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Originally Posted by countmeworthy
I explained that religion is not having a relationship with GOD in my responses. I hope I made sense.. and yes what Lee taught 'Christ vs Religion', he ended up introducing religion to the LC. Something happens to people when 'power' and 'glory' is bestowed upon them. Lee may have been blessed (don't really know) to teach but it went to his head.
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Here's the problem I have with that phrase.
Lee looked at the stories in the Bible, and pointed out the hypocrisy, unbelief, and mean-spirited evil of the Pharisees and Judaizers, and said "
Christ Versus Religion." He wrote a book about it. I read it. Jesus, however, called them fools, a brood of vipers, hypocrites, blind guides, sons of murderers, sons of Gehenna, and white-washed graves. (Matt 23) Paul called them the "concision," evil workers, and dogs. (Phil 3.2) These were specific condemnations on specific people for specific acts they had committed. These were the ones who invested their lives into discrediting, condemning, and looking for ways to murder Jesus, our God and Savior.
The Bible never condemned those awaiting the Savior's birth, whether in the Temple or the fields, as being "religious." Nicodemus was not condemned, nor were those in the Temple when Jesus was 12 years old. The Lord never condemned any of the disciples, His mother Mary, or the thousands who followed Him as being religious or "poor, poor Judaism."
Lee, however, was different. He uses the generalized "religion" and broad-brushes the whole of Christianity. First, he identifies all the evil in the New Testament, and labels it "religion." Secondly, he uses his religion epithet to label all Christians outside of his recovery. Thirdly, by association, the hearers and the readers then identify all these Christians with the evil-doers of the Bible. Se how Lee subtly twisted our thinking?
The Bible never uses religion in this way, but he used it to his full advantage. He condemned any any all Christians as religious, whether they met in homes, in groups, in community churches, non-denominational churches, big churches, small churches, dormant churches, vibrant churches, tongue-speaking churches, non-tongue-speaking churches, newly saved or aged pastors, fruitful or unfruitful,
you get the message,
all were pathetic, hopeless, helpless, poor, poor, Christianity, and religious, assuring us that God hates religion, and Christ is versus religion.
That's why I disagree that "God hates religion." I threw my book away.