“Cult” (n.) and “cultic” (adj.)

There is great confusion when describing certain groups and movements as "cultic." Since the most famous examples of cultic groups and movements in living memory include the Manson Family, People’s Temple, the Branch Davidians and Heaven’s Gate, the popular conception of a cult has become a centralized group with one leader with a type-A personality. This is not how most cultic groups take shape.

"Cultic" and "centralized" are not synonyms. They are entirely different concepts, and whether one group or movement is one has no bearing whatsoever on whether it is the other.

The United Pentecostal Church International and Pentecostal Assemblies of the World are both cults. They are part of the Oneness Pentecostal movement*. Note, the UPCI and PAW are not in fellowship with each other and have no official relations. This is because this movement is decentralized, encompassing various different groups that are united in few if any ways besides (some) similar teachings. Whatever leadership and governance model they have, shared or contrasting, is secondary, because Oneness Pentecostalism as a set of doctrines is itself cultic, meaning any group that espouses it is a cult by definition.

Christian Identity is a more pronounced example of a cultic movement that is decentralized. It is a white supremacist group that teaches that white people are the descendants of the ancient Israelites, and that "gentiles" (people who aren't white) can never be saved. Its footprint is almost entirely made of websites, prison gangs, and local congregations, which are not in fellowship with each other or with any larger group. I would hope any decent person would be opposed to this movement and its teachings, but an attempt to treat "cultic" and "centralized" as synonyms might keep one from recognizing CI as something that should be avoided.

Other decentralized movements that are cultic include the Word of Faith movement, the Men's Right Movement, dispensationalism, neurodiversity, the Sovereign Citizens movement, BDSM, the New IFB, kinism, and the Black Hebrew Israelites. Every group that is part of these is a cult, thought they may not be in fellowship with other groups within the same movement.

*The Oneness Pentecostal movement is not representative of Pentecostalism as a whole. Most of the world's Pentecostals belong to the Assemblies of God which has taught the Trinity for its entire existence. Pentecostalism is not necessarily cultic. Oneness Pentecostalism is.

It Happened Today in Christian History

May 26, 451: Armenians fight a desperate battle at Avarayr to preserve their Christian culture against the Persians, who have a much larger army. This is the first known battle in history fought to preserve a nation’s Christian faith. Although the Armenians lose the battle and their best leaders, the Persians lose sixty thousand soldiers and agree by treaty that Armenia may practice its faith.

I don't doubt that jesus would like yaoi.

Dealing with Opposing Views (Romans 14:1-12)

Unity doesn't just happen; it must be pursued, worked on, and maintained.

Accept the one whose faith is weak, without quarreling over disputable matters. One person’s faith allows them to eat anything, but another, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables. The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted them. Who are you to judge someone else’s…

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Christian Identity, also sometimes called Israel Identity, is the only true conservative Christianity. It is true because it seeks to maintain the understanding – in accordance with Scripture - that the New Covenant was made only with those same people with whom the Old Covenant was made: the House (family) of Israel and the House (family) of Judah. These Israelite people are traceable through time to the Keltic and Germanic tribes of today. None of these people are Jews. The Jews are descended from a mere remnant of the old Kingdom of Judah along with assorted Edomite and other Arabs who were mixed into the Roman province of Judaea during the Hellenic period. There are – at last count – at least sixteen detailed essays on this website which demonstrate this, and which are replete with Biblical, archaeological and historical citations.

Christian Identity is the belief that the Covenants of God are real and consistent. It professes that the people of the Old Testament were every bit as much Christian as the people of the New Testament. They were simply looking forward to the first advent of the Christ, while we today await His Second Advent. As the famous Christian bishop Ignatius said nineteen hundred years ago, Christianity did not come from Judaism: rather, Judaism is a perversion of Christianity. Christian Identity is therefore the original Christian Orthodoxy, and Christian Identity is the original catholic faith, in the true and original use of the word "catholic" by Christian writers of the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD.

Christian Identity is the belief that there is no disparity between the Word of God, His Creation, His prophecy, and world history. It is also the understanding that while Scripture was inspired by God when it was transmitted, men have certainly mistreated it since that time, and so every passage and every doctrine must be fully investigated from all of the most ancient sources possible. As it reads in the King James Version: Study to show thyself approved. - William Finck, Christogenea.org

Our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ. [ Read devo thought and prayer for this Bible verse ]

Our trip from a Canadian strip club via US neo-Nazis, South Africa to Rhodesia

David Hughes in the 1980s… This all started, three blogs ago, as a piece about David Hughes, who worked as a doorman/cashier/DJ at the Le Strip club in Toronto from 1982 to 1994.  It then began to divert via undercover work for the CSIS (the Canadian Security Intelligence Service), neo-Nazis, a massive counterfeiting scheme, planned terrorism in the 1980s, a far right Christian Identity…

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Swimming Against the Tide: Christian Reflections on Identity and Purpose

Reflecting on the image of the fish out of water, we are reminded of the importance of living in accordance with our God-given purpose. The fish, designed to thrive in water, finds itself in a precarious situation, much like we do when we stray from our spiritual path. Title: “A Fish Out of Water: Embracing Our True Purpose in God” In the stillness of nature, a fish sits atop a rock, an odd…

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"The formal cannons of patriarchal law are generally more restrictive than the actual lives of the people they govern."

Mogen, S.L.M. 2011. "Women and Death Rituals in Late Antiquity: Forming the Christian Identity." Thesis. University of Calgary Department of Religious Studies. 197 pp.

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What christianity is to me is an undoubting belief that things will work out, and the more and stronger you really believe, what you really want, will happen... Its faith, and hope. Its a force of good despite things that oppose it. Thats why evil and good go back and forth, because all the time things make it hard to keep going with something. But. You really just have to endure, and trust in your belief. Believe in yourself, and that what you want will come with time and patience. Its not easy, and as a regular human we will lose interest in waiting. Its normal to give up. But its important to not give up. ❤️🙏🏾

It's autumn, it's cold and crisp.... so warm up and read the Bible.... God bless .

Remember Your Baptism (Matthew 3:13-17)

It isn’t what we “do” for people that’s as important as affirming our shared humanity with them.

John baptizing Jesus with the Holy Spirit’s affirmation Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptized by John. But John tried to deter him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?” Jesus replied, “Let it be so now; it is proper for us to do this to fulfill all righteousness.” Then John consented. As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At…

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Recognizing and Responding To The Adversary of the Abrahamic Faiths and All of The Adversary's Servants, Slaves, and Allies. Part 2/13.

“At present I absolutely want to paint a starry sky. It often seems to me that night is still more richly coloured than the day; having hues of the most intense violets, blues and greens. If only you pay attention to it you will see that certain stars are lemon-yellow, others pink or a green, blue and forget-me-not brilliance. And without my expatiating on this theme it is obvious that putting little white dots on the blue-black is not enough to paint a starry sky.” ― Vincent van Gogh

“I say, you do have a heart!" "Sometimes," he replied, "when I have the time.” ― Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days & Five Weeks in a Balloon

Story Time: A Tale of Balloons… Once upon a time, there were three balloons. There were three life choices for each of these balloons; once they chose, that was it, because balloons are fragile things that always pop. The three balloons could choose to be filled with only one of three fillings that'd have to last them until they popped at the end of their life.

Choice 1: Plain air. With plain air, you know exactly what to expect. You can be tossed into the air and float for moments at a time; you can be fly free with the winds and breezes; you can be a joy to others because they know what to expect and how to interact with a plain air-filled balloon, but being played with can sometimes lead to being popped prematurely. Once a plain air-filled balloon pops, the air disperses, the ruptured balloon is disposed of, and the only legacy that can be hoped for is to live on in humanity's memory.

Choice 2: Helium. With helium, a balloon doesn't need anything from anyone; a helium-filled balloon can feel light, free, and untethered from humans; a helium balloon can fly free like no human can; those ground-dwelling humans and their plain air-filled balloons will never know the truth of what it's like to be free and high above it all; but helium only has a lifespan of around 2-3 days before you'll basically be a plain air-filled balloon who acted like a helium balloon for those 2-3 days, and the humans and other plain air-filled ballons will never forget your behavior. After those 2-3 days of helium-filled freedom and looking down upon everyone else, will the humans and other plain air-filled balloons want to spend any time with you, or will you have to watch them all enjoy each other's company without you? Will anyone even hear or care that you popped at the end of your life? When a helium-filled balloon pops, the flat, stale helium disperses, the ruptured balloon is disposed of, and the only legacy that can be hoped for is to live on in humanity's memory. Some famous and well-known helium balloons used their 2-3 minutes of ultimate freedom to live out their darkest fantasies by teaming up with a nasty clown to help it be really, really nasty to people. Quite a legacy!

Choice 3: Semisolid Clay. With clay, it's a special clay that'll fill the balloon to its maximum capacity without ever popping it, but the catch is that the clay-filled balloon will take the rest of the balloon's life to cure and harden so that when the balloon finally pops, no matter when or why the balloon pops, the clay will instantly cure and harden and there'll be a permanent monument to the balloon's entire life. The catch is that humans always play with balloons; and a balloon filled with the special clay is really squishy, cuddly, and fun to handle. Humans are constanly leaving their fingerprints all over clay-filled balloons, and all of those fingerprints will be part of the final design and pattern of the hardened clay the instant the balloon pops at the end of its life. Every human that's ever played with the clay-filled balloon will be able to see their permanent fingerprints and remember their time with the balloon, how it affected their life, and how they affected the balloon's life. The extra-special thing about the clay-filled balloon's legacy is that it can be 3D scanned in high definition and 3D printed indefinitely, so that anyone and everyone who interacted with that clay-filled balloon can have a permanent memorial of how important Choice 3 truly is to the balloon and humanity's humanity.

Choice 3 is love. For better and for worse, in all it's ever-changing forms, love is the only choice that never fails. No matter what a person might think or feel about love, in the United States, a person can lose all of their family, friends, associates, and material possessions and still find love from complete strangers; because those strangers believe in love, that love never fails, that love has never failed, and that love can never be allowed to fail because they didn't share it when they could've and should've with a complete stranger who's never known or experienced true selfless love in their entire life. The foundation of humanitarianism is being human; no matter how the helium-filled balloons of the world try to redefine life and being a "real human," humans will always be humanitarian; and antihumans (elitists) will always be antihumanitarians who believe they're entitled to prey upon humanity because they can (and they're encouraged to as often as possible to prove their "eliteness" to and with the nasty clowns of the world).

One great thing about authentic Hebrew TANAKH-based Christianity is that mistakes are judged fairly, sins are forgiven, and lives and communities are blessed with love, miracles, and prosperity for a simple "admission cost": if anyone seeking the love, salvation, and redemption of the Almighty Abrahamic G-d has chosen a nasty clown master by mistake, all they have to do is admit it to themselves and the Almighty Abrahamic G-d, and then humbly seek forgiveness, acceptance, and a loving, honest, and respectful relationship with their Creator (it's all explained in detail in the Hebrew TANAKH if anyone's interested). All change happens in nanoseconds and the spaces between nanoseconds. All of the earthquakes and other time-specific events I blog about here happen at an exact second that's surrounded by nanoseconds and the spaces between nanoseconds.

It takes sunlight an average of 8 minutes and 20 seconds to travel from the Sun to the Earth. (Phys.org) Does that mean we're ever in the dark at any point during sunlight hours? Does it mean that we don't see sunlight on a dark moonlit night? Does it mean that even when the moon can't be seen, that we don't have starlight? 8 minutes and 20 seconds is a lot of opportunity to get educated, well-informed, and make some kind of freewill choice about your future; because just like sunlight, the past is the past, change and renewal is constant, and every nanosecond is a new opportunity to choose a bright, loving, healthy, and prosperous future, the complete opposite, or the somewhere inbetween where most people usually end up as they're constantly processing and testing information about their lives and the world around them.

The star nearest our Solar System, Proxima Centauri, is about four lightyears away. The light traveling from Proxima Centauri to Earth takes about four years to get here. Thus, the light is four years old when we see it. Another nearby star is Barnard's Star, which is six lightyears from Earth. It's light takes six years to get here, so that light is six years old when we see it. The star Polaris, which we refer to as the North Star or North Pole Star, is 680 lightyears away. The light takes 680 years to travel to Earth, so it is 680 years old when we see it. Most of the stars we see with the naked eye at night are within a few hundred lightyears, although a handful are as far away as 2,000 lightyears. www.spacetoday.org/Questions/StarlightAge.html

Everyone can make a freewill choice about how and if they'll be remembered four, six, 680, or 2,000 years after they're gone. It's been nearly 2,000 years and Jesus Christ is still remembered because he always chose the right master. Europeans have been trying to supplant and erase the truth and knowledge about the Almighty Abrahamic G-d of the Abrahamic faiths, the Hebrew TANAKH scriptures, and the Hebrews of Earth via the "Old Testament" and the Sunday "Lord's Day," yet they all still remain to this day. None of the empires of the servants, slaves, and allies of The Adversary (aka "satan" or "the devil") have survived their efforts; because Jesus Christ warned them and they fooled around and found out anyway while trying to prove that no one and nothing tells a self-proclaimed deity what they can and can't, and should and shouldn't, do.

It's such an interesting truth that women who knew the truth about Aleister Crowley and Anton LaVey were extremely unimpressed and found them both to be pathetic, worthless losers; and that's exactly how both Aleister Crowley's and Anton LaVey's lives ended. What happened to their genetic superiority? What happened to their demon infested deity-level real magic powers? What happened to their superior intellect and mind control slave overlord powers? Hmm…sure seems like their lives proved once and for all that none of that con artist nonsense was ever real.

Here's some information from Wikipedia about how Jesus Christ would've actually considered His interactions with The Adversary and Accuser who attempted to tempt Him in the wilderness: Most Jews do not believe in the existence of a supernatural omnimalevolent figure. Traditionalists and philosophers in medieval Judaism adhered to rational theology, rejecting any belief in rebel or fallen angels, and viewing evil as abstract. The rabbis usually interpreted the word satan lacking the article ha- as it is used in the Tanakh as referring strictly to human adversaries. Rabbinical scholarship on the Book of Job generally follows the Talmud and Maimonides in identifying "the satan" from the prologue as a metaphor for the yetzer hara and not an actual entity. The Hebrew term śāṭān (Hebrew: שָׂטָן) is a generic noun meaning "accuser" or "adversary", and is derived from a verb meaning primarily "to obstruct, oppose". When used without the definite article (simply satan), it can refer to any accuser, but when it is used with the definite article (ha-satan), it usually refers specifically to the heavenly accuser, literally, the satan. The word does not occur in the Book of Genesis, which mentions only a talking serpent and does not identify the serpent with any supernatural entity. Book of Job The satan appears in the Book of Job, a poetic dialogue set within a prose framework, which may have been written around the time of the Babylonian captivity. In the text, Job is a righteous man favored by Yahweh. Job 1:6–8 describes the "sons of God" (bənê hāʼĕlōhîm) presenting themselves before Yahweh. Yahweh asks one of them, "the satan", where he has been, to which he replies that he has been roaming around the earth. Yahweh asks, "Have you considered My servant Job?" The satan replies by urging Yahweh to let him torture Job, promising that Job will abandon his faith at the first tribulation. Yahweh consents: the satan destroys Job's servants and flocks, yet Job refuses to condemn Yahweh. The first scene repeats itself, with the satan presenting himself to Yahweh alongside the other "sons of God". Yahweh points out Job's continued faithfulness, to which the satan insists that more testing is necessary; Yahweh once again gives him permission to test Job. In the end, Job remains faithful and righteous, and it is implied that the satan is shamed in his defeat. Book of Zechariah Zechariah 3:1–7 contains a description of a vision dated to the middle of February of 519 BC, in which an angel shows Zechariah a scene of Joshua the High Priest dressed in filthy rags, representing the nation of Judah and its sins, on trial with Yahweh as the judge and the satan standing as the prosecutor. Yahweh rebukes the satan and orders for Joshua to be given clean clothes, representing Yahweh's forgiveness of Judah's sins. (Wikipedia)

Consider the quotes below and replace "Satan" and "the devil" with "The Europeans attempting to invalidate the Hebrew TANAKH by identifying it as being "old, outdated, useless, and worthless" via the Christian "Old Testament", killing millions of Hebrews, endlessly profaning the seventh-day sabbath, destroying the Second Temple of the Almighty Abrahamic G-d of the Abrahamic faiths, and attempting to erase all true knowledge of the Almighty Abrahamic G-d, all of the Abrahamic faiths, and all of the people of all of the Abrahamic faiths." There couldn't be a clearer definition of who "The Adversary" actually is, so the Europeans intentionally misinterpreted and mistranslated "The Adversary" so it wouldn't be so glaringly obvious who "The Adversary" truly is; because that'd be devastating for their Replacement Theology and attempts to validate their European mythology and self-deifying selves as the "Anointed and Ordained True People of the Middle Eastern Almighty Abrahamic G-d of the Abrahamic faiths." Their endgame appears to be creating a world where no one would ever think to pray to the Almighty Abrahamic G-d to rescue them from a bunch of delusional godless dictators who proclaim themselves to be the only true gods anyone will be worshipping on Earth from that point forward.

"Satan has frightened men from reading the sacred writings, and has rendered Holy Scriptures contemptible, so as to ensure his poisonous philosophy to prevail in the church." — Martin Luther (Discourse on Free Will: Erasmus & Luther)

"Satan] invades the Sunday school, the Bible class, and even the pulpit. He even invades the church under cover of an orthodox vocabulary, emptying sacred terms of their biblical sense." — Billy Graham (Billy graham in quotes)

"It is not by the obvious works of evil that Satan perverts the church, but by quiet displacement and unnoticed substitution." — E.M. Bounds (Guide To Spiritual Warfare)

"Satan has been the best friend the church has ever had, as he has kept it in business all these years!" — Anton Szandor LaVey (The Satanic Bible)

"It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui." — Helen Keller (The Story of My Life)

Oh, no!!! Not a flatulent, frolicking, fallen loser! Not that!!! Anything butt that!!! Satan had minimal role in medieval Christian theology, but he frequently appeared as a recurring comedic stock character in late medieval mystery plays, in which he was portrayed as a comic relief figure who "frolicked, fell, and farted in the background." The "beast" mentioned in Revelation 13 is not Satan, and the use of 666 in the Book of Revelation has been interpreted as a reference to the Roman Emperor Nero, as 666 is the numeric value of his name in Hebrew. (Wikipedia)

Supersessionism, also called replacement theology or fulfillment theology, is a Christian theological doctrine which describes the theological conviction that the Christian Church has superseded the nation of Israel assuming their role as God's covenanted people, thus asserting that the New Covenant through Jesus Christ has superseded or replaced the Mosaic covenant exclusive to Jews. Supersessionist theology also holds that the universal Christian Church has succeeded ancient Israel as God's true Israel and that Christians have succeeded the ancient Israelites as the people of God. (Wikipedia) Christian Identity (also known as Identity Christianity) is an interpretation of Christianity which advocates the belief that only Celtic and Germanic peoples, such as the Anglo-Saxon, Nordic nations, or Aryan people and people of kindred blood, are the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and are therefore the descendants of the ancient Israelites. Christian Identity promotes the idea that all non-whites (people who are not of wholly European descent) will either be exterminated or enslaved in order to serve the white race in the new Heavenly Kingdom on Earth under the reign of Jesus Christ. Its doctrine states that only "Adamic" (white) people can achieve salvation and enter paradise. Many of its adherents are Millennialist. (Wikipedia)

A CHRISTIAN DEMOCRACY

During the recent break in posting we visited Budapest, and were left with some remarkable memories. A beautiful city with a terrible past, and not only from the dreadful Soviet days. Below the imposing Parliament building is a row of metal shoes commemorating the Jews who were lined up, forced to remove their shoes, and shot dead into the Danube by the fascist Arrow Cross militia in 1944. We…

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