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Originally Posted by Ohio
OBW ... There you go again!
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And Ohio knows that I was not referring to him when I said "Only if your god is not the God of the Bible."
I was talking about Lee.
I see this as one of the 1 Cor 3 kind of issues. The "builders" have come along with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay and stubble. We are not the builders. We are the building. But the builders — in our case in the LCM that would be Nee and Lee and those who repeated their messages — have chosen wood hay and stubble. I do not really consider them to be pursuing a different God, but they pursue so poorly that it is hard to tell that it is the same God. The God who inspired the Psalms and cause James to write is not the person that they claim he is when they declare that he either only allowed it as an example of the wrong, or just couldn't get it removed. If that really is God, then we are talking about a different God. The one I think is true put those sections in for our benefit. Lee declares them as useless — unless you need an example of what not to do. That is awfully close to a different God.
Or a form of Blasphemy — to declare what God has said to be false.
They are building on the LCM with wood, hay, and stubble. It damages the building (the church) but it is not the church's fault. The charge lays at the feet of the builders who must watch their work burn.
If we over-milk the metaphor, then it means the church burns, but I do not think that is part of the intended meaning. But we
should learn to recognize people who are making merchandise of the believers. Who are teaching myths and endless genealogies. Who are ministering to make their bellies fat.
And turn away from them.