A System of Error?

[OBW]

Originally Posted by Freedom

One thing I wasn't fully aware of right away was realizing the full extent of types of abuses that are occurring within the LC today.

Too true. And as I said, I have less and less connection to the present version of LC abuses.

But underpinning those abuses is a system of error. One that is theological. (And given the severity of some of the errors, it might be better called "theoLEEgical"). The errors fall primarily into two categories; those that enforce a superiority and authority for Lee and now the Blendeds and elders that go beyond the teachings in the Bible, and those that capture the mind with the air of superior doctrine. Things like:

• Deputy authority.
• Ground of the church.
• The minister of the age (MOTA)
• A higher lexicon
• Being Phildelphia while everyone else is one of the other seven churches, or even Babylon.
• Claiming that Jesus is now the Holy Spirit.
• That Jesus is simply the Father.
• That to say that the "three" of the trinity are "persons" is to be tritheistic.

And it goes on and on. Even some relatively minor variations too often are less substantive as they are another layer of wall between the LC and the whole of the body of Christ.

Add to this the apparent camaraderie of the members and you have a hook that is nearly impossible to overcome for many. I know many who couldn't stand the LC, so they just stayed home. Didn't even attempt to find other fellowship. They accepted the lie that they could not find anything else and just languished — until they could take it no more and they went back, generally to become little more than second-class citizens.