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Welcome
Audio welcome
Welcome to CARM. CARM stands for the Christian Apologetics and
Research Ministry. Its purpose is to discuss various theological
systems and examine them from a Christian perspective. CARM is
useful in that it documents the religious beliefs of a system, analyzes
them, and compares them to biblical revelation. For that end, it is
mainly for the Christian; that is, it is primarily intended to help the
Christian defend his/her faith better and to know why cults are cults.
By Christian, I mean someone who not only believes in
and has accepted Jesus, but also includes the understanding of the doctrine
of the Trinity and that Jesus is fully God as well as fully man. There
are many false "christs" out there and just because someone says he or she
is a Christian, does not make him one.
By cult, I mean a group or teaching that, in general,
is unorthodox, esoteric, and has a devotion to a person, object, or a set of
new ideas. By this definition many groups can be called cults.
But, more specifically, CARM deals with groups that are non-Christain cults
(though deals with others) and by this is meant a group that claims to be
Christian yet deviates from biblical truth sufficiently to make salvation
null. Of course, there are more generic definitions of the word cult
and by some of them, all of us are in a cult in one way or another.
Nevertheless, please see my article on an analysis of what makes a group
cultic.
CARM stands in opposition to false "christs" such as
the one in Mormonism which states that Jesus is
the product of relations between god and his goddess wife who were both
people on another world. CARM also does not consider
Jehovah's Witnesses to be Christian, nor
Christadelphians, nor
Christian Science since they all deny
orthodox, biblical doctrine, state God is something/someone He is not, and
deny the full deity and/or humanity of Jesus.
There are other non-Christian groups mentioned on CARM
and many more are in the works. But please examine CARM and compare it
to Scripture. See whether or not it is biblical. See if CARM
preaches the true doctrine of God, salvation, regeneration, etc.
Don't just believe everything you read.
If you are a
member of one of the groups labeled as non-Christian by CARM, please
remember that my intention is not to offend. Rather, it is to inform.
Unfortunately, doing this means I step on theological toes.
Eternity is a long
time to be wrong.
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