What Makes a Group Non Christian Answers & Scripture Verses

What makes a Group Non Christian Answers & Scripture Verses

1.     Give three examples of a cult?

Mormonism, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Christian Science, Unity, the Way International, and Unitarianism are all examples of cults.

2.     What determines if a group is Non-Christian religion or cult?

A group is a non-Christian religion or cult if it either doesn’t include the Bible in its set authoritative scriptures, or it includes the Bible but distorts the key biblical doctrine

3.     What essential biblical doctrines do cults deny?

An organisation is a cult when it denies the essential doctrines of the bible, such as the diety of Christ (which involves the Trinity), the resurrection of Jesus, and the salvation by grace.

4.     How have cults distorted the doctrine of salvation?

All cults believe that they must add their own works of righteousness to Jesus sacrifice on the cross in order to be worthy of salvation.

5.     How have cults distorted the deity of Jesus?

Mormons believe that Jesus it he brother of the devil, begotten through sexual intercourse with a god from another planet. In Jehovah’s Witnesses, He is Michael the Archangel who became a man. In the New Age Movement, Jesus is a man in tune with the divine consciousness.

6.     What are some of the errors that cultist commit when interpreting Scripture?

Some of the errors cultists commit is interpreting Scripture are

1. Taking the Scripture out of context;

2. Reading into the Scriptures information that is not there;

3. Picking and choosing only the scripture that suits there needs;

4. Ignoring other explanations;

5. Combining Scriptures that don’t have anything to do with each other;

6. Quoting a verse without giving its location;

7. Incorrect definitions of key words;

8. Mistranslations.

What Makes a Group Non Christian Scripture Verses

Test all things; hold fast what is good. 1 Thessalonians 5:22

³  But Peter said, "Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back part of the price of the land for yourself?  

⁴  While it remained, was it not your own? And after it was sold, was it not in your own control? Why have you conceived this thing in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God." Acts 5:3-4

¹  O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as crucified? Galatians 3:1

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always be ready to give a defence to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear; 1 Peter 3:15

³  Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints. Jude verse 3

⁸  For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

⁹  not of works, lest anyone should boast. Ephesians  2:8-9

Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law. Romans 3:28

¹⁶knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law; for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified.

¹⁷  "But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is Christ therefore a minister of sin? Certainly not!

¹⁸  For if I build again those things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.

¹⁹  For I through the law died to the law that I might live to God.

²⁰  I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

²¹  I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in vain." Galatians 2:16-21

For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. James 2:26

Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have* peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, Romans 5:1

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named* among the Gentiles--that a man has his father's wife!

And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he who has done this deed might be taken away from among you. 1 Corinthians 5:1-2

⁵⁵  But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God,

⁵⁶  and said, "Look! I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God! "

⁵⁷  Then they cried out with a loud voice, stopped their ears, and ran at him with one accord;

⁵⁸  and they cast him out of the city and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul.

⁵⁹  And they stoned Stephen as he was calling on God and saying, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit."

⁶⁰  Then he knelt down and cried out with a loud voice, "Lord, do not charge them with this sin." And when he had said this, he fell asleep. Acts 7:55-60

²  saying, "Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we have seen His star in the East and have come to worship Him."

³  When Herod the king heard this, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.

⁴  And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he inquired of them where the Christ was to be born.

⁵  So they said to him, "In Bethlehem of Judea, for thus it is written by the prophet:

⁶ "But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, Are not the least among the rulers of Judah;

For out of you shall come a Ruler Who will shepherd My people Israel.'"

⁷  Then Herod, when he had secretly called the wise men, determined from them what time the star appeared.

⁸  And he sent them to Bethlehem and said, "Go and search carefully for the young Child, and when you have found Him, bring back word to me, that I may come and worship Him also."

⁹  When they heard the king, they departed; and behold, the star which they had seen in the East went before them, till it came and stood over where the young Child was.

¹⁰  When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceedingly great joy.

¹¹  And when they had come into the house, they saw the young Child with Mary His mother, and fell down and worshiped Him. And when they had opened their treasures, they presented gifts to Him: gold, frankincense, and myrrh. Matthew 2:2-11

Then those who were in the boat came and worshiped Him, saying, "Truly You are the Son of God."  Matthew 14:33

³⁵Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when He had found him, He said to him, "Do you believe in the Son of God?"

³⁶He answered and said, "Who is He, Lord, that I may believe in Him?"

³⁷And Jesus said to him, "You have both seen Him and it is He who is talking with you."

³⁸Then he said, "Lord, I believe! " And he worshiped Him. John 9:35:38

But to the Son He says: "Your throne, O God, is forever and ever; A scepter of righteousness is the scepter of Your Kingdom Hebrews 1:8

And Thomas answered and said to Him, "My Lord and my God!" John 20:28

For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; Colossians 2:9

All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him." Luke 10:22

And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. John 17:3

Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. John 14:6

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear; 1 Peter 3:15

Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. 2 Timothy 2:15

For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. Matthew 24:24

¹  Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

²  By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,

³  and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world 1 John 4:1-3