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Originally Posted by Drake
My take, net net,... all of these instructions, admonitions, practices, traditions, customs, etc. share the common backbone of God's authority. Not for authority's sake but for the building of the Body. Here is where the sisters play a crucial role because they are part of or related significantly to every order. Without the sisters it will not be possible to establish God's authority because God's authority is established in the churches through submission. By the sister's submission the testimony of God's authority is expressed and realized in the home, in the family, in the church, in worship to God in the meetings, and to angels.
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Dear
Drake,
You keep missing some of the most crucial elements in your posts.
God's authority is established in the churches not just through the submission of the members for the building of the body. God's authority is established thru the godly living of church leaders which glorifies our Heavenly Father. Read your Bible again. Your biased teachings may get received by the LC rank and file, but not by those of us who were once among those deceived "rank and file." Where is your scripture that informs us that God's authority is established in the churches through the submission of the members? There are hundreds of verses for leaders, and nearly only one instructing the members to submit, (Heb 13.17) and careful reading of this verse holds the leaders to lofty standards, rather than to establish God's authority.
The Bible is filled with instructions for proper leaders. Why do you think that is? Why do you think both Jesus and the apostles would warn them not to lord it over and to rule the church as the Gentiles do? Why do you think that both Jesus and the apostles established themselves as our patterns? They were
patterns of submission to our Heavenly Father. Without them firstly living a life under authority, it would be impossible for the saints to live under God's authority. Apostle Paul basically wrote whole books concerning how he was a pattern for us to also live under the authority of God.
WL and LSM, however, short-cutted and short-circuited God's divine arrangement concerning submission to authority. WL demanded submission from us without his own submission to God. He broke all the rules, and then expressed outrage that the "lines of submission" were broken. He rejected the narrow way under the Headship of Christ and then wondered why others refused to submit to him.
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Evidences and proofs of these facts have been provided in numerous other posts which you have refused to respond to.)