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Book Info and Review: Encyclopedic Dictionary of Cults, Sects, and World Religions: Revised and Updated Edition Dr. Alvin J. Schmidt, George Mather, Rev. Larry A. Nichols Occult Books.
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Encyclopedic Dictionary of Cults, Sects, and World Religions: Revised and Updated Edition

by Dr. Alvin J. Schmidt, George Mather, Rev. Larry A. Nichols

Buy the book: Dr. Alvin J. Schmidt, George Mather, Rev. Larry A. Nichols. Encyclopedic Dictionary of Cults, Sects, and World Religions: Revised and Updated Edition

Release Date: 2006-08-01

Edition: Hardcover

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Reader's Review: Unbiased?

The book has alot of good information but they continually compare every religion or doctrine to their own obviously fundalmentalist Christian views. It gets a little old time after time reading how this organization is wrong because they're not the right kind of Christian.

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Reader's Review: Which Is the "Christian" Doctrine?

Which Is the "Christian" Doctrine?

Suppose for a moment that the Latter-day Saints were to take seriously the demand that they conform in every particular to "Christian" doctrine, and that they then made the attempt to do so. Having complied with such a demand, would the Latter-day Saints find themselves in total agreement with Protestants or with Catholics? Would they believe in apostolic succession or in the priesthood of all believers? Would they recognize an archbishop, a patriarch, a pope, a monarch, or no one at all as the head of Christ's church on earth? Would they be saved by grace alone, or would they find the sacraments of the church necessary for salvation? Would they believe in free will or in predestination? Would they practice water baptism? If so, would it be by immersion, sprinkling, or some other method? Would they believe in a substitutionary, representative, or exemplary atonement? Would they or would they not believe in "original sin"? And on and on.

It is unreasonable for other Christians to demand that Latter-day Saints conform to a single standard of "Christian" doctrine when they do not agree among themselves upon exactly what that standard is. To do so is to establish a double standard; doctrinal diversity is tolerated in some churches, but not in others. The often-heard claim that all true Christians share a common core of necessary Christian doctrine rests on the dubious proposition that all present differences between Christian denominations are over purely secondary or even trivial matters-matters not central to Christian faith. This view is very difficult to defend in the light of Christian history, and might be easier to accept if Protestants and Catholics- or Protestants and Protestants, for that mat-ter-had not once burned each other at the stake as non-Christian heretics over these same "trivial" differences.

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