Cults mishandle the Authority of God
They don’t use the Scripture as their absolute authority.
Whereas almost every single cult out there will say either that they have the truth, that they believe and teach “only the Bible”, or that they are the only ones who have God’s truth in correct interpretation and perspective, these lines should be revealed as propaganda, not reality.
What reveals a cult for what it is, is not it’s total refusal of Scripture, but its handling of Scripture. Simply put, they “use” Scripture as propaganda to defend their own doctrines, views, and practices.
As a true Christian, child of God, it should be very important and clear that we highly depend on God and on His Word (guidance, direction, and ultimately, the means whereby we know and understand His will and salvation of our lives).
The key in this is to study the Scripture to find what is God’s will, not prove what you have already decided you want to believe.
It is very important to begin “with a clean slate” in the sense that you study Scripture without the purpose in your heart to defend or “find” your pet concepts. God will not reveal truth to those who are already hell-bent on rejecting it. Cults mishandle the Authority of God
Cults twist Scripture out of its true meaning.
If anyone who seeks for truth with a pure heart, God is obliged to reveal truth to that person.
This maxim of Christianity is often refuted, but none-the-less it is true. The problem is that so many never find the truth of God, and they either blame God or strongly assert that what they did end up with “is truth”. This is sad.
Usually everybody believes that their position is truth, but unfortunately, very few people actually have truth.
John 7:17 If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.
What Jesus proclaims is that his doctrine is the truth of God (being a reference to the truth coming from God the Father). Christ conditions knowing or recognizing truth as only being possible if the individual submits himself to God’s will. This points illumines us greatly on the matter of truth. Just anyone cannot understand or recognize truth just by their own mental and intellectual abilities.
Why so many Crises Today? by Pastor David Cox is a post on how Satan uses today's crises (which are not real crises, but fake crises fabricated by Satan to deceive) to control and bring men under his dominion.
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But Satan will now "have his reign" unhindered. How will he get almost all of earth's inhabitants to worship him? Through crises that supposedly there is no other way than Satan's way to "fix what is wrong". This analysis of what is a problem plus how to best fix that problem is the key to Satan's strategy. What we are seeing in our present generation is the preparation of this plan of Satan to take over the world...
The idea of God "creating evil" (Isaiah 45:7) is that God creates adversity. Things which go astray from man's best plans. No man plans to have cancer, but God does send adversity man's life (for example, Job). The book of Job points out how God proposed to Satan to try Job with sickness. It was for God's glory, because God begins everything with "Job is just", so Job had no spiritual problem in himself that caused this sickness and crisis of every kind on Job. Just the opposite. Job was just. God declares to us this fact...See Why are there so many Crises Today?
