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Originally Posted by Igzy
The LRC has always been equivocating on this. On the one hand, they might not say that WL (or his successors) had authority over the churches. On the other hand, they definitely believe if you don't follow what he says, you are making a grave mistake which is something like rebellion.
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Equivocating, hypocrisy, double-speak, mealy-mouthed (
thanks ZNP), two-faced, and duplicitous are all words that come to mind.
We believers have no way to know what is is men's hearts. Some speak "two-foldly" with the purest of intentions, others with sinister self-serving motives. Oftentimes, the former describes their earlier state of mind, and the latter decribes later times. What we can know is how people behave, how they treat one another, how they conduct themselves uprightly. That is why we cannot judge others' hearts, only their actions.
WL and LSM got a free pass from many of us, that is, until we learned how unrighteous they were in their dealings. Unfortunately, many of us, like myself and you, learned this many years after the fact.