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Originally Posted by Evangelical
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.
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Apparently you have no idea how similar you have become to the Catholic Church. They have always stood for the oneness of the body of Christ, just like LSM always claims to stand for the one body. Catholic means oneness. For the LSM publishing house to direct its member churches, is little different than the Vatican to direct its parishes. They both mandate that their member churches be the same in communion liturgy, reading material purchased from their approved bookstore, appearance, teachings, worship music, ministers/priests trained at their own seminaries, etc.
You may not like Peter as your first pope, but you have little problem with Paul as your first MOTA. Both the Catholics and the Recovery love to trace their lineage of leaders back to the 1st century.
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Anyhow, not seeming to agree with the Reformation puts you at odds with the majority of protestant evangelicals.
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This sounds kind of funny coming from you. Have you not read these published statements from LSM?
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4. The history among us in the Lord’s recovery has been a history of coming out of Christianity—a history of coming out of and being outside of the present evil age
5. Because the Lord’s recovery is different from today’s religion—deformed and degraded Christianity—it is impossible for there to be reconciliation between the recovery and Christianity
6. We need to maintain the gap between the Lord’s recovery and Christianity; the wider this gap is, the better, because it is a gap between us and the present evil age
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Evangelical, it's your leaders that wants lots of distance between them and the majority of protestant
evangelicals, I guess, including yourself.