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CUL:A catalogue of the Cults

   Ahmadiyya Movement - Founder: Hazat Mirza "Jesus was not a partner
in the Godhead, as was not Jacob. Both of them were beloved prophets of
God" (True Christianity and How it Leads to Islam).

   American Atheist Center - Founder: Madalyn Murray O'Hair "There is
no God, thus Jesus is not the Son of God."

   Ananda Marga Yoga - Leader: Shrii Shrii Anandamurti Jesus is
considered God, but there is no Trinity. "Be constantly absorbed in the
thought of God and you too will become God." (Baba's Grace-Discourses
of Shrii Shrii Anandamurti).

   Anthroposophical Society - Leader: Rudolf Steiner "According to
Steiner, Jesus of Nazareth was just an ordinary man until, at the age
of thirty, he received the Christ- Essence during his baptism at the
Jordan." (Spiritual Counterfeits Project in Berkeley, CA : Letter, Feb,
1977) Steiner was an occult medium who interpreted the Bible through
clairvoyance.

   Arica - Leader: Oscar Ichazo "The point of Arica is enlightenment,
man's transcending from the state of ego into what's known as the void.
This is a state of consciousness ... Its not God. It's God
Consciousness." Aricans blend physical exercise and meditation. God is
formless, thus Christ cannot be God (Awakening Ways to Psycho-Spiritual
Growth, C. William Henderson).

   Assemblies of Yahweh - "John 2:19) is sometimes presented as
evidence that Yahshua is the Almighty, that He is co-equal with His
Father, and that He had the power to resurrect Himself. This, of
course, is a false, trinitarian concept" (The Sacred Name Broadcaster,
Lincoln Frost). "We find the trinitarian doctrine to be foreign to the
Inspired Scriptures." (Doctrine #5).

   Baha'i World Faith - Baha'i, an independent world religion based on
"a unique revelation of God," traces its roots to an early division
within Islam. God, called by different names, is one but unknowable.
Christ was a "manifestation" of God and a way to God, but not the ONLY
way to God.

   Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship - Leader: Bawa Muhaiyaddeen "God is a
secret and a mystery, but man is also a mystery. Only God can see God.
So if man is to see God, he must become God. Man becomes God, and God
becomes man. It's no big deal," says Bawa. (Psychology, April,1976).

   Black Muslim - Leader: Wallace D. Fard (Allah-God) and Elijah Poole
(Elijah Muhammad - Fard's prophet) Also called "The Nation of Islam."
Elijah Muhammad said that Jesus was "only a prophet and not the equal
of Moses and Muhammad, and His religion was Islam, not the Christianity
of the Pope of Rome." (Pittsburgh Courier, 1959).

   Buddhism (Hinayana Buddhism and Mahayanna Buddhism) - "In Hinayana
Buddhism there is no god as we conceive of God ... The followers of
Mahayanna Buddhism tend to deify Buddha. Their idea of God; However,
has no such comprehensive attributes as has the Christian God"
(Religions in a changing World, Howard F. Vos) This eliminates the
possibility of Jesus as a deity.

   Cabala (Kabbalah) - Cabala is a system of Jewish Mystical thought
which originated in Southern France and Spain in the 12th and 13th
centuries. The Cabala doctrine of deity recognizes only two deities -
the hidden god, the infinite great divine Nothing; and the dynamic god
of religious experience (Spiritual Counterfeits Project).

   Center for Spiritual Awareness - Leader: Roy Eugene Davis Also
called: Christian Spiritual Alliance. Buddha, Sri Krishna, and Jesus
were enlightened souls. "The second coming of Jesus is a fanciful hope.
The awakening of individuals to the realization of their own
Christ-nature is what will liberate man and transform society"
(Darshan: The vision of Light, Roy E. Davis). Jesus was a man who
reached Christ-consciousness and was on earth to share the truth of
this consciousness.

   Children of God - Leader: David Brandt Berg (Moses David) Started as
a fundamentalist counter-culture ministry, but degenerated into belief
in the occult, reincarnation, and sexual permissiveness. The COG
believes that Berg is the ONLY end-time prophet; that the COG IS the
remnant church of the last days; that its authority is absolute; and in
the use of blasphemy, profanity, vulgarity, and pornography. (Moody
Monthly July/August 1977).

   Christian Scientist - Founder: Mary Baker Eddy Jesus was a mere man
who demonstrated the Christ (i.e. a divine idea). It doesn't matter
whether Christ ever existed, and His blood doesn't cleanse from sin.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, The First of Christ
Scientist and Miscellany, both by Mary baker Eddy).

   Church of the Living Word - Leader: John Robert Stevens Also called:
THE WALK. "Jesus Christ came to participate in humanity and make the
bridge of communication so that God could communicate himself into our
very beings. What He is, we become" (The Word Became Flesh, a Living
Word Publication). According to Stevens, this begins with contemporary
revelations which make the the Living Word (Christ) to the World.
Although some acknowledgement is made of the inspiration and authority
of the Scripture, in practice the source of teaching is current
revelation, not the Bible. Stevens considers himself God's chief
intercessor.

   Church Universal and Triumphant - Leader: Elizabeth Claire Prophet
Also called: Summit International or Summit Lighthouse. The Church
Universal and Triumphant is a mixture of eastern religions, Theosophy,
Christianity, and many other things. Elizabeth is recognized as one of
the two witnesses of Revelation 11. Her late husband and founder, Mark,
is considered a man that had the Christ Consciousness within him. He
was one of many who achieved the "God self" witness.

   Dhyana-Mandiram - Leader: Pandit Usharbudh "God is essentially
formless ... God may manifest Himself- Herself-Itself in any form, at
any time, at any place, on any planet ... Jesus may be accepted as one
of the many incarnations of God." (Hinduism: An Introduction, Pandit
Usharbudh and Yorke Crompton).

   Divine Light Mission - Leader: Guru Maharaj Ji Guru Ji is the Living
Perfect Master. Jesus was the Perfect Master of His time, but Ji has
replaced Him. Ji claims the world needs the knowledge of Reality, and
he claims to be the source of that knowledge and of peace in the world,
according to David J. Hesselgrave, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.

   ECKANKAR - Leader: Sri Darwin Gross ECKANKAR says it is the
wellspring and essence of all religions, philosophies, and sacred
doctrines. It claims to be the way to God-realization via the "ancient
science of soul travel." ECKANKAR makes the biblical God into a demon
who as creator is responsible for the evil in the world and defines
Christ as "god as all men are god" ("Eck World News, December, 1978,
page 13).

   Findhorn Foundation University of Light - Leaders: Peter and Eileen
Caddy "The Devic (Deva is a being of light) would emphasize that man
has to do one thing to reverse the trend of events on the planet: he
has to recognize within himself the Divinity and wholeness of which he
is a part" (The Magic of Findhorn, Paul Hawken). They separate Jesus
and Christ and appear to be panthiestic. The group, a form of
spiritism, became famous because the Findhorn community in Scotland has
a producing garden near the Arctic Circle which is supposedly taken
care of by plant spirits.

   Freemasonry - "... We tell the sincere Christian that Jesus of
Nazareth was but a man like us" ("Morals and Dogmas" by Albert Pike in
How to Respond to the Lodge).

   Hare Krishna - Founder: Chaitanya Mahaprabhu Also called:
International Society of Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON). To the
Krishnaite, the world is not real; it's illusion. Salvation comes by
chanting the name of their god, Hare Krishna, at least 1,728 times
daily. They believe in the literal interpretation of the Hindu
scriptures, but they also accept the Bible as one of the scriptures.
They consider Jesus one of their gurus.

   "I AM" MOVEMENT - Leader: Guy Ballard (Pen Name: Godfrey Ray King)
Jesus, a man, developed the I AM/GOD SELF within himself. This almighty
I Am presence is a pure reservoir of energy stationed over the head
which can be drawn on at will. Jesus is seen as one of the many
Ascended Masters. They do not recognize the Trinity. This cult is an
off-shoot of the Theosophical Society. Its modern form is called the
Summit Lighthouse or Church Universal and Triumphant. However, the "I
Am" movement still exist as an independent organization (The 'I Am'
Discourses, Saint Germain Press).

   Iglesia Ni Cristo - Leader: Felix Manalo "We believe in Jesus
Christ, but we do not believe that He is True God. We believe in only
one true god, the god of creation. Jesus Christ is a great savior and
was commissioned by God to be the savior." ("Research Center Bulletin,"
Far East Broadcasting).

   Inner Peace Movement - Leader: Rev. Francisco Coll, DD A form of
spiritualism and spiritism combining ESP, astro- projection, psychic
phenomena, etc., they introduce seven levels of consciousness. Christ
consciousness is the highest. Jesus had reached Christ Consciousness
and taught this while on earth. Jesus was a man. They separate Jesus
and Christ. God is impersonal and spoken of as The All, The Cosmos, and
The Universe (Every Wind of Doctrine, Hobart Freeman).

   Integral Yoga Institute - Founder: Swami Satchidananda "There are
not many gods; there is only One. And that One has no name, no form, no
place. (Thus Christ is not God.) He is everywhere - in actuality,
neither he, nor she, nor it ... The two sides are positive and
negative, light and shade. Evil is also God." says the Swami (The Youth
Nappers, James C. Hefley).

   Islam - Christ was a prophet of Allah, but was superseded by
Muhammad's teachings and authority.

   Jainism - Founder: Mahavira "Jainism begins by denying the existence
of an external supreme being, creator, or Lord, who is the mainstay of
the universe. (Thus, no Christ.) For these non-theistic humanist, there
is no need to assume a First cause." (Religions in a Changing World,
Howard F. Vos)

   Jehovah's Witnesses - Jesus is a created being, Michael, the first
creation of Jehovah and the "Son of God."

   Laymen's Home Missionary Movement - Leader: Raymond J. Jolly Similar
to the Jehovah's Witnesses, they deny the physical resurrection of
Jesus Christ. "John 4:24 - God is a Spirit. Luke 24:39 - A Spirit hath
not flesh and bones ... In the first place, God directly tells us that
Jesus is now a spirit being" (Epiphany Studies in the Scriptures).
"Trinitarians have grossly mistranslated and miscapitalized this
passage to read their trinitarianism into it, as they have done in
other cases. The proper translation shows that Christ is not Jehovah
... He is Jehovah's appointed Savior for the world, not Jehovah
Himself." (Epiphany Studies in the Scriptures-Series 1).

   Liberal Catholic Church - Leaders: Charles W. Leadbeater and Vincent
M. Matthews "Obviously, God is not and cannot be a person. (Thus, no
divine Christ.) The persons of the Holy Trinity are representatives or
masks for the One God who is beyond individuality; is unlimited;
eminent; and transcendent" (The One Existence, E.M. Matthews). The LCC
is independent of the Roman Catholic Church and blends elements of
theosophy and pantheism (These Also Believe, Charles Samuel Braden).

   Megiddo Mission - Founder: Rev. L.T. Nichols "Christ, Emmanuel, 'God
with us,' is not the eternal God but the Son of God, conceived of the
Holy Spirit, born of a virgin, but wholly human in his nature - Matthew
1:23, Hebrews 2:16,17 .. "(History of the Megiddo Mission, published by
Megiddo Mission Church).

   Mormons - Founder: Joseph Smith, Jr. Also Called: Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Jesus is a pre-existent spirit, also the
Father, one of many gods. Christ was God-man, and men can be just like
him (Mormon Doctrine, Bruce McConkie).

   Nichiren Shoshu Soka Gakkai - Soka Gakkai substitutes Gautama Buddha
and Nichiren for the True God and replaces the Bible with the Lotus
Sutra, a false scripture. Soka Gakkai translates to "Value Recreation
Society" ("Views on Christ," John Weldon).

   Peace Mission Movement - Leader: Father Divine (George Baker) Baker
distinguishes between Jesus and Christ. "I say B.J. not B.C. because it
was before Jesus yet, in my opinion, it was not before Christ" (The New
Day, September 1,1945). "Jesus, he (Baker) seems at times to regard as
merely the temporal and physical embodiment of the Christ" (These Also
Believe, Charles Samuel Braden). Baker has claimed to be God and the
Holy Spirit. There are also references in Baker's writings to indicate
that Jesus is God (Kingdom of the Cults, Walter Martin).

   Psychiana - Leader: Frank B. Robinson "At no time has God, nor will
God, manifest Himself on this earth or anywhere as a person ... Jesus
was no more than a human acting out the God-power" (They Have Found a
Faith, Marcus Bach).

   Radha Soami Society - Leader: Charan Singh God is seen as
attributeless, formless, and impersonal without personality and name,
although they give "him" the qualities of love, grace, wisdom and
power. The Society asserts that there are countless gods and goddesses,
lords, rulers and governors in the universe (The World of Gurus, Vishal
Mangalwadi), thus Jesus Christ is not Lord of Lords.

   Rajneesh Meditation Centers - Leader: Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh "But
God (thus, Christ) is not a person. God is the process ... Existence is
without cause ... In the beginning, there is no cause so in the end
there can be no purpose" (Beyond and Beyond, Acharya Rajneesh).

   Rosicrucianism - Jesus was a reincarnated man, the highest luminary
possible. The Christ spirit in Him was a manifestation of the cosmic
Christ ("Rays from the Rose Cross," December, 1978).

   Ruhani Satsang - Leader: Kirpal Singh "Jesus Christ was essentially
a man of the East, and his teachings are imbued with oriental
mysticism. It is even speculated that he spent many of his early years
in india and learned from the Yogins and Buddhist monks" (The Crown of
Life, Kirpal Singh).

   Sacred Mushroom of the Cross - Leader: John Allegro Christ was a
mushroom (Sacred Mushroom of the Cross, John Allegro).

   Sanatana Dharma Foundation - Leader: Yogeshwar Muni (also called
Kayavarohan). Jesus is a man who achieved a divine state through
meditation. Sanatana Dharma is considered the eternal path to truth
leading to fulfillment and divinity. "Thus men, for the first time on
Earth, could achieve the God level not only in concept, but in physical
manifestations as well" (Vishvamitra Newsletter).

   Satanism - The introduction to the satanic bible says, "What amuses
us most is that you indicate that a mere command to Satan in Jesus'
name is sufficient to dismiss him. The Prince of Darkness regards both
God and Jesus Christ a figments of man's more infantile imagination, at
least insofar as their supposed power is concerned. God is dead, and
Christ was but a man" (Every Wind of Doctrine, Dr. Hobart Freeman).

   Scientology - Founder: L. Ron Hubbard Hubbard claims to have found
the spiritual technology to dispense the one "true way" to man. It is a
process working through levels of self-knowledge and knowledge of past
lives to awaken the primordial deity within until a person is able to
regain total godhood. Christ is a man "who achieved a 'state of clear'
but not the higher state of 'Operating Thetan" ("Certainty" magazine,
Vol 5, No 10).

   Self-Realization Fellowship - Leader: Paramahansa Yogananda Group
also called "Yogoda Satsanga Society." Separates Jesus and Christ.
Jesus was indwelt by the Christ Consciousness. "Let the omniscient
Christ Consciousness come to Earth a second time and be born in you,
even as it was manifested in the mind of Jesus" (Metaphysical
Meditations, SRF Publishers).

   Shintoism - "Deity is spirit, without form, unknowable ...
changeless, eternal, existing from the beginning of Heaven and Earth up
to the present, unfathomable, infinite ..." (Source of Japanese
Tradition, Vol 1, editor William Theodore De Bary).

   Shree Guru Dev Siddha Yoga Ashram - Leader: Swami Muktananda
Paramahansa Also called: "Sidha Yoga Dham." This is a self realization
group whose leader claims to be god. "This is the praise of the
all-pervasive, formless, unmanifest, Absolute Being who manifest
Himself in a thousand forms ... Above all, you will receive Divine
Grace and finally realize your own divinity." Rejects God manifesting
Himself in Jesus Christ (Songs of God, Guru, Self - Kabiraj).

   Sikhism - Founder: Nanak Sikhism developed an abstract and mystical
monotheism. God is formless, sovereign, unknowable and absolute.
However, a righteous person can call upon the grace of Sat Nam - God.
If a person reaches salvation, which is by works, he absorbs into God.
Rejects the idea that God revealed in the Person of Jesus Christ
(Cults, World Religions and You, Kenneth Boa).

   Sivananda Yoga Vedenta Centers - Leader: Swami Sivananda Also called
"International Sivananda Yoga Society." God (or Christ) is not a person
or spirit, but Consciousness. He is sometimes reborn as a man, other
times as an animal, plant, or even inanimate object. (The World of
Gurus, Vishal Mangalwadi).

   Spiritual Advancement of the Individual Foundation. - Leader: Sri
Satya Sai Baba Jesus Christ is seen as an "Avatar," a deity descended
to earth in bodily form. Sai Baba is Jesus Christ who was returned.
Man, according to Baba, is Atman - Self or God. Man is under an
illusion so that he forgets that he is God. Baba also teaches that God
is ultimately without attributes (The World of Gurus, Vishal
Mangalwadi).

   Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship - Founder: Arthur Ford and others
"There was no Christ 2,000 ago. There was a man 2,000 ago through whom
the Annointed One was able to manifest. The man died, Christ lived, and
as the Holy Spirit has been helping ... The Divine Mind or the Concept
of God has within himself all the faculties or qualities of both male
and female. There can be no creative expression, there can be no life
without these two qualities. So God is neither man nor woman." Ford, a
former Christian minister, made these comments during a seance March
18, 1965 (Unknown but Known, Arthur Ford).

   Spiritualist - Jesus was an outstanding Jewish medium (Kingdom of
the Cults - Walter Martin).

   Sri Chinmoy Centers - Leader: Sri Chinmoy God is seen as
Consciousness and Light. Realize the divinity within you. "It is not
because of his (Jesus') miracles that he is worshipped, but because he
brought down the eternal Consciousness, the infinite Consciousness"
(Kundalini: The Mother Power, Sri Chinmoy).

   Still Point Institute - Leader: Sujata Christ is an evolutive god, a
cosmic Christ. A heavy influence of Zen Buddhism negates the personal
God (The Still Point, William Johnson).

   Subud - Leader: Muhammad Subuh (Bapak) God is a "Great Life Force
that flows through everything and everyone. It is impersonal." (Thus no
divine Christ.) God is felt through "latihan" which is an inner
vibration. The objective in Subud is to become passive so that you can
experience and feel latihan (New Gods in America, Peter Rowley).

   Sufism - Leader: Pir-O-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan God is an
"Abstract Sound" which is the creative life principle in all of nature.
"The goal of Sufism is union with God in this life." Because of its
link with Islamic philosophy, it would not consider Jesus as God
(Awakening Ways to Psycho-Spiritual Growth, C. William Henderson).

   Swedenborgism - Founder: E. Swedenborg A form of spiritism which
also denies the person of the Holy Spirit. He is called an efficiency
or sanctifying influence. "We ought to have faith in God the Savior
Jesus Christ, because that is faith in the visible God in Whom is the
Invisible; and faith in the visible God, Who is at once Man and God,
who enters Man" (True Christian Religion, E. Swedenborg).

   Taoism - Greatest philosopher: Chuang Tzu "There is no personal
Creator-God" (Cults, World Religions and You, Kenneth Boa).

   Tarotology - The most serious form of cartomancy (divination by
cards). It has been linked with magic, numerology, astrology and other
cults. For all the languages about God, Spirit and the Truth of God,
the God and Truth of Tarot are in no way those of Jesus Christ. It is
an idolatrous system (Dennis Hesslegrave, Trinity Evangelical Divinity
School).

   The Farm - Leader: Stephen An eastern mysticism commune in
Summertown, TN. Jesus, a teacher, was a good man indwelt with Christ
Consciousness. "In the telepathic medium of the Holy Spirit, Christ
consciousness, Buddha consciousness, call it what you will, exist all
the time. ... You don't have to call it Jesus or Buddha or Krishna,
it's 'the consciousness'" (Hey Beatnik! 1974).

   The Foundation Church of the Millennium - leader: Father John Denies
the deity of Jesus Christ. It is an off-shoot of or the front for the
Process Church of the Final Judgement (below) although they deny
affiliation. They were both founded in September, 1966; began in Xtul,
Mexico; listed their midwest address as 1529 N. Wells Street, Chicago,
IL; and have both since moved.

   The Holy Order of MANS - Leader: Earl Blighton Holds the
occult-eastern view that Jesus was a great teacher, but merely a man
who attained an impersonal kind of "Christ Consciousness." They
separate Jesus and Christ. They believe all can attain
Christ-Consciousness (Spiritual Counterfeit Project, Berkeley, CA).

   The Himalayan International Institute of Yoga Science and
Philosophy. - Founder: Swami Rama "In order to become true members of
the Church of Christ, a person must know not who Jesus was, but what
Christ is. Christ, Ishvara, is the very personal force pervading the
universe that guides and illuminates every aspirant ... It is not an
embodied person, but rather a force in which all individual beings are
divine sparks ..."(Meditation in Christianity, Dr. Pandit Arya). Swami
Rama has said, "Jesus Christ was perhaps the greatest of all Yogis."

   The Process Church of the Final Judgement - Founder: Robert De
Grimston Jesus is a mere man. "The Processeans believe in three gods:
Jehohvah, Lucifer, and Satan" (Sata's Devices, Kurt Koch).

   The 3 HO Foundation - Leaders: Yogi Bhajan and Guru Ram Dass The 3
HO means Happy, Health and Holy. "What is God? ... He is cosmic energy
... He is yin-yang; He is positive an negative. He is male, female ...
When you say cosmic consciousness, you mean God ... You are God ... God
is you. Man has never realized he is God ... God is a stick ... God is
a cup ... God is a woman" (The Teachings of Yogi Bhajan, Bhajan).

   Unification Church - Leader/Fonder: Sun Myung Moon Moon states that
God has dual qualities - spirit and energy. God is a personal being
with consciousness, intelligence, love and purpose. Salvation can come
only through the Messiah who achieves perfection, marries, and has
perfect offspring. Christ, Moon says, was to do this, but He failed
because he died before he could marry. Because He was resurrected, Moon
says, Jesus did redeem man spiritually. The physical redemption of man
will happen through a second Messiah, but not Christ. The implication
is that Moon is the second Messiah. (Moody Monthly, July 1977).

   The Way International - Leader: Victor Paul Wierwile A very close
counterfeit of Christianity. They believe in God, the Bible, Jesus
Christ, salvation, and eternal life, but not the Trinity. Jesus is NOT
God, and the Holy Spirit is a synonym for God (Jesus Christ is Not God,
Victor Paul Wierwille).

   Theosophist - Christ took the body Jesus, a man, to become a
teacher. Eventually all men become Christ.

   Transcendental Meditation - Leader: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Also
called "Spiritual Generation Movement," "Student's International
Meditation Society," "TM." Maharishi says the reason for creation and
individual life is the expansion of happiness. This is done by
expanding one's consciousness through seven levels of consciousness.
Jesus is considered an Enlightened One. Leaders have attempted to claim
that TM is not a religion, but courts have ruled that it is, and the
nature of its initiation rites prove that it is a Hindu derivative.
(Meditations, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi).

   Unitarians - Jesus was a man who believed in One God, not the
Trinity.

   Unity School of Christianity - Jesus was a perfect man, indwelt by
the Christ Consciousness, present in every human being.

   Vedanta Society - Founder: Swami Vivekananda Also known as
"Ramakrishna Order." "They (gods) are human beings with extraordinary,
original powers and entrusted with a Divine commission. Being heirs of
Divine power and glories, 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).

   Witchcraft - "Down through the centuries, many witches and sorcerers
consider God and Satan as merely symbols of power, with no real
existence as personalities" (Kingdom of Darkness, F.W. Thomas). Some
witches may see Jesus as a wizard who was able to master natural and
occult forces.

   Worldwide Church of God - Leader: Hurbert W. Armstrong Jesus is a
part of the godhead (God is a family) and men can become like Jesus and
part of the God family - Sons of God. They do not believe in a closed
godhead (TRINITY). The Holy Spirit is not considered 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 Worldwide Church lost its authority when Herbert divorced his wife.)

   Zen Buddhism - "Since Zen does not affirm the existence 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, Walter
Martin).

   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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