Characteristics of a cult: Exclusivism | Rapp Report Daily 0033 | Andrew Rappaport | SFE | Striving for Eternity
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- Welcome to The Rapid Bull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.
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- This is a ministry of striving for eternity. As we're looking at the five characteristics of a cult, we end up seeing first that there was scripture twisting.
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- Someone will start twisting scriptures to give it new meanings. That person will end up leading to be where they alone are the only people that can properly interpret
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- God's word, and you need them to have God's word. That leads to exclusivism, and that's today's characteristic.
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- Exclusivism is that the organization is the only ones that have the truth. All others are excluded from the truth.
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- That follows because of the fact that they've already started twisting the scriptures to give scripture new meaning.
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- Now you've had the authoritarian who just sets themselves up as the only people or person who can interpret
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- God's word, therefore without that person you could not possibly have God's word and know
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- God's meaning. So you need that person or organization to tell you the right meaning of God's word.
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- Therefore, by definition, the truth is excluded if you're outside of that organization.
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- Every one of these organizations will use that because if you're outside of the organization they exclude you from the truth.
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- You must remain in the organization even if you see things that seem like they're an error.
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- You have to remain part of the organization to stay within the truth because remember they're the only ones that can give you the truth.
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- This is the way that cults end up controlling people because people end up feeling that if they leave the group, they leave the truth.
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