer in important in their dictionary. In doing this, they became authority to add and subtract from the word of God. Jesus ask us to keep all his commandment except the ceremonial ones that are not binding in our dispensation .eg lamb sacrifice, circumcision etc. 1 John 5:7-8

20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” Matt 28:20 NIV



Self-righteous and self-discipline

Cult group are very good in self –discipline, they deny themselves of food and wordily pleasure to prove a point. They have a kind of “holier than thou” attitude. But if you offend them they will retaliate even insult or fight you using one scripture to support themselves. Because of hypocrisy in them, they usually live in isolation. They also live as a brotherhood.

27 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.



28 Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. Matt 23:27-28 KJV



Legalism

Religious cult claim to keep the law of Jesus and Moses at the same time. They also make laws that guide them outside the bible commandment and failure to keep their own law will result to excommunication. Like cult group called,”Jesus disciple fellowship” made law that throve all ladies and woman whose dowry has not been paid to move out of the fellowship. But the bible did not say we should do so, this is man-made law. One of them also told me that they don’t eat in any burial that the decease is not an old man. However, they also believe in their works of evangelism. The more you evangelize, the more you make way to heaven.

5 not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, Titus 3:5-6 NKJV



Duplicated and monopolize pattern of preaching

All cults have a photocopy or written document handed over to them which as manual for their belief and pattern of outreach. For Jehovah witness it is called awake or watch tower bible society. And for a cult called Jesus disciple fellowship, they had a customize bible, pen and a white writing board, with description of flesh and soul struggle as pattern of preaching. Their manual is above the bible whether it contradict or not manual must be used in all circumstances. Manual is use instead of bible.



Only group chosen

However, majority of cult group believe that they have been selected and ordain to do what they are doing. Their denomination is the best and appointed for everyone to belong as God’s kingdom. All other denomination are anti-Christ. Jehovah witness, end time gospel terbanacle church and Jesus disciple fellowship, believe in this doctrine.

Leader made as demi gods or sole authority

The leader of cult group sees themselves as final authority and interpreter of the bible even when it goes contrary to the bible commandment. They hide their faces and demanded strict procedure before seen their faces or visiting them. Members are always afraid to ask question they see him as a demi God. Questioning him is like questioning God. They have the right to their members to remove what they don’t like from the bible and add what want to the bible. Manual is use instead of bible

6 Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar. Prov 30:6 KJV



Belief in extra biblical experience and book.

Generally all cults believe in others secret book that are not recommended for believers because of their quest for unknown knowledge and power. Book like apocryphal, tobith and Maccabee are recommended by cult group to be read. When they narrate their testimony and vision you will see a lot of things contradicting the bible. They all believe it as God given vision. Please avoided them before you get confuse and believe them. Their experience keep bible away from you and look at them as a replacement to your bible. Prov 30:6

19 Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver. Acts 19:19 KJV

http://tryeveryspirit.com/9-signs-cult-church-recognize/
Re: 9 Signs Of Cult Church And How To Recognize It by Ikemefuna44: 6:47pm On Feb 26, 2018
The human instinct is the second strongest abstract trait (after our conscience) that God instilled in us. Immediately you are in the wrong church, your instinct will tell you, it's never dead; it's always conscious. But people, because of greed, gullibility, stupidity, desperation and unbridled crassness, will never pay attention to their instinct. Without their instinct, their common sense becomes inactive. That's why they fall victim of fake Prophets as well as Scammers.

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Re: 9 Signs Of Cult Church And How To Recognize It by Janosky: 7:34pm On Apr 17, 2020
man49men:
If you want to know if your church belong to cult organization or an anti-Christ church then read this to find out and avoid them before you are trap, hypnotize and eternally deluded forever. So many people were trap by cult group before they realize it becomes too late. Cults are of different categories, we have sociological cult and theological cult. Some churches are sociological cult, their conduct and ways of life look like a cult but their doctrine look like Pentecostals churches. While the other have a theology and belief that made them cultist but their outward appearance and social life look Pentecostals. None this group should confuse you there are birds of the same feathers. If you see the following sign run away.



Denial of Jesus deity

Many religion especially cult group present Jesus as angel Michael or some prophets. They don’t believe is the only son of God and our savior. They doubt the theology of Jesus been God in human flesh. In doing this they are doubting God’s testimonies about is son.

17 And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Matt 3:17 KJV



10 He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. 11 He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. 12 Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— 13 children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.

14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. John 1:10-14 NIV



Denial of the God head (trinity)

Many cult group deny the trinity without fear and second thought. We plead with them to consider many scriptures that prove the God head, they blindly refuse, claiming that God only manifest himself in three office and not three person as one in agreement. The word let us make man in genesis cannot be for one individual, or God talking to himself or angels. No, God is referring to his son and the Holy Ghost. The three Person are co-equal, co-eternal and co-existence.

26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” Gen 1:26 NIV Gen 1:26


7 For there are three that bear witness in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one. 1 John 5:7-8 NKJV


Ignoring and refusing baptism

Most cult organization refuse to be baptize they said that baptism is no longer in important in their dictionary. In doing this, they became authority to add and subtract from the word of God. Jesus ask us to keep all his commandment except the ceremonial ones that are not binding in our dispensation .eg lamb sacrifice, circumcision etc. 1 John 5:7-8

20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” Matt 28:20 NIV



Self-righteous and self-discipline

Cult group are very good in self –discipline, they deny themselves of food and wordily pleasure to prove a point. They have a kind of “holier than thou” attitude. But if you offend them they will retaliate even insult or fight you using one scripture to support themselves. Because of hypocrisy in them, they usually live in isolation. They also live as a brotherhood.

27 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.



28 Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. Matt 23:27-28 KJV



Legalism

Religious cult claim to keep the law of Jesus and Moses at the same time. They also make laws that guide them outside the bible commandment and failure to keep their own law will result to excommunication. Like cult group called,”Jesus disciple fellowship” made law that throve all ladies and woman whose dowry has not been paid to move out of the fellowship. But the bible did not say we should do so, this is man-made law. One of them also told me that they don’t eat in any burial that the decease is not an old man. However, they also believe in their works of evangelism. The more you evangelize, the more you make way to heaven.

5 not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, Titus 3:5-6 NKJV



Duplicated and monopolize pattern of preaching

All cults have a photocopy or written document handed over to them which as manual for their belief and pattern of outreach. For Jehovah witness it is called awake or watch tower bible society. And for a cult called Jesus disciple fellowship, they had a customize bible, pen and a white writing board, with description of flesh and soul struggle as pattern of preaching. Their manual is above the bible whether it contradict or not manual must be used in all circumstances. Manual is use instead of bible.



Only group chosen

However, majority of cult group believe that they have been selected and ordain to do what they are doing. Their denomination is the best and appointed for everyone to belong as God’s kingdom. All other denomination are anti-Christ. Jehovah witness, end time gospel terbanacle church and Jesus disciple fellowship, believe in this doctrine.

Leader made as demi gods or sole authority

The leader of cult group sees themselves as final authority and interpreter of the bible even when it goes contrary to the bible commandment. They hide their faces and demanded strict procedure before seen their faces or visiting them. Members are always afraid to ask question they see him as a demi God. Questioning him is like questioning God. They have the right to their members to remove what they don’t like from the bible and add what want to the bible. Manual is use instead of bible

6 Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar. Prov 30:6 KJV



Belief in extra biblical experience and book.

Generally all cults believe in others secret book that are not recommended for believers because of their quest for unknown knowledge and power. Book like apocryphal, tobith and Maccabee are recommended by cult group to be read. When they narrate their testimony and vision you will see a lot of things contradicting the bible. They all believe it as God given vision. Please avoided them before you get confuse and believe them. Their experience keep bible away from you and look at them as a replacement to your bible. Prov 30:6

19 Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver. Acts 19:19 KJV

http://tryeveryspirit.com/9-signs-cult-church-recognize/

John 20:17,21,30-31 KJV

17 Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.


21 Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.


30 And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book:

31 But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.

King James Version (KJV)

Triune pagan deity devotee,
You know NOTHING about the only true God and his son,Jesus Christ. John 17:3. John 14:1.

Your delusion is very delicious..

Re: 9 Signs Of Cult Church And How To Recognize It by Janosky: 7:39pm On Apr 17, 2020
Man49men, Read it up and begin to purge out your delusion...

SOURCE: bible-researcher.com
Bible Research > Textual Criticism > Johannine Comma
The Johannine Comma
(1 John 5:7-cool
The so-called Johannine Comma (also called the Comma Johanneum) is a sequence of extra words which appear in 1 John 5:7-8 in some early printed editions of the Greek New Testament. In these editions the verses appear thus (we put backets around the extra words):

ὅτι τρεῖς εἰσιν οἱ μαρτυροῦντες [ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ, ὁ Πατήρ, ὁ Λόγος, καὶ τὸ Ἅγιον Πνεῦμα· καὶ οὗτοι οἱ τρεῖς ἔν εἰσι. 8 καὶ τρεῖς εἰσιν οἱ μαρτυροῦντες ἐν τῇ γῇ] τὸ πνεῦμα καὶ τὸ ὕδωρ καὶ τὸ αἷμα, καὶ οἱ τρεῖς εἰς τὸ ἕν εἰσιν.

The King James Version, which was based upon these editions, gives the following translation:

For there are three that bear record [in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. 8 And there are three that bear witness in earth], the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.

These extra words are generally absent from the Greek manuscripts. In fact, they only appear in the text of four late medieval manuscripts. They seem to have originated as a marginal note added to certain Latin manuscripts during the middle ages, which was eventually incorporated into the text of most of the later Vulgate manuscripts. In the Clementine edition of the Vulgate the verses were printed thus:

Quoniam tres sunt, qui testimonium dant [in caelo: Pater, Verbum, et Spiritus Sanctus: et hi tres unum sunt. 8 Et tres sunt, qui testimonium dant in terra:] spiritus, et aqua, et sanguis: et hi tres unum sunt.

From the Vulgate, then, it seems that the Comma was translated into Greek and inserted into some printed editions of the Greek text, and in a handful of late Greek manuscripts. All scholars consider it to be spurious, and it is not included in modern critical editions of the Greek text, or in the English versions based upon them. For example, the English Standard Version reads:

For there are three that testify: 8 the Spirit and the water and the blood; and these three agree.

We give below the comments of Dr. Bruce M. Metzger on 1 John 5:7-8, from his book, A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament, 2nd ed. (Stuttgart, 1993).

After μαρτυροῦντες the Textus Receptus adds the following: ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ, ὁ Πατήρ, ὁ Λόγος, καὶ τὸ Ἅγιον Πνεῦμα· καὶ οὗτοι οἱ τρεῖς ἔν εἰσι. 8 καὶ τρεῖς εἰσιν οἱ μαρτυροῦντες ἐν τῇ γῇ. That these words are spurious and have no right to stand in the New Testament is certain in the light of the following considerations.

(A) External Evidence.
(1) The passage is absent from every known Greek manuscript except eight, and these contain the passage in what appears to be a translation from a late recension of the Latin Vulgate. Four of the eight manuscripts contain the passage as a variant reading written in the margin as a later addition to the manuscript. The eight manuscripts are as follows:

61: codex Montfortianus, dating from the early sixteenth century.
88: a variant reading in a sixteenth century hand, added to the fourteenth-century codex Regius of Naples.
221: a variant reading added to a tenth-century manuscript in the Bodleian Library at Oxford.
429: a variant reading added to a sixteenth-century manuscript at Wolfenbüttel.
629: a fourteenth or fifteenth century manuscript in the Vatican.
636: a variant reading added to a sixteenth-century manuscript at Naples.
918: a sixteenth-century manuscript at the Escorial, Spain.
2318: an eighteenth-century manuscript, influenced by the Clementine Vulgate, at Bucharest, Rumania.
(2) The passage is quoted by none of the Greek Fathers, who, had they known it, would most certainly have employed it in the Trinitarian controversies (Sabellian and Arian). Its first appearance in Greek is in a Greek version of the (Latin) Acts of the Lateran Council in 1215.

(3) The passage is absent from the manuscripts of all ancient versions (Syriac, Coptic, Armenian, Ethiopic, Arabic, Slavonic), except the Latin; and it is not found (a) in the Old Latin in its early form (Tertullian Cyprian Augustine), or in the Vulgate (b) as issued by Jerome (codex Fuldensis [copied a.d. 541-46] and codex Amiatinus [copied before a.d. 716]) or (c) as revised by Alcuin (first hand of codex Vallicellianus [ninth century]).

The earliest instance of the passage being quoted as a part of the actual text of the Epistle is in a fourth century Latin treatise entitled Liber Apologeticus (chap. 4), attributed either to the Spanish heretic Priscillian (died about 385) or to his follower Bishop Instantius. Apparently the gloss arose when the original passage was understood to symbolize the Trinity (through the mention of three witnesses: the Spirit, the water, and the blood), an interpretation that may have been written first as a marginal note that afterwards found its way into the text. In the fifth century the gloss was quoted by Latin Fathers in North Africa and Italy as part of the text of the Epistle, and from the sixth century onwards it is found more and more frequently in manuscripts of the Old Latin and of the Vulgate. In these various witnesses the wording of the passage differs in several particulars. (For examples of other intrusions into the Latin text of 1 John, see 2.17; 4.3; 5.6, and 20.)

(B) Internal Probabilities.
(1) As regards transcriptional probability, if the passage were original, no good reason can be found to account for its omission, either accidentally or intentionally, by copyists of hundreds of Greek manuscripts, and by translators of ancient versions.

(2) As regards intrinsic probability, the passage makes an awkward break in the sense.

For the story of how the spurious words came to be included in the Textus Receptus, see any critical commentary on 1 John, or Metzger, The Text of the New Testament, pp. 101 f.; cf. also Ezra Abbot, "I. John v. 7 and Luther's German Bible," in The Authorship of the Fourth Gospel and Other Critical Essays (Boston, 1888), pp. 458-463.



Bible
Re: 9 Signs Of Cult Church And How To Recognize It by Janosky: 8:01pm On Apr 17, 2020
man49men:
If you want to know if your church belong to cult organization or an anti-Christ church then read this to find out and avoid them before you are trap, hypnotize and eternally deluded forever. So many people were trap by cult group before they realize it becomes too late. Cults are of different categories, we have sociological cult and theological cult. Some churches are sociological cult, their conduct and ways of life look like a cult but their doctrine look like Pentecostals churches. While the other have a theology and belief that made them cultist but their outward appearance and social life look Pentecostals. None this group should confuse you there are birds of the same feathers. If you see the following sign run away.



Denial of Jesus deity

Many religion especially cult group present Jesus as angel Michael or some prophets. They don’t believe is the only son of God and our savior. They doubt the theology of Jesus been God in human flesh. In doing this they are doubting God’s testimonies about is son.

17 And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Matt 3:17 KJV



10 He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. 11 He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. 12 Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— 13 children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.

14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. John 1:10-14 NIV



Denial of the God head (trinity)

Many cult group deny the trinity without fear and second thought. We plead with them to consider many scriptures that prove the God head, they blindly refuse, claiming that God only manifest himself in three office and not three person as one in agreement. The word let us make man in genesis cannot be for one individual, or God talking to himself or angels. No, God is referring to his son and the Holy Ghost. The three Person are co-equal, co-eternal and co-existence.

26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” Gen 1:26 NIV Gen 1:26


7 For there are three that bear witness in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one. 1 John 5:7-8 NKJV






Duplicated and monopolize pattern of preaching

All cults have a photocopy or written document handed over to them which as manual for their belief and pattern of outreach. For Jehovah witness it is called awake or watch tower bible society. And for a cult called Jesus disciple fellowship, they had a customize bible, pen and a white writing board, with description of flesh and soul struggle as pattern of preaching. Their manual is above the bible whether it contradict or not manual must be used in all circumstances. Manual is use instead of bible.



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LIAR...

Your deity is in heaven serving his God and Father just as he served his God and Father on earth.

Questions for you.....
1)
Please explain Revelation 3:5,11,12 and John 20:17. John 17:3, Who spoke those words?

2)
John 17:3, who is the only true God?


Who wrote Revelation 3:5,11,12 , John20:17 and John 17:3 in your Bible ?. grin

Further PROOF Man49men is LIAR busted.

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