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cthulu2016

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Sat Oct 20, 2012, 10:31 PM Oct 2012

Billy Graham: Man of Principle [View all]

I am rather disgusted that Billy Graham, who has unfortunately been the face of Christianity in America for about 40-50 years, chose getting behind a white heretic over a black Christian.

Oh, and then immediately scrubbing his web-site of the warning that we "should avoid any involvement" with the core principles of the man he just tacitly endorsed for President, and that Mitt Romney is in the same category as a Scientologist!

Who endorses someone from a cult hierarchy for President? I'm an atheist so I am not too worried about quasi-christian heresy cults. The buzz on Billy Graham was, however, that he wasn't an atheist. If Billy Graham is going to endorse a man he considers a HERETIC then what was the last 50 years of "bible-believing" bullshit for?

What is a cult?

A cult is any group which teaches doctrines or beliefs that deviate from the biblical message of the Christian faith. It is very important that we recognize cults and avoid any involvement with them. Cults often teach some Christian truth mixed with error, which may be difficult to detect.

There are some features common to most cults:

• They do not adhere solely to the sixty-six books of the Bible as the inspired Word of God. They add their "special revelations" to the Bible and view them as equally authoritative.

• They do not accept that our relationship to Jesus Christ is a reality "by grace through faith" alone, but promote instead a salvation by works.

• They do not give Jesus Christ, the divine Son of God, full recognition as the second Person of the Trinity, composed of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.

Some of these groups are Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, the Unification Church, Unitarians, Spiritists, Scientologists, and others.

http://web.archive.org/web/20100605052727/http://www.billygraham.org/articlepage.asp?ArticleID=2072


On Tuesday, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association confirmed that page has recently been removed from the site.

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/16/billy-grahams-group-removes-mormon-cult-reference-from-website-after-romney-meeting/



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