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Originally Posted by Nell
"poor, poor Christianity"
"Degraded Christianity"
"moo-cows"
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Not to mention, "devilish" and "satanic". All these demarcations may in some objective sense be true, but in a spiritual sense they're curses. We're called to bless, not curse. The ones who put the curse on others, curse themselves.
"What pit ye digged, ye have fallen into", said the psalmist, and Jesus echoed with "What therefore ye would have done to yourself, do therefore unto others." In the divine view, "other" becomes the stand-in for the true "self". Only by embracing, blessing the "other" do we become freed from the Adamic curse. If we contrarily revile and curse, so we do to our own self.
What happened to the passive and silent LC crowds who sat under these curses? They vicariously partook the judgment. By silently acquiescing to the curse, they agreed to put themselves under it. Now the way back home to the Father was apparently sealed shut, because it was closed to rapprochement with fellow believers.
The LC cut themselves off with the curse.
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Now, some here have pointed out my own combative spirit, and my using invective like 'braindead' to characterise the thoughtlessness of the LC'ers who sit passively through teachings that are arbitrary, self-contradictory, against scripture (it's called "natural" and "fallen" in great swaths), and against the apostolic precedent. But the Deputy God spoke it, so it's received in the LC assemblies as from God.
Perhaps my observations have some truth, just as WL's repeated views against the mass of current Christianity, harboring as it does strange festivals, practices, and thoughts introduced centuries after Christ to entertain and pacify the natives.
But my observations may lack the grace and truth that WL also lacked in his, and promote a rancorous and party spirit. Proud, boastful of 'truths' and so forth.
Mea culpa.
Please forgive my interjections of personal ambitions (to be something) and my unresolved issues (leading to un-Christlike quarrels).
We all need healing. May the Lord have mercy. May we all have the grace to bless and not curse, to endure with love, to see the common good and not the failure of the "other", which is surely a deception of the adversary.
The most I can say for my posts is that they have some basis (observation, scripture). (As did WL's.) But at least mine have not been leveraged for pecuniary bases. WL can not say the same. So his curses should be utterly renounced.
And I'll try to soften my tone. . . "and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain." To curse others is not to hold fast. May we let go of the curse, and hold to the Word of promise. I really liked the "by which you are being saved" part. It's not to sit passively under curses and invective and judgment; it's rather to actively let go of all things that hinder the Word of promise operating in us. We're not "saved" as much as "being saved". Just as life doesn't begin at birth but at conception. We received the Spirit, now we must not let go of the life. Bless, seek the good in all and to all, and thus let the life grow.