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Originally Posted by Evangelical
To me they are statements of fact, so the criticism is warranted. Christianity indeed is full of full of traditions, organizations, performances. . . .
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We will leave out the "falsehoods" because you are too.
So how is it that the statement that "Christianity is full of traditions" is evidence of anything diminished, degraded, unspiritual, etc.? I would suggest that the LRC is full of traditions. And not all of them are bad. Your Lord's table meeting is a decent tradition. It is observed according to a rather precise format, down to the bread made with bleached white flour. I realize that Ohio has made some real noise about that fact. But ignoring the hypocrisy surrounding the rhetoric and the fact of bleached white flour, it is not a problem. But for all that it is, it is not the formula proclaimed in the Bible. None of them are. Each method of doing it is simply a tradition.
So how is it that the statement that "Christianity is full of organizations" is evidence of anything diminished, degraded, unspiritual, etc.? All groups have organization. And when you break things down to finer levels, it is often seen that each has its own organization. Same for the LRC. There is nothing particularly in error with there being organization. And waving "holy water" over your organization by calling it a living organism does not change anything. Anyone can claim their organization is a living organism. There is nothing special about yours that is spoken positively of in the Bible to gain such special status or spoken negatively about anyone else to deny them similar status.
So how is it that the statement that "Christianity is full of performances" is evidence of anything diminished, degraded, unspiritual, etc.? By definition, if you do something, you perform. Just because you don't like someone else's actions, traditions, etc., does not transform their actions into something negative called "performance" while the actions, traditions, etc., that you like are not performances. The fact that you denigrate others over their ways, traditions, organization, etc. — all things that are not matters of the core of the faith — is evidence of a sectarian mind. The Methodists like their ways. The Baptists like their ways. The Anglicans like their ways. But to the best of my knowledge, none of the ways of any of these is definitionally void of truth, meaning, spirituality, etc. just because I don't like it. And the fact that I don't like it does not make it un-Christian, degraded, poor, "low gospel," etc.
Answer even one of those without reference to your preference of ways to do things. Do it strictly by reference to the scripture as defining either a set way that is being cast aside, or defining practices that are not acceptable. I daresay you cannot actually do either. You may think you can, but only by reference to your false teachings found in your third testament — the Collected Works of Witness Lee, along with the footnotes to your private Bible translation.