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Originally Posted by Ohio
Comparing Solomon and Liz Taylor ... UntoHim will blow his circuits!
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How about the woman at the well? She was determined to find true and lasting love, and was willing to go through half the population of Samaria to find it!
Paul made an interesting point: "Love does not seek its own things, but the things of others." Conversely, in the LC we got 'love-bombed' when we came under the ministry of Witness Lee, because we were coming under the sphere, or domain, of the seeking of his own things. The "rich ministry of Witness Lee" sought its own promotion, and nothing else. So the spigot of love would get turned off, when we couldn't "line up" with the ministry's seeking.
Regarding the 'cult' label, we've seen several iterations of the discussion here on this forum. I don't think they're a cult like the Mormons (my poster child) but they
are an awfully contentious and weird sect of Christianity. Small, pinched, and self-absorbed. Its leaders seem determined to get as close to the line as possible without going over, so that they can still say they are "most orthodox", and yet differentiate themselves from everyone else, who is "deformed", "dark", yada-yada.
Think about this: if the group's Maximum Leader (and now his Blended Minions) makes a big deal about being a "particular" and "peculiar" people (if I remember the verbiage), and then suddenly he says that "we all have to be absolutely identical" (see e.g. RecV footnotes in Revelations 2 & 3, on the seven Asian churches), what does that look like? So you consciously want to be a strange, fringe group, and simultaneously insist that everyone else has to be exactly the same as you are? Don't be surprised that a) a great crowd doesn't rush after you, and b) the 'cult' label has an unpleasant habit of sticking around.