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Originally Posted by UntoHim

I'm not so sure that Nigel was claiming that Lee's etymological errors are what has led to the dynamic you have so aptly described here, however your point is well taken...at least by me.

"Without natural love for other believers". So sad, so true. Many of our forum members have lamented how it took them years after leaving the movement to even begin to have open fellowship with other believers. Speaking of myself only, it took me several years before I felt comfortable with other believers. Even to this day, none of the Local Churches make even the slightest effort to reach out a hand of fellowship to any Christian churches in their respective cities. Non of the LC Elders ever attend the many prayer breakfasts or pastor's get togethers, much, much less would a Local Church ever participate in a mult-church or para-church gospel outreach.

So, where does this kind of spirit of non-cooperation come from? It does go much deeper than simple teaching methods, heremeneutics and interpretive techniques and such. This is probably a question for a whole new thread.

OK. If Tomes analysis of Lee's putative errors is superfluous as Friedel claims, why did you bother to post it in the first place?