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Originally Posted by Awoken
Hosea 4:6 is pretty explicit about that: "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children."
Kinda drastically different from what we were taught in the LCs - "Knowledge, good, and evil all come from the same tree!"
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I was looking at the quote from WL on this:
"Both our goodness and our badness belong to the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Whether you are moral or immoral, whether you are honest or dishonest, whether you steal or do not steal, whether you are a robber or a gentleman, whether you are quarrelsome or peaceable, whether you are a shrewd woman or a virtuous woman, all belong to the tree of the knowledge of good and evil."
Someone should have cued in that poor angel that spoke with Cornelius in Acts, who said that Cornelius' good works had ascended as a memorial before God.
Acts 10:1-4 At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion in what was known as the Italian Regiment. He and all his family were devout and God-fearing; he gave generously to those in need and prayed to God regularly. One day at about three in the afternoon he had a vision. He distinctly saw an angel of God, who came to him and said, “Cornelius!”
Cornelius stared at him in fear. “What is it, Lord?” he asked. The angel answered, “Your prayers and gifts to the poor have come up as a memorial offering before God."
According to WL, being devout and God-fearing is from the wrong tree. Helping poor people is from the wrong tree. But Cornelius was not yet a Christian. He was just trying to do the right thing. Was this vain? Did the angel (and Luke the storyteller) err?
It seems that WL trafficked in our ignorance and lack of knowledge as the quote from Hosea 4 above shows. And then our ignorance was reinforced by the saying, "Don't think. You will only be confused". I was told this repeatedly. "Just exercise your spirit", i.e. shout a lot. Preferably, shout WL slogans.
At some point, everything seemed to circle back to that, or the "ground of oneness". Why do we shout simplistic, made-up slogans? Why, because it's God's economy, that's why! Of course, how silly of me to ask.