By Theodore Shoebat
All cults isolate verses of the Scriptures to influence and manipulate their followers. Cults will isolate verses that talk about prophets having multiple wives to justify polygamy; cults will isolate verses about the poor to propagate socialism and communism; cults will isolate verses on money to teach health and wealth gospel; they will isolate verses on war to justify murder; they will use verses being saved by Faith to justify licentiousness. I did an entire video on this:
I have read about Roch Theriault, a 7th Day Adventist cult leader who tortured and horrifically abused his followers. The sheer horror of the cult’s activities attest to the dangers of heresy. Here are two pages from the Wiki article on him