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Originally Posted by Ohio
...what determines the proper standing of a church? ...The official LC teaching on this matter, supposedly based on Revelation chapters 2-3, is that a LC must have the proper name to possess the proper standing in order to obtain the proper blessing as a proper testimony of the Lord.
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... WN/WL/LSM developed skewed ecclesiastic teachings which legitimizes only those churches which they adjudicate. They firstly established themselves as ruling judges, and then determine who else is legit. The teachings from the scripture supposedly sanctioning this practice were merely a smokescreen.
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What's "proper" and "legitimate" in the LC are based on criteria arbitrarily chosen and selectively applied. Because the teachings aren't objective or unbiased, there's little opportunity to have open, mutually edifying discussion about them.
But it's worth raising these questions even if the ministry advocates won't address them, as a warning to those who are naive as we once were. What does it say of an idea if it's own promoters won't constructively engage it? It isn't very robust, is it?