Andy Anderson on the "Overcomers"

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Originally Posted by OBW

When you die, your spirit/soul will go wherever it is that it goes. If we get it wrong in our minds while alive, it does not change what actually happens.

This, I think this touches to the parable of Sheep and the Goats, from Matt 25: "They will say to Me, Where did we see You and help You like that?" and conversely "Where did we see You and reject You thus?"

The receivers of the Master's blessing, and His condemnation, both have "wrong theological concepts", i.e. they don't get cognitively what is transpiring. But they are not being judged on their theology, but their behavior.

And it does not make anything about our current life need to be lived differently. Unless it is coupled with an erroneous teaching that we can just take our "salvation by faith" card to the bank and walk straight through the "pearly gates" and walk on "streets of gold," etc.

My beef with the teaching of the LRC is that it gives what is to me a vague and arbitrary "overcomer" status, then manipulates people based on this teaching. How you are in relationship to "the ministry" determines whether you are "going on". Thus the fogginess of the teaching I don't like, because it leaves gray area for human manipulation.

"If you don't do what I say, the Boogie Man will get you" gets revised to "Nobody who leaves the LRC can go on with the Lord in a positive way." I.E if you don't toe the line with the LSM and the Blendeds its a thousand years of outer darkness for you. The vagarity of their teaching leaves it open for abuse. No different for me than "When the coin in the offering box rings, the soul to heaven springs".

Bad teaching leads to bad theology leads to bad behavior, unchallenged.