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Originally Posted by aron
Lee could trumpet his 'goodly heritage' in the Baptists, where he was saved, while simultaneously despising them all as harlots, corrupt, Babylon, etc. The best of both worlds!
Lee could wave the 'orthodoxy' credentials of evangelical Protestantism, while denying the legitimacy of any evangelical Protestants except his sect. Because his sect was the true, real heirs of the original church..
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In the LC they could sing, "O the love that sought me, O the blood that bought me, O the grace that brought me to the flock" (Hymns # 1086), written by Spencer Walton, a missionary in the South Africa General Mission, while despising Walton's South Africa Mission and every other mission as well! Because the LC is the true mission and the true flock, restored to God's original purpose, and they alone can sing it and know the 'true' wondrous grace, because they are the 'true' flock. Get it? The LC both claims the reality of Walton's hymn, and denies it to every other believer, including Walton himself.
The LC reply is, "Oh, we don't say that we're the only church, but that we are only the church". Yes, and you also say that everyone else isn't 'only the church', but are instead fallen, degraded, dark, impure, leavened, etc. Only we the LC "normal church life" saints know the true grace which brought us to the flock, because we're the true and original flock. Everyone else is, at best, partial, circumscribed, and a weak imitation. We alone possess the reality of God's hearts desire.
"You say that you are rich, but you have nothing: you are poor, wretched, blind, naked."