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Originally Posted by Drake
I am trying to understand why two brothers who were likely contemporaries, heard the same messages, experienced the same church life, perhaps similar corporate living arrangements, may have even broke bread together could have interpreted the whole affair 180 degrees differently. Eventually one leaving bitter and angry convinced that the Devil tricked him into wasting so many years while the other grateful as having received a great spiritual treasure as from the Lord Himself!
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You won't like the answer. But you can't just refute it because you don't like it.
The answer could be that one had his eyes and nose opened to the fog and garlic in which he had been befuddled for years, and realizing how others who had gone through the same awakening were treated by the leadership, could only be angry for at least some period of time. You can reply with some kind of psychological mumbo jumbo about how anger is your own fault, or fear is not real therefore should be ignored. But when you have been lead to believe that your eternal existence hinges on remaining true to something you are not completely sold on, what do you expect? And when it is discovered that it was a lie, what do you expect?
At least no one has gone postal over it yet. Not condoning such a thing. But the kind of chicanery that has gone on to fool God-fearing people into remaining in bondage to lies could be problematic if the right (or rather wrong) person suddenly wakes up to this kind of shenanigans.
As for the ones staying behind being "grateful as having received a great spiritual treasure as from the Lord Himself," I can only say that if they believe it is from the Lord, that is how they would describe it. Doesn't make it actually from the Lord.
Funny how the things that are treasured as from the Lord are things that make the LRC faithful be special Christians with special favor bestowed on them by God. Still looking for any evidence that there is such a thing. But it is part of the arsenal that keeps people from taking a second look at the problems. It is human nature to not want to accept that you can be wrong, and also to become snared in anything that grants special status — no matter how insignificant or even illusory that status is.