Relationships/Courting

[aron]

Originally Posted by Freedom

They'll say that everything needs to be 'proper', but what that really means is just that everything needs to be by their terms.

Of course there is such a thing as propriety, on both Christian and more general (societal) terms. And the LC will agree with "Christianity" to some extent, if nothing else to keep you off-balance. But ultimately they consider it entirely within their purview, and that wholly subjective.

And if push comes to shove, it becomes what "we" do is proper and what "they" do is not. "We" are the church, spotless and pure and ready for the Bridegroom, and "they" are fallen Christianity, deformed and darkened, satanic even. "We" are full-timers, consecrated to Christ and the Church, while "they" are clergy, bought and paid for. Ours is the proper translation, theirs is deficient.

This goes for relationships, both marital and otherwise, in "fellowship" and other forms of social adjudication. And so on. "Proper" is entirely subjective, and freighted with LC baggage.