Mormon Direction

A while back, I posted an article about the use of the word “cult” against the latter-day Saints usually named as Mormons. That article ( http://mormondirection.com/2009/04/27/cult-misuse-use-of-the-webster-dictionary/ ) spoke of the misuse by people, even ex-mormons.

To add to that posting, here is an interesting video on YouTube displaying the meaning of a cult, the actual meaning and usage. How the video shows how the world at large, which includes the Anti-Mormons, their own cult like practices, but because the world at large condones and even promotes it, then such cult like practices are acceptable. It is the true religious and faithful practice of the Latter-day Saints that others dislike, as people in the world at large, which includes the Anti-Mormons and Ex-Mormons.

Interesting, we Latter-day Saints advocate the one true gospel, a single set of doctrines from Jesus Christ, even the revelation of Jesus Christ (D&C 84:1 / Galatians 1:12 ), yet the world at large advocates diverse doctrines that are not from Jesus Christ, but from worldly men.

This YouTube video is good and any truly reasonable person would agree.

View the video just below, or click this link for the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rqr_09-Z5fU&feature=player_embedded

I always enjoy the truth, because it always gives light.

Amen

There are some on the Internet that have called Mormons a cult, claiming that the definition of the word “cult” proves it. I read one claim from one person who said that he “pursued the most scholarly, objective approach” and proceeded to show a definition of the word cult according to the Webster Dictionary of 1913. The definition he showed was as follows:

Cult (k?lt) n .[F. culte, L. cultus care, culture, fr. colere to cultivate. Cf. Cultus.]

1. Attentive care; homage; worship.
Every one is convinced of the reality of a better self, and of. thecult or homage which is due to it. Shaftesbury.

2. A system of religious belief and worship.
That which was the religion of Moses is the ceremonial or cult of the religion of Christ. Coleridge.

(link:  http://machaut.uchicago.edu/?resource=Webster’s&word=cult&use1913=on&use1828=on target= )

This particular person specifically used one definition of the word cult to justify his aberrant claims. Was he correct? No he was not and I will show why.

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