I was in a cult; JAHtruth; BEWARE!!

[Doomsday Cult Mom]

I believe in the separation of church and state and also the separation of church and state and my wallet. And I don't remember reading anywhere that Jesus walked around asking people for money. I think the Tiny Hats are in charge of that operation with applicable interest rates. And they rarely ask before taking either.

 

[Awoken2]

This Jahtruth effort isn't even coming in the top ten, I'd say probably not even in the top 50.

13 of the World's Most Infamous Cults

Maybe you've heard about drinking the Kool-Aid or listening to The Family Jams — but what do you really know about some of the world's most infamous cults?

people.howstuffworks.com

See any common themes running through these Freeman? .....nope, thought not. Crack on with your devastating bible passages.

Know mind control when you see mind control.

Some free advice for you.

 

[Dalit]

Better to have wisdom & common sense then a high IQ imho. Totally agree with what your saying

Agree x 3.

However, what drew me into cult-like groups (they did use enough Scripture or Christian-ese to sound legit) was my own curiosity and/or it was for men that I admired or were attracted to. I left in less than a year, but will never forget how one man told me that God told him to go pursue and marry a woman half his age (basically a 21 year old).

Spoiler: What happened?

 

[Maldarker]

Agree x 3.

However, what drew me into cult-like groups (they did use enough Scripture or Christian-ese to sound legit) was my own curiosity and/or it was for men that I admired or were attracted to. I left in less than a year, but will never forget how one man told me that God told him to go pursue and marry a woman half his age (basically a 21 year old).

Spoiler: What happened?

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JW was the cult that came for me after accepting CHRIST...starting to see a pattern and hear this from more then just a couple that accept CHRIST seems that the cults come for them.

 

[Dalit]

JW was the cult that came for me after accepting CHRIST...starting to see a pattern and hear this from more then just a couple that accept CHRIST seems that the cults come for them.

Mine was hyper-charismatic or NAR (specifically, groups that left the fold of a denominational covering like Assemblies of God, Church of God, Pentecostal Holiness, etc. and just did their own thing, whatever it was) and Hebrew Roots (which is surprisingly or not surprisingly filled with a lot of former charismatics).

 

[Infinityloop]

Jahtruth has a lot of weird syncretic elements and it's easy to trace their origins.

- Jesus as Michael comes from the Jehovah's Witnesses
- "I Am" (those two specific words) as the name of God comes from this New age group: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/"I_AM"_Activity *
- New age rhetoric around "spirit beings" (instead of just using the word "Soul", or one of the terms from the original Biblical languages of Hebrew or Greek).
- On top of that they combined trends around Biblical apocrypha such as the Book of Enoch
- things like Quranism (the modern Islamic version of Sola Scriptura - Quran-alone) and their arguments.
- Then these are all shoved into the British Israelism cult (which itself is a form of antisemitism and British-supremacy)
- The cliched trait of a cult leader claiming to be the return of Jesus and being nothing more than another fringe 'guru' figure.

I am really interested however, in how someone could even get into such a fringe, unknown and badly presented (the website still looks like it was made in the 90s) cult. Out of all of the cults you could've ended up in, it was something nobody has ever heard of.


(* ehye ’ăšer ’ehye from Exodus 3 doesn't strictly mean "I am that I am", though that is what some translations say, it is often also translated as "I Will Be What I Will Be". Before the I Am Activity new age moment, the notion of calling God "I Am" as the actual name of God was not a thing. In the Old Testament God is called YHWH, sometimes transliterated as Yahweh or the even worst transliteration of "Jehovah".
In terms of the Hebrew of Exodus 3, ehye ’ăšer ’ehye is a linguistic pun on YHWH as well. It isn't the other way around.)

 

[Red Sky at Morning]

The name of God as revealed to Moses contained elements that Moses could have never guessed. Just as the bronze serpent on a pole prefigured Jesus being “made sin for us”, so the very characters in the letters of the Paleo-Hebrew prefigured God’s plan.

Spoiler: Paleo-Hebrew??

Recently the usage of paleo-Hebrew on a tiny “curse tablet” found at Mt Ebal has destroyed the foundational claims of the JEDP “Documentary Hypothesis” which for many years cast doubt on the Mosaic authorship of the Torah.

Ironically the thing that blew away the “Documentary Hypothesis” (JEDP) was a lump of lead!

https://www.gotquestions.org/JEDP-theory.html

vigilantcitizenforums.com

Someone may say the above is anachronistic but consider that the very nature of prophecy and of God through His eternality is to reveal glimpses of His eternal plan. Whilst all such glimpses are technically anachronisms, IF God has inspired the Bible, that is precisely what you might expect.

John 4

39 And many of the Samaritans of that city believed in Him because of the word of the woman who testified, “He told me all that I ever did.” 40 So when the Samaritans had come to Him, they urged Him to stay with them; and He stayed there two days*. 41 And many more believed because of His own word. 42 Then they said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of what you said, for we ourselves have heard Him and we know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.”

John 4:39-42 NKJV

*This passage is especially interesting given the times we live in, coming up to the 2000th year after Jesus’s ministry. It sits as almost a [bracketed] episode in Jesus’s dealings with the Jews, yet features one of the clearest statements of the gospel Jesus made during His earthly ministry. Only time will tell whether this too will turn out to be an anachronism.