Re: The Living Word Fellowship, The Walk, John Robert Stevens
Date: August 31, 2014 08:02AM
lily rose wrote: Also it seems to me ironic that Happy was voicing the Latter Rain Manifest Sons of God doctrine that believers will take on the divine nature of Christ. Didn't John also believe this? Isn't that why he was removed from the Assemblies of God Church? If I am wrong about this, please feel free to lay into me.
paleface wrote: I always wondered about this incident. If John didn't want to be deified, why didn't he gently correct Happy Clark? It hinted to me that John might possibly be off the mark at this point. Years later, I remember Gary reinforcing this idea. He implied that John was the Word incarnate. And now, they have made Marilyn their sacred Goddess.
lily rose wrote: Were we all in the same canoe or maybe it was a banana boat? There was no disclosure no disclaimers that we were to be made malleable to the ministries so we could be formed into "little gods." I didn't sign up for that. The This Weeks were seductive but I don't think I ever wanted to be a "little god."
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I ended up in the “Walk” because of fellowship with so many people close to my own age and there seemed to be plenty of life and it was cool. My theological background consisted of John 3:16 and the Christmas story.
I Googled, “Latter Rain Manifest Sons of God Doctrine,” and there were many sites to choose from. I looked at a couple of sites and was surprised at how many terms, passages, inferences, thought patterns and general themes presented that were completely familiar to me. I know the doctrine already even though I never specifically studied it-----------so, why?
lily rose stated, “I didn’t sign up for that!” I didn’t either. Well, welcome to the “Twilight Zone” and I suppose this forum is helping us to realize that we’re far down a path that most “Christians” haven’t travelled.
One of the most disturbing things is these sights use a lot of terms like ‘militant’, ‘radical’, ‘fringe’ and so forth in the discussion. Great--------can we even trust ourselves to judge rationally?
Back in the ‘tail-spin’ again.