Understanding the Cults CMT

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  Understanding the Cults

  • Welcome to the Advance Theological Studies program (ATS). EE International initiated this educational experience to assist our greatest resource - EE staff and leaders worldwide. We are thrilled you decided to enroll in this program and we are confident God will enrich your life and ministry as you participate in EE ATS.

  
  

  • Let me tell you about EE ATS... We developed this program to help you to define your identity in Christ and your role in His great work. The courses you will take will increase your spiritual wisdom in ways that will: launch you into greater & more effective service and empower you to model to others how Christ's lordship governs your life and ministry.

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  Week 1: Introduction

  This week is an introduction to the theology of the cults, cult apologetics, and witnessing to cultists.

  
  

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  Week 2: Mormonism & The Masonic Lodge

  This unit deals with the largest of the classically defined cults of Christianity (classically defined as a group that professes to be Christian but denies one or more essential, defining doctrines of the Christian faith), Mormonism, and with the Masonic Lodge alongside it because the two share worldview, theology, and ritual in many very important ways (Mormonism having borrowed much from Freemasonry) and because Freemasonry is resurgent on the world scene in our day. These represent polytheistic cults.

  
  

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  Week 3: Jehovah’s Witnesses

  This unit deals with the second-largest of the classically defined cults of Christianity, which represents cults that deny the deity of Christ while affirming monotheism.

  
  

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  Week 4: Godly Dominion vs. Environmentalism

  This unit deals with Godly Dominion vs. Environmentalism. Godly dominion meaning reducing poverty, restoring liberty, and renewing human dignity. This week we will focus on reclaiming the blessings of Genesis 1:28.

  
  

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  Week 5: Oneness Pentecostalism and the Local Church of Witness Lee

  This unit deals with classically defined cults that deny the doctrine of the Trinity by teaching modalism, which though it affirms the deity of Christ and the Holy Spirit denies their personal distinction from the Father, and that also have aberrant soteriologies (works-salvation).

  
  

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  Week 6: Unitarian Universalism

  This unit deals with the Unitarian Universalist movement.

  
  

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  Week 7: Astrology, Psychic Phenomena & The New Age Movement

  This unit deals with New Age and psychic cults.

  
  

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  Week 8: Moral Government Theology

  This unit deals with Moral Government Theology.

  
  

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  Week 9: Prosperity Gospel

  This unit deals with the classically defined cults of Christianity that, though they might (though not all do) have correct doctrines of God and Christ, substitute for the true gospel (justification by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone achieved by His atoning death for sinners and verified by His resurrection from the dead) a false gospel of health or wealth or both by faith and what amounts to magical speech, and that tend toward Gnostic/idealist understandings of creation (the physical world is illusion or subject to direct control by the mind).

  
  

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  Week 10: Oneism vs. Twoism

  This unit deals with the various forms of cultic environmentalism, including Atheism, Pantheism, Panentheism, Animism, Gaia Worship, Nature Worship, and "Dark Green Religion” or "Deep Ecology”.

  
  

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