Apostles in The Church: Yesterday and Today

[Drake]

Originally Posted by Igzy

Until you start respecting people who have been hurt by the LCM don't expect me to respect you.

God said "I will have mercy on them that show mercy." You are merciless to those people. Why do you expect mercy?

And there you go again....spinning this same tangled web.

I have upmost respect for people who have been hurt. Always have. That assertion is yet another cover to justify discrediting me and my beliefs. For someone who dons the mantle of a champion of hurt people you show an incredible lack of sensitivity to others you slander and defame on a daily basis.

You simply cannot tolerate people who differ with you and your viewpoints. Questioning your ideas most always leads to an aggressive personal attack campaign on the person who challenges you. Your responses in this thread are the quintessential demonstration of lack of respect for believers who do not see as you do. Go back and read when we stopped talking about the discussion of apostles and veered off into this sidebar. It always happens the same way Igzy, I ask you to validate your teachings from the Bible and you respond by questioning my motives and disparaging my character. If you claim concern for hurting people, how about you also demonstrate some care for brothers and sisters in the Lords Recovery instead of calling them names and demeaning their intelligence or commitment to follow the Lord according to thier convictions.

Now, we started this thread to address doctrine you promoted concerning apostles. I challenged you with scriptural responses showing that they were not according to the biblical revelation, and you have responded with a different view and that is fine, the reader can decide for themselves. My objection to part of your argument is that you front ended it with the argument that by accepting that apostles still exist might lead to a claim that Witness Lee was an apostle and therefore it must be dismissed. Well my friend, it does not matter whether that happens or not your logic to dismiss the revelation in the Bible over that concern is misplaced. That is not how to interpret the Bible nor understand the truths revealed therein. My second objection is you defended your argument with a fallacy citing that 99% of the Church agrees with you. Of course, you cannot know that 99% of the Church agrees with you. It’s a fallacy.

Drake