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Photo: JW's going door-to-door

Evangelical/Fundamental Non-Protestants

The majority of Evangelical Protestants views non-Protestant Evangelical/Fundamental faith groups such as Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Catholics, Christian Science ( as well as All New Thought groups) as NOT truely Christian at all and consider them ALL as 'cults'. A common practice amoung the vast majority that the Evangelical Protestant Christian group JESUS USA happens to feel very strongly against. John Trott, a writter and major spokes man for JPUSA's magazine CORNERSTONE explains in the article intitled,
Reconceptionalizing The Word 'CULT',
that he believes strongly that tagging all non-dangerous faith groups CULT merley on the grounds that they are not Evangelical Protestant or happen to be non-trinitarian is , "Neither kind, Christian, or helpful." instead he expresses that he feels strongly the word Alternative Religious Movements or ARMs should be used. I happen to agree with this view 100%. Regardless, still LDS,JWs, Catholics, ETC., ARE STILL Evangelical/Fundamental in nature, whether Protestants Evangelicals acknowledge them or not or think they are cults, and whether the ARMs faith groups themselves offically embrace of reject the terms, "Evangelical," or "Fundamental," or not.

Evangelical Fundamental Non-Protestants

*Assembly of Yahweh(Sacred Name Faith Groups)

*Bible Students

*Christadelphians

Oneness Pentacostal

*Latter Day Saints

*Jehovah's Witnesses

*The Way International

Non-Protestant Evangelical Fundamental Conserative Christians: (e.g. Latter-Day Saints & Jehhovah's Witnesses They generally believe in:

1. The inerrancy of the Bible.

2. The Bible not only contains the Word of God, it is the Word of God; God inspired the individual authors to prevent them from error.

3. The virgin conception of Jesus.

4. Jesus led a sinless life while on earth.

5. Satan is a very powerful and all-evil presence in the world. He possesses many supernatural powers.

*6. Salvation is afree gift...but... you must still work to maintain it achieved by going door-to-door witnessing.

7. Only those who have trusted in Jehovah's True Church or Organization will be saved. Mormons hope is to attain the third and most high relm of heaven, where as JW's, LHMMs, EBS, and Second Adventists hope to attain eternal life on this earth restored.

*8. Hell is NOT an eternal place of fire punishment. That hell is simply a mistranslation of the Hebrew word SHEOL, which transaltes into English as "The Grave". The ultimate punishment for the unpentive as well as the opposite of eternal life is merely eternal death, or to cease to exist forever, never be resurrected back to life again. The Catholic Church offically changed it's view on hell from an eternal punishment to eternal seperation from God. The Moderate branches of Protestants as with Progressives also believe this view of what hell is.

*9. Does NOT believe that the 'rapture' teaching is bibical. Believes instead that we are living in the Last Days of this present AGE. The Jesus will bring about Armageddon and then He will restored THIS earth rather than destroy it. The Second Advent believe that Christ will come physically and visible in the fleash and will bring heaven down to rest upon the restored earth forever. Whereas JW's, LHMMs, and EBS believe Christ's presense will be invisible and merely in a spiritual sense from heaven and that He will cause this earth to be fully restored as it is in heaven.

10.Creation science: that the universe was created by God less than 10,000 years ago.

11. Feel a strong obligation to evangelize: to share their religious beliefs with those who are not saved, in order to bring them to a saving knowledge of Jesus.

12. Are strongly opposed to women having access to abortion.

13. Regard homosexuality as a chosen, changeable, sinful behavior, condemned by God. They often reject sexually- active homosexuals as church members, and certainly as clergy.

14. They actively oppose and condemn any action to give gays and lesbians equal human rights to heterosexuals -- particularly the right to marry.

15. JW's do not believe in voting period nor getting into politics in any way. Like Quakers The Church of God of Abraham faith fully supports those who choose in good conscience not to go to war.

Photo: Christadelphians are a more rigid break off from Second Adventists. Unlike the other groups mentioned here, they deny that Satan is a real person.

Bible Students did NOT break off from Jehovah's Witnesses, as it often discribed. Rather, JW's broke off from Bible Students in afer 1916 when founder of the Bible students, Pastor Charlse T. Russell died. In 1918 Jospeh Rutherford became president of the Watchtower Farms and he made changes from Russell's orginal structure. In 1931 Rutherford changed his group's name to Jehovah's Witnesses. While in 1918 Pastor Paul Johnson broke off association with Rutherford's group and started his own group called The Laymen's Home Missionary Movement or LHMMs for short. The major difference between JWs and LHMMs verses the other other bible students groups such as dawn Bible Students is that only LHMMs and JWs and EBS embrace the restored earth destiny as their own desired hopes, whereas the other Bibel Students embrace going to heaven as theirs.

Photo: The logo seen above here with red cross and gold crown and green leaves is the Bible Students original logo. JW's, like The Way International, reject the cross, thinking it's pagen.

"Reconceptionalizing The Word 'CULT' ", By John Trott of Cornerstone Magazine, A JPUSA publication

"Alternative Religions of America," by Timothy Miller