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Originally Posted by Unregistered
The reason that WL made a tree of life the center, and the only thing that you should eat of, is to later on equate his own “ministry” (I use that word lightly), to say that since it’s the only “ministry” that contains any life, THUS YOU SHOULD ONLY EAT OF IT. Trace those two aspects throughout his writings, and you will see it as clear as day! Since the All-inclusive Jesus is only present in the Local Church and the writings of WL/WN, and cannot be found anywhere else in the world, then eat only from THIS tree and you will have “life”. Got it? Get it? Done!
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Unregistered,
Welcome to the forum! Your point is so true. He taught the tree of life represents God Himself or God's life, and that God wants us to take Him in, and oh by the way that only Witness Lee's ministry has the correct life and light, so you must only follow his ministry if you want to be "in life". The threat is that if you don't, you are in darkness, in death.
There is a screen in the video that says something like "what God granted freedom for, and what God called good, instead Witness Lee restricted and condemned and called death". And then he says it explains many of the problems in the local church. One of the things I thought of when I saw that was exactly this - where the Bible says there are many ministers and certainly does NOT restrict believers to whatever only one guy says, Witness Lee restricts the saints to only his ministry and condemns everyone else as "having no new riches". It's ridiculous. So many of his erroneous teachings are actually completely self-serving for him, it's disgusting.
It is not a stretch to say he has cheated people of their lives with his lies.
Trapped