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Originally Posted by Fer74
After many years of meeting with them, until just a year and a half ago, I began to read the scriptures without using the recovered Version and the "ministry books." I began to study the scriptures with much prayer, fasting, and many tears. And the more I read, my eyes widened to find countless misinterpretations. I was just wondering why haven't I seen this before?
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Welcome,
Fer74!
All those countless misinterpretations are exactly what leaven is, right before your very eyes! All the wrong teachings.....deputy authority, minister of the age, we don't care about right and wrong, "get out of your mind", the ground of locality, etc....all of them are mixed through, worked through, interwoven throughout all the other teachings and the whole atmosphere of the local churches. And that's precisely what leaven is, something that's worked all throughout. And it leavens it all.
Why didn't you see it before? Because the LC teaches you that leaven is somewhere else, and so you aren't prepared to think that you might need to look no further than what's on your own bookshelves at home to find it and to be on guard for it.
Why didn't you see it before? Because the ministry and the leadership in the local churches use known behavior, information, thought, and emotion controlling techniques to keep their members blind, dumb, and mute. They teach you to get out of your mind, not trust your mind, doubt your concerns. They teach you that you are negative if you see something wrong and speak up about it. They teach you that you are divisive if you disagree. They teach you that you will suffer negative consequences if you leave. In other words, they use fear and condemnation as destructive tools to control you. And they do it in the name of God.
But there should be no fear in love. And a genuine love has been notably absent from the local churches for a very long time. And there should be no condemnation either for those or from those who are in Christ Jesus. So that should tell you something about where Christ Jesus is in relation to the condemning things spoken over the saints.
The more you look into what spiritually abusive churches are, the more you realize the local churches are a poster child (in other words, a classic example).
I look forward to reading your contributions!
Trapped