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Trapped · 08-15-2020, 12:29 PM

Great topic Nell, and one that bothers me a lot. It screams "aberrant group" or "abusive church".

The catch phrase tends to be something like "We (or God) don't care for good and evil, right and wrong, only life".

Well.........

Hebrews 5:11-14
11 We have much to say about this, but it is hard to make it clear to you because you no longer try to understand.
12 In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God’s word all over again. You need milk, not solid food!
13 Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness.
14 But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil.

To start, verse 11 (which I'd always mentally skipped over before) stuck out to me this time and made me chuckle because it could so easily be spoken to the co-workers......who no longer even try to understand.

This portion is pretty clear that an attribute of mature believers is that they are in the solid food of the word to the point where they, by constant use, have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil!

This is written as something to attain to, not something to avoid.

That's all I need to know to discard this bad doctrine of LSM. The "don't care about good and evil" teaching in the local church thus causes believers to remain infants.....and renders them ones who can sit in an environment surrounded by wrongs and who are not even able to distinguish the wrongs that are going on right around them.

Pretty handy doctrine for an abusive church.

08-15-2020, 12:29 PM	#2
Trapped Member Join Date: Mar 2018 Posts: 1,523	Re: "We Don't Care for Right and Wrong" Great topic Nell, and one that bothers me a lot. It screams "aberrant group" or "abusive church". The catch phrase tends to be something like "We (or God) don't care for good and evil, right and wrong, only life". Well......... Hebrews 5:11-14 11 We have much to say about this, but it is hard to make it clear to you because you no longer try to understand. 12 In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God’s word all over again. You need milk, not solid food! 13 Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. 14 But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil. To start, verse 11 (which I'd always mentally skipped over before) stuck out to me this time and made me chuckle because it could so easily be spoken to the co-workers......who no longer even try to understand. This portion is pretty clear that an attribute of mature believers is that they are in the solid food of the word to the point where they, by constant use, have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil! This is written as something to attain to, not something to avoid. That's all I need to know to discard this bad doctrine of LSM. The "don't care about good and evil" teaching in the local church thus causes believers to remain infants.....and renders them ones who can sit in an environment surrounded by wrongs and who are not even able to distinguish the wrongs that are going on right around them. Pretty handy doctrine for an abusive church.