Paul, An Apostle of Christ movie take away

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Originally Posted by Jo S

With that said, let me share with you an analogy;

I compare Christ's church to a precious stone. A diamond is beautiful but that beauty doesn't come easy. It takes tremendous amounts of heat and pressure over a long period of time to give a natural diamond the beauty and resilience it's known for.

On the other hand, take a synthetic diamond made in a laboratory. They are made in controlled environments to have the same chemical and physical characteristics that organic diamonds have but they only take a very short amount of time and fewer steps to achieve those same properties. However there's one thing that gives a fake diamond away; microscopic metallic inclusions left over from the manufacturing process.

Since I have a gemologist in the family, I have learned that fake diamonds called cubic zirconium (CZ) are readily identified by their so-called "perfection." Real diamonds, however, always have some kind of flaw. What might seem "perfect" to the naked eye, or even with 10x power magnification, will be seen with higher power.

Learning this became significant in the context of the LCM and LSM's lust for uniformity among all the LC's. Real life is just not "perfect." Only Jesus Christ is perfect. All of nature is flawed in some way, but manufactured fakes like CZ fake diamonds can appear "perfect," and that signals a trained eye as to its real worth -- next to nothing. They only look pretty. They are worthless, however. Better to have a badly flawed, but real, diamond than a perfect CZ fake diamond.

LSM may love and demand "CZ" LC's all pretty and uniform, with each reading from the same book, giving identical testimonies, and lauding the "rich" ministry of WL, but God loves diversity, and God prefers all the "flaws" in this age, seeing the work of His Spirit on these precious stones. LSM deceives itself and its members into thinking that their perfect "CZ" uniformity is preferred to the genuine, but flawed, oneness which God desires.