Last updated: 3rd March 2007
Definition of the word 'cult'
This matter is of some importance because the Mormon organisation has been desperate to gain respectability and to throw off its weird image. Mormon missionaries throughout the world have been trained to try and deflect the charge often levelled against them that they belong to a cult. Of course, an organisation which has vast and almost unlimited financial resources is capable in the modern world to repackage itself and to present a certain acceptable image. Sadly, in the twenty-first century, image is more important than the criteria of objective biblical truth.
Despite the very best efforts of the LDS to appear attractive, from an evangelical perspective – and even from an informed secular perspective – there is no doubt that Mormonism can be classified as being a cult. No other conclusion can be drawn because of its heretical and bizarre belief system, its exclusivity (it claims to be the only true church on the face of the earth) and the extraordinary coercive control that its leadership has over its members.
Despite the very best efforts of the LDS to appear attractive, from an evangelical perspective – and even from an informed secular perspective – there is no doubt that Mormonism can be classified as being a cult. No other conclusion can be drawn because of its heretical and bizarre belief system, its exclusivity (it claims to be the only true church on the face of the earth) and the extraordinary coercive control that its leadership has over its members.
Following are some dictionary definitions:
Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Romans 5:1
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