Is Catholicism A Cult?: Revealed - The True nature of Roman Catholicism

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While Catholicism’s acceptance of noncanonical writings (the Apocrypha) and placing of apostolic tradition on par with Scripture are fundamental problems to the Protestant, Catholics nevertheless retain a high view of the Bible (inspired and infallible) and see it as their central source of revelation. When presented with the above verses about salvation not being of the works of man, Catholics will consistently quote James 2:20 (faith without works is dead) to refute the gospel of salvation by faith alone.

In summary, a cult generally emerges as a group that rejects orthodoxy and remains fervently committed to heresy. Each of these devotions is good in itself, but put together in this incoherent way, they risk dissipating into superstition.Ultimately, this keeps the focus on God rather than fragmenting one’s attention in several different directions. Back in the day, being declared an outlaw meant you were outside the law, the implication being you had zero human or legal rights. Catholics believe in the Holy Trinity consisting of God the Father, Jesus Christ the Son and Holy Spirit. This period, dubbed by the economic historian Robert Fogel as the ‘Fourth Great Awakening’, saw interest in personal spiritual and religious practice spike alongside a decline in mainline Protestantism, giving rise to numerous new movements.

Some of these were Christian in nature, for example the ‘Jesus Movement’; others were heavily influenced by the pop-cultural ubiquity of pseudo-Eastern and New Age thought: the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (aka the Hare Krishna), modern Wicca, Scientology. The Church’s teaching is clear when it comes to the sixth commandment: Sexual relations are reserved to the loving confines of marriage. The difference between a cult leader and Jesus is that Jesus is the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity.

Moreover, the idea of the Clear State fails the scientific method simply because it cannot be measured or tested. The founder will always enjoy a special role in a new movement, but he should be bound to the common customs, disciplines, and constitutions of the community. So humanity gradually changed its reproductive tendencies, and stopped having big families (for the most part in most developed countries).