Tell me, what is your definition of a cult? It would be interesting to know, since you’ve evidently decided that I must be a cult member, since I don’t believe the Catholic Church is the representative of Christ on earth.
How about indicating what denomination you belong to? Hmm? Or are you afeard to?
It may be generally observed that groups terms cults manifest three defining characteristics:
1. They teach foundationally aberrant doctrine (such as denying the Deity of Christ)
2. They formally or effectively hold a person and or office as a supreme doctrinal authority above the Scriptures.
3. They use psychologically tactics to foster implicit trust in their hierarchical powers and suppress objective examination of their doctrine.
In contrast is the authority of those who hold Scripture to be supreme and hold to a *basically* literal interpretive basis, as the Bible itself shows. And thus these evangelicals characteristically believe and contend for the foundational truths which we agree with Rome on, having found them Scriptural, and allow a limited degree of disagreement in secondary matters, while contending against cults and the tradition-based teaching of Rome, which are ultimately based upon her own declaration of infallibility.