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The Way International is the only environment I have been in where it is never talked about sinners repenting. Repentance is a mental state recognizing past action as being sin and against Gods truth and resolving to change the behavior. Interestingly all of the 12 step programs absolutely are centered around repentance and change. And they have shown results for millions. Repentence is never part of TWI because those sinners never repent - they double down on “grace administration” logic and bury and whitewash sin on the part of the leaders, then hold the laymen’s feet to the fire because they are “not believing”. That is one of the main reasons why it is a cult as opposed to genuine Christianity.

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In the Bible does it say if you confess your sins then God is faithful to forgive your sins? Or it doesn’t say that in your Bible? If that is true then what is your conclusion on forgiveness? Is there recognition and / or action required on the part of the sinner or they can just keep on the exact same evil lifestyle and God and everyone else needs to forgive them because you say so? I read Jesus words of encouragement to his followers who revered and worshipped him as just that - words of encouragement and a figure of speech regarding “greater works”. If you believe the “greater works” is literal then maybe you could list out the things you have done in your life that are greater than what Christ did and we can all compare notes. Or as you say list out the works you have done that are equal to Christs works since it is so logical. To me scripture is for inspiration. So yes it is personal. But the wrong dividing of scripture produces bondage not freedom. So I take issue with the wrong dividing of scripture that leads people to bondage. Like PFAL and the law of victim blaming. Wait that’s law of believing.

Whenever the topic of cults and the evil actions of founders and top leaders come up, there is always this argument present. I call this the “whitewash argument”. It masks as forgiveness, but the unintended extended consequence is that it excuses the evil behavior of the leaders and hides it due to people being imperfect. This is the exact lie that all of the current top leaders in TWI tell themselves every day. “Well VP and Craig weren’t perfect, or Rosalie or the current clowns. I’m not perfect either. It’s the best thing we’ve got in an imperfect world.” Saying that Craig and Rosalie for that matter should be serving a prison sentence rather than lavishing in their current situations has nothing to do with my emotional recovery from the cult they lead or did lead. No I’m not immersing my head in the evil and making my whole life about revenge but that doesn’t discount the evil that happened and will continue to happen if people don’t wake up to the reality and stop accepting people lying to you. I am long past forgiving people for their personal actions related to my life. It is really funny though how whenever I call out the truth of something it always wraps back around to some judging me for being “unforgiving”. Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me.