CHAPTER 12 FAQ - CULT, HERSEY A LITTLE HISTORY
QUESTION 350 : How could they believe such stupid cultic stuff? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 351 : Isn't joining a cult a choice? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 352 : No one's holding a gun to their head. Why don't they just leave (cult)? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 353 : What do you mean there are truths in all heresy and cults? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 354 : Who is dividing the church and why do some leave the faith? Is it Heresy? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 355 : Why do you talk about false doctrine? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 356 : How Does False Doctrine Arrive at the Human Heart? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 357 : If It Is So Dangerous, Why Does God allow the teaching of False Doctrine? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 358 : What are the Classifications and Elements of False Doctrine? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 359 : Doesn't the Bible say that God often deceives his own prophets? 1 Kings 22:23 – “Now therefore behold, the LORD has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; the LORD has spoken evil concerning you." This verse is repeated verbatim in 2 Chronicles 18:22. Apparently, God deceived King Ahab's 400 "heathen" prophets so that God could destroy King Ahab, although God sent another prophet to warn Ahab that his "other" prophets previously mislead him by God's command. Why? When Ahab died, his throne was succeeded by an even worse king! [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 360 : Let's jump forward to the Apostle Paul, the most prolific author in the New Testament. Paul admits that he sometimes "stretches the truth" to further the Gospel. Romans 3:7 -- But if through my falsehood God's truthfulness abounds to his glory, why am I still being condemned as a sinner? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 361 : Furthermore, what about taking the Bible literally? We're always told that God "breathed the Word", but the Bible itself seems to dispute the assumption of perfection. For instance, look at this verse in Jeremiah 8:8 -- "How can you say, 'We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us'? But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has made it into a lie." Here, God admits that the Jewish scribes sometimes "falsify the word", which calls into question the integrity of the Bible's authors. Has anything else in the Bible been equivocated? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 362 : "In John 14 and 15 Christ is telling His disciples about the preeminency of the nature of God and the unity of triune composition. Jesus declared, 'And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you' (John 14:16,17). Our Lord here prays to the Father for the Spirit, and His awareness of triunity is quite apparent. In John 14:26 and 15:26 Christ uses the same formula, mentioning the three Persons of the Deity and indicating their unity, not only of purpose and will but of basic nature." Isn’t it so? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 363 : "The birth of the Lord Jesus Christ as described in the accounts in Matthew and Luke show that the doctrine of the Trinity was not a later invention of theologians. Luke records, 'The angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God' (Luke 1:35). Since other passages of Scripture reveal that the term 'Highest' refers to God the Father, we have in Luke a concrete instance of the Holy Spirit, the Father, and the Son all being mentioned together in the supernatural event of the Incarnation. Doesn’t it? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 364 : If the Trinity doctrine was not even defined until the beginning of the 4th century, which doctrine was current with numerous adherents up until that time (according to history)? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 365 : Is it acceptable to formulate a new doctrine not expressly stated by Jesus and the Apostles in scripture? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 366 : "The most serious weakness in the modalistic system of the (oneness) movement is its failure to recognize the subject-object relationship among the members of the Godhead... The very existence of an 'I'-'you' relationship denotes personality; and the followers of the (oneness) movement must either ignore or pervert these, and many other passages, to destroy the personal 'ego' of the members of the Holy Trinity... Therefore it is untenable to maintain the Christology of the (oneness) movement when the testimony of the scriptures is so clear. There is, according to the Scriptures, a Person (or Ego) who is called 'the Father' and who is designated as God (John 5:17-24). There is also a Person (Ego) who is called 'the Son' and who is designated as God (John ]:1,14). There is a Person (Ego) who is called 'the Holy Spirit' and who is designated as God (Acts 5:3-4). All three Persons are co-existent, and, in the unity of the Deity, are termed 'one God' (1 Timothy 2:5)." [Why is that so hard to understand?] [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 367 : But to obliterate your false persuasions, that the early church at the time of the apostles and after were "Oneness" and not Trinitarian, I looked up some quotes for you. Let them speak for themselves:- Clement... " Brethren, we must think of Jesus Christ as of God." Clement of Rome, Epistle to the Ephesians. Isn’t that so? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 368 : Where did this doctrine come from in your book, isn’t it a new modern thing from Azusa Street? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 369 : Isn’t this book teaching Modalistic Monarchianism (or Sabellianism), where God is said to have three modes or offices; “Think of God as a ‘shape shifter’ that can change His form into three different shapes or modes?” (bible.ca) [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 370 : Is what this book teaching (apostolic doctrine) similar to Gnosticism? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 371 : I’ve seen quotes where mediums, masons and other questionable persons understand and agree about the oneness of God, that is, he is one as against a trinity. Does that make it wrong? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 372 : Is the doctrine displayed in the book inspired by human pride because of its exclusiveness that any other doctrine is false; as some would say this is a “cult-like belief”? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 373 : Do Trinitarians worship three Gods? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 374 : I've heard many Trinitarians and some Apostolics term us Apostolics as "Oneness" or "Oneness Pentecostals." Why? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 375 : Did Simon the sorcerer influence the oneness apostolic doctrine taught in the bible called Monarchianism or as one person puts it, “invented the conceptual framework of Sabellian-style Modalism” (thriceholy.net)? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 376 : Who is Philo or what did he teach and why? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 377 : Is the Prophesied Messianic Ruler Over Israel David, The Son Of Jesse, rather than Jesus Christ? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 378 : Many say the “Father is the Son” or the “Son is the Father.” Why? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 379 : Can we trust recorded church history, that is, those given by the Catholics and Immediate protestant colleges? Can we trust their canonical archives? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 380 : Was emperor Constantine saved when the Nicea Council was held? Or, was he saved at all? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 381 : How to prevent susceptibility to heresy? [Click Here For The Answer]
QUESTION 382 : Oneness or Pentecostals are not only heretical, but pagans, because they can be traced back to an idolatrous sect called “monarchs.” And this book (“The Voice…”) affirms that present day Apostolics were called Monarchians in the early centuries, hence the same “monarchs” of Assyria and Babylon – pagans! Isn’t this clearly so? [Click Here For The Answer]
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