If you get your brain blown out by a gunman but have a strong beating heart while you’re lying in the hospital bed, you know what? We witness a variant of this in modern times when “honor killings” occur in Moslem countries with the murderer(s) walking away scot free, many times without even the legal mockery of a show trial.

It’s a scientific evaluation that tells us how quickly we use one year’s worth of resources in the world. Movements that institutionalize immorality should be reported immediately to a competent Church authority, particularly if the sexual immorality involves children.

There are so many doctrines and practices and rituals in Catholicism that are nowhere mentioned in the New Testament. As a result the Church, to whom the transmission and interpretation of Revelation is entrusted, “does not derive her certainty about all revealed truths from the Holy Scriptures alone.

People who are familiar with how various Christian-Like cults (such as Jehovah’s Witnesses and Mormons) operate will see that the Catholic Church operates in a similar fashion.

Those who classify Roman Catholicism as a cult (an inauthentic and invalid expression of Christianity) usually also give the Eastern Orthodox church the same classification. In which case, how do we distinguish between Mormons, Scientology, and Peoples Temple, all of which were founded on entirely new statements of faith? The meaning of this promise is that the whole of creation, bound up together and perfected in Christ as its Head, shall be led back in the most perfect manner to God, from whom sin had partly led it away. What is meant by “faith without works is dead” is that TRUE faith produces God-glorifying works as the FRUIT of that true faith (and the fruit of true salvation), and NOT as the CAUSE of that faith (nor the cause of salvation).

For thou art the shepherd, thou art the physician, thou art the director, thou art the husbandman, finally thou art another God on earth. Every single one of these Orgs must have a beautifully decorated, furnished and unused private office. CNA reached out to one of the alleged victims seeking copies of the lawsuits but did not receive a reply. S. soldiers to grab her, stick her in a hospital bed, strap her arms down so she can’t harm herself, and force feed her? What they do not realize, however, is that if both of these religious bodies are non-Christian, then there was no authentic Christian church during most of the medieval period.In another sense, however, we can make the distinction of the “fallen world” which is a source of sin. Lofton describes eight characteristics of destructive mind-control cults, saying, “If any group exercises all eight of these control elements, they are, in fact a destructive mind control cult”. Catholicism is one of the world’s major world religions, with an immense following across continents. In asking these questions, my hope is not to relativize the issue and say that “cults” are just the same as traditional religions, nor do I want to defend some truly horrible groups; there are definitely some highly misguided people out there who will abuse others for their own gain, and they should not be grouped together with Christianity. America’s military has killed members of three of these four groups in the fight for, and defense of, freedom.