***I don’t care about cults. Born again believers are what I’m interested in, not even protestant mainline churches.***
Without the guidance of the Church, how do you even begin to judge who is a cult and who is not? Scripture is not enough since most of the cults rely on some verse anyway.
I am going to stay with the tried and true.
I think if we look at the creeds (The Nicene Creed and the Apostles’ Creed) and let them define for us what our Christian faith is about we can be safe. The cults always have something out of whack.
In the meantime, the reason the creeds were developed was specifically to answer questions in the early days when all of these other heresies started getting legs (the gnostics, arianism, etc. - I can’t remember some of the other stuff floating out there but there was plenty).
And, folks, let’s start getting together and worrying about things like Oprah pushing the Secret and A New Earth and all of this new age crapola that leads people away from the WAY, THE TRUTH and THE LIFE.
So am I staying with the tried and true, my Bible. If you read God’s Word (and there are books who also show you the Cults and what they practice), you will know who the cults are.