Can someone from a cult teach us truth?

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Nessa
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Can someone from a cult teach us truth?

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I know someone who has avoided telling me what their belief system is, at least partly because they think I will then dimiss what they say about Jesus and other things.

I think I have finally worked out what they believe now and am going to talk to them about it.

Already this person has taught me things about God that has impacted me. I will not write them off as having nothing to teach me just because I have a different belief system. To me that's both ignorant and arrogant

But I also know how easy it is to automatically dismiss what someone is saying because they don't believe everything we believe.
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Here's an appropriate part in CS Lewis' Mere Christianity ;) - The Rival Conceptions of God.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaGwF7A79_w
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Yes, people from cults can teach us truth. A cult may teach 90% truth. But it's the other 10% we need to be cautious about.
John 5:24
24 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.


“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”
-Edward R Murrow




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Ditto, what Rick said.
Anyone can teach us the truth. E.g. in the case of Balaam, it was a donkey.
It would be a blessing if they missed the cairns and got lost on the way back. Or if
the Thing on the ice got them tonight.

I could only turn and stare in horror at the chief surgeon.
Death by starvation is a terrible thing, Goodsir, continued Stanley.
And with that we went below to the flame-flickering Darkness of the lower deck
and to a cold almost the equal of the Dante-esque Ninth Circle Arctic Night
without.


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