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Old 07-21-2015, 01:56 PM   #73
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Default Re: “Local Church ‘Cult’ Label has stuck”—says LSM Star turned Academic

BTW. I note that there was a lot of discussion about church names and oneness. Seems to me that I see more oneness among churches of different names than I do between the LCM and anyone else. Somehow names just turn out to be something of much less importance than the LCM wants to admit, but is a great boogeyman to keep their own in line.

Same nonsense surrounding "Babylon." Outside of one relatively unclear reference in Revelation, Babylon is the name of a secular nation that, among other things, held Israel captive for 70 or so years. Nothing about fallen religion in there anywhere that I can see. Virtually all of our use of the word is based upon Lee's use which was designed to differentiate us from other Christians. (And once again the issue of oneness comes up. Instead of doing anything about being one, we were too busy labeling them as worse than a cult — the world!!)
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