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Originally Posted by Drake
Most non-Catholics and denominations extol Luther as a leader in the history of the church but do not promote or recognize the institution of the monastery, its monks, or their way of life. Luther could not function as he once did in most of the current denominations and it is doubtful he would make it past the front doors for Sunday services even in those places named after him.
How can the flock so passively and uncritically accept such blatant hypocrisy?
The local churches, in the Lords Recovery, are some of the few places that Luther could walk into, sit on the front row, robes and all, and stand up to speak and function. (Admittedly, nailing stuff to the front door of the meeting hall would be frowned upon.)
Drake
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Interesting. You create a contrived scenario (monasteries and monks) and say Luther of 1523 wouldn't fit into the Lutheran church today. This hypocrisy, so-called, justifies the hypocrisy of "Local Churches" basing their teachings on women's ministries while no longer allowing them the same? Does this make the church pure and spotless in your eyes? And how much do you think God thinks like this? Really?
Look at the website of a pro- "Lord's Recovery" apologetic. Trying to justify the "recovery" of the "three parts of man" idea.
http://www.tripartiteman.org/historical/mcdonough.html
The Website bar reads: "Murray/Pember/Fausset/Larkin/Penn-Lewis/McDonough/Paxson/Nee/Lee"
Believe me, I heard this kind of stuff all the time. Women were put right in with the men if they could justify the ideas of Nee & Lee. Suddenly they were spiritual giants, visionaries, able to recover centuries-hidden 'truths'. But they'd better not try to give a message today! No, their time had passed. The truths were all opened, so we were told, and now only men could guide the ship of state.
They were expendable. They were used and discarded. Luther could walk in today and teach, so you say, but no woman could. Even though once they did, crucially even. The dispensation of the functioning woman has passed. It came, it was useful, now it is over. It is now the age of small potatoes, genuflecting upon the Great Man's words.
Well in that case I guess there is no hypocrisy. Nobody can function in the "Lord's Recovery". Equal-opportunity oppression. Everyone is "restricted". Well, thank God for Nee and Lee, otherwise we'd all just sit around all day, wondering what to do.