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Originally Posted by OBW
Surely there are similar questions that can be asked of many other groups. I am not justifying anyone else by chastising the LRC. But neither will I sit silently concerning the LRC just because others are not pure and without fault.
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Once again we should focus on what the Bible plainly says, rather than on some possible secondary hidden meaning that we just can't pin down. Primarily the letters are warnings about pitfalls. Whether they refer to historical groups or periods is tricky guesswork. And which actual groups they may refer to is even trickier guesswork.
But, stepping back, what is the point or benefit of identifying whole swaths of Christian history and people with the seven churches in the first place? There doesn't seem to be any point to it at all, other than discrediting and marginalizing every group but one's own. Once you discredit Catholics and Protestants there's not much left. Only you are left standing. You and your tiny overcoming remnant, dancing on the grave of the rest of the Church.