The Church with No Name?

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Originally Posted by awareness

That's why the trouble with taking a name. They didn't want to identify with the whores that corrupted the early Acts church. They were/are THE LORD'S RECOVERY. Everybody else is not.

As I have said on occasion, I understand and sort of like the cargo cult idea. But what we really have is not quite that. They claim they found the shell of one of the original planes. But it turns out that it was fabricated out of plastic like something from Disneyland. With a rope around it so that you can't touch it and see that it is not really a plane.

They created the back story that would live on as the "recovered" story.

Yes, we can say that the RCC is partly responsible for he problems in the church today (along with everyone else). And they may qualify as one of the more problematic of the church "types" in the seven letters in Revelation. But the rest of us are somewhere in there and those other types each require that the people "overcome" (whatever that actually means — not dissing it, but asking).

The "name" problem is part of the fictional back-story. The Legend. It is put out there as a bugaboo to shout at. If you shout loud enough, maybe God will hear you. (Maybe like those prophets of Baal trying to bring down fire from heaven.)

But eventually you get too much flack about being so hard to find. So you give in and declare that your name is a non-name and put out your sign. Parse through the words and declare it to be non-descript enough to pass muster. BTW. Were there any signs in front of the LRC meeting halls when Lee was still alive?