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Originally Posted by aron
This is, hopefully, a discussion. AKA "Local Church Discussions". My idea of a discussion is that both parties learn something. Versus a lecture or monologue, in which one person dispenses to a ready vessel. Lee obviously specialized in the second format. I prefer discussions. So I'm happy to have folks critique my ideas. And I'm trying to critique those of LSM.
So in some sense Drake and I are talking past each other, yes. He's fixated upon the appearance of words on paper, what they might seem to mean (gold meaning divine nature) and I'm pointing to the reality of what happens on the ground if you let this spirit in.
Thanks be to God for a format to freely discuss such things publicly.
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Well AMEN to that last comment! And I'm sorry for perhaps being overly critical of these lengthy discussions - they're not for me so much these days. But I also appreciate more now what
Ohio (I appreciate when he bolds mine & others' names), you and some others have said - it is a discussion forum to hash out things and bring these into the light of day. I don't have so much of an appetite for hash currently . . . I just see the rankling - I mean discussion - going on and on and on, and seemingly going nowhere. BUT I must say that it all does seem 99.9% to be a civil interaction, of which I would hope no less from those with the life of Christ in them and (hopefully) living through them.
So please forgive me in advance if I jump into any future conversations and spout-off some self-righteous thing like
"Can't we all just get along!?" 
Of course, I too experienced some of the woes of central LC control, and we've all seen in the 2000 year history of the ekklesia what happens as a result (Church in Rome, et. al.).
This is just Adam's natural propensity - he desperately wants to control.
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(BTW: Considering the need for control, I wonder how LSM views this open discussion board . . .)
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