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Originally Posted by Ohio
The answer is that we trusted our leaders, we submitted to them as the scripture has instructed us. It was they who betrayed our trust. It was often self-serving motives in local leaders which caused them not to stand up for righteousness, and instead bow down and stick their head in the sand.
How can we be accountable for what we did not know? We as young believers are not responsible for being deceived by Christian ministers any more than a child is responsible for being abused. As long as LSM was in complete control of all information, they had a semblance of prosperity. Today, with information so readily available, LSM has had to court folks like Hank HandyGraft of CRI to maintain their credibility as Christians.
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Ohio,
We are accountable for
ALL Scripture. Not just the verse that tells us to submit to the authorities over us. Acts 17:11 is in the Bible too. This is the first lesson in accountability.
We were young. We were impressionable. We cannot go back and undo the past, but we can
own it now. We now know we were wrong to submit to men rather than God. We now know we were wrong not to search the scriptures to verify what we were being told. We were wrong to keep quiet rather than speak to truth and hold these men accountable.
If indeed "
There would certainly be something of value to be learned by elucidating that process in print, so that they who read it don't repeat it... this would be it. Specifically: "Don't do what I did." and call it what it is: sin.
Nell