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Originally Posted by Igzy
I'm just trying to help you. You represent a tiny minority of opinion, yet you insist you are right and brush aside every reasonable objection to your claims. That is not rational or sober.
And please don't put words in my mouth. I never denied geography plays a part in who we meet with. I just said you don't have a right to enforce it on others according to your interpretation of it.
It's flat crazy, Evangelical, for you to think you and only you and your little band are doing things right. That's the kind of things nutty cults believe. It's you who are out of whack with the Body of Christ.
I simply do not believe that 2000 years after Christ was here on earth, that at this late date God finally was able to raise up a little crew who finally after all these years see what church is supposed to be and are the only ones doing it right, and that his command to them is to stay away from everyone else and tell them how wrong they are.
I really do not believe that is what God is telling you guys to do. Like I said, your way of rationalizing your exclusivism is the same way nutty us-only cults have done it down through history. It makes sense in your tightly-spinning world, but not to more sober minds.
Rational objection after rational objection to your arguments have been given from all quarters here. Your response is not to honestly engage most of them, but to either brush them aside, mischaracterize them or engage in other sophistry. Any reasonable person here sees it, but you seem oblivious to it.
Are you really expecting people to believe that a person who reasons as carelessly as you do holds the keys to light and truth? Dream on. You are wasting your time.
If you like the LCM, fine. Tell us all about how you like it. But please cease with the crappy arguments for it. They don't hold water. This has been show again and again, ad nauseum.
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Your post is more persuasive than your others, and you don't have to remind me that we are a tiny minority of opinion, as if that really mattered anyway. You seem worried that God really is telling us to do these things, and you might be wrong. But don't worry, remember Lee's messages about the peaks of Jerusalem and the higher peaks? We try to be the higher peak, but it doesn't mean people in other churches aren't peaks.
I think that God works purposefully with one group at a time, as He so often has according to the Bible (whether Old Testament or New). I don't think God raised up thousands of denominations in a scatter gun approach.
In the history of the Bible, we should consider which of these two propositions are more likely:
1) God raising up a group of people, even a minority to do His will, in these last days - I will give you the benefit of the doubt, and say this may not be us, and we fall into category 2) as many here believe.
2) God raising up thousands of groups, who all do different things in different ways and call themselves by different names - hopefully we can agree on this.
Someone has to be Babylon the Great, and someone has to be the genuine church. I mean, we can't all be the genuine church now can we, otherwise Revelation would be wrong. How can Revelation tell us to "come out of her" if the "her" does not even exist. But I think we can see that "her" every time we see a statue of Mary or a TV evangelists promise of quadruple financial blessing.
I think we need to try to be the people in category 1). The minority who do His will. Normally that will put us at odds with our church, as typically they are comprised of people settled and comfortable in the status quo.