The Cults and False Religions section features articles and commentaries showing how Christian cults and false religions distort the Word of God.
Astrology By Dave Hunt Originally Published June 1, 1988 There seems to be no end to the disillusionment we are experiencing with both religious and political leaders. The latest, of course, comes from the revelations concerning the long-time involvement of the Reagans in astrology and the President's sad enslavement to…
Seventh-Day Adventist Eschatology Compounding an Error By Dr. David R. Reagan Bible prophecy has always been important to Seventh-Day Adventists, more so than you would find among mainline Christian groups, even Evangelicals. The SDA church was founded on Bible prophecy, and its phenomenal growth during the 20th Century was based…
The Seventh-Day Adventists Christian or cultic in nature? By Dr. David R. Reagan The Seventh-Day Adventists are an anomaly. Evangelical Christians have never been comfortable with them, but they have been unable to decide whether the SDA is a legitimate expression of Christianity or whether it is a cult, like…
Scientology By Dennis Pollock “But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.” (2 Corinthians 11:3) It happened during the filming of a quickly forgotten horror film, The Devil’s Rain, in 1975. John…
The Maze of Masonry By Dr. David R. Reagan In the mid-1980’s I was holding a meeting at a large church in Lexington, Kentucky, when I received a phone call at my motel from one of the church members. The caller identified himself as one of our radio listeners. He…
The Jehovah’s Witnesses By Dr. David R. Reagan The Jehovah’s Witnesses are the undisputed world champions of false prophecy. Formally known as The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, the organization was founded by Charles Taze Russell in 1879. Its doctrines were originally based on some bizarre teachings which Russell revealed…
The Tangled Web of Mormonism By Dr. Stan Fleming “Oh what a tangled web we weave when at first we practice to deceive.” This old adage would be a perfect epitaph inscribed on the tombstone of Joseph Smith. What started out as a profiteering scheme, by a young man known…
Taste and See - Part 2 By Dave Hunt Last month we noted David’s enthusiastic exhortation, “O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him” (Ps 34:8). When David wrote this psalm, he was a fugitive from King Saul, who was searching…
Taste and See - Part 1 By Dave Hunt We have discussed in the past the deadly religious materialism known as sacramentalism: the belief that material things and rituals channel God’s grace and spiritual power to men. Such is the serious error of “transubstantiation,” the idea that the Roman Catholic…
The Danger of False Prophets How to recognize a false prophet. By Dr. David R. Reagan Ellen G. White, spiritual founder of the Seventh Day Adventist Church, spoke as a prophet of God in declaring that anyone who had not accepted the Adventist message by October 22, 1844 had no…