Final Flashcards
In general most cults could be considered a group of individuals in which base their beliefs from a ___________ or ___________.
Revelation or misinterpretation
A cult is defined as a small group that is not part of a larger and more accepted religion and that has beliefs regarded by many people as ________ or ________.
Extreme or dangerous
7 things Christ says about false prophets
- presence
- chief trait
- revealing mark
- true nature
- hopeless fruit
- terrible nature
- fruit
Dictionary.com NAM defined- a movement espousing a broad range of philosophies and practices traditionally viewed as _______, ________, and ________.
Occult
Metaphysical
Paranormal
NAM is a ____-______ spiritual movement.
Free-flowing
6 main characteristics of NAM:
1-All is unity 2-All is divine 3-Humanity is divine 4-A change in consciousness 5-All religions are one 6-Cosmic evolutionary optimism
As many as ____ percent of the people in the US admit to following the NAM to a greater or lesser extent. In polls the NAM comes out as the ___ largest religion.
20%
3rd
3 NAM practices:
- Channeling: contact dead. Connect with dead persons spirit and channel the spirit through the medium in order to speak to people. Many are fake, but many more are participating in voluntary demon possession.
- Crystals:crystals, such as salt, possess healing power.
- Meditation: it is believed that by repeating a mantra one can move beyond ones own consciousness to a higher spiritual level.
6 beliefs of NAM:
1-______: all that exists is derived from a single source of divine energy.
2-God: god is an ______ energy immanent in all things
3-_______: God is all that _____.
4-_______: after we die we are reborn and have another human life. This closely resembles the concept of ______________ of the soul in _________.
5-__________ transformation: to achieve this end, a number of practices may be adopted: _______, _______, and _______ drugs.
6. ______: evil is just ________thougth.
- Monism
- Impersonal
- Pantheism; exists
- Reincarnation; transmigration; Hinduism
- Personal; hypnosis; meditation; hallucinogenic
- Devil; misdirected
Occult comes from Latin word occultus meaning ____.
Hidden
Occult practices:
- _____ sacrifice.
- _____ or fortune telling.
- Sorcery, which was attempt to learn or ____ future events by the power of evil spirits.
- Interpreting _____.
- ______
- ______
- A _____ or psychic
- _____ the dead.
- Child
- Divination
- Control
- Omens
- Witchcraft
- Medium
- Spiritists
- Consulting
Horoscope
Scope of the hour
Bible condemns witchcraft in strongest terms:
You shall not permit a sorceress to live - Ex. 22:18
Wicca- ___ ____
Wise one
Wicca describe as marriage between witchcraft and _______.
Hinduism
Beliefs of Wicca:
Everyone has the divine within.
One should develop natural gifts for divination or occult magic.
Divine forces are invoked in rituals
The Goddess as either symbol or a real entity is the focus of worship
Nature and the earth are sacred manifestations of the Goddess
Church of satan is a religion that mixes a _______ philosophy with the ____ of black magic.
Hedonistic; rituals
Brief description of Satanic statements:
La Vey summarized his philosophy in he Satanic bible in what he described as 9 satanic statements.
Represents indulgence instead of abstinence
Vital existence instead of spiritual pipe dreams
Undefined wisdom instead of hypocritical self deceit.
Kindness to those who deserve it instead of love wasted on ingrates
Vengeance instead of turning other cheek
Responsibility to responsible instead of concern for psychic vampires
Man as just another animal
All of so called sins as they lead to physical mental or emotional gratification
Best friend the church has ever had and has kept it in business all these years .
The word occult may be defined as any practice to do with the supernatural that is ________ in the Bible or is self evidently _____.
Forbidden;
Evil
The word occult is most often used to describe any attempt to gain supernatural _____ or _______ apart from the God of the Bible.
Power;
Knowledge
Divination attempts to ______ the future
Magic tries to _______ the future
Foretell;
Change
Witchcraft is an act of the devil which not only _______ the minds of people but can wreak havoc
Manipulates
A Mormon is someone who accepts ______ ______ as a prophet and the Book of Mormon as an ______ message of God
Joseph Smith;
Inspired
Date of Origin: ______
Founder: _____
Holy books: _______
# adherents: ______
1830
Joseph smith
KJV bible and book of Mormon
15 million
Four Mormon Holy Books:
JST bible
Doctrines and covenants
Book of Mormon
Pearl of great price
More than __________ men and women serve the Church of
JCLDS referred to as _______ in more than _____ missions around the world
84,000
Elders
330
Baptism of the Dead
Baptism and salvation for dead who were not able to hear and accept gospel can’t be condemned by a just God
Smoking, drinking, alcohol, tea, and coffee
Abstain from all of the above based on code passed in 1833
Not only so LDS caution sains against using tobacco, consuming alcohol tea and coffee they interpret the misuse of drugs: _____, ______, _______, or ______ as a violation of their health code
Illegal
Legal
Prescription
Controlled
Mormon view of God
God the father was a man who did not exist from all eternity but walked this earth like us and Jesus
View of Jesus’ birth
First pro created as spirit child by a Heavenly Father and mother and later conceived physically through intercourse of Heavenly Father and Virgin Mary
View of salvation
Not just faith in Christ, but also baptism by immersion, obedience to the teaching of the Mormon church
Jehovah's Witness: Date of origin: Founder: Holy Book: # adherents:
2/16/1852
Charles Taze Russell
New world translation
7 million
Openly _____ or _____ JWs may be disfellowshipped that is sunned and _______
Sinful
Former
Avoided
JWs view on holidays
Believe most holidays are pagan festivals so they don’t celebrate them. Members found celebrating will be disfellowshipped
JW view on evangelism
Every member must participate regularly…
Mostly door to door
JW view of blood transfusion
Taking blood into body through mouth or veins violates
Gods law.
JW doctrinal teaching:
Denial of deity of _______
Denial of the _____ ______
Denial of biblical view of ________
Denial of bodily _______
Denial of _______ by faith in Christ alone
Denial of salvation outside their ________
Christ Holy Spirit Atonement Resurrection Salvation Organization
JW teach that
Only Jehovah is worthy of worship and to worship Jesus is ________
Jesus is God’s agent for establishing the _______
His ransom paid for ______ sin alone, this gives people chance to their salvation ______
You shouldn’t ______ to Jesus
Jesus died on a _____ not cross
unscriptural theocracy Adams;earn pray stake
To JW only _________ people will go to heaven
144,000
They believe in the ________ of wicked
Annihilation
Christian Science emphasizes divine _____
Healing
Christian Science Date: Founder: Holy book: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ with key scriptures by Eddy # adherents:
1879
Mary Baker Eddy
science and health
500,000
Christian Science teaches that ______ wasn’t created by God,but that matter, ______, _____disease, and death are all limited modes of human _____ , as ultimately unreal
matter
sin; evil
perception
CS holy book
Holy book used for individual study and spiritual growth and is foundation for CS
Core of CS belief
Teaches that God Father/Mother of all is good and spiritual evil is result of living apart from God
CS view of Christ
Jesus death of no effect because he is divine but not God, his blood had no power over sin
The word of Adventists a from Latin ______ and refers to 2nd coming of Christ. It applies to _________ the 7th day of creation
Coming;
Saturday
7th Adventist fact file: Date: Founder: Holy Book: # adherents:
1863
Ellen G White
Bible
17.9 million
Adventist beliefs
Doctrine center around imminent 2nd coming of Jesus and observation of Saturday sabbath
7th day Adventists doctrinal differences
Sabbath- divine institution to be restored; holds laws dominion over man. (Obey or be lost)
Investigative judgement: vindicates justice of God in saving believers
