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Originally Posted by aron
If we "quietly and honestly" consider where Jesus was establishing His ekklesia in Matt ch. 16, we don't see any suggestions that it would be delineated by political/urban subsets like Jerusalem, Antioch, and Corinth. Nowhere do we see Jesus' proposed organizational schema, except in sayings like, "If you want to be great, be the least".
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If you study the originators of influential, but harebrained, ideas, like Marx (communism), Keynes (Keynesian economics), or Ayn Rand (egoism), you see a common theme.
Often they retrofit a philosophy to produce a final result they believe is worthwhile.
- Marx sought to uplift the proletariat, so he invented communism.
- Keynes believed government should seek to improve the economy and that lenders had too much power, so he invented his economic philosophy of deficit spending and money printing to lower interest rates and stimulate economies.
- Rand believed in the absolute freedom of the individual, so she invented her version of egoism, called Objectivism.
All these philosophies are major failures.
You have to put Watchman Nee in that group, too. Nee saw the division brought on by denominationalism, and invented the Ground of Locality doctrine to address it.
The Ground of Locality is a major failure as well.
All these people were brilliant. But their brilliance worked against them, and us--except as examples of how not to approach thinking about problems.