stay or go....

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Originally Posted by aron

I have mentioned this before: there was a "Catholic" writer named Desiderius Erasmus, who was quite critical of the RCC, yet never left. Judging by his writings, he was actually less "unhappy" than Luther. Luther became increasingly venomous over time, yet Erasmus never lost his sense of humor.

And Erasmus had phenomenal light, in my opinion. I read his essay on the three parts of man, written twenty years before Luther "recovered" justification by faith, and 400 years before Mary MacDonough "recovered" the three parts of man. I thought it was an amazing piece of writing.

The soul standeth in the midst between two ways: the flesh crieth upon her on the one side, the spirit on the other side. The spirit saith, God is above thy father: thou art bound to thy father but for thy body only. To God thou art bound for all thing that thou hast. The flesh putteth thee in remembrance, saying: Except thou obey thy father, he will disinherit thee, thou shalt be called of every man an unkind and unnatural child, look to thy profit, have respect to thy good name and fame. God either doth not see, or else dissimuleth and wittingly looketh beside it, or at the least, will be soon pacified again. Now thy soul doubteth The soul doubteth., now she wavereth hither and thither, to whether of either part she turn herself. That same shall she be, that that thing is she went unto. If she obey the harlot, that is to say the flesh (the spirit despised) she shall be one body with the flesh. But if she lift up herself and ascend to the spirit (the flesh set at nought) she shall be transposed and changed to the nature of the spirit. After this manner accustom to examine thyself prudently.

This was from a guy that "stayed" in the RCC!?

I stayed in the local churches for 13 years. Can you say that wasn't enough?