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Originally Posted by Unregistered
The sin or immoral acts of any believer or non-believer do not negate the Word of God. Ever. Allowing someone's immoral behavior to become a filter to receiving the truths of the Word of God is merely a tactic of the Devil to keep one from experiencing God's complete salvation.
When you sin do you allow the Devil to use that sin to filter your Bible reading? Do you prevent God from shining in your heart through Hi Word by recounting your sins before Him? Do you say "why, this can't be true because I sinned"? I doubt it. I don't think you do that else you would not be the active christian that you are. You confess your sins before God and plead the blood of the Lamb like all believers must.
If you do not allow the Devil to use your sins to filter your receiving the truths of the Word of God, then why would you allow the Devil to use the reprobate acts of someone else to deprive you?
Let us never allow our owns sins, nor the sins of others, to become a filter in our reading of the Bible and receiving of the truth.
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What you have described here --
sin becoming a teaching filter -- is exactly what upset me so about WL. I respected WL as a teacher of the Bible for close to a quarter century while he was alive, and more years after that, until I learned the real facts of the events of our history.
Volumes of WL's teachings covered those who left during the "storms" or "rebellions" which occurred from time to time. What WL taught was a "filter" to alter the facts of history and coverup the crimes of his own family. For example, applying the Levitical teachings on leprosy to brothers like John Ingalls, was to use his sin to filter the teachings of his ministry. He plainly lied to all the Recovery about Ingalls true motives and actions surrounding the supposed "rebellion." Then WL taught O.T. principles about those who rebelled. In this way, the whole recovery was corrupted, believing a liar and condemning a righteous man.