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Originally Posted by OBW
And I think we really believed it. But after the fact, I think that we were fed false information as to what was truly Christ and the church, therefore we were misguided, even from the beginning. We just didn't realize it. We brought a desire for Christ. We got fed something that was labeled "Christ and the church" and we accepted that it was real. Only when the mantra began to alter did we leave.
And though I do not think we were really that "right" before, at least we woke up. But I am becoming more and more convinced that even many of our positive experiences in the earlier (earliest) days were tainted by the shadow of a leavened teaching. Even Christ and the church, because we were misdirected to a version of both that was not true to the Word.
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What's interesting is that so many others have gone down this similar path. Both John Darby and W. Nee and W. Lee have all started out promising local assemblies patterned after Antioch only to morph themselves into controlling headquarters patterned after Jerusalem.
I wouldn't be surprised if most denominations have followed a similar road. The RCC definitely did. Remember that the lust for power always corrupts, and the powers-that-be love to use
distorted oneness to subjugate the sheep.