[Thankful Jane]

Originally Posted by blessD

I have been busy so just now catching up since Monday AM. Interestingly, the subject has not changed. I enjoy reading every member's posts even if comes to mind. Someone in the last week may have mentioned this, but I attributed the abuses to false teachings. According to my experience, it fits as a root cause more than idolatry. My healing and freedom from the false teachings came through the pure Word (no footnotes needed) and support from my true friends (you know who you are).

Hi BlessD,

I wish this was a dead horse. The problem it is that it is very much alive. It’s like trying to put a halter on a horse while hecklers are popping out from behind bushes and throwing rocks at it. J

The beating of the dead horse smilie makes me think of what happened to you and me and many others. The guy with the stick is a priest in the Babylonian priesthood. He just swung away while we laid there passively like a dead horse. Only, we weren’t dead and felt every blow. Today, when dead horses start speaking about the stick (false teachings) and the authority structure that has the power to wield it (the ruling class), those who treasure the man and the stick start screaming foul play. Go figure.

So, yes, I also believe that the abuse is laid primarily at the feet of false teachings. My posts on idolatry have mainly been about pointing out the idolatrous Babylonian religion style system that gave the teachers the power to embed these false teachings into our hearts and minds as being words from God and then to abuse us when we deviated.

That is the idolatry I’m talking about and that is why I'm talking about it and calling it what it is. We all were in that structure (except SC who managed to do his own thing. Good for him.) That is the all I’m talking about. If anyone out there can tell us you were fully committed to the LC vision and were not in or under the leadership structure there, please speak up (again, SC excepted.)

What am I doing? What is Matt doing? We are attempting to nail down the characteristics of an idolatrous leadership practice, so we can flee from those that practice such things. Without false teachers who have the power to shape a man’s mind because he’s given away his power, false teachings don’t get very far. Neither does spiritual abuse. We need to be able to nip the Babylonian principles in the bud.

Satan is afraid we will do this. He doesn’t want to lose his ability to write things into our hearts and minds like he was god. He knows that this is exactly what God will do when we are fully yielded to Him and treasure His pure word.

That is what the fight on this forum is about. It is not flesh and blood but prinicipalities and powers who do not want the light to shine on their deceitful methods, of which we are all victims. If we don't see these principles clearly and understand at a core level what went wrong we will circle this way again.

The fact is that the LC leadership was and is, a very, very, sick idolatrous system. People who yield to it's control get sick also.

The LC leadership has a track record of targeting the faithful after getting their orders to do so straight from hell. There is a trail of blood that cannot be hidden.

Thankful Jane