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Originally Posted by awareness
As smart as we are we're still pretty much as dumb as the Cargo Cults. And that's my point.
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Please speak for yourself. I know you strive to convince yourself and anyone who will listen that humanity is so pitiful that we can pretty much be excused from any responsibility, but I don't buy it.
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So we still think if we can just get God's combination lock tumblers set just right, like mimicking the early church, if we can just get the bamboo just right, looking like ships, and antennas, then God will deliver his cargo to us.
It's reverse engineering, and is not the process whereby the early church came into being.
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In my experience, in some cases mimicking the early church brings excellent results. If you are talking about some kind of superstition, I agree. But just mimicking the early church isn't necessarily superstitious. Surely there are patterns in the NT we can benefit from. A highly respected way of achieving success is to find someone who is successful and imitate them. You shouldn't just throw everyone who imitates the early church into the class of cargo cults.