SQ: Chapter 1

CULTS

STUDY QUESTIONS CHPT. 1

 

1. Which of Paul’s admonitions and warnings should be cause enough for each of us to make careful doctrinal examination of himself?
2. How does one avoid or shorten spiritual correction?
3. What is a cult?
4. What was Paul’s advice to elders with regard to taking care of the church?
5. Why…are people attracted to false religious doctrines and practices as against true commitment to Jesus Christ and His Church?  (Support reasons with Scripture.)
6. Why do people refuse to believe the true Gospel of Christ after they hear of the truth of God?  (NOTE:  The Chief Reason People Refuse to Believe the Gospel.)
7. What is the primary reason Christians defect from their allegiance to Christ?
8. Why must the spiritual infant…not tarry too long in infancy?  (See notes.)
9. What is the most important thing in the life of a new Christian?
10. What is the key to developing Christian maturity?
11. What does the heresy of phenomenalism deny and what does it teach instead?
12. What does the heresy of Gnosticism deny and what does it teach instead?
13. In what does true wisdom consist?
14. What is every Christian’s primary responsibility with regard to cults?
15. What makes cultic points of view attractive?