Why are religious groups such as Mormons and Jehovahs Witnesses called “cults,” while other groups, such as Fundamentalists and Calvinists, are not? Don all of these groups teach cultic doctrines?
• When did the custom of canonizing saints start, and is it true that canonizations are infallible? • In a recent This Rock article (“Changing the Sabbath”, December 1993), you stated that Christ used his authority to alter the sabbath in Matthew 12:8, but a footnote in my Confraternity Version of the Bible says he did not alter the commandment, but urged it be interpreted in a more reasonable way. How could he alter one of the Ten Commandments, anyway? • In ancient Judaism the sabbath was from sundown on Friday to sundown on Saturday. If Sunday is the Christian sabbath, should we celebrate it from sundown on Saturday to sundown on Sunday? Is this why attending an anticipatory Mass on Saturday evening fulfills our Sunday obligation? • When a person commits mortal sin he implicitly rejects God and the entire life of holiness he had led up to that point, including the reward he would have gotten for his good deeds. When he repents and comes back to God through the sacrament of confession
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- Why are religious groups such as Mormons and Jehovahs Witnesses called "cults," while other groups, such as Fundamentalists and Calvinists, are not? Don all of these groups teach cultic doctrines?
- Are groups such as the Mormons and Jehovah’s Witnesses truly cults?
- Are Catholics/Mormons/Jehovahs Witnesses Christians?
