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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah
Cult -- 1. a system of religious veneration and devotion directed towards one person.
2. a relatively small group of people having religious beliefs or practices regarded as sinister by others.
3. a misplaced or excessive admiration for a particular person
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The RcV may seem innocuous because it is quite similar to other study Bibles sold and the translation is acceptable.
However, the RcV is a vehicle to push the beliefs and practices regarded as sinister by others.
The RcV is a critical component in a system of religious veneration and devotion directed towards one person. Perhaps the most pernicious aspect of the RcV is the way they have substituted testimonies with parroting footnotes from the RcV. A testimony is a personal experience. However, they have taken the verse "Each one has...a teaching" and used that to justify just quoting footnotes as though that was a testimony. So a "testimony of your personal experience with the Lord" becomes a misplaced and excessive admiration for WL.