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Originally Posted by Trapped
To be honest, the turn the last portion of posts in this thread have taken has confused and concerned me. The statements that seem to be being made sound very much like the local church, quite frankly. Things like desiring to know things is somehow......bad? Things like we can never trust our clever minds?
These kind of statements are almost carbon copies of similar types of teachings propagated in the LC.
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Concerning the exposition I Timothy 4.1-3 I couldn't agree more.
Concerning the "doctrines of demons," Paul cites two examples, (1) Forbidding to marry, and (2) Abstaining from certain foods. No other examples were given. These were not suddenly sprung on Timothy, since Paul had addressed Marriage and Foods on numerous occasions prior to this.
What is most surprising is the neglect of two cited doctrines, and the jump to numerous speculations. The priesthood of the Catholic church is built on the first doctrine, and the Jewish religion Kosher regulations qualify for the second doctrine.
As
Trapped alluded to, this is so typical of LC ministry. They regularly abandon the plain text of scripture, and then jump to judgment on their latest pet peeve. When I left that system, it was using drums in the young people's meetings that was branded
"doctrines of demons from deceiving spirits." Cuz WL said so!