Religious Cults - Free Sunday School Lessons
377-388) identifies five ?distinctive traits? of a cult: (1) an extra-Scriptural source of 
authority; 2) the denial of justification by grace alone; 3) the devaluation of Christ; 
...... ?All that has been said about the manner of interpreting Scripture is ultimately 
subject to the judgment of the Church which exercises the divinely conferred ...							

