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CULT CATALOG OF THE "OTHER" JESUS
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Ahmadiyya Movement - Founder: Hazat Mirza. "Jesus was not a prtner in the
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Godhead, as was not Jacob. Both of them were beloved prophets of God" (True
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Christianity and How it Leads to Islam).
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American Atheist Center - Founder: Madalyn Murray O'Hair. "There is no God,
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thus Jesus is not the Son of God."
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Ananda Marga Yoga - Leader: Shrii Shrii Anandamurti. Jesus is considered
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God, but there is no Trinity. "Be constantly absorbed in the thought of God
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and you too will become God." (Baba's Grace-Discourses of Shrii Shrii
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Anandamurti).
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Anthroposophical Society - Leader:Rudolf Steiner. "According to Steiner,
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Jesus of Nazareth was just an ordinary man until, at the age of thirty, he
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received the Christ-Essence during his baptism at the Jordan" (Spiritual
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Counterfeits Project in Berkeley, CA : Letter, Feb, 1977) Steiner was an
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occult medium who interpreted the Bible through clairvoyance.
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Arica - Leader: Oscar Ichazo. "The point of Arica is enlightenment, man's
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transcending from the state of ego into what's known as the void. This is a
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state of consciousness . . . Its not God. It's God Consciousness." Aricans
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blend physical exercise and m editation. God is formless, thus Christ cannot
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be God (Awakening Ways to Pyscho-Spiritual Growth, C. William Henderson).
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Assemblies of Yahweh - "John 2:19) is sometimes presented as evidence that
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Yahshua is the Almighty, that He is co-equal with His Father, and that He had
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the power to resurrect Himself. This, of course, is a false, trinitarian
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concept" (The Sacred Name Br oadcaster, Lincoln Frost). "We find the
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trinitarian doctrine to be foreign to the Inspired Scriptures" (Doctrine #5).
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Baha'i World Faith - Baha'i, an independent world religion based on "a unique
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revelation of God," traces its roots to an early division within Islam. God,
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called by different names, is one but unknowable. Christ was a "manifestation"
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of God and a way to God, but not the ONLY way to God.
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Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship - Leader: Bawa Muhaiyaddeen. "God is a secret
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and a mystery, but man is also a mystery. Only God can see God. So if man is
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to see God, he must become God. Man becomes God, and God becomes man. Its no
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big deal," says Bawa (Psy chology, April,1976).
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Black Muslim - Leader: Wallace D. Fard (Allah-God) and Elijah Poole (Elijah
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Muhammad - Fard's prophet). Also called "The Nation of Islam." Elijah Muhammad
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said that Jesus was "only a prophet and not the equal of Moses and Muhammad,
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and His religion was I slam, not the Christianity of the Pope of Rome"
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(Pittsburg Courier, 1959).
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Buddhism (Hinayana Buddhism and Mahayanna Buddhism) - "In Hinayana Buddhism
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there is no god as we conceive of God . . . The followers of Mahayanna
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Buddhism tend to deify Buddha. Their idea of God; However, has no such
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comphrehensive attributes as has the Christian God" (Religions in a changing
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World, Howard F. Vos) This eliminates the possiblity of Jesus as a diety.
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Cabala (Kabbalah) - Cabala is a system of Jewish Mystical thought which
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originated in Southern France and Spain in the 12th and 13th centuries. The
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Cabala doctrine of deity recognizes only two deities - the hidden god, the
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infinite great divine Nothing; and the dynamic god of religious experience
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(Spiritual Counterfeits Project).
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Center for Spiritual Awareness - Leader: Roy Eugene Davis. Also called:
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Christian Spiritual Alliance. Buddha, Sri Krishna, and Jesus were enlightened
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souls. "The second coming of Jesus is a fanciful hope. The awakening of
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individuals to the realization o f their own Christ-nature is what will
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liberate man and transform society" (Darshan: The vision of Light, Roy E.
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Davis). Jesus was a man who reached Christ-consciousness and was on earth to
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share the truth of this consciousness.
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Children of God - Leader:David Brandt Berg (Moses David). Started as a
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fundamentalist counter-culture ministry, but degenerated into belief in the
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occult, reincarnation, and sexual permissiveness. The COG believes that Berg
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is the ONLY end-time prophet; that the COG IS the remnant church of the last
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days; that its authority is absolute; and in the use of blasphemy, profanity,
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vulgarity, and pornography (Moody Monthly July/August 1977).
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Christian Scientist - Founder: MAy Baker Eddy. Jesus was a mere man who
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demonstrated the Christ (i.e. a divine idea). It doesn't matter whether
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Christ ever existed, and His blood doesn't cleanse from sin (Science and Health
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with Key to the Scriptures, Th e Firts of Christ Scientist and Miscellany, both
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by Mary baker Eddy).
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Church of the Living Word - Leader: John Robert Stevens. Also called:THE
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WALK. "Jesus Christ came to participate in humanity and make the bridge of
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communication so that God could communicate himself into our very beings. What
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He is, we become" (The Word Became Flesh, a Living Word Publication).
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According to Stevens, this begins with contemporary revelations which make the
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the Living Word (Christ) to the World. Although some acknowledgement is made
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of the inspiration and authority of the Scripture, in p ractice the source of
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teaching is current revelation, not the Bible. Stevens considers himself God's
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chief intecessor.
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Church Universal and Triumphant - Leader: Elizabeth Claire Prophet. Also
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called: Summit International or Summit Lighthouse. The Church Universal and
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Triumphant is a mixture of eastern religions, Theospohy, Christianity, and many
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other things. Elizabeth i s recognized as one of the two witnesses of
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Revelation 11. Her late husband and founder, Mark, is considered a man that
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had the Christ Consciousness within him. He was one of many who achieved the
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"God self" witness.
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Dhyana-Mandiram - Leader: Pandit Usharbudh. "God is esentially formless .
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. . God may manifest Himself-Herself-Itself in any form, at any time, at any
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place, on any planet . . . Jesus may be accepted as one of the many
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incarnations of God" (Hinduism: An Introduction, Pandit Usharbudh and Yorke
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Crompton).
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Divine Light Mission - Leader: Guru Maharaj Ji. Guru Ji is the Living
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Perfect Master. Jesus was the Perfect Master of His time, but Ji has replaced
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Him. Ji claims the world needs the knowledge of Reality, and he claims to be
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the source of that knowledge and of peace in the world, according to David J.
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Hesselgrave, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.
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ECKANKAR - Leader: Sri Darwin Gross. ECKANKAR says it is the wellspring and
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essence of all religions, philosophies, and sacred doctrines. It claims to be
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the way to God-realization via the "ancient science of soul travel." ECKANKAR
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makes the biblical God into a demon who as creator is responsible for the evil
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in the world and defines Christ as "god as all men are god" ("Eck World News,
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December, 1978, page 13).
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Findhorn Foundation University of Light - Leaders: Peter and Eileen Caddy.
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"The Devic (Deva is a being of light) would emphasize that man has to do one
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thing to reverse the trend of events on the planet: he has to recognize within
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himself the Divinity an d wholeness of which he is a part" (The Magic of
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Findhorn, Paul Hawken). They separate Jesus and Christ and appear to be
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panthiestic. The group, a form of spiritism, became famous because the
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Findhorn community in Scotland has a producing garden near the Artic Circle
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which is supposedly taken care of by plant spirits.
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Freemasonry - ". . . We tell the sincere Christian that Jesus of Nazareth
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was but a man like us" ("Morals and Dogmas" by Albert Pike in How to Respond to
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the Lodge).
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Hare Krishna - Founder: Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. Also called: International
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Sciety of Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON). To the Krishnaite, the world is not
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real; its illusion. Salvation comes by chanting the name of their god, Hare
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Krishna, at least 1,728 tim es daily. They believe in the literal
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interpretation of the Hindu scriptures, but they also accept the Bible as one
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of the scriptures. They consider Jesus one of their gurus.
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"I AM" MOVEMENT - Leader: Guy Ballard (Pen Name: Godfrey Ray King). Jesus,
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a man, developed the I AM/GOD SELF within himself. This almighty I Am presence
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is a pure reservoir of energy stationed over the head which can be drawn on at
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will. Jesus is seen a s one of the many Ascended Masters. They do not
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recognize the Trinity. This cult is an off-shoot of the Theosophical Society.
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It modern form is called the Summit Lighthouse or Church Universal and
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Triumphant. However, the "I Am" movement still exist as an independent
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organization (The 'I Am' Discourses, Saint Germain Press).
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Iglesia Ni Cristo - Leader:Felix Manalo. "We believe in Jesus Christ, but we
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do not believe that He is True God. We believe in only one true god, the god
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of creation. Jesus Christ is a great savior and was commissioned by God to be
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the savior" ("Research Center Bulletin," Far East Broadcasting).
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Inner Peace Movement - Leader: Rev. Francisco Coll, DD. A form of
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spiritualism and spiritism combining ESP, astro-projection, psychic
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phenomena,etc., they introduce seven levels of consciousness. Christ
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consciousness is the highest. Jesus had reached Christ Consciousness and
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taught this while on earth. Jesus was a man. They separate Jesus and Christ.
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God is impersonal and spoken of as The All, The Cosmos, and The Universe (Every
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Wind of Doctrine, Hobart Freeman).
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Integral Yoga Institute - Founder: Swami Satchidananda. "There are not many
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gods; there is only One. And that One has no name, no form, no place. (Thus
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Christ is not God.) He is everywhere-in actuality, neither he, nor she, nor it
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. . . The two sides are positive and negative, light and shade. Evil is
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also God." says the Swami (The Youth Nappers, James C. Hefley).
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Islam - Christ was a prophet of Allah, but was superseded by Muhammad's
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teachings and authority.
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Jainism - Founder:Mahavira. "Jainism begins by denying the existance of an
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external supreme being, creator, or Lord, who is the mainstay of the universe.
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(Thus,no Christ.) For these non-theistic humanist, there is no need to assume a
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First cause" (Religi ons in a Changing World, Howard F. Vos)
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Jehovah's Witnesses - Jesus is a created being, Michael, the first creation
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of Jehovah and the "Son of God."
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Laymen's Home Missionary Movement - Leader:Raymond J. Jolly. Similar to the
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Jehovah's Witnesses, they deny the physical resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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"John 4:24-God is a Spirit. Luke 24:39-A Spirit hath not flesh and bones . .
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. In the first place, God d irectly tells us that Jesus is now a spirit being"
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(Epiphany Studies in the Scriptures). "Trinitarians have grossly mistranslated
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and miscapitalized this passage to read their trinitarianism into it, as they
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have done in other cases. The proper translatio n shows that Christ is not
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Jehovah . . . He is Jehovah's appointed Savior for the world, not Jehovah
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Himself" (Epiphany Studies in the Scriptures-Series 1).
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Liberal Catholic Church - Leaders:Charles W. Leadbeater and Vincent M.
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Matthews. "Obviously, God is not and cannot be a person. (Thus, no divine
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Christ.) The persons of the Holy Trinity are representatives or masks for the
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One God who is beyond individua lity; is unlimited; eminent; and transcendent"
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(The One Existance, E.M. Matthews). The LCC is independent of the Roman
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Catholic Church and blends elements of theosophy and pantheism (These Also
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Believe, Charles Samuel Braden).
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Megiddo Mission - Founder:Rev. L.T. Nichols. "Christ, Emmanuel, 'God with
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us,' is not the eterenal God but the Son of God, conceived of the Holy Spirit,
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born of a virgin, but wholly human in his nature -Matthew 1:23,Hebrews 2:16,17
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. . ."(History of the Megiddo Mission, published by Megiddo Mission Church).
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Mormons-Founder:Joseph Smith, Jr. Also Called: Church of Jesus Christ of
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Latter-Day Saints. Jesus is a pre-existant spirit, also the Father, one of
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many gods. Christ was God-man, and men can be just like him (Mormon Doctrine,
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Bruce McConkie).
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Nichiren Shoshu Soka Gakkai - Soka Gakkai substitutes Gautama Buddha and
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Nichiren for the True God and repleces the Bible with the Lotus Sutra, a false
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scripture. Soka Gakkai translates to "Value Recreation Society" ("Views on
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Christ," John Weldon).
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Peace Mission Movement - Leader: Father Divine (George Baker). Baker
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distinguishes between Jesus and Christ. "I say B.J. not B.C. because it was
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before Jesus yet, in my opinion, it was not before Christ" (The New Day,
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September 1,1945). "Jesus, he (Baker ) seems at times to regard as merely the
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temporal and physical embodiment of the Christ" (These Also Believe, Charles
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Samuel Braden). Baker has claimed to be God and the Holy Spirit. There are
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also references in Baker's writings to indicate that Jesus is God (Kingdom of
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the Cults, Walter Martin).
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Psychiana - Leader: Frank B. Robinson. "At no time has God, nor will God,
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manifest Himself on this earth or anywhere as a person . . . Jesus was no
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more than a human acting out the God-power" (They Have Found a Faith, Marcus
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Bach).
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Radha Soami Society - Leader: Charan Singh. God is seen as attributeless,
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formless, and impersonal without personality and name, although they give "him"
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the qualities of love, grace, wisdom and power. The Society asserts that there
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are countless gods and goddesses, lords, rulers and governors in the universe
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(The World of Gurus, Vishal Mangalwadi), thus Jesus Christ is not Lord of
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Lords.
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Rajneesh Meditation Centers - Leader: Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. "But God
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(thus, Christ) is not a person. God is the process . . .Existance is without
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cause . . .In the beginning, there is no cause so in the end there can be no
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purpose" (Beyond and Beyond, A charya Rajneesh).
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Rosicrucianism - Jesus was a reincarnated man, the highest luminary possible.
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The Christ spirit in Him was amanifestation of the cosmic Christ ("Rays from
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the Rose Cross," December, 1978).
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Ruhani Satsang - Leader: Kirpal Singh. "Jesus Christ was essentially a man
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of the East, and his teachings are imbued with oriental mysticism. It is even
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speculated that he spent many of his early years in india and learned from the
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Yogins and Buddhist mon ks" (The Crown of Life, Kirpal Singh).
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Sacred Mushroom of the Cross - Leader: John Allegro. Christ was a mushroom
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(Sacred Mushroom of the Cross, John Allegro).
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Sanatana Dharma Foundation - Leader: Yogeshwar Muni. (also called
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Kayavarohan). Jesus is a man who achieved a divine state through meditation.
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Sanatana Dharma is considered the eternal path to truth leading to fulfillment
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and divinity. "Thus men, for the first time on Earth, could achieve the God
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level not only in concept, but in physical manifestations as well" (Vishvamitra
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Newsleter).
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Satanism - The introduction to the satanic bible says, "What amuses us most
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is that you indicate that a mere command to Satan in Jesus' name is sufficient
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to dismiss him. The Prince of Darkness regards both God and Jesus Christ a
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figments of man's more in fantile imagination, at least insofar as their
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supposed power is concerned. God is dead, and Christ was but a man" (Every
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Wind of Doctrine, Dr. Hobart Freeman).
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Scientology-Founder: L. Ron Hubbard. Hubbard claims to have found the
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spiritual technology to dispense the one "true way" to man. It is a process
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working through levels of self-knowledge and knowledge of past lives to awaken
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the primordial diety within un til a person is able to regain total godhood.
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Christ is a man "who achieved a 'state of clear' but not the higher state of
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'Operating Thetan" ("Certainty" magazine, Vol 5, No 10).
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Self-Realization Fellowship - Leader: Paramahansa Yogananda. Group also
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called "Yogoda Satsanga Society." Separates Jesus and Christ. Jesus was
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indwelt by the Christ Consciousness. "Let the omniscient Christ Consciousness
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come to Earth a second time and b e born in you, even as it was manifested in
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the mind of Jesus" (Metaphysical Meditations, SRF Publishers_.
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Shintoism - "Diety is spirit, without form, unknowable . . . changeless,
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eternal, existing from the beginning of Heaven and Earth up to the present,
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unfathomable, infinite . . ." (Source of Japanese Tradition, Vol 1, editor
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William Theodore De Bary).
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Shree Guru Dev Siddha Yoga Ashram - Leader: Swami Muktananda Paramahansa.
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Also called: "Sidha Yoga Dham." This is a self realization group whose leader
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claims to be god. "This is the praise of the all-pervasive, formless,
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unmanifest, Absolute Being who ma nifest Himself in a thousand forms . . .
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Above all, you will receive Divine Grace and finally realize your own
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divinity." Rejects God manifesting Himself in Jesus Christ (Songs of God, Guru,
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Self - Kabiraj).
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Sikhism - Founder: Nanak. Sikhism developed an abstract and mystical
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monotheism. God is formless, soverign, unknowable and absolute. However, a
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righteous person can call upon the grace of Sat Nam - God. If a person reaches
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salvation, which is by works, he absorbs into God. rejects the idea that God
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revealed in a Person of Jesus Christ (Cults, World Religions and You, Kenneth
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Boa).
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Sivananda Yoga Vedenta Centers - Leader: Swami Sivananda. Also called
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"Internatioonal Sivananda Yoga Society." God (or Christ) is not a person or
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spirit, but Consciousness. He is sometimes reborn as a man, other times as an
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animal, plant, or even inanimat e object. (The World of Gurus, Vishal
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Mangalwadi).
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Spiritual Advancement of the Individual Foundation. - Leader: Sri Satya Sai
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Baba. Jesus Christ is seen as an "Avatar," a diety descended to earth in
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bodily form. Sai Baba is Jesus Christ who was returned. Man, according to
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Baba, is Atman - Self or God. Ma n is under an illusion so that he forgets
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that he is God. Baba also teaches that God is ultimately without attributes
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(The World of Gurus, Vishal Mangalwadi).
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Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship - Founder: Arthur Ford and others. "There
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was no Christ 2,000 ago. There was a man 2,000 ago through whom the Annointed
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One was able to manifest. The man died, Christ lived, and as the Holy Spirit
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has been helping . . . The Divine Mind or the Concept of God has within
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himself all the faculties or qualities of both male and female. There can be
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no creative expression, there can be no life without these two qualities. So
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God is neither man nor woman." Ford, a former Christian minister, made these
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comments during a seance March 18, 1965 (Unknown but Known, Arthur Ford).
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Spiritualist - Jesus was an outstanding Jewish medium (Kingdom of the Cults -
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Wlater Martin).
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Sri Chinmoy Centers - Leader: Sri Chinmoy. God is seen as Consciousness and
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Light. Realize the divinity within you. "It is not because of his (Jesus')
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miracles that he is worshipped, but because he brought down the eternal
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Consciousness, the infinite Cons ciousness" (Kundalini: The Mother Power, Sri
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Chinmoy).
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Still Point Institute - Leader: Sujata. Christ is an evolutive god, a
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cosmic Christ. A heavy influence of Zen Buddhism negates the personal God (The
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Still Point, William Johnson).
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Subud - Leader: Muhammad Subuh (Bapak). God is a "Great Life Force that
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flows through everything and everyone. It is impersonal." (Thus no divine
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Christ.) God is felt through "latihan" which is an inner vibration. The
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objective is Subud is to become passi ve so that you can experience and feel
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latihan (New Gods in America, Peter Rowley).
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Sufism - Leader: Pir-O-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan. God is an "Abstract
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Sound" which is the creative life principle in all of nature. "The goal of
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Sufism is union with God in this life." Because of its link with Islamic
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philosophy, it would not consider Je sus as God (Awakening Ways to
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Psycho-Spiritual Growth, C.William Henderson).
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Swedenborgism - Founder: E. Swedenborg. A form of spiritism which also
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denies the person of the Holy Spirit. He is called an efficiency or
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sanctifying influence. "We ought to have faith in God the Savior Jesus Christ,
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because that is faith in the visible God in Whom is the Invisible; and faith in
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the visible God, Who is at once Man and God, who enters Man" (True Christian
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Religion, E. Swedenborg).
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Taoism - Greatest philosopher: Chuang Tzu. "There is no personal
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Creator-God" (Cults, World Religions and You, Kenneth Boa).
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Tarotology - The most serious form of cartomancy (divination by cards). It
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has been linked with magic, numerology, astrology and other cults. For all the
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languages about God, Spirit and the Truth of God, the God and Truth of Tarot
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are in no way those of J esus Christ. It is an idolatrous system (Dennis
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Hesslegrave, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School).
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The Farm - Leader: Stephen. An eastern mysticism commune in Summertown, TN.
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Jesus, a teacher, was a good man indwelt with Christ Consciousness. "In the
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telepathic medium of the Holy Spirit, Christ consciousness, Buddha
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consciousness, call it what you will , exist all the time. ... You don't have
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to call it Jesus or Buddha or Krishna, it's 'the consciousness'"(Hey Beatnik!
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1974).
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The Foundation Church of the Millenium - leader: Father John. Denies the
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diety of Jesus Christ. It is an off-shoot of or the front for the Process
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Church of the Final Judgement (below) although they deny affiliation. They
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were both founded in September, 1 966; began in Xtul, Mexico; listed their
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midwest address as 1529 N. Wells Street, Chicago, IL; and have both since
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moved.
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The Holy Order of MANS - Leader: Earl Blighton. Holds the occult-eastern
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view that Jesus was a great teacher, but merely a man who attained an
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impersonal kind of "Christ Consciousness." They separate Jesus and Christ.
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They believe all can attain Christ-Co nsciousness (Spiritual Counterfeit
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Project, Berkeley, CA).
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The Himalayan International Institute of Yoga Science and Philosophy. -
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Founder: Swami Rama. "In order to become true members of the Church of
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Christ, a person must know not who Jesus was, but what Christ is. Christ,
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Ishvara, is the very personal force pe rvading the universe that guides and
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illuminates every aspirant. . . It is not an embodied person, but rather a
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force in which all individual beings are divine sparks. . ."(Meditation in
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Christianity, Dr. Pandit Arya). Swami Rama has said, "Jesus Christ w as
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perhaps the greatest of all Yogis."
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The Process Church of the Final Judgement - Founder: Robert De Grimston.
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Jesus is a mere man. "The Processeans believe in three gods: Jehohvah,
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Lucifer, and Satan" (Sata's Devices, Kurt Koch).
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The 3 HO Foundation - Leaders: Yogi Bhajan and Guru Ram Dass. The 3 HO
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means Happy, Health and Holy. "What is God?... He is cosmic energy... He is
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yin-yang; He is positive an negative. He is male, female... When you say
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cosmic consciousness, you mean God. .. You are God... God is you. Man has
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never realized he is God... God is a stick... God is a cup.... God is a
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woman....."
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Unification Church - Leader/Fonder: Sun Myung Moon. Moon states that God
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has dual qualities - spirit and energy. God is a personal being with
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consciousness, intelligence, love and purpose. Salvation can come only through
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the Messiah who achieves perfectio n, marries, and has perfect offspring.
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Christ, Moon says, was to do this, but He failed because he died before he
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could marry. Because He was resurrected, Moon says, Jesus did redeem man
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spiritually. The physical redemption of man will happen through a second
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Messiah, but not Christ. The implication is that Moon is the second Messiah.
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(Moody Monthly, July 1977).
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The Way International - Leader: Victor Paul Wierwile. A very close
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||
counterfeit of Christianity. They believe in God, the Bible, Jesus Christ,
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salvation, and eternal life, but not the Trinity. Jesus is NOT God, and the
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Holy Spirit is a synonym for God (Jesus Christ is Not God, Victor Paul
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Wierwille).
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Theosophist - Christ took the body Jesus, a man, to become a teacher.
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Eventually all men become Christ.
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Transcendental Meditation - Leader: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Also called
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"Spiritual Generation Movement," "Student's International Meditation Society,"
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"TM." Maharishi says the reason for creation and individual life is the
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expansion of happiness. This is d one by expanding one's consciousness through
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seven levels of consciousness. Jesus is considered an Enlightened One.
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Leaders have attempted to claim that TM is not a religion, but courts have
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ruled that it is, and the nature of its initiation rites prove t hat it is
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Hindu derivative. (Meditations, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi).
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Unitarians - Jesus was a man who believed in One God, not the Trinity.
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Unity School of Christianity - Jesus was a perfect man, indwelt by the Christ
|
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Consciousness, present in every human being.
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Vedanta Society - Founder: Swami Vivekananda. Also known as "Ramakrishna
|
||
Order." "They (gods) are human beings with extraordinary, original powers and
|
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entrusted with a Divine commission. Being heirs of Divine power and glories,
|
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they form a class of their own. To this class belong the incarnations of God,
|
||
like Christ, Krishna, Buddha, and Chaitanya and their devotees of the highest
|
||
order" (Hindu View of Christ. Swami Akhilananda).
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Witchcraft - "Down through the centuries, many witches and sorcerers consider
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God and Satan as merely symbols of power, with no real existance as
|
||
personalities" (Kingdom of Darkness, F.W. Thomas). Some witches may see Jesus
|
||
as a wizard who was able to mas ter natural and occult forces.
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Worldwide Church of God - Leader: Hurbert W. Armstrong. Jesus is a part of
|
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the godhead (God is a family) and men can become like Jesus and part of the God
|
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family - Sons of God. They do not believe in a closed godhead (TRINITY). The
|
||
Holy Spirit is not cons idered a person, but the Father and the Son work
|
||
through it. (Derivate cult - International Church of God. Leader: Son of
|
||
Herbert, George, was disowned by his father and started this group that
|
||
believes the same but claims that the Wordlwide Church lost i ts authority when
|
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Herbert divorced his wife.)
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Zen Buddhism - "Since Zen does not affirm the existance of the living God, it
|
||
is not only absolutely destitute of the special revelation of God in His Word,
|
||
but is wholly alien to the God of revelation." says Lit-Sen-Chang (The Kingdom
|
||
of the Cults, Walte r Martin).
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Zoroastrianism - Founder: Spitoma Zoroaster. This is one of the first
|
||
monothesistic religions in the world, and adherents of this religion are
|
||
thought to have been the originators of the Wise Men from the East who searched
|
||
out Jesus when He was born. This cult doesn't recognize a personal God. Their
|
||
god, Ahura Mazda, is impersonal and has no physical nature (Cults, World
|
||
Religions and You, Kenneth Boa).
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Computers For Christ NOTE - Those organizations not shown with references are
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on file with this ministry with substantial confirmation of the statements.
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The computer phone data service has many of them outlined in depth. SYSOP -
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Computers For Christ.
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