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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah
I find this fellowship to have an ugly appearance. It is one thing to repent to a brother you have offended...
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Quite an accurate assessment.
And among the things that I note about this whole event is not so much that he repented only to those in the conference — to people to whom his only repentance should have been to lead them astray and to cause them to sin — but that if that were true, then he didn't really repent to the LRC in the US because he was not speaking to us in our language. But worse than that, as you note, he really needed to repent to JI, HS, BM, AK, MR, etc., but he should go to those people for that purpose. He seemed willing to observe that he had wronged others, but was unwilling to actually make amends. Instead, he just told some others, practically on his death bed, that he was sorry about some vague uncertainty.
I believe that he incorrectly hid behind the false understanding that asking God for forgiveness for trespasses is enough. That it relieves him of the obligation to ask those he offended for forgiveness. And once again, it seems to make his whole brand of theology about being spiritual before God and not about becoming truly righteous because of God. In other words, it is not about right and wrong, but just being in the spirit. He may have been in
his spirit. But his mind was not set on the Spirit to walk according to the Spirit. He did not fulfill the righteousness of the law.