Main Entry: cult
Pronunciation: \ˈkəlt\
Function: noun
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: French & Latin; French culte, from Latin cultus care, adoration, from colere to cultivate — more at wheel
Date: 1617
1: formal religious veneration : worship
2: a system of religious beliefs and ritual; also : its body of adherents
3: a religion regarded as unorthodox or spurious; also : its body of adherents
4: a system for the cure of disease based on dogma set forth by its promulgator <health cults>
5 a: great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement, or work (as a film or book); especially : such devotion regarded as a literary or intellectual fad b: the object of such devotion c: a usually small group of people characterized by such devotion

from the Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary


According to the definition above, especially the 1st & 5th definitions, all religion, including Christianity, is a cult. In my opinion far too many people use the word cult in a negative way to describe a religion, philosophy, or way of life that they personally don't agree with or find abhorring. Personally, I think those people need to get their heads out of their asses and learn to live and let live.

Yes what you say is true. Those do fit and the early believers were considered a cult.The negativaty doess need to leave. I will leave you with this..

James 1:23-24
For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:

24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
KJV
Blessings..Miles