Outer Darkness?

[Sons to Glory!]

Originally Posted by Ohio

Last week I heard the same thing from some LC family members. So casually they speak about "making up classes at summer school" referring to a thousand years of outer darkness.

Yes. That's the same thing as I mentioned earlier about making the neck-chopping gesture with my hand to other brothers. We all knew what that meant - having our heads roll in the Tribulation was the only way we were getting in! (almost always resulting in pained laughter and head nodding in agreement) We "knew" according to the LC teaching there was no other way for us to get into the kingdom.

Bottom line here, Drake & Evan, is there are many on here who said they picked up the so-called "thousand years in outer darkness" concept from WL, and that teaching was pushed to an unhealthy extreme. Okay, maybe things have changed now (you both seem to infer that) in the LC and this is no longer pushed as a major doctrine, but I'm here to testify that it was certainly quite thick when I was around the LC last, back in the 1980s.

Now, with that said, it in no way negates that the word definitely & repeatedly shows accountability for our works; the things done while in the body! We're just pointing out that the pendulum swung too far to an extreme in the LC regarding this teaching.