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Originally Posted by Indiana
The more you write, the more you solidify yourself and others into division. Again, as I stated above, you have been an excellent scribe in recording much of the truth of what has happened among us. And I do not question the accuracy of your reporting or of your love of the Lord, the saints, the Word, or matters of the divine truth. But I feel that your writings are on the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. The fact that you are correct in the details and facts only shows that you are on some of the so-called 'good' branches' of the evil tree. Being 'right' does not mean being in life. This is a hard lesson but I have learned the truth of it in my over 30 years in the church.
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While I do appreciate the kind attitude displayed towards Steve Isitt, these concepts are troublesome. Steve has been documenting the brief history of the so-called Recovery in America. His goal is to preserve the facts of history to positively effect the many members in the LC's. To relegate his work to "the tree of knowledge," is in principle the same as eliminating half of the Old Testament. How many millions of Bible readers have read of David's sins with Bathsheeba? How much better would it have been to strike those portions of scripture, and record only the noble accomplishments of the "
man after God's own heart?" Surely David as the "type" of the later MOTA's should have re-written history in a more favorable light! Shouldn't King David have held a Whistler-like Quarantine for Nathan the Prophet before turning him into a pile of rubble?!?
But alas ... the Bible is not the words of man, neither written
nor re-written by our past leaders. The Bible addresses failures without the respect of persons. God has good reasons to do this! More troublesome to me than just dwelling on "
some 'good' branches' of the evil tree," is the crafty system of error which so shields itself of all culpability.
The corollary to this thought is the equally upsetting, though unspoken, premise that
every ministry book is part of the "tree of life."