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Originally Posted by Ohio
Evangelical your "stand" conflicts with scripture.
The Catholic church represented the one body of Christ. In Revelations the Catholic oneness church was typified by Thyatira, the fourth local church, one of the seven golden lampstands.
Jesus Himself called for overcomers in that church, and promised to reward them. He never instructed them to start a new division. How can you declare that a "right division."
Is it then not entirely hypocritical to condemn and quarantine Titus Chu for attempting to reform the local churches in his region, while extolling Martin Luther as the Minister of the Age for doing the same? Titus Chu was only "accused" of violating Recovery traditions established by Witness Lee, and not the scripture itself. At the Whistler Kangaroo Court, witnesses on behalf of LSM never presented any evidence that he should be "purged" according to your verses.
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The Catholic church, as a religion, has never represented the one body of Christ. It has always been a worldly mixture since Constantine. And I don't subscribe to any idea that the churches mentioned in the bible were all Catholic and headed up by Pope Peter. In previous discussions I recall you writing something about other Christians existing at the same time (anabaptists?) who were the genuine local church at the time and were persecuted by the Catholics. So I doubt you believe that either, so perhaps are just saying that for the purpose of making a point.
Anyhow, not seeming to agree with the Reformation puts you at odds with the majority of protestant evangelicals.
It's one thing to point out the wrong things with leadership, it's quite another to doubt the validity of the Reformation. Not that I have anything against Catholic people, we were even meeting together with some at one stage, they didn't really know how to read the bible as we would. The problem is the mixture, and they don't really believe in a personal relationship with God - not in the way a born again Christian would.