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Originally Posted by aron
Drake,
Why do you act as if we only have Lee's theology, or the RCC ? This isn't 16th century Germany. LSM devotees seem convinced that there are only two options: "Babylon" or "splendid church life."
You know what local church terminology says? "I got caught for the local church." By your own admission you're in captivity. What's so splendid about that?
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aron,
I think you are trying to have it both (or several) ways and thereby straining at a gnat while swallowing a camel.
You toss out JW marketing literature in an attempt to dismiss the experience of many christians who are enjoying the experience of life in the local churches. You obviously are "loading" your argument knowing that everyone in this forum understand JW's and their colorful booklets are heretical and they are using sinister attempts to draw in the unwary. Guilt by association is your tactic.
That is the gnat.
And yet, so many in this forum will stand up for the "churches" that embrace obvious idolatry in paintings, stained glass, statues, and relics, as in the Catholic Church and for that matter in many Protestant churches such as Lutheran. What is your position with those christian churches? Do you recommend them or are you indifferent? This is a 21st century question, not a 16th century one.
If you cannot come right out and condemn that idolatry and spit it out then that would be your camel. And if you condemn them then you are in the same space as me, only you draw the line in a different spot.
Which is it?