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Originally Posted by Igzy
This dovetails perfectly with some questions I've wanted to ask the forum:
Going along with the crowd (i.e. groupthink) is almost never a good thing, because the crowd is almost always wrong.
So the questions are these: - What's the difference between oneness and groupthink?
- Give me an example in the Bible where a great spiritual person went along with the crowd.
- Specifically when the LSM/LC encourages "oneness" to such an extreme aren't they in effect encouraging going along with the crowd and groupthink?
- Can you come up with a definition of oneness that doesn't require going along with the crowd and groupthink?
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What's the difference between oneness and going along with the crowd?
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In the military..especially bootcamp...everyone serving in the military is 'one'.
The people of the land are going along 'with the crowd'.
The awful example that comes to me..is when Hitler 'reigned'. The military buildup was extremely united under his psychotic leadership. The crowds all gathered to support Hitler. So one might say the military was one (with Hitler) and everone else was going along with the crowd.
That said, now
Igzy,
Jesus did pray that we would be ONE as He and the Father are ONE.
Recently I told a sister in the LSM these 2 things:
When we stand before the Judgment Seat of Christ, each of us are going before the JUDGE individually. We ain't going in a group..husbands & wives aren't walking in together.. It'll be God and me only and GOD and You only. Nobody else.
We also will have no excuse.."Lord, didn't I follow Lee's ministry? (or any other ministry for that matter) to the TEE...for the sake of 'oneness'? ...
The 2nd thing I told her went something like this: To keep the "Oneness", I'm not going to jump in the lake! If something is WRONG..I'll speak up. This came about because supposedly Lee & Nee disagreed on some things but Lee 'kept the oneness' even if they didn't agree on everything.
Nevertheless we believers and followers of Christ Jesus and the Word of God, ought to build up one another in the Faith. God will take care of the "oneness".