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Originally Posted by Igzy
Why the arbitrary delineation? You sound like someone who's been burnt by group cooperation and so are hunting for a reason to de-legitimize it.
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One doesn't need to hunt, by the way. Human history - especially of
groups that claim to "do God's will" is chalk full of them.
And yet, after each occasion of emerging from abuses of "group think", we never challenge the underlying assumptions. We just try again, thinking we can "do better" with with same set of
unexamined assumptions. Division after division. Abuse after abuse.
Even if I'm wrong - human history should
at least provide a reason to be more
open to the arguments I'm making. I'm not saying I'm right. I'm asking if we can examine assumptions that historically have not been examined and yet have cause a lot of turmoil.
Instead of openness, I get - those who don't "join in" are "sad."
I'm not trying to describe a fellowship-less world. I'm not trying to describe a mission-less world. I'm trying to advocate for these things while having a picture that relies a
little more on Him and
a little less on the
human-created structures that have so often been at the core of scores of historical "wars."
And if you don't think they are
human-created structures, then you are arguing that they are ordained by God. And then you get into the same argument you get with "local ground-ers", except now you're in their shoes.