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Fundamentalism: Not a Cult
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Fundamentalism: Not a CultSoftcover O. Talmadge Spence In a personal testimony Dr. Spence defines the word cult. Using the Bible and contemporary connotations, he corrects the false view of a Fundamentalist.
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What may have been considered as the classical cults of history in the past have now become acceptable in the modern hodge-podge revival of ancient religions and the liberal fellowships of the ecumenical movement identified with neo-christianity.

The classical cults usually underlined two major claims: the claim of its founder-leader as being some sort of a divinity or deity; and the attestation of that by some special revelation set forth by audible voices, or vision, or written revelation extant to the Bible. There has always been an aura of divinity which surrounded these dual forces.

First, there was Joseph Smith and his Book of Mormon of 1830, and the birth of Mormonism.

Second, there was Ellen G. White and her book, The Great Controversy of 1843, and the birth of the Seventh Day Adventists.

Third, Charles Tazewell Russell and his book Divine Plan of the Ages and the birth of the Jehovah's Witness began in the 1870s. He died in 1916.

Fourth, there was Mary Baker Eddy and her book The Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures in 1875, and the birth of Christian Science by 1912.

There are some books which will enumerate 24 cults, including, British-Israelism, Buchmanism, Christadelphianism, Cooneyites, Freemasonry, Swedenborgianism, Theosophy, Unity, etc.

However, the classical and ancient identifications of a study of cults now give way for contemporary cults which are often identified by the opinions of the Media and their attacks. We presently think of Rev. Moon and his Unification Church, snake-handlers, the Jim Jones cult, and the more recent decimation of the Davidian Branch of David Koresh, and his Waco, Texas commune.

But with the classical, ancient, and contemporary cults increasing, or being revived, along with their founders being set forth as divinities of their time, the world, through the Media, is commencing an assault upon legitimate christian movements such as the Fundamentalists. Fundamentalism is not a cult, and that is what this unpretentious booklet is all about.