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Originally Posted by Trapped
Totally agree on the "and what is the scriptural basis for those three requirements, please?" statement!
I remember as a young person sitting in LSM conferences where the speaking brother would say things like "If you think you are an overcomer, you probably aren't, and if you think you aren't, you probably are!" Or "Don't think about whether you are an overcomer, just focus on the Lord!"
I sat there thinking, "uh, talk about a mind game! Basically you have to ignore any thought of being an overcomer, while simultaneously having the awareness in the back of your head that after you get saved it's essentially the most important thing in front of you!" The way the LC taught it was ripe for a mental breakdown.
I thought for something that threatening and important, God should have created some kind of gauge embedded in our arms where it registered the current level of "oil" in us. Because otherwise we are totally flying blind!
Trapped
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It causes anxiety in a lot of saints. I’ve seen saints completely abandon the faith because they committed certain sins and thus according to the LR are disqualified for the banquet feast. I’ve seen saints who are in crippling fear that they won’t make it, and their entire Christian pursuit is motivated by being an overcomer.
For me personally, I felt that the only reason I pursued God was so that I could be an overcomer. Using God in order to attain something, how sad now. I didn’t read my Bible to be washed, I read it to get more spirit to make sure I wasn’t stuck in the “outer darkness”. I made this thread tho, to make sure that my displeasure of that doctrine wasn’t based on my personal view, but that it is in fact a false doctrine. I believe it is, I think it’s very damaging. Like GraceAlone said, it robs people. Oh how robbed I was for years and years.