Quote:
Originally Posted by Roger
Lately, one thought keeps coming to me regarding the teaching of "Man becoming God." How can they exert so much energy trying to convince people that they are turning into God, when they have so much trouble just being men?
|
How true! As I was leaving the LC's, the singlemost troublesome matter on my heart (though there were many) was that we who have given our lives to the recovery, which I like to call "the program," don't know how to treat one another. How can we be men if we can't treat others as men. As I thought at that time, "
this program produces bullies out of beloved brothers." I watched that happen on all levels, and could only conclude that this disease was systemic to the teachings of exclusivity.
The Bible is filled with healthy admonitions on how we should relate one to another. We should love our neighbor as ourself. We should even love our enemies. How much more the household of the faith. Yet the prominent "god-men," so highly esteemed among the LC's, can't even treat their own with respect. Only they could twist I Cor 6 into saying that we MUST take our brothers to court if we have "no other recourse."
Such is the fruit of the "high peak teachings." Something portrayed as the "peak" of all Christian theology, something which took 2,000 years of "recovery" to fully "consummate," something supposedly lost for all church history since the days of Athanasius, something which the initial apostles "wanted" to say but had not the opportunity or the maturity, something which was supposed to revolutionize our Christian walk and bring about the revival to end all revivals ... ends with quarantines and lawsuits over ones teaching "differently" from the "minister of the age."