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Originally Posted by Sons to Glory!
I was thinking a little about the "man becomes God" teaching. It is not a defensible position as that is never said in the Bible. I certainly see some amazing and exceedingly lofty things the Bible says regarding our true identity - which we usually do not realize fully, and perhaps won't fully until that day. However, nowhere I see does it flatly say we become God!
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SonsToGlory, this is exactly the view I ascribe to post-LC. Now I am not ultra-super-strict about this, rejecting each and every word (
e.g. incarnation) which is not in the scriptures. I just reject extra-biblical ideas and teachings as truth.
Using WL's extreme pattern of interpretive inference, he could make the Bible say almost anything. And his followers believed him. The Blendeds even used Levitical instructions concerning leprosy to justify the destruction of Midwest LC's, i.e. their "
replaster this house" nonsense because "leprous" young people used electric guitars to worship God.
What I mean by interpretive inference is the following, "
if this then that, and if that then the following, and with the following we conclude that man becomes God." I bought into this line of reasoning for 30 years. This is exactly how we were convinced that every one of Lee's errors was honest-to-God truth. Chief example is WL's "one church one city" dogma.
But beloved Brethren what does the Bible say? Never stop asking that question!
The Apostles, including John, Peter, and Paul, had ample opportunity to say this, but they did not. There is a reason for this.