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Originally Posted by Drake
Most importantly, just repeat this and you will be fine:
"So, I realized that, and I repented, and opened my heart to Him, to heal my wounds and restore my heart into relationship with Him. I spontaneously started calling upon His name and opening to Him when I had a moment of solitude, and I felt so refreshed, like I haven't for a long time."
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The fact that people get depressed and confused and dis-oriented after attempting to get free of the influence of the LCM seems to indicate one of two things. Either the LCM is indeed God's true and pure remnant, where the Spirit of Jesus alone can linger and work, or it is rather a nefarious mind-control cult. I'm tilting toward the latter.
Here are my reasons. The Jesus found in the LCM looks nothing like the Jesus found in the four gospels. The gospel Jesus cared for the poor, the weak, the hungry, the sick, the imprisoned, the widows and orphans. All this was consistent with Jewish practice and custom. Jesus walked the walk, not just paid lip service.
On contrast, the LCM Jesus tells us, "Don't waste your time: go after the 'good building material', the young naive college students."
The Jesus in the gospel taught that if you get a chance to give without repayment, do so: you will be repaid in the resurrection of the righteous. The LCM Jesus isn't interested in any investment that doesn't bring immediate return. "That doesn't build the Body", they say. Only invest in what will promote the ministry in the short term. Good works are dead. Contrast that to the Jesus testified by Peter, who "went around doing good" (Acts 10:38).
I could go on: The Jesus of the gospels didn't pan scripture as written by fallen human emotions, vainly trying to be good. No, Jesus said it was written under the inspiration of the holy Spirit and was concerning Him, the Messiah promised by God. But the Jesus of the LCM says that much scripture is actually vain, fallen, natural concepts. Only the Processed and Consummated Triune God will do for the LCM Jesus. Seven-fold grace. The obedience of Jesus, as a pattern to all is ignored as an interpretive template.
Or the fallen human culture. I've already dealt with this elsewhere. See "The Asian Mind and the Western Mind" for example. Culture is panned in the LCM, except where it is Chinese-flavored. Then it gets a free pass.
Or human exaltation. "Let him be the least who wants to be first" is abandoned to an eastern-tinged "One Guru per Age" theme.
Or receiving one another. Only those submissive to LCM leadership get received.
Or corruption and nepotism. Suddenly "drunken Noah" appeared in the New Testament church.
Etc.