Friday, September 19, 2008

The Errors of the Jehovah's Witnesses Cult

"A Cult is a religion or sect considered to be false, unorthodox, or extremist, with members often living outside of conventional society under the direction of a charismatic leader.", so says the dictionary.

Another thing about a cult is that they claim to be Christian while not following the accepted doctrines of the church. We don't call Buddhism a cult because they do not claim to be Christians. Jehovah's Witnesses are a cult because they deny that Jesus is God the Son while trying to claim they are Christian.

The main heresies taught by Jehovah's Witnesses are as follow:
1. Annihilation
2. Denial of the Deity of Christ
3. Denial of the Deity of the Holy Spirit
4. Denial of Eternal Security
5. Denial of a Literal Burning Hell
6. Denial of Literal Second Coming of Christ
7. Denial of the Physical Resurrection of Christ
8. Denial of the Trinity
9. Salvation Through Works
10. True Church Theory

We are told to watch out for false teaching that comes. Check all teaching against the Scriptures. Jehovah's Witnesses went so far in their sin that they ended up writing their own Bible so they could change many key passages of Scripture.

We would do well to heed the warning Peter gave to those in his time...

"2 Peter 2:1 But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction. 2 And many will follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed. 3 By covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction does[a] not slumber."

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