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The modern word cult is orrowed via the French culte the word cult was first used in the early 17th century, It was originally from the Latin cultus which meant worship. The word worship was they what you did to fulfill that obligation of care for your fellowman. There were different ways to do that.

The Imperial cult of ancient Rome identified emperors and some members of their families with the divinely sanctioned authority of the Roman State.

They sometimes called them a god. But the word god did not mean then what many think it means today. Paul said their were "gods many". Who were these gods? Understanding that will help you understand what the Roman Cult was.

Cults often have a bases in religion but then the definition of the word Religion changes over time too.

We need to read understand what Religion was and the two different definitions of religion are.

The word cult is defined as "a system of religious veneration and devotion directed toward a particular figure or object." The word "cult" was originally used not to describe a group of religionists, but for the act of worship or religious ceremony.

Religion use to be how you fulfilled your obligation to God to love your neighbor and therefore was the fulfillment of your obligation to care for your neighbor.

The framework for the Imperial cult was formulated during the early Principate of Augustus, and was rapidly established throughout the Empire and its provinces, with marked local variations in its reception and expression.

Augustus' reforms transformed Rome's Republican system of government to a de facto monarchy, couched in traditional Roman practices and and feigned Republican values much like the United States has done, see. Rome vs US... The Image of Rome

It was the conflict between the Public Religion of Rome and the Private Religion of Jesus Christ by faith hope and charity that was at the core of all persecution of real Christians.

In the beginning God made man and then breathed His life into that man.

.XII. "And God created man, taking a lump of clay from the earth, and breathed into his face the breath of life: and man became a living soul." The races of men are twofold; for one is the heavenly man, and the other the earthly man. Now the heavenly man, as being born in the image of God, has no participation in any corruptible or earth-like essence. But the earthly man is made of loose material, which he calls a lump of clay. On which account he says, not that the heavenly man was made, but that he was fashioned according to the image of God; but the earthly man he calls a thing made, and not begotten by the maker. And we must consider that the man who was formed of earth, means the mind which is to be infused into the body, but which has not yet been so infused. And this mind would be really earthly and corruptible, if it were not that God had breathed into it the spirit of genuine life; for then it "exists," and is no longer made into a soul; and its soul is not inactive, and incapable of proper formation, but a really intellectual and living one. "For man," says Moses, "became a living soul." The First Book of the Treatise on The Allegories of the Sacred Laws,

After the Work of the Six Days of Creation. Philo Judaeus. The adjective cultus could mean inhabited, cultivated, or worshiped in the sense of how you took care of the needy members of society. It was derived from the Latin verb colere meaning to care for or even to cultivate.

Able was a shepherd that cared for his sheep but Cain was a cultivator of the soil. He tilled the ground or what was called the adamah.

Genesis 4:2 And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground (adamah).

The word translated tiller is from the Hebrew word דבע , ‘abad which is a verb translated serve 227 times, do 15, till only 9 times and even worshippers 5 times but it also was translated servant, work, service, dress, labour, ear, and several other ways. While it is defined as "to work, serve" we also see it defined as "to labour" "to be worked" "to compel to labour or work, cause to labour, cause to serve" or even "to be led or enticed to serve".

"Therefore, as we found a tiller of the earth and a husbandman, though there did not appear to be any difference between them (till we came to investigate the allegorical meaning concealed under each name), nevertheless very far removed from one another in fact, such also shall we find to be the case with a shepherd and a keeper of sheep. For the lawgiver sometimes speaks of the occupation of a shepherd, and sometimes of that of a keeper of sheep. And those who do not examine expressions with any excessive accuracy, ill perhaps fancy that these two appellations are synonimous terms for the same employment. They are, however, in reality the names of things which are widely different in the meaning affixed to their concealed ideas. For if it is customary to give both the names of shepherd and keeper of sheep to those who have the management of flocks, still they do not give these names to that reason which is the superintendant of the flock of the soul; for a man who is but an indifferent manager of a flock is called a keeper of sheep, but a good and faithful one is called a shepherd, and in what way we will proceed to show immediately." A Treatise on the Tilling of the Earth by Noah, Section VI. Philo Judaeus

Adamah is what God made Adam from.

Just as the word religion has changed or been changed, so also has the word cult come to mean "a misplaced or excessive admiration for a particular person or thing."

Are public welfare schemes simply a cult run by men who call themselves Benefactors but exercise authority over the people causing them to work and serve them like Cain in his first city State?

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 Augustus' reforms transformed Rome's Republican system of government to a de facto monarchy, couched in traditional Roman practices and and feigned Republican values much like the United States has done, see. [[Rome vs US]]... The Image of Rome
+It was the [[Christian conflict|conflict]] between the [[Public Religion]] of Rome and the [[Corban|Private Religion]] of Jesus Christ by faith hope and charity that was at the core of all persecution of real Christians.
 : In the beginning God made man and then breathed His life into that man.

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