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Originally Posted by
Colonel
That part of it sounds like a form of Calvinism, with an explanation for "the nonelect". Calvinistic thinking seems to permeate beliefs held by American Christians in many ways.
It does remind me of predestination
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Originally Posted by
FireBrand
A strong identifier of cults is the way the treat women and almost always relates to sex acts.
Branhamites are very strict on women. They have a lot of additional rules (very interesting & strange)for them because according to WBs teaching, they were the cause of the fall of mankind and if women are not contained, they will lead societies to destruction. The woman is to be under the dominion of the man.
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Sometimes it may be cultural though. No? I’m not sure all patriarchal cultures are sexually related. I recall when about 1 million Laos people immigrated to Ca. several of them joined a church I was attending at the time. We noticed the women sat one row behind the men. I was invited to dinner at a Loas home and the women were required to eat in another room separate from the men. The women served the men first, then they sat with the children in the kitchen while the men ate in the living room.
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Originally Posted by
Pentecali
Sometimes it may be cultural though. No? I’m not sure all patriarchal cultures are sexually related. I recall when about 1 million Laos people immigrated to Ca. several of them joined a church I was attending at the time. We noticed the women sat one row behind the men. I was invited to dinner at a Loas home and the women were required to eat in another room separate from the men. The women served the men first, then they sat with the children in the kitchen while the men ate in the living room.
Certainly not all. Yet, if it’s a cult or cultic it is not the exception to see mistreatment widely accepted and practiced. A glaring example is bro Stair, religious pervert that had daily shortwave broadcasts from his compound.
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Originally Posted by
FireBrand
Certainly not all. Yet, if it’s a cult or cultic it is not the exception to see mistreatment widely accepted and practiced. A glaring example is bro Stair, religious pervert that had daily shortwave broadcasts from his compound.
I suppose he was a polygamist ?
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Senior Member
Originally Posted by
Colonel
I suppose he was a polygamist ?
Oh yes and more.
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Originally Posted by
Colonel
Similarly, in Islam they might hold to strict standards relating to sex being kept solely within marriage...
Aren't a lot of them pedophiles with both sexes? I mean it seems the teaching is strict, but they are full of sexual perversion.
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Originally Posted by
fuego
Aren't a lot of them pedophiles with both sexes? I mean it seems the teaching is strict, but they are full of sexual perversion.
Some marry very young girls in countries like Iran and Yemen where that is permitted but it's not very common.
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