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Originally Posted by aron
... one Christian believer has used their freedom to interpret the Bible, as a tool to remove everyone else's freedom. It's a pretty neat maneuver, if I do say.
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It's a neat maneuver, and frequently used, more often than it's users would want you to know. If multiple people out there are claiming to be the unique apostle of the age, by definition either all of them are wrong, or all but one are wrong. But they can't all be right.
Here's a church called Shincheonji Church of Jesus. They claim to have the anointed prophet for the present age, who like Witness Lee, had a special mountain top experience and now is the sole interpreter of the Bible. Like with Witness Lee, his freedom to interpret the Bible has taken away everyone else's. Or as Watchman Nee put it, everyone else must "get in line".
https://www.scjus.org/
They call their leader "The promised pastor".
https://www.scjus.org/promised-pastor/
It's seemingly all about Jesus, the Bible, and loving one another. But you can see the incessant references to the revealed teachings (i.e. proprietary revelations), the special out-called group affiliated with the teachings, and the special agent of God's will in the present age. At the core of his vision is that he is the sole repository of God's revealed will through the Bible today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SBvzUUwSvQ
It's uncanny, how closely this resembles Witness Lee's narrative, his teaching and his captive 'church'.