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Originally Posted by aron
Back to my initial point, though- the danger is if we love our ideas more than the brothers and sisters of the faith. The faith is simple - did God raise Jesus from the dead on the third day, yes or no? This was clearly the central issue of the NT corpus and for me it remains that. If you ever want a chilling account of perpheral ideas running roughshod over actual human beings, look at the 4th century. In my view, whatever was left of "christianity" as a unified representation of Jesus Christ dissolved completely. Riots, murders, angry and bitter polemics. . . Heart-breaking stuff to read.
That's why I made the sarcastic remark about Mary being the Mother of God - don't implicitly trust your own logic. Let it be tried by the group. (When I say 'you' I'm being general).
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I do understand your point, but I'll take it even further and say that everything hinges on your relationship with Christ and not necessarily just with other Christians. Christ's two commandments are equally important but there is an order. Love the Lord your God comes first and then love your neighbor.
What I've seen within the LC was a strong sense of community. There were affectional bonds between the people there yet somehow Christ was lacking. For myself personally, that wasn't enough. I always felt drained after meetings and never refreshed.
To me I couldn't help but feel that it was more about loving your neighbor, or in the case of the LC, loving your fellow members. Now I see that this unity didn't stem so much from Christ as it did in an idea of inclusivity, whether that was Lee's or Chu's.
If anything pride in our own understanding can seperate us from the Lord especially if it's not in alignment with the truth. And if that relationship suffers all other suffer along with it. You can let a group try your logic but even a group can be wrong, you already know this. Be convicted within yourself, seek revelation and God will give it to you. In Christ, we do have the ability to know truth absolutely contrary to what the world will tell you in that everything is relative and subjective opinion. That's a lie.