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Originally Posted by UntoHim
I'm surprised it took you all of three days to come up with this dandy. You could have saved yourself the trouble and just posted this right from the start.
Sorry to be so hard on you but you are not posting in good faith, and I'm not certain that it has ever been your intention to do so. Those who feel that the criticisms of Witness Lee and the Local Church are too harsh are free to register and participate, but they must do so in good faith. Starting a thread in a manner which appears to be in good faith, then using it to be subversive (poisoning the well) will not be allowed on this forum. And no this is not open for debate.
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Maybe I misread 77150 but asking critical questions of ourselves in the midst of critical examinations of others is worth doing. I do it all the time.
Jesus said that it is easy to be aware of the splinter in the others' eyes while missing the beam in our own. So if we perchance do espy a splinter in another's eye, is it not worth our time to ask if the same manifestation of the fall of the human race is also within us (we after all belonging to the same species), and being expressed also?
To be more precise (although this may veer from 77150's thought), if we note that Mr Lee was rather contentious and adversarial with his fellow believers; instead of being inclusive calling them "dark" and "degraded" and "Babylonian", etc, mayhaps we also are being unduly contentious with the LRC die-hards and true believers? We wave the differences high in the air while downplaying the many commonalities?
Most here would quickly reply "no"; okay, but am I "in bad faith" if I raise the question in a discussion? Because I do, occasionally, think that question.