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Originally Posted by awareness
Purity can't be found or achieved.
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Of course. How pure is really pure? Dove soap only made it to 99.44% pure.
But when Tetzel was selling indulgences for salvation, Luther knew that the "purity" of God's people on earth was being corrupted. So my point in starting this thread was to point out how "purity"
(perhaps you have a better word?) often was used to
initiate positive change in the church, but this causation can eventually lead to their downfall.
No church or ministry can survive long or well by embarking on a negative mission. Witness Lee built the Recovery in the US based on how
bad the rest of Christianity was. This was not readily apparent in the early days, but eventually it became undeniable. With all his "weapons" constantly aimed at the rest of Christianity, it became so easy to point them at "concerned" members within the Recovery, and that seems to be one the critical constituents of exclusivism.