You are clearly a person operating in this area with your head in the sand.
It looks as though you didn't understand the foregoing posts, but I don't care to restate them for that reason alone.
do you know where I lifted that from? A Seventh Day Adventist website.
I'm not surprised. However, I sincerely hope that you are not trying to say that if it's from the Seventh Day Adventists, it has to be true.
So go on, offend all the Adventists who may read this forum and call them cultists.
If you had read what I wrote, you would appreciate that I was merely passing along the consensus of the writers and researchers who have taken on the difficult task of defining the word
cult as it is used in contemporary Christianity.
There is a strong consensus that three issues define a cult in the theological sense: denying the nature of God, denying the nature of Man, and adding to the Bible. Any church that does any of these is not simply heretical, but has gone beyond the pale of the body of beliefs that Catholics and Protestants hold in common despite the differences between them that we all recognize.
There are several other issues that are often included but there is less agreement on them. Nevertheless, annihilationism is specifically identified as one way of denying the second point above.
