People who are in a cult never think
they are in one
Why is
this so?
By Ernest Gregoire
Some people will believe almost
anything except the truth
Christianity is the standard by
which all others are judged.
All other groups that do not
qualify as truly Christian, are cults!
Article written by Ernest Gregoire
(Fill in this blank with the name
of a cult) is not a cult; Cult members will say!
The bible is replete with warnings about deception,
so why would anyone be hoodwinked?
And Jesus answered and said to them, Take
heed that no man deceive you.
Mat 24: 3, 4, 5, For many will come in My name,
saying, I am Christ, and will deceive many.
I was polishing my camper when I observed a fellow camper
who had pulled into a campsite near mine. He was trying to hook up his cable TV.
He moved the cable from campsite to campsite trying to find a working outlet. I
introduced myself and asked if the trouble could possibly his set up, since he
had already tried four campsite outlets without finding a good one. I had
already told him that my cable TV was working fine. I had also noticed that his
cable had electrical tape on one end of it, a sure sign that something had been
wrong in the past.
He denied that possibility and continued to search from
campsite to campsite. He added an even longer cable to enable him to do so.
After putting away my polishing equipment, I observed this man talking to the
owner of the campground. Later on, the campground owner must have come by to
check out his cable TV set up because I saw his golf cart parked by the man’s
camper.
Later that evening I casually walked over to see this man
and asked if he had solved his cable TV problems. He sheepishly admitted that he
had not noticed his external antenna amplifier had been left hooked up to the TV
rather than the cable that he was trying to hook up.
This man thought that the trouble had to be somewhere
outside. A trouble inside his camper was not even considered as a possibility.
“It couldn’t be me, It has to be some one else’s fault.” So the saying goes. He
tried six campsites one after the other, even after I asked him to consider that
my cable TV was working fine just two camp sites away.
Such is human nature.
Cult members never think that they are in a cult.
Not Mormons, Jehovah’s Witness, nor Moonies, and especially not Roman Catholics.
These false religions profess to be the “One True Faith.” Sadly, just the
opposite is true. They are really on the outside of God’s will and don’t
even know it! Even worse, they think that anyone who is not in their cult is
lost!
No one wants to be made a fool of. No one wants to admit
that they have been tricked. If a cult member realizes that he has been fooled,
he feels humiliated.
No one says, “Oh thank you for showing me that I have made
a fool of myself.”
These people are very hard to reach. They have been
inoculated with a dose of false Christianity which makes them immune to the real
thing.
Jesus Christ plus anything
equals zero
You are sheep or goats, wheat or tares, saved or lost!
Cult groups do the heavy lifting for you; Join up, show up, pay up, and
shut up! Cults appeal to the spiritually lazy! Cult members go along to get
along. They have to obey cult rules, but they do not have to be honest with
themselves. Self-honesty takes a lot of discipline.
Who are the most easily deceived?
They are those who are already
deceived!
It does not take much energy to further deceive
someone who is already deceived. They hardly even take
notice of the additional deception because it is already very familiar to it.
They reject the word of God and accept the word
of man in its place.
Satan takes just a bit of truth and carefully
wraps it around a lie to make it delicious. But underneath
there is poison and eternal separation from God.
A person’s intelligence is neither a hindrance nor
a help with deception.
It is a matter of the heart.
I was raised in Roman Catholicism by my parents. But it was not long
after I reached the age of reason, about 7 years old for me, that I realized
that there was something very wrong with the RCC. I was a keen observer of the
lives that the nuns and priests led. I noticed that they did not walk the walk.
As I grew up in age and intellect I asked questions that were
increasingly more difficult to answer. I was soon branded a trouble maker when I
painted the priest in a proverbial corner by asking a question that he could not
give a satisfactory answer to. Much to his consternation, these questions were
asked in a class of students who had been forced to attend as I had been. The
students were equally unimpressed with his unsatisfactory answers. Because of my
questions the rest of the class was able to see through the thin veneer of the
RCC.
I wanted to know the truth no matter where it led. My desire for truth
eventually led me to a saving relationship with Jesus Christ. There were many
obstacles and much heartache along the way. But with each setback I would
reevaluate and ask critical questions about how I ended up there.
Very brilliant people have rejected Jesus Christ, and others who are
very simple have accepted Him. The opposite is also true. No one is too
stupid to accept Christ. I have seen both scenarios play out numerous times.
Unfortunately many are too stubborn!
It is not a matter of intelligence. It is a matter of the heart! I have
often wondered why so many seemingly intelligent people end up in cults?
Their hearts have been darkened by sin of some sort. Be that pride or
whatever else, they would rather follow men than the Creator God.
This is a place where we all stand on the road to eternity; to accept
or reject salvation afforded us by a loving Savior who sent his obedient Son to
die in our place for our sins, the sins of the entire human race.
Eventually we must choose; to not choose is to reject!
"Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide
and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who
enter through it. "For the gate is small and the way is narrow that
leads to life, and there are few who find it.
(Matthew 7:13-14 NASB)
