DESTRUCTIVE CULTS OF PSEUDO-CHRISTIAN ORIENTATION AND UNIVERSAL VALUES

In addition to traditional religious ideas, new organizations that call themselves Christian are increasingly appearing in society, many of which are not legally extremist, but have a number of destructive elements that also harm society, go in contrast to traditional Kazakh customs and universal values in their ideas.

Many of these "new" movements refuse to serve in the army, do not participate in state and public events, considering it idolatry, although there is no question of worship in these moments. Since the first Christians and the first Muslims also had an army, there were also secular events along with religious holidays, but they were never equated with worship. In addition, inaction and non-participation, for example in the defense of their homeland, in many traditional faiths is equated with deviation from the will of God, not accepting the dogmas of the Holy Scriptures. For example, in St. The text indicates: "Then saith Jesus unto him, return thy sword to its place, for all that take up the sword shall perish by the sword" (Matthew 26: 52). Often, new denominations interpret this quote as a complete rejection of military service, as if Christians are not allowed to serve in the army and participate in the war. Although there is not a word about war here, and the Savior does not address the warrior. If we take this phrase literally, we will come to reject it, because it is known that not everyone who takes up arms, dies from weapons in the literal sense of the word.

In this case, it was about the threat of punishment to those who first took up arms, that is, the initiator of the attack will die. And not only in war, even if a person attacks another with a word, he will also be defeated, but not by the word of another, but by the punishment of the Lord.

Sometimes they try to justify pacifist teaching by referring to the commandment "thou shalt not kill" (Exodus 20: 13). But God not only gave Moses the commandment "thou shalt not kill," but also gave him instructions on how to wage war in order to defeat his enemies (see ex. 21, 22)"[5]. Often, God himself ordered the Israelites to start wars against other Nations (see: 1 Sam. 15: 3; NAV. 4: 13), and God imposed the death penalty for many crimes (see Exodus 21: 12, 15; Lev. 20: 11, etc.). So, this commandment speaks about the example of Cain and Abel, that is, about the selfish intentions of a person, and not about protecting their homeland.

The division of society, depriving the state and its people protection, the first step to the destruction of the state system and state capture not by military action but by ideological warfare and propaganda exercises.

Distortion and wrong interpretation of Holy texts, which is often seen in magazines, books, leaflets, information posted on the websites of destructive currents, allegedly how to understand a particular verse in the Bible, in fact, is only a stronghold of their own ideas and understandings of the organization.

For example, the famous cases in the history of religion, when the planned date of the end of the world, leaders of organizations that when reading a sacred text allegedly solved the mystery of the universe and his death, but he came to scheduled years, and their predictions proved to be false, of biography activities such leaders turned out that they were actually guided by the help and ideas of occult and mystical organizations, as the Bible used and manipulated the facts. Then, in order to avoid failures and the collapse of the organization, new doctrines were invented and introduced into use, also using the Bible.

For example, the organization "White Brotherhood" widely known in our region in the 90-ies, wanted to organize a mass self-immolation in Kiev, in view of the fact that the leader of the so-called Marina Tsvigun saw revelations and the imminent end of the world, as well as the salvation of those who will sacrifice themselves, regulating this with their interpretations of the Holy Scriptures. But the operational work of law enforcement agencies saved the lives of these people.

Also, due to incorrect interpretation of the Holy text, thousands of people, including children in the history of new Christian movements, lost their lives due to refusal of blood transfusions. But the ban has no theological justification. So, the Apostle Paul forbade Christians to eat things sacrificed to idols, blood in the food that was important at the time. Christians are also not allowed to drink human or any other blood. But these bans have nothing to do with medical blood transfusions.

Children are deprived of gifts for New year or Nauryz, they are forbidden to celebrate holidays and birthdays, and even participate in them, although the Apostle Paul says: "So let no one judge you ... for any holiday" (Col. 2: 16), i.e. no one has the right to condemn another for celebrating a particular holiday. In fact, some Jews used to celebrate pagan holidays, but the Bible says: "to distinguish the sacred from the unholy and the unclean from the pure" (Lev. 10. 10), and therefore you can not mix in one pile everything that previously had to do with paganism. Otherwise, judging only by appearances, it turns out that the Jews did not sacrifice to Jehovah, but also like the Gentiles to demons. This inability to distinguish shows that Society does not have the gift of discerning spirits bequeathed to the Church (1 John 4: 1).

Just like the ban on birthday celebrations, the sons of the righteous job celebrated the birthday, "his Sons gathered together, making feasts each in their own house on their own day, and sent and invited their three sisters to eat and drink with them" (job 1:4). As you can see, they celebrated on their own day, which, according to the context of the book, means a birthday. And the arguments that there were murders on birthdays do not give rise to an interpretation about the ban on their celebration.

So, people who accept these prohibitions, considering that, guided only by Scripture, in fact is not guided to them, and the interpretation of the leaders of the organization, which reveal their ideas in pamphlets, magazines, books, distributed to the faithful.

All of these, the breakdown of the marriage, the rejection of relationships, not promoting higher education, but the complete subordination of the organization leads to spiritual exhaustion, the mask which is worn adept destructive currents, closes it the appearance of truth that these organizations hide.

In fact, in such organizations, a person worships and fulfills the will not of God, but of an organization artificially created by several people for Mercantile purposes.

Today, in order to increase the number of adherents, as well as quickly spread their ideas, destructive trends use young people as a fast driving force, and an element that is able to quickly transmit the necessary information through Internet resources.

You must be extremely careful with the information about God and Faith offered to you in the Internet space, as well as on the streets of the city. It is necessary to know that the dissemination of religious ideas and literature is prohibited in public places and state organizations. No one has the right to impose their religious beliefs on anyone.

Keep in mind that you can get into a destructive organization in 5 minutes, and it may take 5 years to get out.

Voronovich Olga, theologian