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Originally Posted by Ohio
Exactly. I lived for years with this contradiction: When something "bad" happens in Christianity, it proves they are degraded, hopeless, pathetic, etc.
When something "bad" happens in the Recovery, it doesn't mean a thing since "nobody's perfect."
Total hypocrisy! Didn't Jesus confront it and say, " With what judgment you judge, you will also be judged." -- Matt 7.2 |
Yeah, and I think that this is part of what makes the LC so toxic. On their website, they try to define the LC by two concepts 1)
The vision of the Lord’s recovery and 2)
The standing of the local churches on the unique ground of oneness. While neither is a valid concept IMO, those two notions are what I would consider to be mutually exclusive.
If they want to claim that taking a certain standing legitimizes or delegitimizes Christians, then they should accept all who take their standing, regardless of how "degraded" they are perceived to be. On the other hand, if they want to talk about being recovered from a supposed "degraded" state, then having a certain standing would not automatically protect anyone from that state.