Testimony of God's Grace - Herald Hsu

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Originally Posted by Jo S

Division is what's actually keeping the Local Churches "alive" so to speak...

If what fuels me to get up every morning and sit at the keyboard and tap out my thoughts is a spirit of antagonism then where's the issue? Unending rancor.

The manipulator creates a "bugbear" & tell the masses that if they obey, they'll be kept safe. WL did this by creating "Christianity" as his foil, eventually producing something as grotesque and horrifying as what he tried to save us from: a string of slavishly reverent assemblies, a dependent republic of "affiliated" churches (their word), a set of mutually antagonistic gulag archipelagos run by TC, LSM, DYL.

See? There's my spirit of rancor, right on cue. It's hard not to get pissed off, when you see what's being foisted on people. But to be effective I need to learn, by stepping back and examining the forces at work, the "principalities and powers" that insinuate themselves and defy God, even through me.

For example, in scripture, the reality doesn't claim itself, but demonstrates what it is. Reality, by nature, simply is, and does accordingly. Jesus made few claims, and those were privately. But publicly he healed. And he told John's followers, " Go, and tell John what you see." By contrast, the false Christs claim, and claim, and claim, all the while knowing what PT Barnum knew, that there are new suckers born every minute.

For me, one of the keys to open the door of captive thinking was to see the illogic and dissociation buried in the schemas of WL et al (TC, DYL, LSM). On one hand, we heard "we don't care for right and wrong", but on the other hand we were told how important it was to be "genuine" and "proper" in every aspect (as defined by our "apostle"). What's the difference between "right" and "proper", though? Really none at all. But they don't want us to think critically and notice that, else their hold on us becomes weaker.