And, sadly, when the gain and praise of the world becomes more important than those the church is to serve, the church looses its most spiritually attuned and all that winds up being left are the minions who want it to be a cult and are doing their darnedest to turn it into one.Thinker wrote:Thanks for your comments, Jwharton.jwharton wrote:I think what is really trying to be discerned here is what priest craft is.
The question could be asked, What does priestcraft look like?
The Book of Mormon says, "Priestcrafts are that men preach and set themselves up for a light unto the world, that they may get gain and praise of the world; but they seek not the Welfare of Zion…"
Ie: Hiding and disobeying the commandment of leaders to share TITHES with the poor (Deut. 14:28-29) and instead building up a corporate empire including shopping malls, to get financial gain in the name of Jesus Christ.
What an awful feeling it was when I began to realize I was indeed in a cult. I had been taught as most cults teach, that any objection to the cult was "the adversary" ... but really, what I experienced was a terrible feeling of betrayal. I know that the church does not hold a monopoly on the spirit because since turning away from harmful teachings and toward God, I've felt the spirit stronger and more than ever!
This is why in the thread about the pollution being in the holy church of God I say that if we as a church humbled ourselves we would start getting a much higher quality of spiritual beings gathered into the fold.
What was the difference between Abel's offering and Cain's?
Abel brought in much higher order "creatures" than Cain did.
Cain only gathers in the cultish minions, not true spiritual giants.