LSM’s Deification Doctrine—Biblical or Blasphemous? Nigel Tomes

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Igzy,

Profound. I liked this part the best:

Suppose I wanted to become a great golfer like Justin Spieth. What would really be more profound and meaningful: Just getting a DNA transplant from Spieth, and basically becoming him in nature, and automatically being like him? Or would it be more meaningful to make decisions and sacrifices to do things the way Spieth did, and by work and practice and discipline to become more like him?

Morally speaking there is no comparison. The latter is much more meaningful. Getting injections of Spieth's DNA, imbibing his nature, really takes little moral fortitude. But the everyday decisions and sacrifices to do what it would take to be like him gives the whole exercise great meaning.

I have ranted for some time about Lee's "wait for the dispensing" theology and gotten a fair bit of push back from even the die-hard LCM exes. You've made the argument I just couldn't see or make.

The bible is full of commands to do and essentially none to just wait. Even the vine-branches analogy is about a relationship in which there is constant activity doing something with what has been provided, not waiting for more to be provided before stopping.

In human terms, waiting for the dispensing would be called a blood clot. It tends to kill, not empower.

Unfortunately, the idea that we just take grace for our failures as we wait for the internal fortitude to actually do something, while truly available, is not the purpose of grace. Most of those who came to see Jesus, or were healed by Him, remained where they were. And were told to live according to the righteousness of God that they well knew because it was written in the Torah. Jesus moved on and they went back home and lived right. Or at least that was their target.

Lee's target was osmosis. Exercise by watching exercise videos from the comfort of his easy chair.