Help needed. The Last Reformation.
July 28, 2016 at 4:20 pm
(This post was last modified: July 28, 2016 at 4:53 pm by I_am_not_mafia.)
OK, I need your help on this one. Is this a cult to be worried about? Has anyone heard about this or recognise what's going on here? If you've seen similarities to other cults then I'd like to know who.
https://thelastreformation.com/
My brother is getting sucked into this for various reasons I won't go into. Basically he's unhappy with his life and either just works or spends time with other Christians. He's a born again Christian and has been for quite a few years. He's always been into evangelical happy clappy churches. Apparently this group claims it can cure cancer, homosexuality and autism by casting out demons. We're worried that my brother will give up his job, house, life, marriage and then just go off preaching, trusting in God and lose everything. Apparently they have been promoting such ideas and some of their followers do that. My mother is convinced that he's already decided to do this and is just trying to figure out how to make it happen.
The way my brother describes this church is that it's like Christianity when it first formed, when it wasn't a man-made social structure of rituals controlling people. My brother has a strict definition of what a cult is and says that this isn't one. As far as I can see it is a cult because it's all based on one personality driving it. Which also means that it isn't like the early church (unless you count Jesus, if he even existed).
My brother jumps head first into things 100%, so if I ever talked to him about this I would use the socratic method of questioning. After all, there are questions that he just would not be able to answer. For example, how would he know that he was not being misled by Satan and that this wasn't Christianity? If cancer and autism is caused by demonic possession, then how can medical science work? It's either one or the other. So more questions like this would be appreciated if you come up with any.
https://thelastreformation.com/
My brother is getting sucked into this for various reasons I won't go into. Basically he's unhappy with his life and either just works or spends time with other Christians. He's a born again Christian and has been for quite a few years. He's always been into evangelical happy clappy churches. Apparently this group claims it can cure cancer, homosexuality and autism by casting out demons. We're worried that my brother will give up his job, house, life, marriage and then just go off preaching, trusting in God and lose everything. Apparently they have been promoting such ideas and some of their followers do that. My mother is convinced that he's already decided to do this and is just trying to figure out how to make it happen.
The way my brother describes this church is that it's like Christianity when it first formed, when it wasn't a man-made social structure of rituals controlling people. My brother has a strict definition of what a cult is and says that this isn't one. As far as I can see it is a cult because it's all based on one personality driving it. Which also means that it isn't like the early church (unless you count Jesus, if he even existed).
My brother jumps head first into things 100%, so if I ever talked to him about this I would use the socratic method of questioning. After all, there are questions that he just would not be able to answer. For example, how would he know that he was not being misled by Satan and that this wasn't Christianity? If cancer and autism is caused by demonic possession, then how can medical science work? It's either one or the other. So more questions like this would be appreciated if you come up with any.
