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Originally Posted by aron
On this thread, original poster 'Unreg' was citing Athanasius that everlasting life meant to become God, and 'Trapped' was saying not necessarily so, and I chimed in: my comment was that the word life had various meanings in WL's oeuvre, which meanings were often unreconciled, and even in direct contradiction, and these conflicts were plain to see, and that the contradictions typically were never addressed. Instead, church meetings were thought-less cheerleading sessions. So to me, looking back, the whole LC experience became a make-believe built on WL's words, which words meant whatever he needed them to mean at any moment, never mind that the logic of his constructs hopelessly conflicted with other statements.
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The term for this is "equivocation." and Lee excelled at it. Use a word with multiple meanings in the expected way, then slip into places where another definition is required but keep on as if nothing has changed.
(Karl Marx used such word tricks to capture readers to his Socialist ways. Use the economics term "exploit" which correctly means that resources, including labor, are "used" but speak as if the popular use of the word "exploitation" — to use a person or group for unfair advantage — is what is meant. Trick the reader into assuming that all work for someone else is exploitive in the negative sense. Probably got a lot of day laborers to rise up with that one.)
Lee did this every time he said anything was "simply" anything. Or used an overlay, like "God's economy" as a means to redefine what is actually written in scripture. Or insisting that every use of the word "leaven" is negative. Same for almost any other word that could have multiple meanings — he insisted that some particular definition was always correct no matter how strongly the context screamed for a different definition.