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Originally Posted by Igzy
It's amazing that the LRC can simultaneously hold the belief that women should not teach with authority to men, and at the same time hold that Madame Guyon was the "minister of the age." That's so ironic it's bizarre.
Besides the historical curve-fitting Lee used to prop up the MOTA idea, it's totally lost on them that the subjective nature of determining who is the MOTA leads to the sensible conclusion that such an idea cannot do the heavy lifting of expecting and requiring people to assent to it. Yet that's what they do. They go around wondering why people don't fall in line and claim they are out of God's move for not doing so. It's just nutty, but there it is.
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If there is only one publication, and that's the only literature that the members read, then the members only get to hear WL's version of history, and it's all supposed to make sense because he said so.
Personally, I was never limited to LSM. I spent my college days under the ministry of Phillip Comfort, who refused to be limited by any and all publications. He was Bible first, and then selected from a whole host of authors for reference. He encouraged us all to develop libraries. Phil was also influenced by Bill Freeman.
One time I was with the two of them (
~ frigid winter of '77-'78) and Phil casually asked Bill if it was still worthwhile for us to study the original Greek text of the New Testament, since so many quality books had already written on the subject. I loved the abrupt answer Bill gave, "
what? God wrote in Greek!" Most of us know what the future had in store for
Phil Comfort.