>>"My religion book in High school basically said it was all the denominations that follow Christ that aren't "cults" like 7th Day Adventists and Mormons."
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What guidance did your book give on how to tell when a 'denomination' is a 'cult'?<<

I'm sorry if I wasn't clear. I was making the point that they were not allowing denominations created after a certain date in time into their club. It did give a certain guidance vis a vis orthodoxy as to how to spot a cult. but as far as I could tell though at the time and i was 40 years younger than now. I you made up your own scripture you were a cult. Or if you had a new interpretation of scripture after 1850 you were a cult. But looking at what we were taught of the details of being Baptist and 7th day adventist, I could not for the life of me figure out why one was a cult and the other wasn't.