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Originally Posted by awareness
Brother Least, I know about Landmarkism because I was raised in the Southern Baptist Church. I have a little booklet passed down from my mother entitled "The Trail of Blood," that traces the Southern Baptist's back to John the Baptist. Now the Southern Baptist don't claim to be Landmarkists, not officially, but they believe the same thing. And the Southern Baptist's are the largest Protestant Christian sect.
Landmarkism share many characteristics to Lee's local church ... mainly that "we are the only ones that have the truth." Oddly tho, they don't claim to follow a ribbon of local churches all the way back to the Apostolic church -- unbroken continuity -- like the Landmarkists. Else there would be no need for a Recovery. But they do claim that they are the only ones that discovered the true expression of the Apostolic church, with their one church in one city.
Also Landmarkism holds that only local, independent Baptist congregations can truly be called “churches” in the New Testament sense. Isn't that Nee's and Lee's autonomy of the locality doctrine?
And how about their doctrine "that only faithful landmark Baptists will comprise the Bride of Christ?" Sound familiar?
Ultimately tho, what they share in common that sticks out like a sore thumb is, their exclusivity : we are it, and the the rest of Christianity, all the other Christians not in our group, are apostates. Like Lee stated "Christianity is Christless."
Thanks for humoring me leastofthese.
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Ok cool, I wouldn’t say I’m a Baptist and my mom never gave me the cool landmarkism books but I never was questioning if it was a “thing” or even how it compared to the Witness Lee churches- I was more making the comment - claiming that this school of thought is actually what baptists believe is a falsehood. Would you agree? If we polled 100 million baptists, how many would believe in landmarkism?