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Originally Posted by Ohio
My post was an attempt to redefine what "another" means in our context, not more reading material from the mighty amazon.   |
Yeah. Dopey me. I should have explained myself ... and made the point I was hoping others would get.
And that is:
From the beginning, since Jesus, down thru the millenia, there's been many different Christ movements. Thus: One Jesus, many Christs.
And yes, as you pointed out, Paul warned and cried about the fact that he obviously knew was going to happen to the Jesus Movement; that it would arise "of your own selves."
And it happened. It was actually already going on. Christianity, as history attests, diversified. In the early days of the movement different gospels were flying all around. Thus, the heresy wars of the early church fathers. And thus, The First Council of Nicaea ... and the Roman Emperor Constantine ... and Christianity became the state religion.
But all efforts to contain the diversification of Christianity failed. Even burning at the stake and torture failed to do the job.
And the diversification of Christianity eventually exploded. Today there are over 33,000 sects of Christianity.
And Nee and Lee and their Recovery Movement is just one more sect among thousands.
I remember, we use to say, all of Christianity was a religion. But the local church movement wasn't religion at all, it was claimed. Ended up they, we, were more religious than the average bear, than the average Christian.
I think Arthur Casci makes a point. If yer gonna go for something like the Nee and Lee movement, just get it over with and go back to the Holy Mother Church. It's got the orthodox traditions going way back. And it's proven to be so zealous and devoted to Jesus that, they are, or have been, willing to kill and die for it.
Neither Nee nor Lee were that given.