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Old 08-22-2016, 03:47 PM   #18
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Default Re: All natural things are bad?

I have to say that the whole idea that natural things are bad and only the "spiritual" is good sounds like Gnosticism to me. I don't care that Lee spoke against Gnosticism. That may have been more of a way to hide the very Gnosticism in his teachings.

But the whole idea that the natural created order is simply fallen and to be rejected and only those things that are spiritual or "in spirit," "in the spirit," or "in the Spirit" are to be acceptable is, at its core, Gnosticism. May not take on all the tenets of pure Gnosticism, but that is effectively what it is.

As someone else has already pointed out, when the statements against homosexuality are based on the fact that they are contrary to "natural affection" then it is must be fundamentally true that "natural affections" are very "in" and therefore acceptable, not rejected.
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