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Final Review of Counterfeits by the Book
Summary
According to pollster George Gallup, one in four Americans now believes in reincarnation. This statistic is just a small indicator of the radical shift occurring in popular religious thinking. In fact, we live in an era in which Western culture is redefining its entire worldview. The outcome of this process may be nothing less than a new orthodoxy.
In an age of religious pluralism, traditional Christian belief is but one option among many. Eastern religions, cults, paganism, and occultism are competing with the gospel for the minds, hearts, and souls of individuals and nations. Dangerous and deceptive cults are gaining converts at an explosive pace, both here and abroad. The New Age Movement - a seductive blend of humanism, Eastern philosophy, and occultism - is currently the fastest growing religious movement in the world. Its influence can be felt in the marketplace, in medicine, in the classroom, in politics, in the arts, and in the church. Our children are increasingly ensnared in the web of witchcraft, occultism, and satanism at the price of their innocence and sometimes their lives. Never have individual Christians needed spiritual discernment more than today. But how can we respond knowledgeably to such a bewildering array of beliefs and practices? "Counterfeits By The Book" will supply you with the knowledge and skills you need to "contend for the faith" (Jude 3) and to give others a "reason for the hope that you have" in Christ (1 Pet. 3:15).
The topics covered include:
* Identifying the foundational tenets of the Christian faith.
* Key heresies at the heart of cult doctrines.
* Founders, histories, and beliefs of the major cults.
* Occultism and satanism.
* The origins, practices, and philosophy of the New Age Movement.
* How to "cult-proof" you and your family.
* Discerning cultic tendencies within the church.
As a result of studying this Living By The Book course, you will gain the factual and scriptural insight necessary to understand today’s cults and new religions. You will be able to effectively dialogue with those involved in spiritual counterfeits, because you can confidently approach them with the knowledge that Christianity offers better answers to their questions.
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Quiz Instructions
Final Exam Questions
1. Most people join cults
a) because Satan makes them
b) because they are mentally or emotionally unbalanced
c) for fellowship and acceptance
d) to acquire occult powers
2. The basic character of a cult is defined by its ___________________.
Founder
People
3. "My will is God’s will" is related to
Antinomianism
Monism
4. "The Judaizers" is related to
Monism
Legalism
5. "Worldview of paganism" is related to
Monism
Arianism
6. "Refuted in John 1:1" is related to
Legalism
Arianism
7. The “Personage” of Joseph Smith’s first vision declared that all Christian creeds were an “ ________________ ” and their professors all “corrupt.”
Abomination
Amicable
8. Although Joseph Smith claimed to have translated the ________________ from Egyptian papyri, his translation was shown to be a fraud in 1967.
Book of Abraham
Book of Proverbs
9. The central premise of Mormonism, “As man is, God once was; as God is, man may become,” is known as the doctrine of ______________________.
Temporary Life
Eternal Progression
10. In 1982 Bruce McConkie criticized students at Brigham Young University for seeking a “personal relationship” with ___________________.
Christ
Joseph
11. The Jehovah’s Witnesses’ denial of the deity of Christ is a revival of the fourth-century heresy of ______________________.
Arianism
Monism
12. Assurance of __________________ is impossible for a Jehovah’s Witness.
Salvation
Life
13. According to Mary Baker Eddy, “It is unchristian to believe that pain and sickness are anything but _______________.”
Illusions
Real
14. True or False. Christian Science is a rapidly growing cult.
True
False
15. Charles Fillmore’s “positive thinking/prosperity” paraphrase of Psalm 23 reads: “The Lord is my ____________ ; my credit is good.”
Banker
Shepherd
16. Within orthodoxy, the Modern Faith movement has been influenced by the __________________ philosophy of positive thinking.
New Mind
New Thought
17. Scientology claims we were all godlike ____________ before we became lost in the playground of matter, space, and time.
Thetans
Images
18. L. Ron Hubbard’s major book ________________ contains the “theology” of Scientology.
Dianetics
Kinetics
19. According to Herbert W. Armstrong, those who are “born again” at the resurrection become _______________.
Godlike
God
20. The Worldwide Church of God’s magazine is called ___________________.
Plain Truth
Real World
21. Victor Paul Weirwille founded a cult in the 1960s called ________________.
The Way International
Amway
22. In his Divine Principle _______________ provides the theological basis of the Unification Church.
Sun Myung Moon
Baha’i
23. The world religion that Hare Krishna came from is _________________ while Baha’i came from ________________.
Hinduism, Islam
Jainism, Buddhism
24. The doctrine that a person may return as a dog or cat in a future life is called _______________________.
Reincarnation
Rebirth
25. __________________ is a highly ethical religion that seeks the equality of the sexes as well as universal education and peace.
Baha’i
Hare Krishna
26. "Process Church" relates to
Charles Manson
Anton LaVey
27. "The Temple of Set" relates to
Anton LaVey
Michael Aquino
28. "Founder of Theosophy" relates to
Madame Blavatsky
Michael Aquino
29. "Father of modern satanism" relates to
Aleister Crowley
Alice Bailey
30. "Spiritualism" relates to
Charles Manson
Fox sisters
31. The “Luciferic Initiation” relates to
Alice Bailey
David Spangler
32. "The Satanic Bible" relates to
Fox sisters
Anton LaVey
33. “The Plan” relates to
Anton LaVey
Alice Bailey
34. Worshipers of the “Old Religion” relates to
Witches
Madame Blavatsky
35. The blasphemous satanic celebration in which the ritual Catholic mass is inverted and defiled is called the ________________________.
Black Mass
Super Mass
36. _______________ are seen by New Agers as tools that can be used to store, direct, magnify, and harmonize many types of energy.
Crystals
Jewels
37. The reincarnationist law of cause and effect is ________________.
Karma
Gothram
38. _____________ is the communication through a living individual with a spiritual entity often never known to have actually lived.
Channeling
Necromancy
39. True or False. Zodiacal astrology has a strong scientific basis.
True
False
40. David Berg, in his cult the ______________________, ordered his female followers to be “hookers for Jesus.”
Children of God
Flirty Fishing
41. Rajneesh wed ________________, the belief that all is one, with Western humanistic psychotherapy.
Psychotherapy
Nature
42. Fundamentalist fringe groups major on ________________ elements of faith and doctrine.
Minor
Major
43. In the form of church discipline called ____________________, each church member must report to a church elder or leader.
Shepherding
Mentoring
44. Accusations of New Age thinking have been leveled against some evangelicals because of their use of supposed New Age “ _____________.”
Buzzwords
Actions
45. The biblical model for mystical experience is not “merging” but “ _____________.”
Marriage
Melting
46. In Montanist extremes of Pentecostalism, ________________ utterances are thought to supersede Scripture in importance.
Prophetic
Languages
47. A person with an ______________ is never at the mercy of a person with an argument.
Experience
Attitude
48. Cults are famous for “ __________________ ” newcomers into the group and then coldly manipulating them.
Love-Bombing
Party-Eating
49. True or False. American cults have made little progress in establishing their movements overseas.
True
False
50. Theologically, the opposite of faith is not doubt but ________________.
Sin
Unfaithful
