I was referring to formal Church Beliefs not the practices of clerics and Popes at different times. Conduct is a judgment for God. David Koresh etc were expounding Scriptural Texts.
By your logic anyone who preaches the Gospel in the NT is therefore a Jones or Koresch?
If you did some research on your extremist examples you would find out that both made the claims that they were the new Israel and based their claims on the OT promises of Israel. I know of no prot or evangelical church which make such claims. There is however a very old church which ascribes to this sort of replacement theology. You may want to discuss it in your next caucus.
I was referring to formal Church Beliefs not the practices of clerics and Popes at different times.
Ah...
I see the difference.
Just what 'beliefs' did Jim Jones and David Koresh and Billy Graham teach that is so upsetting?