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Originally Posted by Ohio
Sure it makes sense bro, but ...
Numerous verses in the NT show us where the Apostles warned us of serious errors in the teaching and practices of the false brothers, false apostles, false teachers, false prophets, etc. These are not "flaws" in others. These are not simple matters, as in "everybody makes mistakes," or "nobody is perfect." People got hurt, and you act as if it were nothing.
To address your chief point, there are numerous brothers and sisters who have contacted LSM for years in order to attempt reconciliation according to the scriptures (Matthew 18) and LSM refused to even acknowledge them.
The guidelines in the NT are simple, are these false ones damaging the children of God? Yes, we should forgive them. We are commanded to forgive all who have hurt or offended us. Yet Rom 16.17-18 instructs us "to watch and mark those who make divisions and causes of stumbling contrary to the teachings of the apostles, for such men serve their own appetites and by deceptive talks deceive the hearts of the simple."
Now why didn't Paul instruct me in Romans 16 to just forgive these ones from LSM who did exactly this to all the Midwest LC's? I watched LSM use deceptive speech to make divisions and causes of stumbling to many saints I knew personally over the years.
If you can convince me by the scripture and plain reason that I should just "forgive and forget" then I will.
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Yes, we can probably make such a case from the word. Is this really what the Lord is having you do (almost 10,000 posts worth)? If so, then amen! Truly.
Beyond answering the above, I haven't the peace to go further . . .