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Originally Posted by Freedom
In my LC experience. . . the LC is among the most legalistic and oppressive groups out there. At the surface everything seems positive and carefree. Anyone who has been around for a decent among of time knows all of the unspoken rules, the do's, the must's, etc.
When such things are confronted they are immediately excused as being necessary. They will say that our character needs to be built up. They will say things like "life grows through regulation." The excuses abound.
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Yes, we must be regulated, right? Another word I heard becoming popular was that we need to be "restricted." But the regulations of the LC are worse than the regulations of the OT which are breezily dismissed as vain concepts of men. Why? Because the OT declarations pointed to the One who kept God's command, and opened the way for those who could not, because of the weakness of the flesh, please God.
See Peter's speech in Acts 2. The illiterate fisherman got it right. It's not complicated. The OT declaration prophetically pointed to its fulfillment in Jesus Christ.
Instead we rejected the prophetic text and replaced it with new traditions of men, culturally-derived, shaped and molded through the fallen human psyche, according to temporal exigencies on the ground. Those become our new restrictions and regulations.
And they're untrustworthy and are not good (objectively validated) measures. If Witness Lee said you have "more God", then you're all set? Please, Lord, have mercy on us.