[Drake]

Originally Posted by aron

Here's an example: recently we were discussing the LC saying to "get out of your mind"; I brought up some examples of questions that one might have of glaring & obvious contradictions in LC teaching & practice, if one used their critical faculties as God designed:

Here was Drake's response:

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If we ask questions that nobody seems to have answers to, we'll keep asking until someone tries to answer. Seems fair enough to me.

Aron, speaking for myself I have no objection to questions that foster further understanding.... ask away.

Yet, your assumption is wrong as pertains to my responding to your questions. For instance, try to step back and look at these questions in the sample about you provided


"Originally Posted by aron

~How come the movement started by women (Ruth Lee & Elizabeth Fischbacher transcribed & edited WN's spoken messages into printed book form) doesn't allow women as blended co-workers, and no one notices? Because they're brain-dead is why.

~Why does no one notice that a supposed ministry of reconciliation (2 Cor 5) doesn't reconcile with anyone, acting as if it were merely a guanxi network? Because they're trained (conditioned) not to notice anything.

~In one place, WL taught that the psalmist crushing his enemies' skulls and dipping his feet in their blood was a "type of Christ" defeating Satan. In other parts of the same training, such sentiments got roundly panned as "natural" and "fallen concepts", and not aligning with the New Testament ministry of grace, love, forbearance, forgiveness &c. These kinds of whipsaw teachings were paraded in front of thousands, and in the testimonies no one got up & said, "Um, Mr Oracle, seems there's a discrepancy between point III(A)(1c) and point VII(C)(2b) Can you explain?"

People would sit there passively while flatly contradictory teachings were presented. Nobody said a word! Not even one question?! How could they not be brain-dead? And we could bring up one contradiction after another: failure to teach consistently, failure to line up with the precedent set by the apostles' reception of the OT. . . and nobody said anything! "Check your brain at the door" indeed. "Get out of your mind" was pre-requisite for LC membership.

~Why does LSM esteem Protestantism as part of its foundational "goodly heritage", and in the next breath calls them "daughters of the harlot", and no one seems to notice?"

Those are not questions of inquiry. Those are questions of presumption.... a question like "Aron, are you still beating your wife"? Do you feel a need to answer such a question? Is there an answer that satisfies such a question? There is no answer that can satisfy those questions because the questions are not asked expecting information back. Rather, the questions of presumption you ask are intended to level an accusation and a yes, no, or clarification of the question itself are all responses that legitimize the question. So, I don't tend to answer them not because you are onto something... rather, because they are of a disingenuous design and are merely to set up the next question in the narrative. If you rely on such questions as the evidence that you are onto something then at least as pertains to this duck, you are greatly mistaken. I just don't have an interest in attempting to answer in sincerity to what appears as a sophomoric entrapment question.

Look aron, you're my brother and though I prefer fellowship in the Lord , yet, I am willing to have a vigorous debate about any topic. Still, please don't insult me by asking me to engage in answering questions whose aim is not to further understanding but rather are questions of craft or sophistry. Because of that, I may miss a sincere question along the way and if I do mention it to me in private or in public. I'll do my best to provide my POV.

Thanks
Drake

P.S. the paragraph in blue is a reasonable question and I'd be happy engage on that one if you really care to. Just let me know.