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Originally Posted by Evangelical
haha I am amused because you as not a Catholic (I presume), are appealing to the majority. Who is in the Body of Christ according to you? Does it include the Roman Catholics and Orthodox?
Your arguments are not logical at all. Another person here has asked me to justify my use of the term "the majority of churches". I have done that, by the numbers.
I wonder if you can justify your claim of 99.99%, I highly doubt it.
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Even if you limit the ratio to Evangelical Christians the principle would still hold.
There are an estimated 300 million evangelicals in the world. If you add in charismatics the number is more than twice as big, but let's stick to the smaller number. How many LCers are there in the world? I heard 50,000, but let's say 100,000 just because we can.
So 100,000 / 300,000,000 % = .033%
100% - .03% = 99.97%
So even by this calculation skewed way in the favor of LCM, you make up only .03% of the world's Evangelical population. If you use the real numbers it comes to less than that.
That's just Christians. What about theologians? Well, how many theologians does the LCM have. None qualified, really. But by their standards, just two. Nee and Lee. But let's say 10, just to make it less of a blowout than it's going to be. Now how many evangelical theologians in the world? Well, I couldn't find any numbers, but let's make it conservative and say 10,000. How many of those believe in the "local ground" teaching? Probably none. So again, in a calculation skewed way in favor of the LCM, they comprise a tiny portion of the population, less than .001%.
So my estimates were not that illogical after all.
So for the LCM to be right about "the local ground" over 99% of evangelical Christians have to be wrong. Now what kind of people go around thinking they are right and over 99% of the rest of the relevant population is wrong? I think they call those kinds of people "nuts."
The fact is the odds that the LCM is right about "the local ground" and everyone else is wrong is about as likely as that Ayn Rand was right about philosophy and everyone else is wrong. There is also a tiny enclave of zealous, devoted Rand followers (Students of Objectivism, aka nuts) who think she and she alone had the correct insights into the nature of reality.
Sadly, there is always a small minority of people who for whatever reason need to believe they are right and everyone else is wrong.