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Originally Posted by Igzy
I understand the attraction of generality. Lee once taught generality.
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Yes, he did.
But what I recall of it was that if someone came in, we were "general" with them — for a while. But underlying was the presumption that anyone who stayed around would come to our (LRC) understanding of things, or most likely leave.
And that is what they want:
In — in full agreement with the LSM teaching
Out — if unwilling to change to full agreement with the LSM teaching
All those terms, like denomination and division, were either not in the bible (or supported by it) or not in keeping with the way the bible used them. They were hollow justification for openly dividing while maintaining a pseudo-good conscience. And anyone who was steeped in LRC teaching could probably manage that, even if there was still a small burr in the shoe suggesting something was wrong. They got good at defining that as the attack of the enemy.
And it seems as if the main attack of the enemy was to fool them all into thinking that open derision of every other group was what Jesus really wanted.