Let me preface this by stating that MOST of us live in America, home of the free...
...and as a performance artist living in America, I'm a big fan of freedom of speech...
...and let me say that if you want to post without a name, you are free to do so, but I am also free to set the board so that all who do so are automatically named "chicken's anonymous" - even if it was an accident! It is meant to discourage anonymous posting...
...But mainly I want to say, that if you want to leave the LHMM, then I think you are FREE to do so! But are they not a mere publishing house? Who there is your leader? Do you have a leader among men? Shame on you!
Be like me - free from ALL sectarian bondage. I don't claim any affiliation with any group, sect or denomination, and would be loathe to do so.
LIBERTY in Christ means we all stand on our own! If you think that it means anything to God that you are in or out of step with any particular human being at this time, you are in for a big lesson in humanity - that all are fallen and come short...
...ok. So this is all very elementary. Let me get to the gist of it. I think this forum is a great place because, A. It is a FREE forum, where NO JOINING is required. You can't POSSIBLY "join" this forum! There is no such thing...
and B. this forum is a place where traditionally, foundationally, we can introduce the world in general, the uninitiated to the TRUTH, sharing with them something better than what they see in the world - i.e. the splits among Baptists, the separation of the Episcopals, the division among the Catholics, the controversies among the JW's, and so on and so on...
BUT NOW this place has become a billboard for antagonism among Truth people? Where one group with one position on one doctrine feel it is their duty to point out to the world that they are quite "miffed", and the others are lording it over them!
Are they really? Do these people really constrict your personal religious liberty in any way to believe what you want and to fellowship with whomever you like? If so, I feel sorry for you that you allow them that much power. NO ONE has any such power over me. I am quite free, and I'm so used to it by now, that I can freely laugh at anyone's effort to restrict me in any sense. (like the time some joker said "there are some influential elders that will be monitoring this board" - to which I replied, "tell them that you and they can go to flaming hades below, to be poked in the rear by fireproof devils for all eternity and then some" or something to that effect. What a joke! Indeed...
THIS FORUM is a place to share the TRUE GOSPEL, not the caricature I just mentioned. However this penchant of late for pounding others over their particular view over the year 1878 makes us seem not merely esoteric - it makes us look, dare I say? CULTISH!
Let's not defeat the purpose of the forum. But let's allow liberty within the bounds of Truth, fairness and good taste. Let's debate 1878 on the Epiphany Truth Forum -
http://www.network54.com/Forum/127498/ - and let's do it in a way that allows others to adhere to their own convictions without being defamed or what have you - as far as is possible!
OK. That's what I had to say, in the hopes that we can have BLESSED CONVERSATION take place here. I don't want to see it turn into an "us vs. them" board. Let's share the reason for our joy, instead of our sour grapes. If someone doesn't agree with us, we can either continue to meet with them in the spirit of hope and patience that we can agree with them in time, OR we have FULL LIBERTY to simply move to another ecclesia, and by GOD Himself, isn't that grand?
Yours in Truth,
Regan
