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Originally Posted by Evangelical
There are right divisions and wrong divisions. A right division would be separating from the evil system. Do you think it is wrong to widen the gap between Catholicism, for example?
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No, there is no right divisions because there is only one body of Christ.
1 Cor 12:12 For even as the body is one and has many members, yet all the members of the body, being many, are one body, so also is the Christ.
What you said was like the eye saying it have no need of the hand.
1 Cor 12:20 But now the members are many, but the body one.
1 Cor 12:21 And the eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of you; nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
1 Cor 12:22 But much rather the members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary.
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Originally Posted by Evangelical
I think it was Watchman Nee who wrote about being absolute for or against denominations, not sitting on the fence about the issue. We can only really aim to close the gap or widen the gap. If you are in the Recovery and want to close the gap with Catholicism then I think you're sitting on the fence about this and not being absolute. You have one foot in widening the gap yet on the other hand have one foot in closing the gap. So you're on the fence.
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Lee was not always right and Nee was not always right. Seems in your mindset Catholicism is the absolute evil given you resolute to compare with it all the time. Frankly, I don't know which is more evil in the eyes of God, external idolatry or secret idolatry.
Let me share with you some verses from Ezekiel 8. (BTW, don't waste time searching for explanation from RcV footnotes. There is not a single footnote from Lee. Not difficult to understand why.)
6 And He said to me, Son of man, do you see what they are doing, the great abominations that the house of Israel is committing here, that I should be far from My sanctuary? But you will yet see greater abominations.
7 Then He brought me to the entrance of the court; and I looked, and there was a hole in the wall.
8 And He said to me, Son of man, dig now through the wall. So I dug through the wall, and there was now an entrance.
9 And He said to me, Go and see the wicked abominations that they are committing here.
10 Thus I entered and looked, and there were every form of creeping thing and detestable beast and all the idols of the house of Israel, engraved on the wall all around.
11 And standing before them were seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel, with Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan standing among them, each with his censer in his hand and the smell of the incense cloud went up.
12 And He said to me, Do you see, son of man, what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, each in the room of his engraved images? For they say, Jehovah does not see us; Jehovah has forsaken the land.
Brother, dig deep into the wall of the Recovery.