tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52912413020249030.post8343697555493590524..comments2024-03-12T11:58:24.510+13:00Comments on Otagosh: Missouri Synod MiseryGavin Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17965552923012880262noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52912413020249030.post-28609640456765516302021-11-04T21:42:21.745+13:002021-11-04T21:42:21.745+13:00Greaat post thanksGreaat post thanksMirandahttps://www.mirandanelson.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52912413020249030.post-37472988800492676182015-10-14T04:23:49.828+13:002015-10-14T04:23:49.828+13:00The WCG had a really bizarre version of excommunic...The WCG had a really bizarre version of excommunication. I recall hearing a sermon on excommunication at the Field House in Big Sandy in the early Seventies. (I am sure there are those who would like our collective memories to fade away. And I think of how much WCG strangeness is yet undocumented.) The minister stated that the WCG Ministry had the unchallengeable right to disfellowship members. And among the brain washed, the idea of excommunication was a consummate fear. Such people would likely end up in gehenna. But the minister went further to define the boundaries of ministerial power through the concept of loosing and binding. He explained that even if the minister was wrong about a particular case, god would back up the minister's decision. In other words, if a minister mistakenly decided that you needed to be disfellowshipped but in your case this was not justifiable, the mistaken decision made by the minister would be backed by god as if it were truth. This then, makes the WCG minister actually more powerful than god. The ministers power to loose and bind could not be challenged by god. What an ego-trip for those with a murderous and vindictive spirit. And this doctrine so configured informs the lay membership that there is no recourse not matter how well-reasoned and true their counter-arguments might be. The truth does not matter. <br /><br />I do not know if this was ever practiced in this way. I just know it was stated in that way back in the early Seventies in front of a large audience of people in Big Sandy. Unfortunately, I do not remember the name of the minister who made the statement. Nor did I ever hear any controversy surrounding this view. <br /><br />-- Neotherm Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08487906691943831671noreply@blogger.com