PAMPHLET: Christianity, Cults & Religion

***NEW 7th Edition Christianity, Cults, and Religions Pamphlet***
What’s new in the 7th Edition?

Three new groups: Seventh-day Adventism, Kabbalah, and Sikhism
New – More detailed Islam section - Comparison of Shi’as and Sunnis and their main teachings and practices.

Christianity, Cults & Religions helps you know what you believe and why! It compares the beliefs of 20 world religions and cults side by side: Who is God? Who is Jesus? What happens after death? How is a person “saved” and what is the spiritual goal? Religions include: Christianity, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Scientology, NEW! Seventh-day Adventism, Judaism, Islam, NEW! Kabbalah, NEW! Sikhism, Nation of Islam, Unity School of Christianity, Buddhism, New Age, Hinduism, Mormonism (Latter-Day Saints), Wicca, Hare Krishna, Unification Church, Christian Science, Nichiren Shoshu Buddhism, Bahá’í World Faith, and Transcendental Meditation (TM). Helps Christians understand their own beliefs. Many religious groups use the same terms but hold completely opposite beliefs. Knowing these differences helps Christians understand their own faith better. 14 panel, glossy pamphlet, fits inside most Bible covers.

Researched by some of the top scholars in the field, the Christianity, Cults & Religions pamphlet is excellent for study leaders who want to provide clear summaries of beliefs and practices. This pamphlet provides the most up-to-date comparison chart available and features more groups, including Scientology, Bahá'í? , Wicca (associated with witchcraft and neopaganism), and Nation of Islam, that other comparative pamphlets may overlook.

Unlike any other comparative overviews, the Christianity, Cults & Religions pamphlet provides full comparisons of 18 groups, including the five major world religions. In side-by-side comparisons, the pamphlet addresses:

The key person or founder of the group
The date and place it was founded
The key writings such as the Bible, the Book of Mormon, the Qur an (Koran), etc.
Who is God?
Who is Jesus?
Who is the Holy Spirit?
What is salvation?
What happens after death?
Other facts, beliefs, and practices

The 14-panel Christianity, Cults & Religions pamphlet is an excellent way to teach the key beliefs and practices of biblical Christianity and how it compares to other religions and cults. The pamphlet's concise nature makes it easy to see and understand how the religions and cults differ as well as what they may have in common. The pamphlet is a great resource for Bible study and missions classes.

The pamphlet also contains information that addresses How to Become a Christian and What Other Groups May Teach About Jesus with a verse-by-verse biblical response.

Christianity, Cults & Religions is an excellent personal resource to carry inside one's own Bible. Groups on a tight budget may find participants willing to purchase their own copy of the Christianity, Cults & Religions pamphlet if church or school budgets are tight.

Comparison of Christianity, Cults & Religions pamphlet to Similar Products on the Market Rose Editorial Staff

Spirit of Truth and Spirit of Error, Vol 2. Retitled in 2007, now called Comparing Christianity with World Religions (978-0-8024-8213-6). Available in 10 packs only. Compares Christianity with five world religions.
Christianity, Cults, and the Occult single unit pamphlet (ASIN 1596360534). Compares 11 groups, such as Kabbalah, Santeria, Voodoo, Freemasonry, etc.
Christianity & Eastern Religions, single unit pamphlet (15963619). Compares Christianity with 10 world religions, including three main types of Buddhism, three main types of Hinduism, Sikhism, Confucianism, Taoism, and Shinto.

Paul Carden, general editor, is a longtime specialist in the field of cults and new religions around the world. He is the executive director of the Centers for Apologetics Research (CFAR) in San Juan Capistrano, California, and general editor of Christianity, Cults & Religions. He is former co-host of the “Bible Answer Man” radio program. He speaks and writes extensively on the topic of “Confronting Cults on World Mission Fields. Paul has devoted nearly 30 years of his life to cult-related research and outreach in Latin America, Africa, eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union. In 1980, Paul joined the Christian Research Institute (CRI) under its founder, Walter Martin. For six of his fifteen years at CRI Paul served as a missionary in São Paulo, Brazil, and for six years he co- hosted the live, nationwide “Bible Answer Man” radio broadcast alongside Ron Rhodes, Robert M. Bowman, Jr., Kenneth Samples, and other noted apologists. During his time at CRI he was also the ministry's director of international outreach and a senior editor of the Christian Research Journal (1989-1995).

Contributors: Dr. James Bjornstad, Rob Bowman, Paul Carden, Dr. H. Wayne House, Eric Pement

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Topics include: Bahai, biblical Christianity, Buddhism, Christian Science, Christianity Cults religions, comparitive religions, cults, Dianetics, Eastern mysticism, Hare Krishna, Hinduism, Holy Spirit, Islam, Jehovah, Jehovah's Witnesses, Judaism, Koran, Latter-day Saints, Mormons, Muslim, Nation of Islam, New age movement, Nichiren Shoshu Buddhism, religion comparison, religions, Scientology, spiritism, TM, Transcendental Meditation, who is God?, who is Jesus?, Unification Church, Unity School, Wicca, cults comparison

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By: Ron Rhodes, Reasoning from the Scriptures Ministries - March 31, 2010

In over three decades of cult studies, I’ve never encountered a guide on the cults and false religions as concise as this one. In a day of information-overload, this helpful guide clearly distinguishes the truth of Christianity from the counterfeits. I recommend it highly.

By: Ron Rhodes, Reasoning from the Scriptures Ministries - March 31, 2010

Having worked with Paul Carden for years — including as long-time colleagues on the popular Bible Answer Man radio broadcast — I can say without reservation that there is no one better qualified to oversee the production of Christianity, Cults, & Religions. His research is first-rate, and his ability to sift the most important facts from a mountain of cult data will no doubt be appreciated by the many readers of this fine publication.

By: Edmond Gruss, The Master's College, Santa Clarita, CA - April 12, 2010

General editor Paul Carden has once again produced a very helpful pamphlet in this expanded and revised edition. People often wonder or ask how various cults and religions originated and what they believe. This provides a concise and accurate summary of their founders, their key beliefs, and how these differ from biblical Christianity, as well as other pertinent information. The material is easy to read and to understand. I recommend this valuable resource to Christian bookstores, pastors, and to Christians of every age. My teenage grandson reviewed the material and stated, “It's very important for all believers to understand how biblical Christianity differs from cults and world religions. It really opened my eyes to these other beliefs.” Dr. Edmond C. Gruss Author, Professor Emeritus at The Master's College Santa Clarita, CA

Apologia Report: Comparitive Religions - June 24, 2010

Apologia Report Contributing Editor Paul Carden recently finished updating the best concise religion comparison tool in print, the 7th edition of Rose Publishing's Christianity, Cults & Religions. In this 14-panel fold-out side-by-side comparison chart of the Christianity's 20 principal rivals in the West, details for each belief system considered include: founder, date, location, teachings on God, Jesus, salvation, death, key writings, other beliefs, and distinctive practices. The news regarding the 7th edition centers on a fresh DVD-based curriculum that is designed to complement this product. To learn more, go to ChristianityCultsAndReligions.com.

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By: Norman Geisler, Veritas Evangelical Seminary - July 8, 2010

Christians need to know what they believe and why. They also need good advice on sharing the Gospel with people from other religions. Paul Carden's Christianity, Cults & Religions DVD does the best job I have seen for fulfilling these crucial needs in the church today.

By: John Clark, United States Air Force - June 16, 2010

The pamphlet you graciously sent to Jessie and me is the best compendium of the cults I have seen. It is tremendously useful and something I wish I could have had in my years in the pastorate and as a military chaplain. Although we study the cults in Seminary it is hardly to our credit that we tend to forget the depth of the errors when we meet nice people who believe very bad things. Perhaps Mormonism is the best example. I was stationed with a Mormon Chaplain who constantly wanted to share the pulpit with me. Although I resisted him and tried to tell him why, he was so nice, and appeared to be just like the rest of the 35 chaplains on the base. When the Birch Society was strong in California, many Mormons were in the society and the people of my congregation began to look on them as "just like us." Such a pamphlet as this would have been a great help. Thanks for sharing it with us. May God Bless Your Work!