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Originally Posted by SpeakersCorner
I really don't understand the antipathy so many here feel towards this teaching. Think of it: the Bible begins with a singular couple and ends with a corporate one. In the middle, the very heart of the Bible, is a love poem describing a king wooing a country lass. Truly, marital love must be the perfect metaphor behind what God is doing.
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Again I think the problem with Lee's version was that he totally missed that God had the companionship of the Father and the Son all along. This doesn't mean God didn't long for another kind of companionship, but he was never the totally lonely guy sitting on the pier wondering when his love would arrive. Put in temporal terms, as soon as God realized his longing he knew exactly what he would do and how it would be met.
Lee also never addressed the implications of a lack in God. Then again Lee never cared about anyone's concerns about what he taught.
The bottom line with me is that God is a God of relationships. In fact, he is a relationship. He cares about ours--with him, each other and even ourselves. He has a great relationship with himself, and wants us to have that, too.
Lee missed relationships. LCMers are oddly uncomfortable with the word. (Even you dismissed the idea back when.) This shows a problem in their world view and their understanding of God. God isn't a substance to be consumed. He's a person to get to know. If LCMers truly cared about relationships and people, they would easily avoid the problems they've had.
It seems odd to me to believe God wants a love affair and then turn around and believe that relationships are some kind of side issue or distraction. But that's how Lee followers think. God is all about how one conscious person relates to another. In its best manifestation that's called love.
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At Tom McNaughton's memorial service his wife Karen said, "Tom and I in getting married were like two semi trucks hitting each other head on." She added that two things kept them together. One, their pursuit of the Lord. The other: they had made a pact that the first one to leave had to take the kids (7 of them). It was very funny.
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That is hilarious.