“You can lead a Phil to Scripture but you can’t make him think.”
It is difficult to get through to someone in a cult that the Bible is supreme to any other person’s words. It almost looks like some have read only the material approved by their cult and never dusted off their Bible to see if what is stated in their writings comports with the Bible.
It’s REALLY bad when they pretend to observe Scripture’s authority in theory, but then in practice elevate something else above it.
See: the claim that Roman Catholicism wrote the Bible, as shown a thousand or two posts ago, thus elevating Catholic theology over the Word of God.
See also: Mormonism in general and the claims of being prophets.
See also: SDA and the claim of EGW being a prophet.
See also: Fatima.
Those last three are painfully obvious; they’re trying to override the genuine Word with claims about getting messages right from God.
And yet, people choose to believe them. I’d shake my head if this wasn’t predicted in the Word.