Misconceptions About Cults

Cults are easy to spot, they wear strange clothes and live in communes.

Well some do. But most are everyday people like you and me. They live in houses. They wear the same clothes. They eat the same food. Cult leaders don’t want you to know that you are being recruited into a cult so they order their recruiters to dress, talk and act in a way that will put you at ease. One cult has even invented a phrase to describe this, they call it “being relatable”.

Cults are full of the weak, weird and emotionally unstable.

Not true. Many cult members are very intelligent, attractive and skilled. The reality is that all sorts of people are involved in cults. One of the few common denominators is that they were often recruited at a low point in their life.

Cults are just a bunch of religious nut cases.

This is a common mistake people make thinking that cults are purely religious groups. The modern definition of a mind control cult refers to all groups that use mind control and devious recruiting techniques. The belief system of a religion is often warped to become a container for these techniques, but it is the techniques themselves that make it a cult. In a free society people can believe what they want, but most people would agree that it is wrong for any one to try to trick and control people.



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The Cult Churches Fabricated Tithing Doctrine

By Cult Expert Mark Vrankovich

This is the big daddy. This is their sacred cow. This is the beating heart of their evil empire. The crown jewel. The Death Star. The one ring to bill them all. The pot of gold. Their matrix (into which they want to plug you). Their Wizard of Oz. Their magic spell. Their special power. Their secret recipe with the eleven herbs and spices. Their Golden Goose. The very air upon which they breathe!

Question this doctrine and watch these money hungry pastors bare their fangs. This is a teaching that they will bear no compromise on. Tithing, or at least their own version of tithing, is their one true love.

Here are some bullet points about tithing that these money hungry pastors don’t want you to know:

* The New Testament Church did not tithe.
* The New Testament does not teach tithing for Christians.
* Their favorite Malachi verses cannot be used for Christians since Christians are not under the law of Moses.
* Abraham’s one off tithe of his war booty did not set up a precedent for Christians to regularly tithe their income.
* The version of tithing they teach cannot be found in Scripture (see below).
* The “Storehouse” in Malachi cannot be equated to your local church organization.
* There are plenty of rich (money wise) Christians who do not tithe. This would be impossible if their version of tithing was true.
* The New Testament teaching is that you decide how much to give, and there are no rules about where it goes. You cannot be compelled to give.
* It may come as a surprise to learn that their tithing doctrine is a combination of twisted scriptures and wishful thinking, as opposed to solid Biblical exegesis reflecting a central thrust of New Testament teaching.

Here is their tithing doctrine stated in a nutshell:

“Christians must give ten percent of their gross income only to their church organization. If they do, then God will bless them for any offerings they make to the church organization beyond this ten percent. But if they do not give ten percent gross, then they are stealing from God and God will curse them.”

There are variations of this teaching, and sometimes it is called a “principle”, but the above definition contains the core essence of this doctrine.

It is vital to grasp that tithing is not for Christians. Tithing was part of the old law (of Moses) which was fulfilled (completed) by Jesus. You know that Christians are not under the law of Moses don’t you?

But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code. Romans 7:6

know that a man is not justified by observing the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by observing the law, because by observing the law no one will be justified. Galatians 2:16

All who rely on observing the law are under a curse, for it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.” Galatians 3:10

New wine should not be put into old wine skins, nor should new unshrunk cloth be used to patch an old garment; if you think you need to obey the law of tithing then you need to obey the whole law (or you will be cursed, Galatians 3:10).

What is more, this tithing doctrine they teach isn’t found in either the New or Old Testament. Tithing in the old testament does not match what these pastors preach – this unique tithe teaching is of their own invention.

Pastor Cliff Whitehead of Fellowship Chapel Point Pleasant NJ had a cassette series that was distributed to some and sold to other church members instructing them to give 10% of their income to Fellowship Chapel of Jersey Shore regardless of their financial situation.

　

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Michael Vander Horn a home improvement contractor in Barnegat New Jersey decided it was in the best interest of his customer, an 80 year old senior citizen who lived at 409 Dock Road West Creek NJ, to install a header in her home and not secure it to the house. He installed this header on two wolmanized posts with absolutely no screws or nails to fasten it together.

He then proceeded to sheetrock and paint over his work before anybody had a chance to inspect it.

When this information was given to associate pastor Jim McCombs of Fellowship Chapel Point Pleasant NJ he responded by saying, “It doesn’t look that bad to me, you and your mother should move back in. I’ll get some people from the church to take you both back.”

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