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Originally Posted by Ohio
The point is simple -- if you see problems with God, then the real problem is your own heart.
This verse helps me to understand people.
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And the solution is arguably also simple. The ekklesia. The assembly. The gathered church. Fellowship.
When we come together and somebody begins to manifest a spirit that is driving them off the reservation, the collective enterprise leans toward them in prayer, in exhortation, in correction (if done very, very carefully!) and, especially, in example. The wandering star sees the others fixed in the firmament and is encouraged to resume their rightful place.
In the assembly of WL, the sole purpose of the assembly was to "amen" whatever he spoke. So if his "alternative views" got too extreme, and some of the faint-hearted slipped out the back door, there were always a few die-hards around who's mantra was that WL was always right. Even when he said the scriptures were wrong (fallen, degraded, vain, dark, etc). So we took the so-called revelation of the so-called apostle over the plain words of scriptures.
Contrast this to the reception of the scriptures in the NT writings. (see my next post).