I couldn't follow the video so I can't really speak directly to what ILG offered, but there is a very common human behavioral characteristic that we can see whereby just about any group will become insular and develop a "cult-like" mentality when they feel that they are repressed...
... even "secularists" have this tendency. It's just a human social phenomena.
Yes, I agree with this. Groups that are say, raw foodists or extreme environmentalists will have the same outcomes, in my opinion. I think when any groups condemns and threatens for not living their way (the right way), it can become abusive.
Abusive is a very relative term and I think happens on a spectrum. I don't think intervention in all cases is warranted or necessary. What I would like to see is education as it is not clear to most people that religion can be abusive. The interviewer was clearly shocked.
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Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt the people doing it. ~Chinese Proverb
When I was young and clever, I wanted to change the world. Now that I am older and wiser, I strive to change myself. ~
No doubt about it. We "should" all believe we deserve eternal separation from God, and that our one and only hope is in and through the cross of Christ.
Well, there are evangelical Christians now who don't believe in a literal hell.
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Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt the people doing it. ~Chinese Proverb
When I was young and clever, I wanted to change the world. Now that I am older and wiser, I strive to change myself. ~
But "heresy" is a moving target, no? What if a certain heresy gathers steam and eventually becomes 51% popular? What about 25% popular? I remember we used to wear it as a badge of honor (in my UPC days, the 80s) that author researcher Walter Martin officially labeled us a Cult.
BTW, (only since he's prominent at the moment,) Harold Camping believes Hell is simply permanent anihilation of consciouness, not eternal torment.
The WORST part of adopting any "heresy" is to later notice who your bedfellows are!!
But "heresy" is a moving target, no? What if a certain heresy gathers steam and eventually becomes 51% popular? What about 25% popular? I remember we used to wear it as a badge of honor (in my UPC days, the 80s) that author researcher Walter Martin officially labeled us a Cult.
BTW, (only since he's prominent at the moment,) Harold Camping believes Hell is simply permanent anihilation of consciouness, not eternal torment.
The WORST part of adopting any "heresy" is to later notice who your bedfellows are!!
Everyone's a heretic to someone!
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Hebrews 13:23 Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty
I couldn't follow the video so I can't really speak directly to what ILG offered, but there is a very common human behavioral characteristic that we can see whereby just about any group will become insular and develop a "cult-like" mentality when they feel that they are repressed...
... even "secularists" have this tendency. It's just a human social phenomena.
I agree.
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
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