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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah
If they teach that each local church is autonomous and that the LSM does not control the churches, this is clearly false. Look at the website.
If on the other hand they are honest and say we use WL and WN's ministry when it is convenient, and we discard things that are inconvenient. Of course, everyone in this country has the right to do that.
I am not objecting to their rights to freedom of religion and freedom of speech, all I am objecting to is the hypocrisy and falsehood. They trumpet that they are the ones who seek to be faithful to every word of WL and WN's ministry (see the quarantine letter on Titus C) and this is a clear case of where they have ignored WN's warning and WL's teaching concerning the churches being autonomous.
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OK, but if because of their weak conscience, they need a centralized authority to exercise control over the churches ("Weee want a king!! Weee want a king!!"), then I think we need to defer to Paul's word in Romans 14, and bear with those that are weak in the faith.