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Originally Posted by Ohio
At some point we must ask ourselves whether the leaders at LSM have a relationship with God at all?
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I am not sure I want to attempt to judge anyone's relationship with God, or lack thereof. Who knows; I may be worse.
Rather, I would say that the powers running this present age of darkness love to hide themselves. They try to obscure their doings, so that we instead say "bad Lee; bad blendeds", and likewise the LSM'ers say "bitter anonymous internet writers", and so forth.
Everyone sees what a mess everyone else is, and they're at least partly right. But the forces running this world don't want you to notice what is behind the mess. God, however, wants to unmask these agents of hell, and to set us free from their patterns of deception (see e.g. Mark 5:9).
So I would ask, what force(s) got in between Lee and his faith in God? It's not ego, not self, not the old man. It is seen in these, but it lies deeper.
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Originally Posted by Ohio
Instead of discussing what is building up, we must ask what are they building up?
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This is a good and practical question. Remember that high tower they tried to build up in Genesis 11, which rose and rose until they became confounded with the altitude and started shouting nonsense at each other? Babble, with associated Confusion, Rancor and Scattering.
Later editions of the same tower, renamed as Babble-On, tried to use edicts (Rev 13:17) to hold the tottering mess together. They were afraid to fall, so they forced everyone to get branded and made them bring bricks to the building. If you don't get a brand and a brick you don't get to eat.
So you can see clear evidence of Fear, and Coercion. It's quite revealing: by their fruits these forces are indeed made known.