Featured Is the Church of Christ a cult?

Only if "Cult" is a magic word that we can slap onto every denomination with which we differ on some point of doctrine.

So while I do not agree with their "Baptismal regeneration" doctrine -- I also don't subscribe to the "everyone is a cult if they differ with me on at least one doctrine" ideas.

 

Wouldn't the mainline sister to the Churches of Christ, the Disciples of Christ, better fit what you're trying to target?

Former LU and TTU staffer Eric Lovett now pastors a Disciples of Christ church in California. Check it out:

http://missiongathering.com/our-story/

 

Maybe it's me, but when I hear the word cult, I think of a group like the Peoples Temple or something similar. UUs? Yeah, they're so wrong in doctrine I wouldn't consider them as falling within the boundaries of Christianity, but I still wouldn't think of them as a cult.

 

all of that is false doctrine - and so also do Catholics and EO and Methodist and Lutherans and.. have false doctrine on at least one point.

But you use the term "cult" as if to say "non-Christian" --- and non-Christian would be Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, etc. Christian groups are all claiming that Christ is the Son of God - born of a virgin - the Savior of mankind and that the God of the Bible is the only God that there is.

No other world religions teach that.

So while I do agree with you that all the things you list are doctrinal error as per the Bible - I am not convinced this makes them Hindu or some other religion other than Christian.

If you mean "sect" -- well the Christian Church was born as a "sect of Judaism"

 

I would be more inclined to argue that evolutionism is a "cult" a non-Christian religion -- than to say that about the Church of Christ.

 

I'm not a fan. But are they preventing members from contacting their families, managing members finances for them, claiming that their pastor is a messiah or prophet? Those are the things I associate with a cult, not just bad doctrine.

Branch Davidians, Scientologists, Heaven's Gate; those are what I consider cults.

 

Bad doctrine - false etc -- yes.

But not hindu, not budhist, not muslim, not agnostic, not atheist - they are all Christian churches.

Is false doctrine Christian? -- no.

the Christian Bible, the Christian gospel, the Christian God - does not teach false doctrine - ever.

But Peter was "still a Christian" -- even before Acts 10 -- when he thought the gospel was not for Gentiles.

 

False doctrine in a Christian denomination is not the same as being agnostic, Buddhist, Hindu.

Saying such a thing does not endorse the false doctrine - it is still false doctrine.

 

I don't use terms like "true church" with "false doctrine"

 

I would not be so legalistic as to claim that there are no saints among the Church of Christ, or Catholics or ...

But that does not mean I endorse the errors taught within those denominations.

It also does not mean that I think all in any denomination are all saints.