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Originally Posted by Igzy
Well, I don't think he was basically right. When he called Protestant churches "Christ-less" and other churches "lifeless," he was basically wrong. Christ-less means NO Christ. Lifeless means NO life. That was flat wrong and intentionally misleading. Lee exaggerated the shortcomings of other churches and whitewashed his own. He was completely biased and unfair.
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Yes, calling them "Christ-less" is not the heavenly vision of the church, to be sure! Let's face it, to our eyes the church is a mess, but God loves her just like in the book of Hosea where God tells him to love the whore. The reality is what she - the church - actually is to become. Therefore, you might say that WL sided with the erroneous earthly vision of what was apparent to the eyes . . . and then took that erroneous, earthly vision to condemn her. We always have that choice - to take the earthly view or God's true view.