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Originally Posted by UntoHim
Note this also means a believer can switch from being “spiritual” to “fleshly,” and back again, in a moment. The Local Church charge, “turn to your spirit” also assumes the believer can “turn on a dime” to become spiritual. We ask: Doesn’t this teaching have the potential for generating schizophrenic Christians, exhibiting “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” oscillations between being “spiritual” and being “fleshly”?
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This is an unfortunate use of a mental illness to describe the results of bad Christian teachings. Schizophrenia has little to do with oscillating behaviors, rather it is a psychosis whereby your senses do not accurately describe your reality. In other words, one sees and hears and imagines things which do not exist. Of all diseases, it is perhaps the most tragic, since one can not distinguish reality from fantasy. Perhaps a better description would have been bipolar disease, where one oscillates between times of exhilarating mania and debilitating depression.
Either way, Lee's unique teachings seem to have created numerous mental health issues in some of its members.