Sects & Cults

A new religion with no connection to established religion:

• Sect

• cult

• schism

• all the above

A protest movement or splinter from a major denomination:

• Sect

• Cult

• Schism

• All the above

The Seventh-day Adventist church started as a:

• Sect

• Cult

• Religion

• Schism

All the following are considered cults EXCEPT:

• New Age Movement

• Mormons

• Jehovah's Witnesses

• Millerites

The basic trademark of a cult is:

• Jesus & Salvation by faith not central.

• The promotion of it's leader

• The redefining of biblical terms.

• The demand for absolute loyalty

complete the verse-- Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world....

• Choosing the world is absolute folly.

• For God demands your loyalty.

• If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

• So make your path straight.

Cults are:

• practice a controlled environment.

• Utilize fraud and deception.

• Employ mind-control techniques,

• All the above

Why do people join cults?

• Lack of understand of the Bible.

• Vulnerability in life experience

• They see no relevance for traditional religion

• All the above.

Isaiah 8:20 says:

• To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because there[a] is no light in them.

• Let brotherly love continue.

• Trust in the Lord with all thine heart.

• And I will wait on the Lord, Who hides His face from the house of Jacob; And I will hope in Him.

Are you willing to obey God rather than man?

• Yes

• no