Gnosticism

Gnosticism is one of the many false religions in the world. It teaches that all matter is evil.

• 2 ideas behind what to do about this...
• 1. isolation from all others to avoid germs,etc. since matter is bad.
• 2. Since the soul is okay, and matter is what is evil, immorality--sexual impurity--fornication, adultery,etc. is acceptable
• Teaches that Jesus Christ is not God. He is just another spiritual being like the angels.
• sin-letting matter violate you
• salvation-doing your own thing
  

Cults:Teach what people want to Hear

Cults never teach what you need to hear.
They teach what you want to hear. This is why cults do not teach the truth about sin,Satan,God, salvation, spiritual growth, demons, angels, and the Bible.
They want to be people pleasers. -that is they care about attention from "the world"-people
They care nothing about pleasing God.
They will be judged by God for deceiving many.
Cult leaders and those who follow after them are in danger.

Cults teach wealth,health and proseprity

• Cults teach if you send money to them that you will be blessed by God, with good health, and lots of riches.
  
• They claim you will never have suffering or trials in your life if you donate a lot of money to them, and believe that you will be blessed.
  
• They promise you will always have lots of money,and no problems in life.
• They teach that if you do get sick it is because you don't have enough faith, or didn't send enough money to support them.
• Watch out for these health,wealth and prosperity preachers!
  
• They are on television, in books on shelves in stores, and online!
• They even sneak into churches sometimes!
  
• So be on your guard--on the look out---for them!
  
• When? Now! and Later!
  

New Agers Use Witchcraft :Bible warns against witchcraft

• The New Agers also error by using witchcraft. They claim there is "white magic," and that they are "good witches."
  
• There is no such thing as a good witch or white magic in reality. Any form of spells, is wrong because the Bible warns against witchcraft of any form. It mentions this in Deuteronomy and other places in the Old Testament.
• New Agers are into the following ungodly activities: tarrot cards, crystal balls, palm readings, wgyie boards, so called "white magic," which is also called "good magic,or nice spells," and seanances.
  
• The New Age Movement plays with fire. This is very dangerous because it is playing with the very fire from hell. It is playing with demons, and Satan. This is a very bad thing indeed.
• There is a book out there by New Agers called "The New Age Movement Guide For Dummies."
  
• Supposedly it is a guide book to help people understand what all the New Age Movement teaches.
• Then there are these books that the New Agers, Satanists, and Mysticists all use. " Communication with the spirits," " Seances made Easy," and " How to Communicate with your Loved Ones in the Spiritworld."
• The New Age Movement consists of Hinduism, mixed with Myticism, and other old religious concepts mixed together that are false.
  

Cults claim to have New Truths/Revelation

One of many lies that cults teach is ...
* We have a "new truth, revelation."

• The reason this is a lie is because the Bible is the complete, without error, Word of God. The Bible is the only revelation from God that we need. There is no new revelation, or truth from God, let alone a need for a new "holy book," or religious text.
  
• Satan hates God, and the Bible. He has brainwashed that is tricked many people into believing a lie instead of the truth. As mentioned before that is why there are so many religions in the world.
  
• The New Age Movement claims that it does not like "doctrine." This is a lie. It has a lot of doctrine in it. The truth is that the New Age Movement does not teach "sound doctrine, or healthy doctinre." It does not teach doctrine based on the Bible.
  
• An example of a Modern Day New Age follower, or New Ager is the following:
  Oprah Winferry.
• On her show "The Oprah Winferry Show" she says that " To say that Jesus Christ is the only way to heaven is incorrect. Everyone just needs to look within themselves to get to heaven. It can be one thing, or way for one person and a different path for another. You see there are many paths to heaven. To believe otherwise is just plain foolish."
• She admits that the New Age Movement is what she follows.
  
• " The New Age Movement is the most satisfying answer to all your problems." -Oprah Winferry.
• She even twists words that are in the Bible, and takes a persons testimony for Christ and turns it around to suit her teachings.
• She is one of many "false prophets gone out into the world" that I John and II Peter warns us about.
  

Cults Boast About Their actions:Claim to Follow Christ, but Do They?

Cults claim they follow after Christ:But Do They?

More errors of the occult.

• Brag about God works.
• Problems shown here...
  

• Romans 3:27 "Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law?of works? Nay;but by the law of faith."
• Isaiah 64:6 " All our righteousness is as filthy rags, thus saith the Lord."
• Ephesians 2:8-9 "For by grace are ye saved through faith,and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, Not of works lest any man should boast."
• Romans 3:28 "Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law."

• Teach things that are contrary to what Christ taught.
• I Timothy 6:3-5 "If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds,and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw yourself."
• Titus 1:10-16 "For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision: Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake. One of themselves, even a prophet of their own said, The Christians are always liars, evil beasts, slow bellies. This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith; Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth. Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure;but even their mind and conscience is defiled. They profess that they know God;but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate."
• Titus 3:10-11 "A man that is an heretic after the first and second admonition reject; Knowing that he that is such is subverted,and sinneth, being condemned of himself."
• II Peter 2:1- 2"But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you,who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways;by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of."
• "pernicious"-destructive
• "evil spoken of "-blasphemed
• II Peter 2:3- 16"And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not. For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them into hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an example unto those that after should live ungodly; And delivered just Lot, vexed with filthy conversation of the wicked: (For that righteous ma dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;) The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations,and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished: But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities. Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not their accusation against them before the Lord. But these, as natural brute beasts,made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption; And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the daytime. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you; Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin;beguiling unstable souls: a heart they have exercised with covetous practices;cursed children:Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who the wages of unrighteousness; But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with a man's voice forbade the madness of the prophet."
• "feigned "-deceptive
• "make merchandise of you" -exploit
• "lingereth" -has not been idle
• "damnation"-destruction
• "with an overthrow"-to destruction (used in verse 6)
• "vexed"-tormented (used in verse 8)
• "ass"-donkey (used in verse 16)
• "forbade"-restrained (also in verse 16)
• II Peter 2:17- 19 "These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest;to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever. For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error. While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. "
• II Peter 3:7 "But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men."
• II Peter 3:3" Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers,walking after their own lusts,"
• vs.4 "And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation."
• vs. 5 "For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old,and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:"
• vs. 6 "Whereby the world that then was being overflowed with water perished:"
• I John 2:22 -23 "Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father:[but] he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also."
• I John 4:1 "BELOVED, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God:because many false prophets are gone out into the world."
• I John 4:2 "Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh of God."
• vs.3 "And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now is already is it in the world."
• II John verse 7 "For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist."
• II John verse 9 "Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son."
  
• II John verse 10 " If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him Godspeed."
• verse 11 "For he that biddeth him Godspeed is partaker of his evil deeds."
• "neither bid him Godspeed"-give him a greeting of
  
• "biddeth him Godspeed" -greets him with Godspeed
• "partaker"-shares in
• Jude verse 4 "For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ."
• "lasciviousness"-licentiousness
• Jude verses 5- 13"I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not. And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hat reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities. Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, the Lord rebuke thee. But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves. Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Korah. These are spots in your feasts of charity, when the feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds;trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit,twice dead, plucked up by the roots; Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame, wandering stars, to who is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever. "
• "despise dominion"-reject authority (verse 8)
• "dignities"-glorious ones (also verse 8)
• "contending"-disputing (verse 9)
• "disputed"-discussed (verse 9)
• "durst"-dared (verse 9)
• "railing"-reviling (verse 9)
• "gainsaying"-rebellion (verse 11)
• "spots"-hidden reefs or stains (verse 12)
• "with you"-with you, without fear, serving only themselves (verse 12)
• "out"-up (verse 13)

Cults False Teachings Never Change

The cults false teachings say the same from year to year. They all claim to have some "new truth" for their followers. They all continue to make a mockery of God, the Bible, and true followers of Jesus Christ. They teach all kinds of things that have never been true, still are not, and will continue to be false.
Christian Scientist for example teach that people can never get sick or die, yet their own followers have gotten ill, and in turn have eventually died just like anyone else.
Satanists claim they don't talk to demons, yet they mention that they can see them. They even brag about the things they have done after they had someone from the spirit world tell them to do so. They claim reading palms, or a crystal ball, can tell someone their future. They claim they just know it works,but have no real proof at all.
Mormons claim that they are Christians,yet know little about what the Bible really teaches. They claim that a person needs to work hard -to empress God-along with accepting Christ to get to Heaven. * Works!
Jehovah False Witnesses say that works are necessary to enter Heaven! So does all the other cults, Bahai Faith, Catholicism, and so on!
Yet the Bible itself teaches in James that "... Works without faith is dead..." It also teaches in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, that Jesus forgave those who nailed him to the cross at Calvary when he said "Father forgive them,for they know not what they do." Also, all four Gospels teach that Jesus said "It is finished" on the cross to show that salvation's plan is complete. So the cults are teaching people to do something that is unnecessary! They are teaching people to work there way to heaven, when Jesus told us "It is finished." Jesus paid the sin debt in full, so there is no reason to try to work for something that is a free gift from God! Romans 6:23 "For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." Salvation is a gift from God! No one can earn it!

More False Teachings From the Cults

The cults teach things that have to be taken by faith. Though a false faith, a cult is a form of faith about something. The cults teach these ideas about the tribulation: 1. It is not happening. 2.It will happen,but only those who force their beliefs on others are in it. 3. Everyone except the 144,000 chosen people -Jehovah Witnesses teach this- will take part in the tribulation. 4. The tribulation is something made up by Christians to scare people. 5. There is no proof in the Bible about the tribulation or elsewhere, so why teach this myth. 6. The tribulation will take place by....then, they try to predict when it will take place. 7. The tribulation is an inner struggle between yourself and your inner Karma.
The cults teach that it is wrong to say that their is only one way, or path,road to Heaven. They teach their are many ways, paths, roads there. They teach that the one you take is which ever one suits you.
They teach that you can not tell someone which god to serve either. They say that God is different for each person-so essentially, they teach there are many "gods."

Bahai Faith: One of many cults?

The Bahai Faith group is one of many cults. Why does it fall under this category? After all there are buildings for those in this particular religion to gather in. So, why is it called a cult anyways? What is so bad about it?
Well, the Bahai Faith group says "All roads lead to heaven,or simply put, all paths get us to God anyways. One is not better than the other. No one can say that one way, path, or road is better to travel because they all lead us to the samething God and the ulimate end Heaven." This quote is from a person who told me this, and afterwards said that they believed it was rude and inconsiderate of others to say otherwise. They even went so far as to say that anyone who disagreed with them would go to hell.
Yet the Bible teaches us something completely different. It teaches us that there is only one "way" to heaven. John 14:6 "Jesus said...I am the way, the truth and the life, no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." Jesus was saying that no one can come to Father, God the Father, except through him. Plus, the Bible teaches us in Proverbs 15:14 that "There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but in the end thereof it leadeth unto death." The people teaches us that man's way is not God's way. That man in and of themselves can not possibly accheieve heaven. What a contrast to what the Bahaia Faith and other cults teach!

All cults have this in Common

All cults teach things that are not true about Jesus Christ. They deny that he is the only way to heaven, and that he died to pay the sin debt for all. They say that people can do no wrong.

Cults:Holy Books, religious materials

The Cults have various materials they use to support their teachings.
* Books- The Book of Mormon
-The Quaran
-New World Translation
-The Apographa
- Science and Humanities
-Books by Charles Darwin
-Science and Health Key to the Scriptures
-Dianetics, the Modern Science of Mental Health
- Make Sure of All Things
-Satanic Bible
-Studies in the Scripture
-Inspired Version (not completed by Joseph Smith, not used by Mormons in Utah)

*Magazines -Awake
- The Watch Tower
-Why God does not Allow Suffering?

*Brochure-Guide to the Book of Mormon

* Movies- The Golden Compass
-The Da Vinci Code

What do the Cults Teach about Hell?

Cults teach this about Hell...
* It doesn't exist. -Atheists, and Jehovah False Witnesses
* God did not create it. -Most other cults
* God created it for those who are really bad (like murderers, etc.) -Some teach this view.
* No one can really know if it exist or not. -Agnostics
* Allah made it for those who refuse to convert to Islam. -Muslims
* Hell was made for those whose good does not outweigh their bad.-Some Catholics, and a few others
* It is not as bad as people say it is.-Satanists
* Hell is not sticking to what you feel is right for you.-Some other cults
* Some cults do not teach anything about hell. -So what they believe about it then? (Guess it is a mystery.)

What the Cults Teach about Angels and Demons?

What do the cults teach about Angels and Demons?
* Some teach that angels and demons do not exist.
* Satanists, and those into "mysticism" -one of the New Age Movement concepts-say that demons are not real,but have no problem with talking to "spirits," who they defines your best inner most being. Satanists is one of the many groups that deny the existence of angels as well.
* Others teach that angels were created by God and then in turn were the ones that created everything else. This is the Gnoticism teaching.
* Mormons teach that Jesus was an angel that later became a god. They deny the existence of demons all together.
* Still others teach that demons are real,but deny that God had a part in thier creation. They say God could not have made anything evil.
* Some even teach that angels and demons both exist, and worship both of these groups of spiritual beings.

Spiritual Darkness= False Religions

False Religions are part of the spiritual darkness of this world. Ephesians Chapter 6 explains it well, when it says "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood,but against principles, powers, and rulers of darkness of this world." There is a spiritual battle going on.
The most popular thing is to go by the secular/humanistic view which is that God does not know what is talking about. However, it is not the right thing to do. The truth is God always knows what he is talking about. He always has and always will for that matter.
The cults claim all sorts of lies. They teach that people can look to their inner selves for answers. This is untrue because everyone sins. That is everyone does bad things that makes God sad. Yet all the cults deny that we are sinners.

Cults: False Teachings that Satan Likes

Cults are also something that Satan, the enemy of God, likes. He likes them because they deceive others. That is these so called "religions" teach things to people that are wrong because they are contrary to the Bible due to the lies they teach about everything.
II Peter Chapter 3 and I John warns about the lies that false teachers hold too. They tell us that "...whoever denies that Jesus is the Son of God..." is not a "...believer..." and those who acknowledge that he is a true follower of God. These passages also teach us that those who acknowledge the Son of God, acknowledge God the Father too, and vice versa. The II Peter passage tells us that false teachers are condemned by God, are to be judged as liars, and that whoever follows after them are not saved. So those who are follow after the cults beliefs are in danger.

More on what the Cults Say

Here is more information on what the cults claim. The cults all have this in common. They all claim they are Christians. This is absolutely not true. There is no way that the people who are a part of these are saved. They all want to do things their way. They do not think God's way is enough for them.
They make all sorts of excuses for not accepting Jesus Christ. Some of these excuses are as follows: 1. "That is just to simple."
2. "I am a good person."
3. " I never stole anything."
4. " I am fine on my own."
5. "I don't need God."
6. " I give to the poor, go to church, and am nice to others, so I am okay."
7. " I don't like God."
8. " God doesn't care about me."
9. " Jesus is not my friend."
10. " I am satisfied with my karma."
11. " I am fine with my inner self."
12. " I never cared about God, and he could care less about me."


Any excuse, is still not good enough to God. On judgment day God is not goimg to ask the lost how great of a person they though they were before they died, or how much fun they had. He will ask them why they rejected his Son, Jesus Christ, the one who saves sinners!

Some of what Cults Teach

Some of the lies the cults teach are:
1. That sin is non-existent, or a result of matter,etc.
2. They deny the deity of the Holy Spirit
3. Deny the deity of Jesus Christ
4. Claim Jesus died a martyr, or that he didn't die at all
5. Claim the rapture is not happening, or has happened already
6. Deny the virgin birth
7. That the Bible is not Scripture, or that is equal to, or less than another "religious book"
8. Deny the deity of God the Father
9. Deny Jesus ressurrection
10. Deny the miracles of Christ potrayed in the Bible or change them
11. Deny the universal flood, and /or change it
12. Claim man can become a god, or goddess
13. Deny the truth about salvation in the Bible
14. Deny that that anything was created by God
15. Teach other lies about the Truths in the Bible

Cults in America Today

There are many cults still around today. Some cults that are in America today are the following: 1. Bahai Faith
2. Post Milleuimists
3.Scientology
4. Hindus
5. Buddhists
6. Jehovah False Witnesses
7. Christian Scientists
8. Patheists
9. Agnostics
10. Atheists
11. New Agers
12. Taoism
13. Transcendental Meditation (TM)
14. Sun Young Moon Followers
15. Mormons
16. Muslims
17. Satanists
18. Catholicism
19. Spiritualism
20. Gnosticism
21. Seventh Day Adventists
22. Fountamental Later Day Saints
23. The Way International
24. Worldwide Church of God
25 . Divine Light Mission
26. Hare Krishna
27. Unitarism
28. "I AM" Movement
29. Rosicrucianism :The Rose Cross
30. Evolutionists
31. Theosophy
32. Swedenborgianism
33. Various other religions