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Originally Posted by InChristAlone
I don’t want to say that everything in the USSR was bad. Not at all. I had a great childhood. But since the system was based on half-truth, lies, and constraint, it had only two ways: to reform itself or collapse...
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It is interesting that the LRC is so proud of its "goodly heritage" in Protestant Christianity, yet they resist reform, which was what the Protestant movement was largely about. Have you ever heard of the "Reformation"? That's what they call it in the history books. Yet the LRC leadership is completely opposed to any kind of reformation. So they want it both ways: They want to be "children of the Reformation" without any actual reformation at all.
Now, having said that, the new poster
caveman brought up a very good point. He said that the problems in the LRC are not any worse than anywhere else. Their hidden scandals are pale compared to the scandals in the RCC and many denominations. And who are we? What throne do I sit upon, to render judgment? NO.
But at the same time we should admit our imperfections, and resist a system which pretends to be perfect. In such a system the Maximum Leader is not allowed to make any mistakes, because he/she is the current "oracle from God", and God does not make mistakes. That kind of a system will not allow change but it will be rigid and inflexible and will eventually collapse. That system is built on a foundation of lies. No one is truly "good" except God. Even Jesus said this, while he was in the flesh. (Mark 10:18)
The only truth is to love one another, forgive one another, encourage one another, comfort one another. The rest of it we should be willing to be flexible and work out together, as those who have believed into the Lord Jesus Christ, and are trying to return home to the Father, and not alone but together.