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Originally Posted by Freedom
It's interesting to consider how various LC teachings and doctrines have contributed to the culture that exists within the LC as well as the abuses that have occurred. There are the obvious teachings like deputy authority. In other matters like the Lee's unorthodox teaching of the Trinity, it might not be immediately clear as to the end effect on LC members.
In regards to anything that Lee taught, I always have to also call into question his possible motivations for what he taught. Take the Trinity for example. Did he really feel that he had that much better of an understanding of the matter than anyone else? I don't think so, and that leads me to believe that his intention was related to setting the LC apart from others or trying to position himself and his teachings as superior.
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There was a whole thread started on this subject a while back. "Things that most Christian's don't know (but WL knows)" or something like that. The idea being, there was some special proprietary angle on the truth that nobody had gotten to yet, but now (at last!!) had been 'recovered'.
I think maybe there's a reason that most folks hadn't seen these things. Put different, maybe there's a reason most Christians DO believe God raised Jesus from the dead on the third day. Maybe there's a reason that we believe that God loved us so much that he sent His Only-begotten Son, that we should not perish. Maybe that's what God wants us all to focus on, agree on, collectively cling to, refusing to be separated by esoteric notions or winds of teaching.
On another thread we were talking about the ''first love'' in the church in Ephesus, as they were admonished by John from Patmos, and it brought to mind Ephesians 2:4,5 "But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved."
"His great love...." did you ever think about his great love for you? I rarely do unfortunately. This great love now wants to consume me, separate me from uncleanness, and pour out through me in a great fire that can't be extinguished. James taught that true religion was to visit widows and orphans in their affliction, just as Jesus had taught that if you visited the sick and weak you were visiting him. No mention of plying esotericism.