Apologetics Index

October 8, 2021: House of Yahweh cult leader Yisrayl Hawkins, who claimed he would never die, dead at 87.

Over the years many members have fled the cult. Hawkins ex-wife Kay Hawkins, who was excommunicated in 1994, wrote a book about her experience.

Since Christ's sacrifice for believers is said to suffice for our cleansing for sin, making animal sacrifices unnecessary, some people see the description of millennial sacrifices in Ezekiel 40-48 as contradicting New Testament teaching about the finality and sufficiency of Christ's sacrifice on the cross.

Many people who have taken to themselves the role of shepherding God's sheep use the rod and staff to beat the sheep when they should be gentle, yet they stand by idly when wolves attack the sheep.

Christians who think of themselves as more spiritual than common believers are usually less spiritual in the things that really matter to God.   

Steven Hassan is a cult expert with nearly 40 years of experience.

Hassan, a licensed mental health counselor (M.Ed. LMHC, NCC), is at the forefront of the cult education and recovery field, in which he has been involved since 1976.

A former cult member himself, he is an expert on the subject of mind control -- the coercive persuasion methods used by manipulative people to recruit and hold on to followers.

God's confusion of mankind's previously unified language at Babel (Genesis 11:1-9) is regularly criticized by skeptics. However, there is nothing in history or linguistics that genuinely contradicts the account.

Janet and Anton Hein are the co-publishers of Apologetics Index.