What Can We Learn From The Jim Jones Cult?

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(05-28-2009 04:20 PM)Strefanash Wrote:  need, and guilt. LOTS of it. If you are needy and riddled with guilt just a bible verse or two, out of context of course, will be enough to persuade you that YOU ARE WRONG and they are therefore (though it does not follow but one is too fugged with guilt to see this) right

I always thought people were searching for what they perceive to be the truth. In Jim Jones case, people came to his temple for altruistic reasons aka a better society. In other words, they were searching for something that they perceived to be the highest goal both spiritually and socially.

Paul even speaks of deception as itching ears.

2Ti 4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
2Ti 4:4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned to fables.