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Originally Posted by aron
And to add insult to injury, if you didn't fanatically parrot this stuff, and actually tried to read the Bible for yourself, then you were castigated as being dangerously independent.
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When one as Ohio indicated in one of his posts, when one is removed from fellowship for speaking from the Bible instead of the ministry, the argument can be made the local churches are no longer local churches, but ministry churches due to the fact fellowship is based on a man and his ministry which Living Stream Ministry publishes.