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Originally Posted by Igzy
Yeah, and this all relates back to the LCM's erroneous stance of making Good somehow at odds with God. True good is never at odds with God. And if good is at odds with God, then it isn't truly good. But the LCM acted as if a person sincerely trying to be good is somehow actually evil in some way. Certainly our good works can't save us. But the idea that God is not pleased when human beings are, for example, sincerely kind to one another, sacrificing, loving and so forth, is just a weird, twisted reading of things.
This thinking has led LCMers to scoff at all kinds of genuinely good works done by others, while doing none themselves. I'm sure, for example, than many LCMers are unimpressed with Mother Theresa, who may have done more to spread the genuine love and testimony of God than anyone who ever lived.
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Not too long ago, I saw a LCer make a Facebook post of a video with some pastor speaking. The title of the sermon was something like "Good or God?" Of course, just about the only reason that an LCer would post such a video is because it reflects Lee's ideology. But I did find it troubling that this whole notion of "good versus God" isn't just limited to the LC. I'm inclined to think that within the LC, members are simply afraid of the boogeyman called 'good' that Lee created. Thus any teaching that 'protects' them from this is held with the utmost esteem.
We know that WL had his motivations for downplaying good, and it was none other than to desensitize members to his shenanigans.
Good is nowhere near the 'problem' that some have made it out to be. I do recognize the possibility of being distracted from God by good, however, this doesn't necessitate approaching the topic of good suspiciously nor does it imply that there is a fundamental problem with good. As Christians we believe that
good and
God are synonymous and that all good things come from God. I choose to live my life accordingly.
There has already been good discussion about good versus evil acting as a pivot point by which we operate. The danger is not trying to do good and then messing up or failing. The danger is when something else, even something unknown becomes what we claim to live by. In the LC they say they want to operate according to 'life'. What is life? No one knows for sure, because it has been ill-defined. But one thing they sing in the LC is that "
it's the life life life that makes us want to shout." So we know that 'life' is something that lead them to shout. Kind of bizarre if you ask me. But what's so different between that and other groups who were led by the
life life life to go out to the jungle to and drink kool aid. The difference is only the severity. Neither behavior can be rationalized by any ordinary metric, and that's the danger in demonizing the basic standards that God gave us to live by.