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Originally Posted by Drake
As a teacher of the Bible in this forum, you might consider accurately representing the teachings of those you oppose instead of just dismissing them because you never heard it in all your years there. All the opposition research you need is just a few clicks away. Then you could criticize their teachings with an informed opinion.
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As a teacher in the Local Churches, you too should "consider accurately representing the teachings" of the Bible which you claim to love and minister from. Truth is
Drake, you are simply a teacher of Witness Lee, and not a teacher of the Bible.
WL, on occasion (I'll let you source this from LSM's vast online opus),
rejected these same deification teachings of the Eastern Orthodox Church, until the storm/rebellion caused by his son, Philip Lee in the late 80's. Remember that he was the "Office Manager" running all the LC's while Dad was in Taiwan. I participated in every LSM training (live and video) from 1975 to 1990, and I never heard WL teach deification. Mingling, yes, but deification, no.
Then he suddenly changed. I believe he reversed course to re-direct the attention of the remaining LC "faithful" away from the facts of the chaos in Anaheim. As he had done for decades, WL framed the coverup of his son's criminal actions molesting the sisters as "persecution, rebellion, leprous contaminations, vast global conspiracy, yada, yada." WL and his lackeys publicly and privately smeared the reputations of all those who dared to protect their saints from Philip Lee abuses.
It was then that WL began to
peddle (2 Cor 2.17) his heretical "high peak" truths as the latest "recovery" lost for thousands of years. What a contrast we see in the Apostles who "
renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor adulterating the word of God, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience before God." (2 Cor 4.2)
WL then resurrected Athanasius from the dead as some 4th century MOTA. His lackeys were charged to find "deification" everywhere. They couldn't find it in scripture, so the church "Fathers" had to do. This is no way disrespects any of these great men of God who fought the good fight of the faith, including Athanasius and so many who were faithful martyrs, but is not our faith tied to the scriptures, and the scriptures alone?