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Originally Posted by OBW
Paul,
The problem is not that the LC overlooks the spiritual problems that might cause mental illness. It is that when they are confronted with a mental problem that calling on the Lord, pray-reading, and going to more meetings does not fix, they wash their hands and essentially send them packing.
So the LC did observe mental problems beyond merely “spiritual” issues, but they had no answer but to send them away. They didn’t really believe that it was just spiritual and that their simplistic methods would fix them. They surely did not understand what was going on and how to help them. Since it had to be turned over to someone else, it would appear that they needed to hide their failure.
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OBW, this is a subject I'm very sensitive about so I hope I can express myself clearly.
1. In some cases of mental illness, it could be heriditary. Most brothers leading a locality wouldn't know about heriditary traits except their own.
2. Local church behaviors of spirit=good and soul=bad leads to bad teachings regarding the spirit/soul.
Behaviors in the local churches about the spirit and the soul could lead those susceptible to mental illness to suffer because of these informal teachings.
3. No longer in the local churches is calling on the Lord the cure-all for any problem, but the attitude remains it's not okay to have a soul-life.
Terry