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Originally Posted by NeitherFirstnorLast
We have scared you! I am so sorry brother; in our zealous haste to expose the fallacies within the system, we've caused you to lose sight of the very thing you came here to find: A way to reconcile your faith with that of your girlfriends'.
Your brother,
NeitherFirstnorLast
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Brother NeitherFirstnorLast,
Thank you so much for your insight. I apologize for only putting the beginning and end in quotes and leaving out all the actually important words you put, but for the sake of not having a ridiculously long response message (I myself tend to get annoyed having to scroll through extraneous quotes and things trying to get to the actual response) I have left it out.
I would however, first like to respond to something you said about Bible studies. I have no idea what goes on in these Bible studies. I do know that they read out of the RcV since I have seen her bring it there and back with nothing else (ie HWfMR, Life studies, etc). I am only guessing that they read from the footnotes as well, but I don't know for sure. Like you, I have nothing but speculation beyond the fact that they use the RcV. Perhaps that's all the evidence necessary. It would make sense that if they used the footnotes that they would be the "depth" that is lacking in my Bible studies.
But onto more serious matters...
Since my first discovery of what the Recovery was and what it stood for I have been wary of it. Perhaps that is God's way of warning me of the words I was reading. To clarify, I had been reading a lot of LSM sponsored websites trying to find the errors in their words myself. I even read footnotes from the RcV with two of my closest brothers in the church. They possess far more biblical knowledge than I and yet even they could not find an error in the footnotes that we read. We probably weren't looking in the right places for such things, but nonetheless even then I still was convinced that there had to be something that was up with regards to the LRC.
Perhaps I held a strange fear of knowing that the girl I love (and yes, you presumed very much correctly) believed in false teachings. Whatever it was, I guess you could say my burning desire to expose these false teachings diminished. Perhaps they diminished for her sake, knowing that if she knew what she has grown up with is indeed false teachings, her life may very well be shattered. Still, I have prayed every day for God to open both my heart and hers to His will. I would have a hard time believing that God would not want another soul for His kingdom, and so I have remained, and continue to remain hopeful that somehow I or something/someone else could convince her of the truth. Problem is, I also have no idea where to start. Perhaps it that I am not mature enough in my own knowledge to refute all the false teachings in front of her, perhaps it's something else. Maybe I will find the answer here on this forum (no pressure) or maybe simply just partial answers, but I'm sure you guys can be nothing but helpful to us.
At the very least, I ask for your prayers. Prayer is our most powerful tool in situations like these.
In Christ,
ToGodAlone