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Originally Posted by aron
Full circle, eh? First we left the RCC as dissidents and protesters. Then we discover a previously hidden "ground of oneness" and begin assembling our "one true church", complete with supreme authority and all its trappings.
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Have you ever noticed how most of the LRC's pillar unique teachings are "hidden" and/or based on obscure typology?
Mingling
Dispensing
Economy
Son being Spirit, Son being Father
Local Ground
Recovery
Minister of the Age
One Publication
These are some of the teachings that make the LRC distinct from mainstream orthodox Christianity. Yet none of them are apparent in the Bible. Some are based solely on typology. Others on one or two verses. Yet they are on the forefront of what the LRC says is important.
In short the LRC makes what the Bible plainly says take a back seat to what they think it covertly says.
The "local ground" was never an issue, as far as I can tell, in the early church. The church fathers didn't fight over it or defend it. No one wrote about it until a few Brethren teachers, then Nee, picked up on it.
Why should anyone believe such an obscure and historically irrelevant teaching should actually be one of the most crucial and central ideas in the Bible, particularly in the light of how the LRC's history has shown the idea to be so monstrously sectarian?